Like Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle sizing one another up on a Gotham Metropolis rooftop, Robert Pattinson, aka Batman, and Zoë Kravitz, aka Catwoman, unleashed an electrical onscreen chemistry after they ran their first display screen check for “The Batman.” Throughout their first day on set, Kravitz and Pattinson have been equally unprepared for the strain they felt after they have been thrust right into a scene in full costume for a digicam check earlier than ever working their traces collectively.
“The chemistry learn was actually intense,” Kravitz tells Entertainment Weekly. “Rob was carrying the Batsuit, and it was a correct digicam check with the DP [director-producer] there and all the pieces on a soundstage. It wasn’t simply studying traces in a room. So it was intimidating, to say the least.”
“I noticed a glance in his eye that I hadn’t seen earlier than. Seeing one thing new and really susceptible as nicely was actually stunning.”
For Pattinson, the scene was particularly nerve-racking due to a slight wardrobe malfunction. “The primary time I would even stated traces from the script was in Zoë’s display screen check,” he says. “That they had this concept that they wished me to be taller at first, so I principally had high-heeled sneakers on, and I am tottering round in this strange Batman outfit. The digicam’s not even on me, it is on the again of my head, and I am actually having this main panic assault, simply in search of emotional help from Zoë, who’s attempting to get the half.”
Nerves apart, director Matt Reeves believed the pair “actually linked” in the course of the check, one thing Kravitz was capable of attest to after she acquired the half. “There might be rather a lot occurring in a scene, but when I used to be capable of join with Rob and look into his eyes, it will instantly carry me into the second,” she says. “I noticed a glance in his eye that I hadn’t seen earlier than. Seeing one thing new and really susceptible as nicely was actually stunning.”
Given the complicated relationship between Batman and Catwoman in earlier movies and comedian books, the connection Kravitz and Pattinson skilled whereas filming will make all of the distinction in the way in which their characters relate on display screen. “They’ve fairly a robust connection fairly rapidly, and I believe they’re each attempting to disregard that,” Kravitz says. “They’re each very shocked by feeling a reference to someone as a result of that is fairly uncommon for them. It places each of us out of our consolation zone.”
How far out of their consolation zones will Batman and Catwoman go? We’ll have to attend for the movie’s premiere on March 4 — and possibly even the HBO Max spin-off series — to seek out out.
