Over the course of the weekend at SDCC Tom Hardy stayed good to his promise of not revealing so much as a dickybird about playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. But while speaking to Hitfix he did go into some detail about what it's like making such a huge budget blockbuster with mass appeal, as opposed to his most recent, critically acclaimed film Warrior..
From Hitfix..
“[Warrior] is like the top end of creating something out of nothing,” Hardy told HitFix in an interview this weekend, saying that the film went through “a million” drafts, took years to edit.
“You deal with something Dark Knight – or ‘Mad Max,’ or ‘Superman’ or ‘Spider-man,’ whatever – it’s like going to work in an airport and going, ‘Hi I’m over here!’ and then everybody goes ‘Oh here’s that, that’s the villain of the piece.’ Then it’s a thousand people going to Duty-Free. Like, [shouting] ‘I AM THE VILLAIN!’ and make a lot of noise. There’s a formula here, you can’t muck around with it. There’s a lot of rules, you’re restrained in many ways as an artist. But then you’re also grateful because of the huge exposure and the paycheck.
Could be construed as a slight against these type of movies but at the same time, he's not wrong. Yet some movies, ironically Christopher Nolan's previous Batman flicks for example, can and do strive to break free of those confines. Does Hardy see the director's final installment as simply more "Duty Free"? Anyway, he continues..
“Or the not-paycheck ‘cause they’re making you a stahhh,” he affects. “Whatever it is, you’re paying an entrance to getting higher exposure. These movies are huge vehicles to make a lot of money… and make a large audience happy. So now you’re at the very top level of trying to bring character work in a boutique way to something that is, y’know, Starbucks.
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