Jean interviews cast of The Batman!

I spoke to robert Pattinson who plays the batman Zoe Kravitz, who plays Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman Colin Farrell, who's the penguin, paul dano, who's the Riddler, Jeffrey Wright, who plays Jim, Gordon batman's ally in the police department, john botero who plays the bad guy, carmine falcone and director Matt Reeves now will kick off with the chat with matt, the best mix of music class 95 now, the batman is

almost here for the world to see. Do you feel your vision for the batman has materialized in this movie?

I mean, yeah, you know, it's a movie that I started in 2017, I never thought it would take five years to to finally reached the big screen, but it's an exciting moment because look, you know, I made this movie and we all made this movie to be a very immersive experience and to be a different experience, to be something that was both iconic lee and mythically batman and these characters that, you know, but something totally fresh and it's meant to be a big screen experience and

what's exciting for me is that it's finally going out there on the big screen, you're going to have this experience and and so yeah, I feel that vision is there and I hope people enjoy it. I know you're a fan of robert's work and you're both big batman fans. But was this something you saw in him that made

you so sure that he just had to play this part? Yeah, I mean, it's it's literally that when I was writing, I watched a bunch of his films um and I always thought he was an amazing actor, he's really a chameleon, and he was a friend of mine's movie called Lost City of Z, and remember he comes in, he has this crazy beard, and I knew he was in the movie, but when I saw the movie, I was like, who is that? And I was like, oh my God, he

had such charisma, but he's always different in everything. And I watched a movie while I was writing called Good Time by the Safdie brothers, and in it, he has this incredible intensity and he's very driven, which batman needs to be, but he also had this real vulnerability in his eyes, he had this dangerous mix of, kind of vulnerability, a sense of almost violence that could happen.

And I thought, well that's this batman. And so I started writing the movie at that point for him not knowing if he would ever want to play it, and I'm very fortunate that he did want to play it. The gamble paid off man. Yes, it did now without spoiling anything, which moment in the movie are you most

proud of? Oh my gosh, that is a super hard question, I mean, yeah, I don't know, I mean, look, I just, there's so much that I'm anxious for the audience to have the experience to go through, you know, with these characters. I mean, I think to see this version what rob does, what Zoe does, what everybody does, I think is so exciting because I think that the actors are incredible in the film and I'm excited for

you to see that performance. I'm excited for you to to go through that Batmobile chase to, to enjoy this version of what Colin Farrell is as this penguin. Um and to go through, I think what is, I think a pretty scary movie, right? It's a scary, intense experience, but it's a very emotional experience and it's a very thrilling experience and I hope that all of those sort of things um will add up to a batman that

people feel like they've never seen before? I know that I'm not giving you the exact scene, but that's because I think to give away my true favorite scene would be a spoiler and I don't want to Yeah, we wouldn't want to do that either. The best mix of music Class 95 big fan of you since twilight was always and still is Team Edward and now you're

the batman mind blown. This is crazy. Did you find this version of batman who's more of a detective hot to portray because it's rather different from the previous batman movies Yeah, I mean, I embarrassingly, even though DC sounds with detective comics, I actually never really realized that I never saw the subtitle of batman saying he's the world's greatest detective. I've actually never heard that before because I was really more familiar with the movie's definitely feels really different to do

a batman movie where he's an investigator. Now, Zoe you lit up the screen every time you came on and I hear you train, you're welcome. I hear you trained really hard and also, you know, watch tons of big cat videos just to incorporate their movements. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? I did. I um Catwoman obviously wanted to find ways to incorporate, you know, feline like movements and you know, especially knowing that me and rob are going

to have to have a fight together. I really wanted to try and figure out a way where it felt um realistic that I could actually hold my own with someone his size and with his strength. And I found with a lot of the cat videos, feline videos, you really couldn't tell what they were about to do next.

