Robert Pattinson Had Batman On His Mind 'For A While' Before Landing Role

"Patman" has been in the works for a very long time, according to the man himself.


Speaking to Variety in a recent interview, Robert Pattinson could hardly hide his love for Batman as he divulged some intriguing tidbits related to how his role because the Caped Crusader ended up coming together.


 


Originally, Christopher Nolan reached out to Pattinson throughout a little bit of a dry spell for the actor near the starting of the year.


"I couldn’t believe it," mentioned Pattinson of the call. “He’s one of these people who seem quite out of reach." He obviously met with Nolan, because he had been running down a dream of playing Batman longer than several of us actually were privy to. Right after hearing writer Matt Reeves had been working on a Batman script that follows the hero as a younger version of himself, Pattinson knew he had to reach out.


"I’d had Batman in my mind for a while," the Twilight star explained. "It’s such an absurd thing to mention. I categorize kind of had an idea to do it, and I’d been prodding Matt. He didn’t accept any prods. I kept asking to meet him." The stars finally aligned right after Reeves completed his script, and the pair met up in Los Angeles. Despite not having read any of the script, Pattinson came prepared with a lot of notes. His audition came right in the middle of his work on The Lighthouse, which left the actor scurrying from the Cannes Film Festival to Los Angeles back and forth to carry out it.


"It’s perhaps the craziest thing I’ve ever done in terms of movie stuff," mentioned Pattinson of the experience. Trying on the Batsuit to officially become Gotham's greatest detective would likely make anyone feel that way.


"I put it on. I remember saying to Matt, ‘It does feel quite transformative!’ He was like, ‘I would hope it does! You’re literally in the Batsuit.'" He went on to describe how he felt "powerful" in the suit, despite getting into it being "pretty humiliating. "You’ve got five people attempting to shove you into something. Once you’ve got it on, it’s like, ‘Yeah, I feel strong, I feel tough, although I had to have someone squeezing my butt cheeks into the legs.’" He even had to tailor his movements a specific way to bring new to it and "not wish to scare people off."


Five days soon after trying on the suit, Pattinson was recommended the role of the Dark Knight over actor Nicholas Hoult.


"It’s so bizarre,” he mentioned. "I was like, ‘What a coincidence this is happening. It’s absolutely crazy.” It can be crazy, yet it fully works. And far because the rest of us Patman faithful? We're willing to be able to see him don the Batsuit. It's what Robert deserves. It's what we deserve. The movie can't come rapidly enough, in the event you ask us.