Speaker 1: Hi, this is jean Denker and I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be the only one in Singapore to chat with
Speaker 1: the cast of the batman? This is a Singapore exclusive.
Speaker 1: I spoke to robert Pattinson who plays the batman Zoe Kravitz,
Speaker 1: who plays Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman Colin Farrell, who's the penguin,
Speaker 1: paul dano, who's the Riddler, Jeffrey Wright, who plays Jim,
Speaker 1: Gordon batman's ally in the police department, john botero who
Speaker 1: plays the bad guy, carmine falcone and director Matt Reeves
Speaker 1: now will kick off with the chat with matt, the
Speaker 1: best mix of music class 95 now, the batman is
Speaker 1: almost here for the world to see. Do you feel
Speaker 1: your vision for the batman has materialized in this movie?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know, it's a movie that I
Speaker 1: started in 2017, I never thought it would take five
Speaker 1: years to to finally reached the big screen, but it's
Speaker 1: an exciting moment because look, you know, I made this
Speaker 1: movie and we all made this movie to be a
Speaker 1: very immersive experience and to be a different experience, to
Speaker 1: be something that was both iconic lee and mythically batman
Speaker 1: and these characters that, you know, but something totally fresh
Speaker 1: and it's meant to be a big screen experience and
Speaker 1: what's exciting for me is that it's finally going out
Speaker 1: there on the big screen, you're going to have this
Speaker 1: experience and and so yeah, I feel that vision is
Speaker 1: there and I hope people enjoy it. I know you're
Speaker 1: a fan of robert's work and you're both big batman fans.
Speaker 1: But was this something you saw in him that made
Speaker 1: you so sure that he just had to play this part? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's literally that when I was writing,
Speaker 1: I watched a bunch of his films um and I
Speaker 1: always thought he was an amazing actor, he's really a chameleon,
Speaker 1: and he was a friend of mine's movie called Lost
Speaker 1: City of Z, and remember he comes in, he has
Speaker 1: this crazy beard, and I knew he was in the movie,
Speaker 1: but when I saw the movie, I was like, who
Speaker 1: is that? And I was like, oh my God, he
Speaker 1: had such charisma, but he's always different in everything. And
Speaker 1: I watched a movie while I was writing
Speaker 1: called Good Time by the Safdie brothers, and in it,
Speaker 1: he has this incredible intensity and he's very driven, which
Speaker 1: batman needs to be, but he also had this real
Speaker 1: vulnerability in his eyes, he had this dangerous mix of,
Speaker 1: kind of vulnerability, a sense of almost violence that could happen.
Speaker 1: And I thought, well that's this batman. And so I
Speaker 1: started writing the movie at that point for him not
Speaker 1: knowing if he would ever want to play it, and
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate that he did want to play it.
Speaker 1: The gamble paid off man. Yes, it did now without
Speaker 1: spoiling anything, which moment in the movie are you most
Speaker 1: proud of? Oh my gosh, that is a super hard question,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I don't know, I mean, look, I just,
Speaker 1: there's so much that I'm anxious for
Speaker 1: the audience to have the experience to go through, you know,
Speaker 1: with these characters. I mean, I think to see this
Speaker 1: version what rob does, what Zoe does, what everybody does,
Speaker 1: I think is so exciting because I think that the
Speaker 1: actors are incredible in the film and I'm excited for
Speaker 1: you to see that performance. I'm excited for you to
Speaker 1: to go through that Batmobile chase to, to enjoy this
Speaker 1: version of what Colin Farrell is as this penguin.
