My wife won't take my nonsense ; He's notorious for his tantrums, so Terminator star CHRISTIAN BALE admits it's just as well his other half is as stroppy as he is [Eire Region]

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who'd be Mrs Christian Bale? Seriously. We all might think we'd like to marry the dark, brooding Batman star, but that sort of uncompromising intensity can't be easy to live with. And the temper! During the performance which has, ironically, become his most famous to date -- the one where he let rip at a colleague who dared to interrupt his concentration on set -- he uttered the F-word 37 times in four minutes. Imagine how he would react to a lost sock, or a blocked sink?

Perhaps, surprisingly, given that the man himself doesn't like to talk about his family, Bale does accept that he isn't a domestic dream, but insists that his wife is more than his match. 'I've a very strong wife,' he says proudly of Sibi, the Serbian-American former model he married nine years ago. 'She's incredibly feisty; she does not take any nonsense, and I love it!'

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My wife won't take my nonsense ; He's notorious for his tantrums, so Terminator star CHRISTIAN BALE admits it's just as well his other half is as stroppy as he is [Eire Region]

What of rumours about him being so consumed by the roles he plays that he takes his characters -- no matter how deranged -- home with him? He smiles. 'My attitude does change at home, depending on which character I'm playing, but Sibi likes that...

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