Tom Hardy has said that he has been reading comments that have been made about the up and coming 'The Dark Knight Rises' and has felt that is very hard to realistically portray the character (Bane) as he appears in the comic books. Here I do agree with him, it's simply unrealistic to expect Tom Hardy to be 400 pounds in the film and he has gained a a lot of weight in for the role. CineMovie.tv say that Hardy understands the fans love for their superhero icon and that whoever steps into any role related to that will be scrutinized. The released of images of Catwoman are receiving the same type of scrutiny. Scrutiny will always follow the Batman franchise around but I think now that we should be trusting of Nolan as he has proved us wrong before. When fans first saw The Scarecrow and The Joker there was the almost the same reaction, it was only when more trailers started to come out for the films that people started to see that they were going to work and the changes to the characters were necessary for them to be implemented into Nolan's vision of Gotham. Full Interview: http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/videos/50-interviews/1701-tom-hardy-on-playing-bane-just-trust-me