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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 23:38:13 GMT
Marion Cotillard on seeing Bale in costume: What was it like stabbing Batman in “The Dark Knight Rises”?
I was very impressed that day because it was the first time I saw Batman in his costume. I had shot scenes with Christian Bale before, but then I was struck. I didn’t dare to go and say hello to him. But that was before Tom Hardy came on set and they started to joke, and then Batman became human for me again, and then I could just be part of the movie and not just a little French actress or fan in the corner watching this costume [come] alive. It was a very weird day for me. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marion-cotillard-explains-why-allied-isnt-mr-mrs-smith_us_5829e4b6e4b060adb56f53e6
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 7:23:16 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 7, 2017 5:25:52 GMT
Anne Hathaway 'overwhelmed' by Balewww.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/anne-hathaway-overwhelmed-by-bale-28765070.html#ixzz1z3WZ3BoOThe Hollywood actress stars as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's hotly-anticipated action movie, which sees Christian play Batman.
Anne was thrilled to work alongside the experienced actor.
"I felt so lucky that most of my scenes were with Christian because he's one of the world's greatest actors and he and Chris do have a shorthand. They have such an ease working together that it helped me relax, especially in the early days," she told SFX magazine.
"Here I am working with Christian Bale and Chris Nolan is directing me and Wally Pfister is lighting me and I'm in a catsuit. It was somewhat overwhelming.
"I think because Christian had been there for so long, he just was so calm, always quick to laugh and have a good time but at the same time was really serious about work. He set such a great example and it was just really easy to kind of fall in step."
Anne has laughed off being an action star hero. The brunette beauty says the fantasy elements of the film were bizarre at times.
"It's funny, the things that are so far outside the norm that you get used to, like doing flips and walking alongside Christian Bale, who's dressed as Batman and I'm dressed as Catwoman... and we're just talking like people do," she quipped.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 13, 2017 4:30:20 GMT
Set interview with Bale over at superherohype.com: www.superherohype.com/features/170773-dark-knight-rises-set-interviews-with-bale-hathaway-a-hardyThere's interesting stuff about filming in front of an IMAX, working with the new cast members, especially Hardy, etc. There's one part I'd like to quote here as it ties in with some of the criticism later shouldered on Bale for this film and what he himself said in an interview later, comparing his performance to Heath's: Q: Because this is a trilogy and an end for you and Chris, does that give you the freedom to bring an end to Batman’s character arc since you know you’re not doing another film?
Bale: I have no clue what the audience is going to think about the movie. Thankfully I have someone like Chris who is really great at gauging that. He represents the audience for us on the set. For me, I love the character so much that if it was left to me, you’d get a very bizarre Batman movie. Like “What the hell? Why are we delving so much into his psyche?” He is a fascinating character and then Chris just has to tell me the points at which it gets tedious and boring and he doesn’t want to see what I’m doing. It’s great to have someone at the helm like Chris. He is remarkably confident at going with his gut and not desiring any safety net. There are a number of times when I say to him: “Are you sure you don’t want me to give you a few other variants? I can do this one. What if later down track you choose to change this part of the story, in that case we need to change the domino effect. I can give you three or four different ways to lay it.” But he’s like, “No, no I know what I want.” That’s exactly what I need. He’s very firm with it. It is a very fascinating character. In honesty, I think there are probably an awful lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him getting older and can he do it quite as much anymore? But I kind of feel, you gotta leave when the going is good and this is when Chris wants to wrap it up, and it’s the right time._________________________ Bale has recently expressed regret at having not been able to deliver an more fully fleshed out character like Heath could with Joker and this, I believe, explains that a lot.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 13, 2017 5:10:04 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 13, 2017 5:19:20 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 13, 2017 5:20:43 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 26, 2017 13:47:21 GMT
THe Carpetbagger did a detailed interview with Sir Michael Caine in 2012, which touches upon only nominally with the film. Here is the briefly relevant part: “Not blinking,” Mr. Caine said, “is strength. If you want to be weak or funny, blink.”
“I think I blinked twice during this interview,” he added, jokingly, sitting in a private room in the Four Seasons restaurant before a recent luncheon in honor of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman series. As Alfred, the loyal butler and father figure to Bruce Wayne, Mr. Caine has served as a conscience and a consigliere, shepherding and humanizing the hero, played with chiseled — unblinking — intensity by Christian Bale.
It was a part he quickly accepted at the start of the franchise, Mr. Caine said, when Mr. Nolan turned up at the door of his home in England one Sunday morning, carrying an early copy of the script for “Batman Begins,” the 2005 kickoff to the series, and demanding, for secrecy’s sake, that Mr. Caine read it on the spot. “He had written great parts for real actors,” Mr. Caine said, “rather than ciphers who are in big special-effects movies, because they haven’t gotten enough money to pay any actors.”
Still, Mr. Caine invented his own back story for Alfred. “I thought, I wanted to be the toughest butler in the world,” he said. Alfred, he envisioned, was part of a British military force, the Special Air Service, like the Navy SEALs. “He was a sergeant in it,” Mr. Caine said. “He got wounded. He didn’t want to go to civilian life. Then he went into the sergeant’s mess and ran that, which is where Batman met him. I needed him to have social skills, like making cocktails and serving things. So that’s why I put him in the bar, as a wounded ex-soldier who didn’t want to go back into civvy life.” (In Mr. Caine’s vision Alfred taught Bruce Wayne lots of things, including how to make a mean martini.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 28, 2017 6:38:40 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 10, 2017 21:42:29 GMT
A funny piece by Michael Musto on that extra-tight embargo around TDKR release: www.villagevoice.com/blogs/air-tight-security-around-new-batman-film-6380569Normally, reviews and mentions of a movie are embargoed by the film studio until a few days before the opening, but in the case of The Dark Night Rises, participating press have been warned by Warner Brothers to not tweet, review, or mention the film in any way until opening day (July 20)!
There is more hush-hush secrecy around this thing than any project since Mitt Romney's plan to save the economy, and no one's sure if the ferocity is coming from Christopher Nolan, the studio, or Anne Hathaway's makeup artist.
Just like June Allyson in those old commercials, they don't want any leakage!
You can't even text your boyfriend!
If you even quote from the omnipresent trailer, you'll probably get carted off to the remains of the set of Shutter Island and left there for sanitation!
Press are trembling and biting their tongues as they enter screenings, knowing they can't even tell their own mothers what happens between Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Hathaway, and the inevitable Morgan Freeman.
In my case, I'm not the least bit worried.
First of all, I'm the soul of discretion.
Secondly, I haven't been invited to see the movie!
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