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Empire: What was your first meeting with Christopher Nolan about playing Jim Gordon like?
Gary: I never had a meeting with him about Jim Gordon. We'd met for a cup of coffee at the 101 Café in Hollywood
and he was talking about his reinterpretation of Batman and his life through the comic and where it had travelled, really.
From Tim Burton to... absolute shite. I mean, the last movie, whatever it was in the franchise, the early franchise with Mr
Freeze, they should take that can of film and blow it up! Chris admired and was a fan of the comic and the original
conception of Batman, which was darker. So that was basically the pitch, he was saying,
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'I'm going to reinterpret it, I'm going to try and base it more in reality, there will be explanations'. I thought it
sounded fantastic. Then they came in with a villain. And I was at that point where you say, "Oh. I can't do that anymore".
I really felt I'd played all the notes that I could in terms of villains.
Empire: So how did you come to play Gordon then?
Gary: I had a think, and then I said to my manager, "What about Jim Gordon?" And they proposed it to [Chris] and,
to his credit, he cast me. He went, "Oh that's an interesting idea". And you really get thrown into the deep end. We had
a conversation over the phone, we did the deal, the dates were ready for when I'd fly to England. The first day we got
to a set - a night shoot - it was me getting out of a cop car on the dock, looking up at the round-up of villains, not
knowing who the hell had rounded them up. We did the first rehearsal and he said, "Oh, OK, so you're playing him like
that." "Yeah." And he went, "Huh. OK. All right. Take?" And I went, "Yeah." And we did a take and he went, "Very nice.
OK. Do you want another one?" And I said, "Well, I've come all this way." He went, "Alright, do another one." We did
take two and he went, "Terrific. OK, moving on..." [laughs]. I think sometimes people want it to be far more complex
and important and you go, "No, it's as simple as
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