Like the strikes would really come out of nowhere and that came from being very, very still and kind of very neutral in your eyes and then all of a sudden they were just like bam and it was so it's so surprising and so I found that to be something that I felt was realistic in terms of you know, being able to kicked batman's as a little bit, yeah, you did now a little something for the both of you rob, would you rather be a bat sized man or a man sized bat and for you Zoe would you rather be

a cat sized woman or a woman sized cat? That's so unfair because your one sounds cool, I mean either one of mine is kind of lame or sized cat, I'd actually quite like to be baptized man, it's really funny, I think like I would like to just be carried around in the pocket, I think a woman sized cat would be cool, people wouldn't like what you'd be like, that is a lion, a lion, that's a lion 95, Jeffrey, you have a long and celebrated career, but

this is your superhero, blockbuster debut and you played Jim Gordon, skilled marksman, ally of Batman, how did you enjoy this role?

repurposed these characters and the franchise and kind of bring it back into its origin, into the plot driven, mystery driven detective series that it really is and that gave a lot of opportunity for Gordon to be involved and engaged and in the middle of things and so I was fully on board from that first meeting with him and I'm glad I came along

Yeah, yeah. Before I had read this, I mean this is probably one of the few things, we're just just getting the phone call for the prospect of it alone was exciting and thrilling and I spoke to matt, he is so thoughtful and thorough and meticulous and he had such a fully conceived vision.

I really felt a kinship with him immediately and I thought he was bringing the most important thing, which is a really singular point of view and this character and this world has inspired so many great artists to take it on, not just in film, but in the comic books, in animated tv shows and here is yet another new layer to be uncovered and I felt really lucky to get to be one of the artists that gets to to take that dive Yeah, paul can I just say

you're just so perfect with these intense in your face moments on screen. Is it easy for you to get into that headspace or do you have to kind of work yourself up to? It? Acting is a very strange thing. I really think it's a strange job and, and each time there is this sort of parachute like feeling of like what's going to come out and is it going to and for me, uh preparation breeds confidence to to

go out there and do it. So yeah, I think that there's a lot of work that goes into filling up so that you can then release the best mix of music class 95 john you play carmine, crime boss, enemy of batman. How much do you love playing a villain? Because you seem to really dig it? They don't see themselves as a villain. I thought of a more sort of the man behind the scene, you know, like the man behind the curtain and I took a lot of clues from the frank miller

Year one comic. So I was, it was fun because there was a lot of like nuance, you know, in his relationships with everyone being the old, like the generous altruistic person that he presents and those kind of, you know, people can be really unnerving, you know, to be around but I really liked working with everybody, you know, on the set, lovely. I did not recognize you calling at all when he first came on screen, I'm like, wait

a second, is that Colin Farrell, you looked amazing. What did you feel like when he had the full prosthetics and makeup on? What was it like for you? So exciting, It really was so exciting and so burden less. I felt like so much the work was done for me to be honest, you know, by Mike Marino who designed the makeup and, and the, the wardrobe as well and the bodysuit and the whole thing, I just felt like so much of the work that I didn't have to do too much, but didn't didn't of course, stop me

from overacting. Yeah, it was exciting, it was a journey of exploration and it was very much akin to, you know, being a child again and, and make believe, I just felt absolute kind of a reckless abandon and and a freedom to commit to this character that had been envisioned by matt in the design of it, in the writing of it and bye bye Mike Marino who designed the makeup and it was fun but my kid came out, my youngest boy Henry came out when we

were doing the makeup test and Warner Brothers in Burbank and he was freaked, I have the video actually of him on the iphone, it's gorgeous of him seeing me the first time ago, dad, what the oh my God, yeah, lovely, it was so much fun and that's just concerning for

a kid that it was, you know what john it was. And, and for 30 seconds with eight people in the makeup room, I did the accent form and then I could see the moment where I was a little bit uncomfortable and I have the video and you see me going, oh jeez, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, come on. And we'll go out. And me and him went off to a corner on our own and I let him have a good look at it and a good feel around. Yeah, sure. Yeah, it was powerful. I mean, that kind of work, that kind of artistry that,

that they created was was very powerful. I didn't have to do much, you know, 95