Tom Hardy On The Disadvantages Of Donning Bane's Mask In The Dark Knight Rises!

Tom Hardy On The Disadvantages Of Donning Bane's Mask In The Dark Knight Rises!

The British actor talks about the challenges which come with donning Bane's mask in TDKR, including not being able to "hear a [frick]ing word" anyone says and using sign language to communicate with Christian Bale's Batman...

By JoshWilding - Aug 04, 2011 04:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: Contact Music

In an extended excerpt from his interview with "Total Film Magazine", Contact Music have posted the following account from Tom Hardy about the disadvantages which come with donning the mask of the villainous Bane in the third and final Batman movie from director Christopher Nolan.

"It allows a performance to be free. The only downside is you can't hear a f**king word anyone is saying. Batman can't hear me and he can't see me speaking so we sort of stand there looking at each other for a while. We've been doing hand signals!"

"I put my thumbs up when I finish my lines or I wink. And he sort of wiggles his fingers out of shot and I go, 'OK, now I've got to run up and kick you in the b******s!'"


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STARRING:

Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michael Caine as Alfred
Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Tom Hardy as Bane
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom Blake
Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate
Josh Pence as Ra's Al Ghul

RELEASE DATE: July 20th, 2012





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