We’re now under a month and a week away from the release of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. One man who’s appearing in the film is Mr Matthew Modine, who’s taking the role of Deputy Commissioner Foley. And while there’s still a veil of secrecy over the project, Modine has been chatting about it a little to Comic Book Resources.
Firstly, then, he touched on working with Christopher Nolan, a man who actors have very nice things to say about. Modine is no exception: “The only thing I can say is that the experience of working with Christopher Nolan and this tremendous cast of returning characters and new characters - Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway, my friend Gary Oldman - on such an extraordinary franchise is one of the highlights of my career”.
Interestingly, he also added "This may sound simplistic to say it, but when Christopher Nolan makes a film, he stands by the camera. The only person I can compare him to in this sense is Stanley Kubrick, who used to operate the camera. I'd say 90% of Full Metal Jacket, the camera was operated by Stanley Kubrick. Today so many film directors are not on the set. They're behind the television monitor viewing the movie from dozens of yards away from where the action is actually taking place.”
Modine also revealed that he’s always been a Batman man, and explained why.
“He’s not a man with supernatural powers, he’s not a mythological character – he’s just a man who’s damaged, who’s broken like so many people in the world… trying to do good”. He went on to add that “The interesting point then becomes, when you do good, when you're fighting crime, when do you cross that line of becoming a vigilante? I think that 'broken person doing good' is something we all aspire to in our life, trying to overcome our fears and trying to fight evil in the world. He's a character we all relate to”.
To read the rest of the interview, where Modine also talks a little about the Marvel universe, head over to Comic Book Resources, here.
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