It's looking like by The Dark knight Rises finally arrives in the cinema, we'll be one of those really irritating people you go to the cinema with who constantly whisper facts in your ear while the film's playing.

 "Do you see that policeman? He actually won a competition to be in the film, but then he was so good at it that Christopher Nolan, the director, who also made Memento and Inception by the way, yeah, he basically gave this guy a job as a stuntman, but then in this scene he accidentally gets hit too hard by Tom Hardy, who's Bane, and so he ended up in hospital for three months and all the main cast, including Christian Bale, went to visit him every day and then let him ride in the Batmobile whenever he wanted"

Until then though, we'll continue to give you more information about the Film Of The Year than you'll ever need. In this instance, Tom Hardy talking about his role as Bane. If you've seen The Take or Bronson, you'll know how very seriously he means every word. (Via Empire)

“He’s brutal, brutal. He’s expedient delivery of brutality. And you know, he’s a big dude. He’s a big dude who’s incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and orientated fighting style. The result is clear.” 

“Do you know what I mean? It’s: fuck off and die. Quicker. Quicker. Everything is thought out way before. He’s hit you, he’s already hit somebody else. It’s not about fighting. It’s just about carnage with Bane. He’s a smashing machine. He’s a wrecking ball. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it’s nasty. Anything from small joint manipulation to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks and collarbones and snapping heads off and tearing his fists through chests, ripping out spinal columns. It’s anything he can get away with.” 

“I’m not approaching it with a 12-certificate attitude. If we’re going to shoot somebody, shoot the pregnant woman or the old lady first. Make sure everybody stands up. And listens. He is a terrorist in his mentality as well as brutal action. So he’s horrible. A really horrible piece of work.”

“It’s very overwhelming. When you’re training in a rehearsal room you go, ‘Okay, I have a contact with seven people. This guy I chin, this one I slip and I punch, this one I pick up and suplex, this guy I kick in the face, and this one, he stops a hammer with his head. And then I meet Batman.’ That’s all alright in a rehearsal room, but then you add 1,000 people that are all dressed the same as the seven you’re supposed to hit — ’cause they’re all police officers — and I don’t know where my police officers are. But the stuntmaster’s like, ‘Don’t worry. They will find you.’”

“He looks really intimidating! There’s a three-year-old in me that’s going, ‘Oh my God that’s Batman! That’s Batman and he’s going to hit me! But I love Batman!’ Then I look in the mirror. And I hit him back. Twice as hard.”

Shoot a pregnant woman indeed. Tom Hardy, you are a hoot.