Christopher Nolan on choosing his actors (x)
From the obvious files, but it’s still lovely to hear.
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“Nolan quietly auditioned me for DKR during Inception, and I believe he quietly auditioned me for another film during DKR” Tom adds cryptically.
A million times yesssss. Please let this be Inception 2.
WHAT? WHAT?! FOR SERIOUS? Oh please, let this be true, and please let it pan out. Not wishing for an Inception 2, though, tbh.
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“If [Tom] were here, I think what he would be talking about is when I called him up and I basically said to him ‘look, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news,’” Nolan began. “The good news is I have a terrific part for you, the bad news is your face is gonna be completely covered for the whole film, so you’re gonna have to get across whatever it is you wanna get across through this character through just your eyes and your voice.
“And what Tom did, which I completely love but it takes audiences time to get used to,” he continued, “is there’s an incredible disjunct between what he’s doing with his voice and what he’s doing with his eyes. His eyes have this extremely threating stillness to them. His voice is this extremely expressive and different voice. And i’ve never really seen anything like it. The first time I ever saw him perform a scene with Christian [Bale], I was shocked by it. I mean I really was like, ‘ok, I’ve just never seen this.’”
” Nolan (via tomhardyvariations)
The fearsomeness of intent and intelligence Hardy conveys just through his eyes is dazzling. But we’ve taken one of the most distinctive mouths in the movie business and covered it up for the entire film!
- Christopher Nolan
Very happy to have it confirmed that Nolan knows the value of Tom Hardy’s mouth.
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Awesome fan made Christopher Nolan posters by a deviantART user. These would make awesome Criterion Collection covers, just need one for Insomnia and one for Following.
I would follow Nolan anywhere.
“I felt that if I could get somebody as talented as Tom to agree to hide himself in the character I would get something very special. What I really feel with a great actor is every movement, every hand gesture, every step has performance in it. It’s an incredible challenge to remove motion of the face so that you can’t put things across in the usual way, and you just have the eyes and a bit of the scalp and the arms and the legs. What I knew is that from Tom I would get something where you get a total character and everything has incredible thought applied to it. And a lot of what he’s doing is very counterintuitive. He has this incredible disjunct between the expressiveness of the voice and the stillness of the movement of his body. He’s found a way to play a character who is enormous and powerful with a sort of calm to it, but also is able to be incredibly fast at times. Unpredictable. He just has a raw threat to him that’s extraordinary. It’s a very powerful thing when you see it come together, beyond what I had ever imagined. That’s what you get from working with great actors.”— Chris Nolan on Tom Hardy as Bane
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Two old set pics from The Dark Knight Rises shoot in Pittsburgh. But they are in glorious HI-Res (right-click and open in new tab)
His knee is dusty. I think we all know how that happened. *coughBanecough*
I think this might just be my favourite look for him of all time.
