Robert Downey Jr. recollects a gathering with Christopher Nolan about taking part in Scarecrow in 2005’s Batman Begins.
The actor made the feedback throughout a Q&A with the viewers following a screening of Oppenheimer on the Aero Theater in Los Angeles.
“I’m fairly certain that I heard like, ‘There’s this function, Scarecrow,’ and I used to be like, ‘psh, I’m Scarecrow,’” Downey Jr. says within the video shared on X (fka Twitter) by Griffin Schiller.
He continued, “I keep in mind assembly for tea, and I used to be like, ‘He doesn’t look like he’s actually leaning in on this interview.’ And he was well mannered and all that, however I imply, you already know, you may inform when somebody is sort of like, ‘It’s not gonna go your manner.’”
The function of Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, would in the end go to Downey Jr.’s Oppenheimer co-star Cillian Murphy. Nola lately recalled why he solid Murphy because the villain as a substitute of the titular character in Batman Begins.
In an interview with EW, Nolan stated he had been studying about Murphy starring in 28 Days Later however after a display take a look at the actor stated he didn’t really feel like “Batman materials.”
“We did two scenes — there was a Bruce Wayne scene and a Batman scene — and I made certain that executives got here down and watched what you have been doing on set,” Nolan recalled. “All people was so excited by watching you carry out that after I then stated to them, ‘Okay, Christian Bale is Batman, however what about Cillian to play Scarecrow?’ there was no dissent.”
Nolan continued, “All of the earlier Batman villains had been performed by enormous film stars: Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, that sort of factor. That was a giant leap for them and it actually was purely on the idea of that take a look at. In order that’s how you bought to play Scarecrow.”
