NYCC: Terminator's McG downplays Bale's rant—then puts Bale's wife on phone!

At the Warner Brothers panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday, Terminator Salvation director McG publicly reacted to his star Christian Bale's F-bomb-laden on-set rant , downplaying the controversy—before calling Bale's house and putting his wife on speaker phone! During the Q&A; portion of the panel, a fan asked if the current media furor over Bale's verbal harangue of director of photography Shane Hurlbut has hurt the film. McG responded with a joke: "What don't you f--king understand?" He then added, "It hasn't affected us at all. He talked about it yesterday, the whole thing got a little heated, but frankly the bigger violation is that anything that happens on a movie set leaks out. It's not fair, and I hope it doesn't color filmmaking in the future with actors being more cautious regarding going for it. It's part of the creative process. Christian took responsibility for how he acted. Shane and Christian are fine now. ... I wanted that kind of passion to show up in the John Connor ... (link)