Costume designer Lindy Hemming calls Bane a “warrior”
![For costume designer Lindy Hemming, finding a way to ground Tom Hardy‘s villainous Bane in The Dark Knight Rises was paramount. “When you look at the comic version of Bane, he’s this massive man,” she explains in an on-set interview with IGN. “He’s wearing a wrestling suit, and it’s a bit difficult to imagine how […]](http://darkknight.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/thedarkknightrises10-300x225.jpg "Costume designer Lindy Hemming calls Bane a “warrior” - The Dark Knight")
For costume designer Lindy Hemming, finding a way to ground Tom Hardy‘s villainous Bane in The Dark Knight Rises was paramount. “When you look at the comic version of Bane, he’s this massive man,” she explains in an on-set interview with IGN. “He’s wearing a wrestling suit, and it’s a bit difficult to imagine how you could translate that into a Chris Nolan film because everyone is meant to have a real background and come from real story.” To accomplish this, she delved deeply into his (still completely unknown) back story, referring specifically to the ways in which he has assembled his outfit and how it reflects directly upon his character. “…He doesn’t come from the same technology as Batman,” she says. “His stuff has been made on-the-move, over the mountains of the world, maybe in training camps. He’s the guy who’s had his stuff made by different people along the way. So there is a sort of slightly clunky element to him, and that’s part of his story.” Most importantly, Hemming felt it necessary to make the audience aware of Bane’s age and experience: “He’s not a young kid. He’s an older man who, as you’ll see in the film, you’ll know he’s been around for a long time. The reason he looks like he looks is he’s much more a warrior, mercenary kind of man.”
