The Batman: How Old Is Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne?
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Batman.
How old is Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne in The Batman? While Matt Reeves' new DC reboot doesn't confirm Wayne's age in specific terms, it is possible to work out how old he is, and Reeves himself has offered some insight. He is far from an old man, but there is trauma and experience in the performance that suggests Pattinson's Wayne has lived through a lot. He's also cynical and knows Gotham as much as he loves the place, which adds depth to how lived-in Reeves' Gotham feels.
The most interesting thing about Pattinson's Batman is his newness as a hero and how it meshes with his naivety as a son of Gotham. He discovers his identity as Batman just as the Riddler's secrets on Gotham City's past and how Wayne himself is involved reveal more about his relationship with the institutions and people of Gotham. Christian Bale's version of Bruce Wayne obviously explored a young Batman, but Pattinson's truly deconstructs the character and the idea of Batman and his arc is centered on his age in a very direct way.
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Other Batman actors have been older than Robert Pattinson, just as he's not the youngest, but it's interesting to explore why Pattinson's Dark Knight feels so much younger. Here's Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne age in The Batman.
According to The Batman director Matt Reeves in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne was written to be around 30 years old. He is a Batman just finding his feet in Gotham as a hero, struggling to work out his identity. Robert Pattinson is older than the character, at 35 years old, but he is believably youthful, which fits Batman's arc. To use the specific details of
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