Robert Pattinson wants to keep playing Batman as long as he can, if that's quite all right

“It’s a kind of universally acknowledged fact that [Batman] is the coolest superhero by a million miles. If I was to do a superhero movie, I want to do that one,” Pattinson said, reflecting on his interest in taking on the role. “I just started getting into my head years ago… I just feel, I don’t know why, but something kind of tinkling, and I was like, ‘There’s something there.'” Pattinson went on to say he later found out that Reeves had his performance in the Safdie Brothers’ 2017 crime drama Good Time in mind while working on the script for The Batman. “I had no idea he was thinking, like, ‘There’s something to this vibe.’ When I first read the script, I was just thinking, ‘Oh, there’s something so immediately inspiring about it.’ Batman’s been reinvented so many times, and [The Batman is] such an unusual reinvention, just in terms of the atmosphere of the movie. I really connected to it. It’s just been one of those unbelievable experiences to shoot it, and I just want to keep doing it for as long as I can.”

As for what vibey elements Reeves has cooked up for Pattinson’s next turn as the raccoon-eyed, blueberry-munching, Cobain-emulating, gearhead-night-squirrel version of the Dark Knight, Pattinson kept his response short. “Still some ways to go, and the new script is… it’s just amazing,” he said. “[The Batman: Part II is] just an understanding of Bruce Wayne and Batman’s psychology in a way that I don’t think has been seen before,” he said. “You know, when there’s been hundreds and thousands of comics and so many different interpretations of the same character, it’s like… it feels enormous, but really unusual, and unusual in a different way to the first one.” 

Watch Pattinson roll the dice on his career in the video below.