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Empire: The action is really ramped-up for Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, to the degree that you took part in a
1,000-strong fistfight on Wall Street. That must have gotten pretty chaotic.
Bale: Yeah, with a crowd that big you can’t really control it completely. It’s impossible. Shit’s gonna happen. So
I see there’s a wall of guys right there. They’re not meant to be there. Because I’m about to throw this guy there, you
know? And I had to kinda go, ‘Do I? Don’t I? All right, they’re up for it…’ I went back and checked on them afterwards, and
they were all fine. But those are kinda happy accidents which you can’t fake because there really was a
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guy flying through the air who knocked them all down!
Empire: How is it performing fight scenes?
Bale: It’s fascinating. It never looks how it feels. It’s so weird. You get moments where I’ve had fights in movies where
I get punched really, by mistake and when you look at it on playback it looks like a really crap punch. And then you do another
one which is really slow and big and felt like crap and you look at the movie and you’re wincing, like, “That must have hurt!” So
it’s always interesting. Often I go to Chris [Nolan] thinking, “Oh, it’s terrible,” and he’s kind of, “Yes, fantastic!” Other
moments I think, “We nailed that,” and everyone’s looking around scratching, wondering how they’re going to tell us.
Empire: Is this movie much more physical than the other two? It seems there’s much more smash-mouth stuff, because of the
nature of Bane.
Bale: The nature of Bane, right. Yes, certainly between the two of us. That’s right, because it’s the first time in Chris’
movies that we’ve had an adversary who’s physically superior. Previously it’s always been an intellectual battle and you know what’s
going to happen if they meet and it gets to a fistfight.
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