The Batman’s Robert Pattinson Wore The Most Infamous Batsuit For His Screen Test

Robert Pattinson said that putting the Batsuit on for the audition was an enormous undertaking, especially given the state of the material decades after it was originally created. «You’ve got three, like, costume [workers] trying to squeeze your legs into this 30-year-old costume, which is just disintegrating as you’re getting into it … and then you’re boiling hot,» Pattison recalled for Kimmel. «This is even before I got the part. This is the screen test … you’re absolutely terrified.»

In a transcribed interview originally featured on the Japanese site Eiga (via u/starshipandcoffee on Reddit), Pattison admitted he was uncertain of how he was going to perform once he was firmly inside Clooney’s Batsuit. «It looks cool, but it feels like a nightmare. I can’t move. I was sweating all the time, and I was scared that I couldn’t do anything with this,» Pattinson told Eiga with a laugh.

Luckily, Clooney didn’t have to reclaim his Batsuit for his cameo appearance at the end of the 2023 DC superhero tale «The Flash,» since his multiversal appearance in the film was only as Bruce Wayne, sans the costume.