In a recent interview, Tom Hardy, the actor playing Bane in next summer’s The Dark Knight Rises, had some interesting things to say about what it means to be in a high profile superhero movie like Batman.

Hardy had this to say:

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.

The Actor has recently been known to go off on some weird tangents during his interviews.  Hardy finished up the interview with this:

Or the not-paycheck ‘cause they’re making you a stahhh. 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.

I don’t know if Christopher Nolan with be happy with Hardy comparing The Dark Knight Rises with Starbucks.  I think on top of being made a huge stahhh, Hardy is also getting a pretty huge paycheck.

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