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"This is bizarre to me," Pattinson, 35, said on
the red carpet for a London screening of "The Batman" on
Wednesday. "I'd be so curious what my childhood self would think
of this."
Pattinson, who rose to global fame with the "Twilight" movies,
follows in the footsteps of Adam West, Val Kilmer, Michael
Keaton, Christian Bale and more recently Ben Affleck among
others, to play Bruce Wayne/Batman.
"I mean the legacy of the actors who played (Batman), they've
all been such massive parts of my life and my interest in film
and why I wanted to be an actor in the first place," Pattinson
said.
"It's just incredible to be a part of the same coterie," he
said, noting that acting with a mask on was "surprisingly
difficult. "I grew up on Adam West (playing Batman). I think my
costume when I was a kid was an Adam West one."
In the movie, Batman investigates corruption in Gotham following
the murders of several of senior figures by sadistic serial
killer, the Riddler.
"There are great Batman movies and it's a character that
everyone loves ... so for me you don't approach it without a
heavy dose of terror," director Matt Reeves said.
"In certain ways it's a psychological horror movie, it's a
thriller, it's a serial killer movie and it's also a kind of a
grand love story."
The cast also includes Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis and Paul Dano.
Zoë Kravitz plays Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
"Matt ... really wanted to explore Selina as a three-dimensional
human being and to meet her so early in the story before she's
Catwoman is something we haven't necessarily seen before,"
Kravitz said.
"The Batman" begins its global rollout from March 1.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Richard Chang)
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