Been Wondering Where Tom Hardy Got His Inspiration For Bane In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’?
Last week we showed you where Heath Ledger got his inspiration for The Joker in The Dark Knight. It only seemed fitting to follow that one up this week with one for The Dark Knight Rises.
By now most of us have all seen The Dark Knight Rises, those of you who haven’t need to stop reading right this second and go see it! Anyway, if you’ve seen it then you’ve seen Tom Hardy’s awesome take on Bane but did you wonder where he got his inspiration for the character? It would seem that he got his inspiration from one of his earlier roles actually. Back in 2002, Hardy co-starred in Star Trek: Nemesis as the villainous Praetor Shinzon, a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Check out Hardy’s audition tape and you can see the earliest glimpses of Bane in the performance.
Hardy also told Vulture at the premiere for TDKR that “It’s based on a guy named Bartley Gorman, he’s the king of the gypsies, and he’s a boxer, a bare-knuckle boxer, an Irish traveler, a gypsy.”
So there you go, Bane was essentially a mix of Patrick Stewart and the king of the gypsies in a mask and juiced up. “Let the games begin…make it so!”
