Nicholas Hoult Reveals He Heard on the Radio That Robert Pattinson Was Cast as Batman: ‘I Was Auditioning the Next Weekend’

Nicholas Hoult recently revealed on Happy Sad Confused that he heard on the radio that Robert Pattinson was cast as Batman while he was set to audition for the role next weekend. Here’s what Hould said about losing the Batman role:

Yeah of course it’s an emotional blow. Your imagination does not know…you are aware on a practical level: ‘I know I am auditioning against Rob.’ And Rob is fantastic in that movie. That was the right decision. But you get excited by the prospect. Matt [Reeves] is a fantastic director and the script.

It’s a cool movie and I want to be a part of it. It’s a brilliant character. There’s a weird period before you can get to the acceptance and see the movie and be like that was the right choice, you go through the period of ‘what could I have done different? Why not me?’ You run through all those things.

I remember a week before we did the Batman test, I was driving in my car and I had the radio on and they were talking on the radio how Rob was going to be the new Batman,” Hoult said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not confirmed yet! I’m auditioning next weekend. Give me a chance.’

Although he lost the Batman role to Pattinson, Hoult is set to play Lex Luthor in Gunn’s upcoming DCU project ‘Superman’:

James Gunn is such a fantastic director and I was so excited by what he was building at DC,” Hoult said. “When we spoke…because they knew I had been through [the Batman] process, they didn’t want me to necessarily have to go through that again. That was very kind of them. There was an element of them being like, ‘We like you as an actor. We want you to be in this world.’

You can watch Hoult’s full interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in the video below:

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