Speaker 1: Um and to go through, I think what is, I
Speaker 1: think a pretty scary movie, right? It's a scary, intense experience,
Speaker 1: but it's a very emotional experience and it's a very
Speaker 1: thrilling experience and I hope that all of those sort
Speaker 1: of things um will add up to a batman that
Speaker 1: people feel like they've never seen before? I know that
Speaker 1: I'm not giving you the exact scene, but
Speaker 1: that's because I think to give away my true favorite
Speaker 1: scene would be a spoiler and I don't want to Yeah,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't want to do that either. The best mix
Speaker 1: of music Class 95 big fan of you since twilight
Speaker 1: was always and still is Team Edward and now you're
Speaker 1: the batman mind blown. This is crazy. Did you find
Speaker 1: this version of batman who's more of a detective hot
Speaker 1: to portray because it's rather different from the previous batman
Speaker 1: movies Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I embarrassingly, even though DC sounds with detective comics,
Speaker 1: I actually never really realized that I never saw the
Speaker 1: subtitle of batman saying he's the world's greatest detective. I've
Speaker 1: actually never heard that before because I was really more
Speaker 1: familiar with the movie's definitely feels really different to do
Speaker 1: a batman movie where he's an investigator. Now, Zoe you
Speaker 1: lit up the screen every time you came on and
Speaker 1: I hear you train,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. I hear you trained really hard and also,
Speaker 1: you know, watch tons of big cat videos just to
Speaker 1: incorporate their movements. Can you tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: more about that? I did. I um Catwoman obviously wanted
Speaker 1: to find ways to incorporate, you know, feline like movements
Speaker 1: and
Speaker 1: you know, especially knowing that me and rob are going
Speaker 1: to have to have a fight together. I really wanted
Speaker 1: to try and figure out a way where it felt
Speaker 1: um realistic that I could actually hold my own with
Speaker 1: someone his size and with his strength. And I found
Speaker 1: with a lot of the cat videos, feline videos, you
Speaker 1: really couldn't tell what they were about to do next.
Speaker 1: Like the strikes would really come out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and that came from being very, very still and kind
Speaker 1: of very neutral in your eyes and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they were just like bam and it was
Speaker 1: so it's so surprising and so I found that to
Speaker 1: be something that I felt was realistic in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, being able to
Speaker 1: kicked batman's as a little bit, yeah, you did now
Speaker 1: a little something for the both of you rob, would
Speaker 1: you rather be a bat sized man or a man
Speaker 1: sized bat and for you Zoe would you rather be
Speaker 1: a cat sized woman or a woman sized cat? That's
Speaker 1: so unfair because your one sounds cool, I mean either
Speaker 1: one of mine is kind of lame or sized cat,
Speaker 1: I'd actually quite like to be baptized man,
Speaker 1: it's really funny, I think like I would like to
Speaker 1: just be carried around in the pocket, I think a
Speaker 1: woman sized cat would be cool, people wouldn't like what
Speaker 1: you'd be like,
Speaker 1: that is a lion, a lion, that's a lion
Speaker 1: 95, Jeffrey, you have a long and celebrated career, but
Speaker 1: this is your superhero, blockbuster debut and you played Jim Gordon,
Speaker 1: skilled marksman, ally of Batman, how did you enjoy this role?
Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. I was a huge batman fan as a kid,
Speaker 2: so you know, the opportunity to, to, you know, trace
Speaker 2: back some of those footsteps back to my childhood was
Speaker 2: was really wonderful and I also was super impressed with
Speaker 2: the script when matt, you know, reached out and and
Speaker 2: invited me to come chat with him about his vision
Speaker 2: and then gave me the script to read, I really
Speaker 2: got it and I really understood his rationale for wanting
Speaker 2: to kind of repurpose at least from a film perspective,
Speaker 2: repurposed these characters and
Speaker 2: the franchise and kind of bring it back into its origin,
Speaker 2: into the
Speaker 2: plot driven, mystery driven detective series that it really is
Speaker 2: and that gave a lot of opportunity for Gordon to
Speaker 2: be involved and engaged and in the middle of things
Speaker 2: and so I was fully on board from that first
Speaker 2: meeting with him and I'm glad I came along
Speaker 1: paul, I've been a fan of yours since Little Miss
Speaker 1: Sunshine and here you are as the Riddler. I hear
Speaker 1: that matt Reeves had you in mind when he created
Speaker 1: this version of
Speaker 1: the Riddler when you heard about this, did you like
Speaker 1: immediately go, yes, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Before I had read this, I mean this
Speaker 1: is probably one of the few things, we're just just
Speaker 1: getting the phone call for the prospect of it alone
Speaker 1: was exciting and thrilling and I spoke to matt, he
Speaker 1: is so thoughtful and thorough
Speaker 1: and meticulous and he had such a fully conceived vision.
