Robert Pattinson explains his 'The Batman' costume
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There's a tradition at Warner Bros. that, when you're contending for the role of Batman, you must do a screen test in one of the costumes worn by a previous big-screen Caped Crusader. For Robert Pattinson, that meant squeezing into Val Kilmer's costume from Batman Forever and enduring the intense heat of wearing it as he tried to audition for the superhero role of a lifetime.
There's a tradition at Warner Bros. that, when you're contending for the role of Batman, you must do a screen test in one of the costumes worn by a previous big-screen Caped Crusader. For Robert Pattinson, that meant squeezing into Val Kilmer's costume from Batman Forever and enduring the intense heat of wearing it as he tried to audition for the superhero role of a lifetime.
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