Christian has unbelievable stamina.
I mean, I've seen his workload every day.
And if he does get two hours off in the morning, he has to rehearse a fight.
Your parents' death was not your fault.
It was your father's.
We had 16 fights in the movie for Christian to get through.
So you'd rather-- So as soon as he comes...
-...I'm there, I get out of the way, and: - Yes.
Because he had such a heavy workload...
...we did a lot of blocking of the fights with stunt guys...
...and just liaising with Chris Nolan on tape.
Then we'd bring Christian in...
...put the acting element into the fight...
...and perhaps tweak a few bits that felt, character-wise, like they should change.
And now we've made the changes.
And then we would get on set, and it'd all change again.
In terms of the fights, Christian learned every single fight.
He did every single fight.
The Keysi fighting is very close-quarters.
So it is a very dangerous art.
The hits were very direct to very dangerous parts of the body.
So we had to be very, very careful...
...as not to injure our actors or our stuntmen, of course.
A lot of the hits were, like, two or three inches away from the targets every time.
I absolutely respect the stuntmen.
This is what they do, and they can obviously do any of it...
...in a vastly superior way to what I can do.
But I always like to try it, you know?
I like the possibility of being able to have some kind of stunt sequence...
...and then you can zoom in and whatever, you know, and see that it's the real person.
Basically, Christian learned fights very quickly.
He'd go home and watch the tapes...
...and he'd literally come in the next day and know the fights.
He has a photographic memory.
So I would show him a fight, and it sickens me.
Because, you know, I'd show him 20 moves and then within half an hour...
...he would have all those 20 moves down.
I can't do that, and I'm the fight arranger.
Batman is on equal terms now with Ducard.
I think we feel that they are equal to each other.
It was punch for punch, kick for kick...
...and that's what made it very intense and dynamic.
Liam and Christian were keen to be involved, to rehearse.
In fact, you know, if they weren't doing anything...
...they'd actually call and say, “Look, why don't we rehearse?“
Liam was a strong fighter.
Keysi's actually a fighting system where you use a lot of elbows and fists.
And Liam is very tall.
I think he's 6'4" or 6'5". He's a tall guy.
So he has to get very low in order to do the blows.
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We just wanted it to be as hard as possible.
We wanted to show two men who are very highly trained...
...and very highly skilled, very motivated.
When I saw the enjoyment out of--
When Liam had finished the sequence, and Christian...
...you could just see the glee in their face when they finished that sequence.
When they've just done 10-- A 10-, 15-move sequence.
And that's the best.
Cut it there. All right?
- You guys all right? - Yes.
...the KFM, the Keysi, work on-screen.
And, hopefully, it's new, creative. And that's what is good about the KFM...
...you can be creative with it, you can be very creative with it.
It was just kind of bizarre enough to get your attention and think:
“What the hell is he doing?"
And then absolutely vicious enough, but also practical enough, to believe it.
Keysi reflected quite nicely an overall approach in terms of script and design...
...of seeing Batman not as a glamorous, sort of branded figure, decorative figure...
...but as a functional entity.