Christian Bale, the Batman star, has been caught on tape delivering an expletive-laden rant on the set of his new film, Terminator: Salvation.

The four-minute meltdown contains 39 F-words as the British actor lays into a director of photography who has accidentally interrupted a scene.
The audio clip, obtained by www.TMZ.com, has become a web hit. It begins with Bale yelling: "I'm gonna kick your --ing ass. I want you off the ---ing set, you -----."

Bale has not commented on the clip, recorded last July. However, Bruce Franklin, associate producer on the film, defended the actor.
"If you are working in a very intense scene and someone takes you out of your groove... it was the most emotional scene in the movie," he told E! "He is very intensely involved in his character. He didn't walk around like that all day long. It was just a moment and it passed. He is so dedicated to the craft. The art of acting is not paint by numbers, it's an art form."

His on-set outburst occurred days before he was arrested in London for an alleged assault on his mother and sister in a London hotel room on the eve of The Dark Knight premiere. He did not face charges after the Crown Prosecution Service advised that no further action should be taken.

He is mean!