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Empire: How did you manage to get reelected after the Joker messed up the town like that?
Nester: Well listen, it was not an easy re-election. I campaigned hard, had some good financing, my peeps showed up,
and raised some good money and here we are. [laughs]
Empire: Is it good to be back for another Batman movie?
Nester: Obviously it was thrilling to get reelected. It was great to get back to the set with Chris [Nolan], and Wally
[Pfister], the whole gang. And it's an enormous project. I'm used to working on
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imposing, much smaller budget things. It's pretty but when you have someone with the temperament of Chris Nolan, who comes from
the independent world with Memento and has essentially used the same crew for every one of his projects, it's pretty comforting
for everyone involved to come in and see the tone of the set. Which is like shooting an independent with, you know, how many
hundreds of millions of dollars. So it's a great vibe.
Empire: What does Gotham's mayor now think of Batman, given he took the rap for all those deaths?
Nester: Obviously there's a lot of secrecy surrounding the script with good reason, but I've been used to working this way
now for a number of years, not only with Dark Knight but also with Lost. I think that the Mayor definitely feels that he's not for
a vigilante coming in here and, you know, solving crime in this way. It's just not the way he envisions things, and I think there's
an ego element obviously to him. This is a man who wants to restore law and order, a man who definitely believes that the... I
don't know how much I can reveal... Okay, I will say one thing: this is a man who is very much for putting out legislation where he
has the freedom to really go after criminals, to really pursue them in a hard way. I'm not saying that he's going to violate civil
liberties, but this is a man who is very tough on
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