Leave it to those muckrakers at Radar magazine (how do they still exist?) to add one more twist in the Christian Bale/ “Terminator Salvation” Bale-gate fiasco. Harry Knowles first blamed the event on the unprofessional attitude of Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut, because he had heard from his mom, interweb sources that the DP had received what was coming to him (evidently he was one of those dreaded “unrepentant light tweakers”)
However, Radar says, this is not the first time the DP’s allegedly jackass-ish ways had rubbed people wrong and that the ‘Salvation’ crew were not fans.
“[Hurlbut] was widely despised,” sources tell RadarOnline.com exclusively. “Hurlbut was a condescending (bleep) to everyone,” a source told us. His favorite line was “Why don’t you go stab yourself in the head, you idiot.”
A Defamer source even corroborated the allegation.
“I was on the crew of another film Shane was recently DP on and he was despised. Crew hated him – actors had hard time. He would tell his crew, if he was displeased with them, to “Stab themselves in the heart and die.” or “Blow yourself up.” On this film he would constantly re-light when actors got to set and tweak during takes – it was bad.”
So, Shane Hurlbut bad, Christian Bale deservedly tiraded on the photographer? You decide. We’re starting to finally get bored with it all. For now…