Tom Hardy compares shooting to working at Starbucks

Tom Hardy, who is playing the villainous Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, has talked about shooting the film.

"These movies are huge vehicles to make a lot of money… and make a large audience happy.

So now you’re at the very top level of trying to bring character work in a boutique way to something that is, you know, Starbucks.

You deal with something Dark Knight – or Mad Max, or Superman or Spider-Man, whatever – it’s like going to work in an airport and going, "Hi I’m over here!" and then everybody goes "Oh here’s that... villain of the piece".

Then it’s a thousand people going to Duty-Free. Like, [he shouts] "I am the villain!" and make a lot of noise. There’s a formula here, you can’t muck around with it.

There’s a lot of rules, you’re restrained in many ways as an artist,
but then you’re also grateful because of the huge exposure and the paycheck.

Or the not-paycheck ‘cause they’re making you a star. Whatever it is, you’re paying an entrance to getting higher exposure."