‘The Batman’: Robert Pattinson lives childhood dream on big screen

Sarah Mills, Reuters

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Producer Dylan Clark, cast members Andy Serkis, Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano and Jeffrey Wright, and director Matt Reeves arrive at the London launch of " The="" in="" February="" REUTERS="" Tom="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/reuters/02/24/batman.jpg"/><figcaption>Producer Dylan Clark, cast members Andy Serkis, Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano and Jeffrey Wright, and director Matt Reeves arrive at the London launch of &#x27;The Batman&#x27;, in London, Britain, February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson</figcaption></figure></div>LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Robert Pattinson used to dress up as Batman his &quot;entire childhood,&quot; he said. Now the British actor is about to debut his version of the capped crusader in the latest movie about the DC Comics superhero.&quot;This is bizarre to me,&quot; Pattinson, 35, said on the red carpet for a London screening of &quot;The Batman&quot; on Wednesday. &quot;I&#x27;d be so curious what my childhood self would think of this.&quot;Pattinson, who rose to global fame with the &quot;Twilight&quot; movies, follows in the footsteps of Adam West, Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale and more recently Ben Affleck among others, to play Bruce Wayne/Batman.&quot;I mean the legacy of the actors who played (Batman), they&#x27;ve all been such massive parts of my life and my interest in film and why I wanted to be an actor in the first place,&quot; Pattinson said.&quot;It&#x27;s just incredible to be a part of the same coterie,&quot; he said, noting that acting with a mask on was &quot;surprisingly difficult. &quot;I grew up on Adam West (playing Batman). I think my costume when I was a kid was an Adam West one.&quot;In the movie, Batman investigates corruption in Gotham following the murders of several of senior figures by sadistic serial killer, the Riddler.&quot;There are great Batman movies and it&#x27;s a character that everyone loves ... so for me you don&#x27;t approach it without a heavy dose of terror,&quot; director Matt Reeves said.&quot;In certain ways it&#x27;s a psychological horror movie, it&#x27;s a thriller, it&#x27;s a serial killer movie and it&#x27;s also a kind of a grand love story.&quot;The cast also includes Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis and Paul Dano. Zoë Kravitz plays Selina Kyle/Catwoman.&quot;Matt ... really wanted to explore Selina as a three-dimensional human being and to meet her so early in the story before she&#x27;s Catwoman is something we haven&#x27;t necessarily seen before,&quot; Kravitz said.&quot;The Batman&quot; begins its global rollout from March 1.<div>Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Richard Chang</div>

Pattinson follows in the footsteps of Adam West, Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale to play iconic superhero Bruce Wayne/Batman.

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‘The Batman’: Robert Pattinson lives childhood dream on big screen

‘The Batman’: Robert Pattinson lives childhood dream on big screen

Sarah Mills,

Reuters

Published Feb 24, 2022 07:08 AM PHT

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