20 Things You Didn't Know About The Dark Knight Rises
9. Bane's Voice Was Based On Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champion Bartley Gorman
By far the most distinctive aspect of Tom Hardy's Bane is the uniquely eccentric voice Hardy employs: a howlingly deep vocal tenor with ambiguous origins.
But Hardy confirmed in interviews that he actually based the voice on Irish bare-knuckle boxing champion Bartley Gorman. He said:
"[Gorman] was a bare knuckle fighter, a Romani gypsy. So I wanted to underpin the Latin, but a Romani Latin opposed to Latino."
Amusingly, reports emerged in 2012 that Hardy's vocal performance was actually re-mixed, due to audiences complaining about the poor, incomprehensible quality of his dialogue when the film's prologue sequence was debuted in front of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.