Pattinson Was Cast as Batman on His First Day of Filming Tenet

Robert Pattinson had just started working on Christopher Nolan's time-bending espionage thriller Tenet when he learned he had been cast as The Batman. In a new interview with Total Film (via Batman-News), Pattinson recalls the "insane" and "very, very intense weekend" when he won the role of Batman just as he was starting a new movie from the director of the Dark Knight trilogy. Pattinson said he learned he'd been cast as Batman on "(the) morning of the first day" of filming Tenet. "That was a crazy way to start Chris’ film," Pattinson said. "I think I was doing the screen test, as well, on the Saturday before I started." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-batman-how-robert-pattinsons-batsuit-draws-from-the-past&captions=true"] Pattinson then went straight from shooting Tenet to working on The Batman, a transition the actor says left him feeling "loopy." But then just seven weeks into filming, production on The Batman was shut down indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’d really gotten into a really good rhythm as well, so it’s kind of strange to be pausing," Pattinson said. "But, again, it’s a hard movie. I mean, obviously it’s Batman, so it’s kind of nice.” Pattinson said "having some time off is not the worst thing in the world" given the whirlwind of going straight from one major production into another. "But hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later that everything is hopefully in a better place.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/tenet-official-trailer-2"] For more on The Batman, learn what Jeffrey Wright had to say about Jim Gordon and the "badass" new Batmobile, what Robert Pattinson had to say about his Bat-fitness regiment and Andy Serkis' revelations about Alfred and the film's tone. And for more on Tenet, discover why Christopher Nolan broke his big tradition for the film, find out why Nolan decided to blow up a real 747 rather than use visual effects, and learn what John David Washington said about the plot.

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