okay you go to set and I know that you said that there was this big speech and it gets dropped to you the night before and you but you had written this is crazy Christian okay you had written a speech because you didn't know that you were going to have to memorize the speech so you wrote your own speech I Have to know what you wrote Because you ended up not performing that they the other speech that you perform but you are sitting there you write a speech you learn this speech what was it what did you think you say I thought I was just going to say something about police singing about I forget what I wrote but I tell you what I did do Roxy because I did this because I was the first scene that I was in the first scene that they shot on The Dark Knight it just so happened to be the way the schedule worked out that I was first up with Anthony Michael Hall and it was just a scene that was going to play in a TV screen in a police station but it starts out as an interview he's interviewing the mayor about crime and Gotham and this and that and there was nothing on the page you know it was just like you know you know there's like maybe one line or something that you know he asked me whatever and then I was like well I've got to say something even though it's just being seen and there was no dialogue written so I just I just talked to Anthony I said why don't you ask me a few questions and I and I wrote my own answers about how he felt about policing and you know and how we needed a is you know more support and you know we were hamstrung whatever it was I don't know what I came up with but I came up with stuff so we just did this improv kind of it it felt very it was improvisational this interview and what they use whatever they use so I assumed when I got to my speech when you know the Joker was going to shoot me there was literally on the script in the script there's only one or two lines and I figured oh well okay I I'll write another I'll write something else about you know you know policing and crime and this and that and I just I I wish I remembered but I'm sure it was all of it taking a hard line on crime and how we have to restore Law and Order it's just basically talking points I'm sure it was nothing riveting um but it was just you know sort of like basic stuff on and sure enough you're absolutely right I get after shooting a scene the one with the f that slams against the wall with you know um you know shooting that scene I go back to the hotel at night and I you're right I get this long speech and I go I just you know I got this now this I got this tomorrow morning this is crazy and uh and I do remember being up pretty late trying to you know you know memorize this and forget what else I'd written and then uh and then asking God bless her Maggie Gyllenhaal to to run lines or to to see if I was even remotely close to the speech you know uh the next day and and uh as we're making the walk up to the to the de to the podium um and she was so sweet but um but yeah it was frightening it was frightening yeah but did you know Maggie at all you just felt comfor you were just like hey Maggie jilling Hall can you help me exactly it's like Maggie you don't know me but here's my little speech can you just make sure that I'm on book here because I'm I want to try and be off book I don't want to have to read this you know you know so so she's like you know she's like yep yep you're good now she was great solid team solid team I like it