Paul Dano Couldn’t Sleep While Filming ‘The Batman’ Due to Playing a ‘Terrifying’ Riddler

Paul Dano’s first foray into the superhero world has been a long time coming.“[I was] waiting for the right one or ones, where you’re in collaboration with people and material that excites you,” the “Prisoners” star told Entertainment Weekly about signing on to “The Batman,” in theaters March 4.

“I was totally surprised, frankly, that [the script] was so good.

I felt immediately [on] page one, page two, you could tell that the director [Matt Reeves] was seeing the film that they wrote.

You could feel, even in the action scenes, the type of energy behind the fighting or the violence, it was just very fully conceived.”So well-conceived, in fact, that Dano couldn’t shake his serial killer alter ego, The Riddler, during production.“There were some nights around that I probably didn’t sleep as well as I would’ve wanted to just because it was a little hard to come down from this character,

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