20 Things You Didn't Know About The Dark Knight

6. The Joker Hires Stunt Drivers for His Crew

the dark knight rises If the guy driving Joker€™s tricky looks familiar, you might be watching too many DVD special features. The driver of the Joker€™s truck, the guy with the cowboy hat, is stunt driver Jim Wilkey; Wilkey€™s character apparently gets knocked unconscious and dumped out of the truck about midway through the chase, but in actuality, Wilkey drove the truck for the entire sequence, including the famous moment when the truck gets flipped end over end €“ making Wilkey arguably the coolest person in a movie that stars Batman, The Joker, Harvey Dent, Jim Gordon and Tiny Lister.
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