Bale: 'Terminator rant leak broke trust'

Christian Bale has said that the leak of his expletive-laden rant on the set of Terminator Salvation broke the "essential trust" that must exist between cast and crew.

The American Psycho star told Total Film that he nevertheless accepts the consequences of his outburst.

Bale said: "I mean, hey, I did what I did. I'm not hiding that. I went overboard. But there is an essential trust and it's not a tacit one, it's a verbal one, a spoken one, which is every sound guy says: 'We are not only not recording, we are not even listening.'

"I do stress though, it's not in any way a trust that's there to cover up bad behaviour. It's not about that."

He added: "It's an essential trust that's needed for creativity because you'll often try things and they're abysmal, but if you have a trust there then you'll give it a shot.

"I'm not making any excuses. I'm not whining. Hey listen, I did it an, it's in public space. Hey, I take the consequences for it."