Hardy explained, “Bane quintessentially is Latinx... of origin, and I’m not. So I looked at the concept of Latin and found a character, a gentleman, a man called Bartley Gorman, who’s a Romani gypsy, the King of the Gypsies.” Gorman was a bare-knuckle fighter who remained undefeated until his retirement 40 years later and would take on any challengers, even sparring with Muhammad Ali.