10 Infamous Times Actors Refused To Break Character

Although Christian Bale has insisted that method acting isn’t his thing, he’s certainly taken a rather extreme approach to his work at times. While playing a disturbed insomniac in the 2004 psychological thriller The Machinist, Bale shed 63 pounds only to put it all back on again plus a few extra pounds shortly after to bulk up for his role as Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins.

Perhaps more infamous than his yo-yo weight was when Bale’s commitment to his character resulted in an angry tirade launched at director of photography Shane Hurlbut after he distracted the actor during a particularly intense scene on the set of Terminator Salvation.

So dedicated was Bale to his role as John Connor that he delivered the four-minute-long diatribe (which contained an impressive 37 F-bombs) completely in character, never once dropping his affected American accent and even throwing in a few typically American cuss words like ‘ass’ and ‘trash’.

You could even say that Bale is so in character that it isn’t even really him ranting away effing and blinding but John Connor. Or at least that’s the excuse Bale went with, claiming “that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was Christian Bale”. Okay, we believe you.