Tom Hardy reveals what it's like to wear Bane's mask in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Tom Hardy talked a bit about what it's like to wear Bane's face mask in The Dark Knight Rises. Here is what Hardy had to say in a recent interview with Total Film (via Contact Music):

"It allows a performance to be free. The only downside is you can't hear a f**king word anyone is saying. Batman can't hear me and he can't see me speaking so we sort of stand there looking at each other for a while. We've been doing hand signals!" 

"I put my thumbs up when I finish my lines or I wink. And he sort of wiggles his fingers out of shot and I go, 'OK, now I've got to run up and kick you in the b******s!'"

he Dark Knight Rises arrives in theaters on July 20th, 2012.