Q WILL you be talking in your normal British accent today or will you be using your American accent for the interviews like you did for Batman Begins?

A IHAVEN’T heard myself speak in my own voice for coming on two years. Whenever I’m working on a project, I maintain that. I’ve been doing a character from South Carolina for a while. I’m playing an American now. I just need to sound like myself. I need to give it a break.’”

Q CAN you talk about returning to Chicago and filming there?

A THEY gave us the key to the city. We were racing up and down LaSalle, the business district, with helicopters flying just a matter of feet above the ground.

We were blowing up trucks, flipping them. We were standing on the edge of the Sears Tower, jumping off of it. They gave us real freedom. I’ve done another movie in Chicago since then too, called Public Enemies.Q WHAT was it like on top of the Sears Tower?

A FANTASTIC. That was not a stunt, it was an experience.

There was no way they were going to put me up there and allow me to plummet 110 stories.

I had a cable. I could have fallen a short way and then banged against the side and get pulled up again. When am I going to get an opportunity to stand on the top of the Sears Tower, looking down and out over Chicago, again? So, I was going to take advantage of that.

Q DO you keep your bat suits?

AI KEEP the cowls. I don’t have room for the whole thing, unfortunately.

Q YOU found the first suit for Batman Begins claustrophobic? Was this one more comfortable?

AIT was so much better. I don’t like whiners and complainers. I’m playing Batman, for God’s sake, just put up with it. But, this was so much more of an advanced suit. In the way that the story has evolved, the suit should evolve as well.

There were 110 parts to this suit as opposed to three. I could take the cowl off, I could move my head. In the previous one, for the fight sequences, I was having to fight against the suit because it was not conducive to the fighting style we used, whereas this one was designed to actually aid with the fighting style. It was heavier, but didn’t feel that way at all. I had so much more energy, and it was so much easier to breathe inside of this one than the previous one.

Source: Daily Record