How Wearing The Batsuit Completely Changed Pattinson's The Batman Audition
Robert Pattinson shares how wearing the Batsuit for The Batman audition changed his experience as he tested for the role. The Caped Crusader is getting reimagined once again, this time through director Matt Reeves with Pattinson donning the cape and cowl. While Bruce Wayne's origin story has been told multiple times on-screen, The Batman will instead focus on the hero's second year being Gotham City's fierce protector. The reboot will be a heavy noir-detective story, following Batman trying to stop The Riddler (Paul Dano), who is being imagined as a Zodiac-inspired serial killer.
Prior to being cast as the lead, Pattinson needed to audition for The Batman to make sure he was a right fit for the part. As part of the process, he did screen tests in old Batman movie costumes, donning Val Kilmer's Batman Forever suit and George Clooney's Batman & Robin costume. Those iterations of the Batsuit are very different from the one Pattinson wears in The Batman, but putting on the earlier costumes was a key part in completely changing the actor's audition.
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As The Batman is approaching its theatrical release, Pattinson has been sharing more insight into his whole experience, from auditioning for the role to shooting the reboot. In a new interview with Den of Geek, the British actor spoke about his audition process and his own expectations. According to Pattinson, once he put on the Batsuit, it changed everything that he had in mind prior to going in for the audition, sharing the following:
“I went into that audition [and] you have the whole concept of how you want to play it. [But] you put on the suit and it’s just everything goes out the window. And you can’t do
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