Robert Pattinson is opening up about the way his agents reacted after he decided to accept the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in the upcoming movie The Batman.
The 35-year-old actor had previously decided he was going to step aside from major franchises after he shot to fame playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight series. Rob‘s agents were clearly surprised when he decided to play Batman! Click inside to find out what he said… “I was aiming for quite different stuff,” Rob told Total Film about where he was before getting the role. “Obviously it’s basically the jewel in the crown of the parts you can really get as an actor.
But I’d never really thought I was anywhere close to doing it, and especially with the other parts I was attracted to at the time.” Rob added, “I just kept obsessively checking up on it for the next year or so.
Even my agents were like, ‘Oh, interesting. I thought you only wanted to play total freaks?’ And I was like, ‘He is a freak!’” Director Matt Reeves previously talked about the backlash Rob got when his casting was announced. “There has been no actor, when his announcement that he was going to be playing Batman in one of the feature films was announced, that has not received a backlash,” he told Esquire. “The people who were excited, I knew it was because they knew Rob’s work post-Twilight.
Read more on justjared.com