Christian Bale was attacked by angry red ants when a stunt on the set of his new film Rescue Dawn went too far. The star agreed to hang upside down with his face buried in an ants' nest for a torture scene in the film, in which he plays a real-life prisoner of war.

But things got scary for the actor when a Thai crewmember misunderstood director Werner Herzog's call to get his star out of trouble.

Bale recalls, "One of the guys stepped forward and he started spinning me and I was spinning pretty fast. I was upside down so the blood is rushing to your head anyway and then Werner actually said, 'OK enough.'

"This guy took it to mean 'More,' so he jumped in and span me and he span me and I'm going so damn fast that I couldn't stand up for a good half hour after that. It was the real ants crawling all over my head and biting me as well. That wasn't a good day... I could've done without that."

-Christian Bale Pictures

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