Christian Bale and Gary Oldman spoke with The Los Angeles Times about the upcoming film “The Dark Knight Rises” by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) co-starring Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown). Here’s an excerpt from the interview.

Bale is not concerned about box office success, however he tells 24 frames “I never saw Batman and Bruce Wayne as a big tent pole. It was just another character I love playing. But I do feel a creative pressure. It would be wrong if I didn’t feel that.”

In a separate interview, Gary Oldman discusses the pressure behind the film. “It’s more pressure on Chris [Nolan] than on me,” Oldman says. “If they feel disappointed with Gordon, that’s one thing. If they feel disappointed with the movie, that’s another.” He follows up with “Chris is too classy to make a movie just for the sake of doing a third one,” he adds, “It’s a terrific story, and it’s going to be epic.”

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Source: 24 Frames