Robert Pattinson Interview - Being The Batman And Stealing Socks

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Robert Pattinson is the latest in a long line of actors to play Batman, and in many ways is the strangest choice since Val Kilmer and his Bat Nipples - possibly the strangest ever. There’s no doubting Pattinson’s talent, but since the days of Twilight and Harry Potter he has religiously avoided franchises and blockbusters, opting instead for enticing prestige indie flicks like Good Time, The Lighthouse, and High Life. The closest he’s gotten to a blockbuster role like The Batman would either be Netflix’s star-studded but clearly-aiming-for-prestige-indie-status drama The Devil All the Time, or Christopher Nolan’s complex and complicated Tenet - neither of which are classic blockbusters in the way a character like Batman is. Of course, being a franchise star has some neat perks: free socks.

“They told me to stop stealing them,” Pattinson tells a gathering of the media after co-star Zoe Kravitz ratted him out. “It was intentional. After a while, it was day 156 of the shoot. They said ‘you have 156 pairs of socks, like, what are you doing with them?’”.

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It’s not the first time Pattinson has done something like this - while filming Good Time, in which his character robs a bank, Pattinson frequently wandered the streets in costume to make sure he looked less like ‘Robert Pattinson, the movie star’ and more like his Average Joe character. Directors Benny and Josh Sadfie have previously revealed in interviews that he ended up buying a pack of cigarettes with counterfeit prop money by mistake.

Of course, there are more perks to being Batman than just the free socks. It also has the considerable benefit of getting to be Batman, and Pattinson