“I felt very different immediately,” Pattinson tells EW.
“It really flowed.
It was so well-designed, so articulated on all the joints.
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’.Jamie Hawkesworth/Warner Bros.
It was kind of shocking.”
It was the only archival suit that fit him.
“But they don’t make you a Batsuit because that’s a very involved process.
Zoë Kravitz in ‘The Batman’.Jonathan Olley/DC Comics/Warner Bros.
So what you do is you put on an old Batsuit.
You put on the one that fits you,” which just so happened to be Kilmer’s.
Reeves continues: “You could see Rob transforming immediately.
I said, ‘Sure is.’
That was an amazing experience.”
The magic briefly started to wear off once the screen test began.
“It was also funny.
It was crazy.”
“It kind of backfired on me as well.
“There are little blood stains on it.
“It felt like a really new thing… “It’s used as a weapon.
And that’s quite a lot, which is quite fun.
Again, it’s very rudimentary.
It’s kind of based on Travis Bickle, the gun mechanism, which he has inTaxi Driver.”
“[It] just kind of blew my mind.
It was the only time it ever worked perfectly, but it looked so cool.
And it was a very satisfying click when you throw it out,” he says.
Watch the video above for more insight into the Batsuit.
The Batmanopens in theaters March 4.
