Bane actor Tom Hardy says he never liked Batman "I wasn't a fan of Batman as a child, not at all, really," the Londoner tells Mandrake at the film's European premiere at the BFI Imax in London. I know that sounds a bit strange, but I was more into The Littlest Hobo and things like that. Zoë Wanamaker, whose American father, Sam, founded the theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, praises the determination of Rylance. "What an incredible man," the actress tells me at the launch of her friend Stanley Johnson's book Where the Wild Things Were. What an utter professional. I honestly don't know how he does it. Sometimes, I suppose, work helps. There truly is nothing you can't admire about the man. It is tragic what he is having to go through. Rylance, who was the artistic director of the Globe until 2005, Rylance said earlier this month that Van Kampen, a film-maker, had "passed away of unsuspected natural causes." She was the daughter of his wife, Claire van Kampen, a composer.