That Christian Bale freak-out on the set of Terminator Salvation we’ve all been obsessing about? It’s all because he was trying to put the post-apocalyptic insanity into his version of robot-resistance-leader John Connor. Bale called the Kevin & Bean show on KROQ FM to apologize for his “out-of-order” screaming, which he admitted was totally unprofessional and wrong. But he also offered an explanation: he was in the middle of shooting a scene where Connor shows a bit of his mom’s crazy streak. Remember in Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor is in a mental institution? That’s because she’s crazy, says Bale. (Which is so not how I saw it, but whatevs.)
“I was trying to show a little of that in-the-blood craziness” in the scene being shot, and then he went off at the DP, because he was mixing up fact and fiction. “I’m half John Connor, half Christian there.” So there you have it – post-apocalyptic method acting sometimes goes off the rails. [KROQ]
