Nicholas Hoult is opening up about his response to listening to on the radio that Robert Pattinson was solid as Batman in Matt Reeves‘ 2022 film, nevertheless, he was auditioning for the function the following weekend.
The actor, who’s starring as Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman, just lately admitted on the Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast that it was an “emotional blow” at the time as the function finally went to Pattinson.
“Your imagination doesn’t know [but] 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 also you get excited by the prospect,” Hoult stated. “Matt is a fantastic director and the script and everything. I was like, this is going to be a cool movie and I want to be a part of it, and 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.”
The Heat Our bodies actor additionally informed host Josh Horowitz that auditioning for a job in a blockbuster comedian e-book film is “a lot to put yourself through emotionally.” One issue is that casting rumors are actually being reported publicly in real-time earlier than closing choices are even made behind the scenes.
“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 about how Rob was going to be the new Batman,” Hoult recalled. “And I was like, ‘It’s not confirmed yet! I’m auditioning next weekend. I was like, give me a chance.’”
Although the Renfield actor was “hesitant about going through” an audition course of like that once more, Hoult credited Gunn for making the audition course of for Superman a lot smoother. He initially auditioned for the titular character however he and the director later thought he could be a greater match to play the iconic villain.
“James Gunn is such a fantastic director and I was so excited by what he was building at DC,” Hoult defined. “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.’”
Superman is ready to hit theaters on July 11, 2025.
