Recent BAFTA Audience Award winner, Tom Hardy recently sat down with Alan Carr on “Chatty Man” and talked a bit about his role as Bane (pictured right), the villain in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises for director Christopher Nolan (Inception).
He reveals his character will be nothing like the version you saw in Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin and that he’s got under three months to get up to about 189-196 pounds, saying he weighs approximately 170 now.
Hardy also discussed, among other things, being signed for sequels to Inception should they decide to make them. This is no surprise and I personally don’t expect a sequel, but crazier things have happened.
The Dark Knight Rises is slated to hit theaters on July 20, 2012 with Christian Bale returning along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman. Tom Hardy will play the film’s lead villain Bane and Anne Hathaway will play Selina Kyle. Shooting is expected to take place in London and Los Angeles in May.
