The Batman 2022 will see the Twilight star suit up as Batman for the first time, but at the audition screen test, Pattinson suited up in the Batman Forever costume, and had a terrible time. He told the story and dug into his Bruce Wayne at 2021 DC FanDome.
Robert Pattinson is donning the cape and cowl in 2022’s The Batman, but his first experience as the hero was with an earlier version of the iconic costume. During DC’s 2021 FanDome event for the movie’s new trailer, director Matt Reeves revealed that Pattinson auditioned in the Val Kilmer Batsuit — and it nearly scared him away from the role. “When Rob and I first got together we had all these conversations and just by virtue of what it is (it’s Batman), the studio was like, ‘well we always do a screentest.’ [Rob] was wearing, I believe, Val Kilmer’s Batsuit. Which by the way, the moment you put it on was kind of a crazy moment.” Pattinson explained that, between the nerves of suiting up as Batman, a personal dream, and the costume’s two-inch thick rubber, he found moving in the suit to be almost impossible.
