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Robert Pattinson says there were 'months at a time' while filming 'Tenet' where he was not even ‘vaguely understanding’ the film
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Robert Pattinson tried to keep his audition for
#TheBatman
a secret from Christopher Nolan while filming 'Tenet'
'I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said ‘it’s a family emergency’ he said: ‘You’re doing the Batman audition, aren’t you?'’ 😂
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Robert Downey Jr visiting Wall Street for a documentary in the early 90s
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James Cameron offered Matt Damon the lead role in 'Avatar' and 10% of the film's box office but he turned it down
The film grossed over $2.8B
“I will go down in history… you will never meet an actor who turned down more money"
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Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
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Leonardo DiCaprio thinks of 'Django Unchained', 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' as an unofficial trilogy about wealth and power across American history
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The Quicksilver scene in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (2016) took 1.5 months to film, for less than a 3 min sequence
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Leonardo DiCaprio still has 'no idea' what happened at the end of 'Inception' (2010)
'You’re just focused on your character, man'
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ (2019) cost $175M to produce and most of that money was used to make the actors look younger through CGI
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After filming 'BlacKkKlansman' (2018), Topher Grace was so depressed from playing David Duke and seeing his idealogy still happen in present-day, that he decided to edit Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy into a 2-hour film as an act of catharsis
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Robert Pattinson says there were 'months at a time' while filming 'Tenet' where he was not even ‘vaguely understanding’ the film
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#FightClub
got booed when it debuted at
#VeniceFilmFestival
While it was being booed, Brad Pitt turned to Edward Norton and said, 'That's the best movie I'm ever gonna be in'
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The Quicksilver scene in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (2016) took 1.5 months to film, for less than a 3 min sequence
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Miles Teller found out he had jet fuel in his bloodstream while filming
#TopGun2
“I go to set the next day and Tom Cruise‘s like, ‘How did it go?' I was like, ‘Well Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.’ Without skipping a beat Tom goes ‘Yeah, I was born with it, kid"
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The lunch tray scene in ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) was not CGI. The scene took Tobey Maguire 156 takes to get right and required a 16-hour long day of shooting to achieve
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Christopher Nolan says the color scenes in
#Oppenheimer
are ‘subjective’ and the black-and-white scenes are ‘objective’
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When Harrison Ford was asked if Han Solo was a Force ghost in 'The Rise of Skywalker', his answer was 'I have no fucking idea what a Force ghost is. And I don’t care'
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George MacKay running into the extras while filming '1917' was an accident, but each take was so expensive to film that they kept rolling
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Elijah Wood says Peter Jackson designed an orc to look like Harvey Weinstein during
#LordOfTheRings
'Fuck him"
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Psychiatrists studied 400 movies to find the most realistic psychopath, and Anton Chigurh from 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) was the winner
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The final scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012) of Bruce Wayne finding happiness was planned when they started writing the Trilogy
"It remained completely unchanged"
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Natalie Portman says that no director wanted to work with her after starring in the Star Wars prequel trilogy because everyone thought she was a 'horrible actress'
Since then, she has been nominated for 3 Oscars and won Best Actress for 'Black Swan' (2011)
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Charlie Cox auditioned for Han Solo in
#SoloAStarWarsStory
, but lost out because he spent the entire audition staring past his co-lead rather than at them. He was talked to about it and realized that he had been acting blind for the past 2 years due to
#Daredevil
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Brad Bird was inspired to make 'The Iron Giant' (1999) in memory of his sister Susan, who died at the hands of her husband by gun violence
His pitch was this: 'What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?'
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For 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) George Miller wanted his wife Margaret Sixel to edit the film. When she asked him why, as she had never edited an action film before, Miller said, 'Because if a guy did it, it would look like every other action movie'
She went on to win an Oscar
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In 'Tropic Thunder' (2008), Robert Downey Jr.'s character states 'I don't drop character 'til I've done the DVD commentary'
During the commentary for the movie, RDJ remains in character
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Chadwick Boseman made 7 movies while battling colon cancer
RIP legend
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Robert Downey Jr. was paid $10M for only 8 minutes of screen time in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
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Elijah Wood says Peter Jackson designed an orc to look like Harvey Weinstein during
#LordOfTheRings
"Fuck him"
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Tobey Maguire thought that Andrew Garfield taking over as
#SpiderMan
was ‘fucking perfect’ 🕷
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For 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation' (2015) Tom Cruise performed the sequence where he's hanging onto a flying airplane without digital effects or a stunt double. At times, the aircraft reached 5,000 ft in the air
🎥 via marvinmovie | IG
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In 'Elf' (2003) most of the montage of Buddy discovering New York was unscripted
Jon Favreau would drop Will Ferrell off in random spots in the city and have him mess with people in character
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For 'Interstellar' (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget
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Leonardo DiCaprio thinks of 'Django Unchained', 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' as an unofficial trilogy about wealth and power across American history
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Taika Waititi, who is Maori/Jewish, said he did zero research on Adolf Hitler before playing him in
#JojoRabbit
(2019) because 'he was such a fucking cunt' and when asked why he wanted to play Hitler, Waititi said, 'the answer's simple, what better 'fuck you' to the guy?'
