This is from superherohype.com - Interview 2
Michael Caine and Katie Holmes talked to ComingSoon.net/SuperheroHype.com about the anticipated new comic book
adaptation:
Q: Were you a fan of the Batman franchise before becoming involved with the film?
Caine: Well, they were all sort of different. They all sort of came out at different times, so there was nothing to
be a fan of. But I saw them all and liked most of them, I must say, yeah. But when I got this script, it was called "Batman
Begins," and I wondered about that. And then when I read the script I realized it's true: Batman begins. It's a whole new
thing and a whole new way, the way Chris has done it. It's what made me do it. It wouldn't be much point to just playing an
ordinary butler in another "Batman" -- coming in and saying, "Dinner is served." But the way it was written and the way it
was treated -- my respect for Christopher Nolan as a director, having seen the other two pictures he made. I was also
intrigued that the man who directed "Insomnia" and "Memento" would be directing a big budget movie like this, and they
trusted him with it. You know, $180 million. But I figured he could do it, and it was so
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different that I loved it. I've seen the picture now and I really love it.
Q: Alfred in comics, Rachel new to the film: how did each of you approach characters?
Caine: Do you want to start that one?
Katie Holmes: It was a thrill to get the role of Rachel. What I liked about her was her strength and she's the type of person
that you can tell she's worked hard for everything she's ever got. And she's very tough and she wants to save Gotham City and
make a difference. There was so much back story already there: She grew up with Bruce; she grew up in that house; her mom was
a servant. So it was pretty much all there on the page. It was fun to think about different experiences Rachel and Bruce had
together growing up and how that came into play as they got older, added into their closeness.
Caine: My one, I did a back story on mine. I wanted to be the toughest butler you've ever seen, not the normal English, suave
butler. And so I made him an SAS sergeant, which is a very, very tough British army unit. He's wounded; he didn't want to leave
the army. He became the sergeant in charge of the sergeant's
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