What would I have done about the famous Terminator rant?

Depends on the situation. Depends on the set culture the director is looking to create. Also depends on what you're shooting.

If the scene was supposed to be super tense, I would have bottled Christian up and made him save it for the next take. If he's worn out and tired, I would have let him exhaust himself and then taken credit for the bad set experience, like McG did.

Either way, that set has to be a safe place for everyone to work through their creative process.

Sometimes those processes conflict with one another, and that's fine. We all lose it sometimes, and we deal with it on a case-by-case basis. There's a bump in the road, and we move on.

I'll tell you one thing, though. That on set space has to be safe for the work to happen, conflicts and all. If the world is constantly looking over your shoulder, how are you supposed to take the big emotional risks? No. You can't.

Set privacy is sacred and inviolate.

On my set, the little shit who violated that trust and leaked the audio would be strung from a very tall boom by his genitals. One word - "Traitor" - would be carved into his chest with a wood chisel, and then his legs would be fed through a pipe threader. Then, he gets shipped back to New Jersey, Iowa, or wherever he came from in his brand-new wheelchair, to live out the rest of his trailer-ridden days with a computer constantly playing various YouTube renditions of the Christian Bale rant in the background. Over, and over, and over. My only question is whether to leave him with a mercy bullet. On that, I am undecided.

Any questions?