The actor also discussed why he wanted to play Batman on EW’s Awardist podcast.

“I think we were also trying to establish how the light really looked.

I was kind of just looking in the monitor and just kind of checking.

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Because it’s quite striking what you could do, because you’re working in very unusual confines.

You have no idea what actually stuff looks like.

So, that was kind of fun.”

“There’s something that always appealed to me about it,” said Pattinson.

“TheBatmanmovies have always attracted really really good directors and really good actors playing it.

It’s got a legacy and a lineage to it.

It’s never seemed to me like it was just a cash-in.

If you look at the Burton ones and even how the TV series was done.

People still watch the TV series.

That is aclassicTV show.

Its very very very well done and the performances are great.

It’s a very interesting kind of pop art-y TV show.

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