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Robert Pattinson breaks down ‘The Batman’ suit, from a functional grappling gun to built-in battle damage
Robert Pattinson breaks down 'The Batman' suit, from a functional grappling gun to built-in battle damage,There's a tradition at Warner Bros. that, when you're contending for the role of Batman, you must do a screen test in one of the costumes worn by a previous big-screen Caped Crusader. For Robert Pattinson, that meant squeezing into Val Kilmer's costume from Batman Forever and enduring the intense heat of wearing it as he tried to audition for the superhero role of a lifetime.

Robert Pattinson breaks down ‘The Batman’ suit, from a functional grappling gun to built-in battle damage

There’s a tradition at Warner Bros. that, when you’re contending for the role of Batman, you must do a screen test in one of the costumes worn by a previous big-screen Caped Crusader. For Robert Pattinson, that meant squeezing into Val Kilmer’s costume from Batman Forever and enduring the intense heat of wearing it as he tried to audition for the superhero role of a lifetime.