Robert Pattinson talks The Batman: "He's a freak!"

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Robert Pattinson had never auditioned for a comic-book movie – until The Batman.

"I was aiming for quite different stuff," the actor tells Total Film over Zoom for the new issue of the magazine, available this Thursday. "Obviously it’s basically the jewel in the crown, of the parts you can really get as an actor. But I’d never really thought I was anywhere close to doing it, and especially with the other parts I was attracted to at the time."

The character's cinematic future was in a state of flux following Ben Affleck's withdrawal from the role post-Justice League. Pattinson – who had pivoted from big blockbuster roles in Twilight and Harry Potter to indie dramas such as Good Time and The Lighthouse – was immediately eager to land the part of Bruce Wayne. 

"I just kept obsessively checking up on it for the next year or so," he says. "Even my agents were like, 'Oh, interesting. I thought you only wanted to play total freaks?' And I was like, 'He is a freak!'"

Like many, Pattinson grew up fascinated by Batman/Bruce. "Out of all the comic-book characters and that kind of movie, I’ve seen every single one of the [Batman] movies in the cinema, which I can’t really say I’ve done for any other series," he explains. "I was always really looking forward to them coming out. There was the combination of just being so attracted to it, but also feeling like it’d had a lot of movies made about it, and none of them are bad movies. People kind of shit on some of them, but they’re not actually bad. They all kind of completely achieve what they set out to achieve, and they’re all really interesting, according to their time and place. I don’t know. I just had a weird instinct about it. But I’ve always loved the character."

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