Robert Pattinson will officially debut as the new Batman this March and we cant wait to see him portraying the classic DC superhero character on the big screen. Pattinson went through a drastic change with his physique, gestures, and even his voice.
Robert Pattinson explained that he was doing a different voice when playing the Batman but was told to stop because it was becoming ‘absolutely atrocious.’
Pattinson was the guest for Jimmy Kimmel Live last Wednesday and revealed details about his journey on finding the right Batman voice. Pattinson was told by director Matt Reeves, “you have to speak in a certain way.”
“Everyone does this kind of gruff, gravelly thing, and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do the opposite, I’m gonna go really whispery’,” Pattinson said. “I tried to do it for the first two weeks, and it just looked absolutely atrocious, and they told me to stop doing it.”
In an interview with GQ, director Matt Reeves called Pattinson a ‘chameleon’ and that Pattinson never played a role with his own voice.
Apparently, Pattinson isn’t the only one to do a distinct ‘whispery voice’ for Batman. “I found out from Nick, who was putting me in the suit every day, that’s what Christian Bale did on ‘Batman Begins,’” said Pattinson. “And if you listen to the first ‘Batman Begins’ teaser trailer, you can hear the original voice. I only found this out a couple of weeks ago.” Pattinson said.
Pattinson then explained how the pressure of playing Batman affected him and made him anxious to release the film.
“They’re like, if all fails, you’ll still be part of something really special. I’m like, I don’t want to be the worst one, that’s what I get remembered for.”
In an interview with Collider, Pattinson gave a detailed explanation of how he perfected his own Batman voice.
"I had a lot of times to think about it. I think I was cast about seven or eight months before we started shooting, and so I was experimenting with a lot of different things. I think the first two or three weeks, we were kind of doing a variety of different voices, because there's only a couple of lines in the first few scenes we shot. Me and Matt just sort of settled on something. It started to sit in a very particular place, and it felt like progression from other Bat voices, and felt kind of somewhat comfortable to do as well. It's weird, it just suddenly starts to feel right. It seems to be, the more you embody the suit, the more you embody the character, it just started to come out quite organically. I think that's kind of what I was trying to do with the character as well, that I was trying to think he's not putting on a voice. He puts on the suit and then the voice just starts happening for him as a person as well."
Reeves then continued praising Pattinson’s ‘technical control of himself’ and explained, "I have to say that one of the amazing, of many amazing things about Rob, is he has such incredible technical control of himself, of his instrument. I mean, as they would say, in terms of the acting. He could do things with his voice, it was a crazy thing, I was like going, "Oh, you can go lower." And then he would. I was like, "That's amazing." He went through this process of searching for where it felt like that voice should sit. One of the things that I was asking Rob about, he has an incredible ear for mimicry and accents. He can pick up anyone's accent. There's no dialect coach, this doesn't happen, that's just who he is. He's an incredible person. "
From what we saw in the trailer, Robert Pattinson’s Batman already looks promising and he certainly inserted his own strategy on playing the role. We saw Pattinson’s different ‘weird and psychopath’ take as Bruce Wayne’s Batman.
The Batman will be in theaters on March 4, 2022.
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