Terminator Salvation star Christian Bale said his on-set rant was “inexcusable” and it has taught him to “count to ten”.

Christian, 35, plays John Connor in the fourth installment in the robot film series.

A media storm erupted when Christian had a foul-mouthed rant at a crew member on the set of the film and a video was leaked on to the internet.

Looking back on the incident, Christian said: “It’s a shame. It was inexcusable what I did. It’s only four minutes out of 77 days of shooting, the rest of which went real well. It’s in the past.”

Asked what he has learned from it, he said: “Count to ten and take those mics off.”

There were many parodies created out of the rant and Christian said he has remained oblivious to a lot of the media reports.

He said: “I heard the remix. That was very nicely done. I had to admire that one. I’m great at sticking my head in the sand and just ignoring things that I don’t want to hear about.

“The fact is, what was important was what was resolved on set and that was resolved within half an hour on that day. That’s what mattered to me – the actual people that were present on the day.

“You ask any crew member working on Terminator and they will tell you the same thing. It was done. Over. Nobody cared about it or talked about it after that.”