Post by Neverending on Apr 18, 2015 16:17:23 GMT -5
www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/bale-defended-adams-hustle-director-leaked-email-article-1.2189094
Former Batman Christian Bale may have just been unmasked as a real-life do-gooder.
The actor stepped in to defend his "American Hustle" co-star Amy Adams from a barage of "abuse" by the film's director, David O. Russell, according to an internal Sony email exchange that's been published by WikiLeaks.
The revelation came in the form of an email from journalist Jonathan Alter to his brother in law, Sony Entertainment CEO and chair Michael Lynton, detailing a source's account of chaos on the set of the 2013 Oscar-nominated film.
"Are you guys doing anything else with him?," Atler wrote to Lynton in a Sept. 12, 2014 email. "I know he's brilliant but we have someone on our show who worked closely with him on 'American Hustle' and not only are the stories about him reforming himself total b---shit but the new stories of his abuse and lunatic behavior are extreme even by Hollywood standards."
Among the litany of off-screen drama allegedly unleashed by O'Russell detailed by Alter: "He grabbed one guy by the collar, cursed out people repeatedly in front of others and so abused Amy Adams that Christian Bale got in his face and told him to stop acting like an a---hole." Though at first cagey in his response, Lynton eventually seemed to confirm the incident to his wife's brother in another email.
"Next film for fox," he wrote. "Trust me I know all about the other."
The leaked exchange is among the 170,000 internal Sony emails and 30,000 other documents posted Thursday by WikiLeaks -- the latest headache for the studio in the aftermath of last year's crippling hacking attack. The unprecedented cyber breach has been attributed to North Korea in retaliation for the Sony-distributed comedy, "The Interview."
The Alter-Lynton email seems to confirm Russell's reputation for being a difficult director for his actors and crew. The New York-born filmmaker famously clashed regularly with George Clooney on the set of 1999's "Three Kings" to the point where the actor vowed never to work with him again.
The actor stepped in to defend his "American Hustle" co-star Amy Adams from a barage of "abuse" by the film's director, David O. Russell, according to an internal Sony email exchange that's been published by WikiLeaks.
The revelation came in the form of an email from journalist Jonathan Alter to his brother in law, Sony Entertainment CEO and chair Michael Lynton, detailing a source's account of chaos on the set of the 2013 Oscar-nominated film.
"Are you guys doing anything else with him?," Atler wrote to Lynton in a Sept. 12, 2014 email. "I know he's brilliant but we have someone on our show who worked closely with him on 'American Hustle' and not only are the stories about him reforming himself total b---shit but the new stories of his abuse and lunatic behavior are extreme even by Hollywood standards."
Among the litany of off-screen drama allegedly unleashed by O'Russell detailed by Alter: "He grabbed one guy by the collar, cursed out people repeatedly in front of others and so abused Amy Adams that Christian Bale got in his face and told him to stop acting like an a---hole." Though at first cagey in his response, Lynton eventually seemed to confirm the incident to his wife's brother in another email.
"Next film for fox," he wrote. "Trust me I know all about the other."
The leaked exchange is among the 170,000 internal Sony emails and 30,000 other documents posted Thursday by WikiLeaks -- the latest headache for the studio in the aftermath of last year's crippling hacking attack. The unprecedented cyber breach has been attributed to North Korea in retaliation for the Sony-distributed comedy, "The Interview."
The Alter-Lynton email seems to confirm Russell's reputation for being a difficult director for his actors and crew. The New York-born filmmaker famously clashed regularly with George Clooney on the set of 1999's "Three Kings" to the point where the actor vowed never to work with him again.
