Actor Tom Hardy is a hunk and a heartthrob, but when he put on the mask and the military-inspired outfit of Bane for the third installation of the Christopher Nolan Batman series, ‘Dark Knight Rises’, Hardy became a violent and brutal villain.
His mask gave his voice an unmistakable timbre, and he even managed to bring Batman down and cast him into the darkness. He almost manages to bring down the entire city of Gotham, until Bruce Wayne seemingly makes the ultimate sacrifice to keep the city safe. Why don’t you go ahead and guess how the actors acted when off camera?
Play With Us. Forever...
Stephen King's bestseller 'The Shining' was a chart-topping book that brought fear back to the front of a lot of people's minds, and Stanley Kubrick took it upon himself to turn the chilling book into an even more chilling 1980 movie starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd.
The movie brought us the trope of the creepy ghost twins, who only want Danny to come play with them forever, and it's one of the enduring scary things that writers and filmmakers have gone back to over and over again. But how were the twins backstage?
Nothing Wrong With These Girls
Little kids in horror films are, for some reason, one of the creepiest ways to send chills down your viewers' spines, but when the cameras weren't rolling, these twins were just a pair of young actresses. It's very likely that Danny Lloyd, who played Danny Torrance, did actually play with them when they weren't needed on set.
The twins won the hearts of everyone on the set. It's known that Stanley Kubrick didn't let Lloyd know what kind of movie 'The Shining' was, and Lloyd only found out when he watched the film as a teenager. We wonder if Kubrick used the same tactic with the twins?
Having a Laugh with the Bat
We hope that Tom Hardy returned to his normal voice when joking around with Batman/Bruce Wayne actor Christian Bale, since it looks like they did it often enough. The two characters are mortal enemies in the movie, but clearly the actors themselves are good friends. This image, which shows part of the big mob scene that takes place in the third act, has Bale and Hardy chuckling while the next shot is set up.
Bane and the Bat are all smiles here, but once the cameras start rolling they're going to start delivering powerful blows to each other again.
Send in the Clowns
We're back to our horror favorite Stephen King. His 1986 novel “It” introduced us to creepy clown Pennywise, whose shape shifting powers brought unending terror to the children of Derry, Maine. The first actor to become this clown was Tim Curry for the 1990 television miniseries, and for the two-part movie series it was Bill Skarsgard.
Both excel at creepy characters, but the design is slightly different, with Curry's version being a little more colorful, which hides the evil brewing inside the character, and Skarsgard's version being more muted and outwardly creepy. How much makeup did it require to get into character, we wonder?