Movieweb have posted a press­ing inter­view with Michael Caine.  Here he once again talks up the bril­liant por­trayal of The Joker by Heath Ledger,

“I can tell you the biggest secret. The most shock­ing thing for both you and I, […] It’s Heath Ledger as the Joker. He is going to sur­prise a lot of peo­ple. He is absolutely ter­ri­fy­ing. I’d say that he is the scari­est thing I’ve ever seen on screen.”

Michael Caine also men­tioned an alter­ca­tion between his char­ac­ter, Alfred, and the men­ac­ing Joker,

“Does Alfred and the Joker get into an altercation?”

He shook his head with a cer­tain type of sales­man like delight, “Yes. They do. They get into quite the altercation.”