8 Little Known Nuances In Tom Hardy’s Performance That Made Nolan’s Bane Awesome

5. He Hadn't Even Read The Script When He Took The Role

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I know what you'€™re thinking; how does not reading the script make Bane awesome? Surely blindly jumping into a role is the sort of thing that leads to a Nicolas Cage flop, or at least means something was good by accident? But in this case it was done for the right reasons; there€™'s no threats of bankruptcy here. If you believe Hardy€™'s (frankly hilarious) paraphrasing of events from Empire Magazine, Nolan came to him shortly after Inception when Rises was slowly formulating in his head and asked him if he wanted to play a villain described only as requiring him to wear a mask for six months.

Hardy sidestepped the face ornament and went straight to the meat - he got to have all the martial arts training, weapons and Nolan time he €œcould possibly want€ - and quickly squealed €œf**king sign me up€. So rather than just wanting to work with his Inception pal again, Hardy became Bane because he knew he€™'d be guaranteed to have the resources to make it the best he could.

Although as the next point shows a love of Batman certainly helped...

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