Speaker 1: I really felt a kinship with him immediately and I
Speaker 1: thought he was bringing the most important thing, which is
Speaker 1: a really singular point of view and this character and
Speaker 1: this world has inspired so many great artists to take
Speaker 1: it on, not just in film, but in the comic books,
Speaker 1: in animated tv shows and here is yet another new
Speaker 1: layer to be uncovered and I felt really lucky to
Speaker 1: get to be one of the artists that gets to
Speaker 1: to take that dive Yeah, paul can I just say
Speaker 1: you're just so perfect with these intense in your face
Speaker 1: moments on screen. Is it easy for you to get
Speaker 1: into that headspace or do you have to kind of
Speaker 1: work yourself up to? It? Acting is a very strange thing.
Speaker 1: I really think it's a strange job and, and each
Speaker 1: time there is this sort of parachute like feeling of
Speaker 1: like what's going to come out and is it going
Speaker 1: to and for me, uh preparation breeds confidence to to
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of work that goes into filling
Speaker 1: up so that you can then release the best mix
Speaker 1: of music class 95 john you play carmine, crime boss,
Speaker 1: enemy of batman. How much do you love playing a villain?
Speaker 1: Because you seem to really dig it? They don't see
Speaker 1: themselves as a villain. I thought of a more sort
Speaker 1: of the man behind the scene, you know, like the
Speaker 1: man behind the curtain and
Speaker 1: I took a lot of clues from the frank miller
Speaker 1: Year one comic. So I was, it was fun because
Speaker 1: there was a lot of like nuance, you know, in
Speaker 1: his relationships with everyone being the old, like the generous
Speaker 1: altruistic person that he presents and those kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: people can be really unnerving, you know, to be around
Speaker 1: but I really liked working with everybody, you know, on
Speaker 1: the set, lovely. I did not recognize you calling at
Speaker 1: all when he first came on screen, I'm like, wait
Speaker 1: a second, is that Colin Farrell, you looked amazing. What
Speaker 1: did you feel like when he had the full prosthetics
Speaker 1: and makeup on? What was it like for you? So exciting,
Speaker 1: It really was so exciting and so burden less. I
Speaker 1: felt like so much the work was done for me
Speaker 1: to be honest, you know, by Mike Marino who designed
Speaker 1: the makeup and, and the, the wardrobe as well and
Speaker 1: the bodysuit and the whole thing, I just felt like
Speaker 1: so much of the work that I didn't have to
Speaker 1: do too much, but didn't didn't of course, stop me
Speaker 1: from overacting. Yeah, it was exciting, it was a journey
Speaker 1: of exploration and it was very much akin to,
Speaker 1: you know, being a child again and, and make believe,
Speaker 1: I just felt absolute kind of a reckless abandon and
Speaker 1: and a freedom to commit to this character that had
Speaker 1: been envisioned by matt in the design of it, in
Speaker 1: the writing of it and bye bye Mike Marino who
Speaker 1: designed the makeup and it was fun but my kid
Speaker 1: came out, my youngest boy Henry came out when we
Speaker 1: were doing the makeup test and Warner Brothers in Burbank
Speaker 1: and he was freaked, I have the video actually of
Speaker 1: him on the iphone, it's gorgeous of him seeing me
Speaker 1: the first time ago, dad, what the oh my God, yeah, lovely,
Speaker 1: it was so much fun and that's just concerning for
Speaker 1: a kid that it was, you know what john it was. And,
Speaker 1: and for 30 seconds
Speaker 1: with eight people in the makeup room, I did the
Speaker 1: accent form and then I could see the moment where
Speaker 1: I was a little bit uncomfortable and I have the
Speaker 1: video and you see me going, oh jeez, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, come on. And we'll go out. And me
Speaker 1: and him went off to a corner on our own
Speaker 1: and I let him have a good look at it
Speaker 1: and a good feel around. Yeah, sure. Yeah, it was powerful.
Speaker 1: I mean, that kind of work, that kind of artistry that,
Speaker 1: that they created was was very powerful. I didn't have
Speaker 1: to do much, you know, 95