Christian Bale said on Feb. 6 that he was tapping into Linda Hamilton's interpretation of Sarah Connor while shooting a "Terminator Salvation" scene during which he confronted the film's director of photography.Specifically, Bale said he was trying to recreate the "blood craziness" of Hamilton's performance when her character is being held in an insane asylum in 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" and that somehow he took the performance too far when it was translated into a verbal reprimand.
His explanation seemingly makes sense in that Hamilton's portrayal as Sarah Connor during the insane asylum sequences is more violent and intense than what would be required for what has been described as a very emotional scene between Bale's John Connor and Bryce Dallas Howard's Kate Connor in "Terminator Salvation."
Cuts from the film's trailer teases that at some point John Connor leaves a pregnant Kate Connor right before he is about to engage in a dangerous mission that could result in the end of the war between the human resistance and SkyNet. One cut in particular suggests John Connor is killed.
Was Bale tapping into the all-or-nothing feeling Sarah Connor character must feel in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" knowing that her escape from the asylum could affect the fate of the human race, which will require a leader to rally them against the machines in the future?
Maybe the prospect of becoming a father changes John Connor the way it changed Sarah Connor when she became a mother in that he finally has a reason to care whether human kind survives annihilation beyond saving his own neck.
This would make sense given that an Arnold Schwarzenegger T-800 model tells the future military leader in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" that his days are numbered, and that would make anyone crazy.
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