Being forged as Batman isn’t the identical as being forged as most different characters. There’s a never-ending legacy to it. An extended and storied custom. And that’s one thing the brand new Batman, Robert Pattinson, not solely is conscious of, however relishes. Speaking to Total Film Magazine in regards to the March 4 launch of The Batman, Pattinson admits to not solely searching for out the function of the Caped Crusader, however feeling like he was meant to play it by way of years of fandom.

“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,” Pattinson told the magazine. “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.”

He’s all the time liked the character and, sure, the flicks—even the not-so-nice ones. Which sounds just like the headline to this text may have been “New Batman Robert Pattinson May Love Bat-Nipples” however we spared you from that.

As a results of this connection he felt to the character, Pattinson mentioned he was instantly intrigued when he, like the remainder of us, heard that Matt Reeves was making a brand new model of the movie. “I just kept obsessively checking up on it for the next year or so,” he mentioned. “Even my agents were like, ‘Oh, interesting. I thought you only wanted to play total freaks?’ And I was like, ‘He is a freak!’”

“A freak?” Well, possibly, depending on how Pattinson crafts his efficiency. But you actually can see how this character, constructed out of such trauma and ache, might be thought-about that—and why an actor like Pattinson, who tends to keep away from the highlight, would wish to take a crack at it. He’s advanced and in addition part of popular culture historical past.

The Batman opens March 4.

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