Bale’s been looking back on Terminator: Salvation in a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and sharing some of his regrets. But things were clearly going wrong even as filming continued. “I wish we could have reinvigorated [the franchise]. And unfortunately, during production, you could tell that wasn’t happening. It’s a great shame…There’s a perverse side to me, where people were telling me that, there’s no way on God’s Earth that I should take that role, and I was thinking the same thing. But when people started verbalizing that to me, I started to go oh really? All right, well watch this then. So there was a little bit of that involved in the choice.” As for the infamous incident, where Bale was caught hurling profanity at a member of the crew, he described it as a “great learning lesson.”
