katikat | Tom Hardy and Christian Bale

Some articles popped up in which Tom Hardy and Christian Bale talk about each other or the movie...

In an interview for People.co.uk, Tom Hardy said:

Meanwhile Tom, in an exclusive interview with The People, revealed playing a monster was unnatural because deep down he is a softie.

“I may be the big baddie in Batman but I love the ballet. It is great. It’s big and scary and I enjoy watching it with my mum.”

For EmpireOnline.com, he said:

I love Christian. He's brilliant. He's really good fun. And it's like, he's a really serious actor, he takes the work very seriously, but not himself very seriously. He's a very funny, witty man, very smart. He's a brilliant character actor, and not at all alpha male in the way that there's not enough limelight for everybody to shine around him. So he's not greedy. He has a tremendous humility as a performer. It's a fucking breath of fresh air to work with somebody like that. And it's very physical.

And Christian Bale said, also for EmpireOnline.com:

Tom is phenomenal. He’s an extraordinary actor. If I was a director I would want Tom to be in my movies. He knows his shit. But it’s a funny distance that you have in these movies, literally, by being cocooned by a cowl. I don’t truly feel like I’ve worked with Gary [Oldman], even though we’ve done three movies together. I don’t really feel like I’ve worked with Gary because I’m here in this darkness every time. And likewise with Tom, we’re both behind these masks. He’s feeling that isolation as well. It’s a strange feeling. So we agreed after this we’d like to work with each other on something one day!

I also giggled when I read this, about how Christian Bale read up on Bane and his role in the Batman mythology:

Then I just went and sat around at Chris’ house and astounded him with how slow a reader I am. I sat and read and he kept walking in going, “You’re kidding me! Still?” And I’m like, “Yeah. Still.” Then lunch… dinner… [laughs]. Then he came in and was like, “That actually took you seven hours”. [laughs].

LOL! I'm so happy that Tom Hardy and Christian Bale got along so well. You hear bad things about Christian but this makes me think that maybe, just maybe it depends on with whom he's filming...