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TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”

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