Whereas Barry Keoghan isn’t formally seen in Robert Pattinson’s The Batman, he’s nonetheless a presence within the movie because of his audition tape for The Riddler.
Barry Keoghan is certainly beginning to present up on everybody’s radar currently. After making appearances in movies like Dunkirk and Marvel Studio’s Eternals, a mass viewers could also be beginning to get increasingly more acquainted with the Dublin actor. Then, Keoghan made a splash together with his Academy Award-nominated function in The Banshees of Inisherin. Many have additionally seen him in one other huge function that they’ve maybe not realized. Keoghan will be heard however not seen in Matt Reeves’ The Batman as The Joker. Nonetheless, in a deleted scene of The Batman, Keoghan’s Joker can solely be seen by a semi-transparent partition.
It had been revealed some time in the past that Keoghan initially auditioned for the primary villain function of The Riddler in The Batman. The Hollywood Reporter has now revealed that Keoghan was decided to play up his self-taped audition with some props that he bought. Keoghan would go to a dressing up store and purchase a makeshift Riddler costume with a hat and cane. His audition was even storyboarded by him and consisted of him as The Riddler creepily strolling down a hallway with out dialogue set to music. He would spend $10 on the costume for his audition.
Keoghan elaborated on his audition tape in an interview with Esquire. The Irish actor defined, “I simply made it up. I wished to make it [Stanley] Kubrick-y: symmetrical, the X on the again, the sq. doorframe, all the things sq.. I simply wished swag to come back throughout. Swag and endearing. It was simply me giving my concept. After which I’s like, I’ma ship this in!”
Paul Dano would finally land the function as The Riddler, however Keoghan’s try wasn’t in useless. In accordance with an interview in GQ, Keoghan’s agent would nonetheless bestow some excellent news when his agent informed him, “The Batman desires you to play the Joker — however you can’t inform anybody.” Keoghan wouldn’t have a prolonged function within the movie, however he would nonetheless understand his character by his private experiences as he performs his Joker as “a bit charming and a bit harm.”
The Batman II, which exists in its personal continuity exterior of the DCU, is deliberate for a 2025 sequel and is at present within the works, though there isn’t any phrase on Keoghan’s involvement because the clown prince of crime.