Barry Keoghan’s latest profile in Esquire magazine reveals that he spent $10 to make his viral self-tape audition for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” which introduced Robert Pattinson as the latest iteration of the Caped Crusader.
Keoghan sent in a tape to play the Riddler, though Paul Dano ended up getting the role.
However, Keoghan impressed Reeves enough to land a surprise role that wasn’t on his radar: Joker.“I just made it up,” Keoghan told the magazine about his self-tape audition, in which he creepily exits an elevator in full Riddler costume and walks down a bland hallway in “Clockwork Orange” style.
“I wanted to make it Kubrick-y: symmetrical, the X on the back, the square doorframe, everything square.
I just wanted swag to come across.
Swag and endearing.
It was just me giving my idea.
And then I’s like, ‘I’ma send this in!’”After the film hit theaters,…
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