The ‘Terminator Salvation’ Freakout: No Biggie, Christian Bale Was Just In The Zone

So Christian Bale freaked out on the set of “Terminator Salvation” last year and the audio of the ugly event hit the internet yesterday. There’s no way you could have missed it.

Anyhow, those great reporters at TMZ have talked to Bruce Franklin — assistant director and associate producer on the film and one of the guy’s Bale told to stfu until he finished verbally bitchslapping cinematographer Shane Hurlbut — and he dismissed it all as a “non event.”

“Christian is a method actor and was completely immersed in his scene … his reaction was from the heat of the moment.”

Yeah, people what the fuck, he was acting, he was in the zone. Eyes on the prize kids, eyes on the prize.

Franklin told E! “If you are working in a very intense scene and someone takes you out of your groove…It was the most emotional scene in the movie…And for him to get stopped in the middle of it. He is very intensely involved in his character. This was my second movie with Christian…He is so dedicated to the craft. I think someone is begging to make some noise about this, but I don’t think it’s fair. The art of acting is not paint by numbers, it’s an art form. “

TMZ says Bale was under tremendous “pressure,” was juggling ‘Dark Knight’ promotion and the crew ended up shooting an extra seven hours. Case closed? We still think he probably finally screened, “Charlie’s Angels,” the night before and thought, “what have I done!?”