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When the triad was leaked onto the Internet yesterday, the world found out just how insane Christian Bale is. Haven’t heard about this yet? Well, apparently, director of photography (whom at film school we are taught is the 2nd most important person on the set), Shane Hurlbut, walked into the set while Christian was acting and was thrown off due to this movement out of the corner of his eye. He stops the scene and proceeds to scream and belittle the DP in front of the entire cast and crew.

Today, the assistant director/associate producer, Bruce Franklin, came out and talked about the lashing out on the set… and get this… he sides with Bale on the issue. Bale’s argument is that the scene was the most intensive emotional scene of the film and breaking his concentration fucked the whole thing up….  and the crew is backing him up!!!

I’m sorry.  I’m sorry.  I completely forgot about the industry rules that specify an actor’s allowance to unleash and scream at a crew member (who is above them on the food chain) if they fuck up an emotional scene.  It was gone over in our producing and directing actors class.  They made it very clear that the actor was completely allowed to bark and verbally castrate major elements of the film making crew.  I mean, after all, that makes complete sense.

Uh….

How about not yelling at the guy who is going to make you look good?  How about not being a douche?  How about shutting the fuck up and doing your fucking job?  This is after all, his job.  I so want to scream at one of my bosses when they walk in the room because they fucked up my concentration while fixing a computer.

“HEY JAG OFF!!!  How about a little courtesy and some fucking quiet??!!  This is after all, a Fucking GateWay!!!!”

And my other boss would stand up for me and say, “Yeah, you walked into your office and disturbed him.  You are at fault.”

108,867 people are shaking their heads in disbelief.

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