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In 'Lord of the Rings' they used a giant prop ring to help force perspective in these shots
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For 'Interstellar' (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget
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Tom Holland says that while filming 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' (2017), Michael Keaton would whisper 'I'm Batman' during fight scenes
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While filming a scene for 'Django Unchained' (2012), Leonardo DiCaprio started to feel discomfort from using the N-word so much
Samuel L. Jackson then pulled him aside and said 'Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us. Let's go'
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For 'Moonlight' (2016) the three actors who played Chiron over his life never met during production or watched each other’s scenes because Barry Jenkins didn't want them to influence the other portrayals. The consistency is attributed to the actors becoming immersed in the script
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'The Witch' (2015) director Robert Eggers says his number one tip for screenwriters is don't put a goat in your film
"You can't train a goat, the goat was a fucking nightmare"
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In 'Fast and Furious 6' (2013), the 'hide your baby oil' scene was improvised. So Ludacris' reaction is genuine and The Rock didn't have a line after Tyrese said his
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In 'Lord of the Rings' they used a giant prop ring to help force perspective in these shots
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While filming 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993), Robin Williams improvised so much that there were PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 cuts of the film
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In 'Interstellar' (2014) the black hole was so scientifically accurate it took approx 100 hours to render each frame in the physics and VFX engine. Meaning every second onscreen took approx 100 days to render the final copy
via u/jaz1140
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Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
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Christopher Nolan cut a death scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012) that was 'so violent' it would've given the film an NC-17 rating
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How Charlie Chaplin accomplished this stunt in ‘Modern Times’ (1937)
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In ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) the part where the batmobile crashes head-on into the garbage truck was achieved by using 1/3 scale miniatures of the vehicles and location 🦇
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During this scene in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' (2004), Jim Carrey forgot his next line but stayed in character while asking the director for another take
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Christopher Nolan says he rarely rewatches movies in theaters but he went and saw ‘La La Land’ 3 times
“I enjoyed that tremendously … I think I almost went back to see if it was as good as I had thought, and it was"
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When 'Prisoner of Azkaban' director Alfonso Cuarón wanted to become acquainted with the leads of his movie he asked each to write an essay on their character ✍️
• Emma Watson wrote a 16-page paper
• Daniel Radcliffe wrote a one-page summary
• Rupert Grint never turned one in
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Chadwick Boseman made 7 movies while battling colon cancer
RIP always
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Christopher Nolan talks the scene where Cooper finds out he missed out on his kids' lives in
#Interstellar
"It was always the north star of the film ... We filmed McConaughey’s reaction first ... he hadn’t seen the video messages—we’d filmed them all in advance, so that…
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In 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019) Rick Dalton saying 'Alright, that's too hot. Anything we can do about the heat?' was Leonardo DiCaprio's genuine reaction to the flamethrower. Quentin Tarantino thought it was funny so he left it in the movie
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Elton John hated Jon Favreau's 'The Lion King' remake
"They messed the music up ... The magic and joy were lost"
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George Lucas thought 'The Last Jedi' was 'beautifully made'
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Christopher Nolan says casting Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man is ‘one of the greatest decisions in the history of movies’
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Martin Scorsese said he was a fan of Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) 🕷️
“I’m very glad that was a big success”
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Tom Holland says that while filming 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' (2017), Michael Keaton would whisper 'I'm Batman' during fight scenes
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Christopher Nolan says the scene he is most proud of in his entire filmography is the opening plan scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012)
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in 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' (2019), the camera was intentionally placed upside down during the Leap of Faith scene to show that Miles is rising, not falling🕷
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Javier Bardem joined
#Dune
and
#TheLittleMermaid
for his kids
"I do Dune for him, I did Mermaid for her, and I get the paycheck for both" 💰
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Chadwick Boseman donated part of his own salary for ‘21 Bridges' to co-star Sienna Miller when the studio refused to match her demands
"There was no showiness, it was, ‘Of course I'll get you to that number because that's what you should be paid’”
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In ‘Django Unchained’ (2012), Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand and began to bleed. He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final cut
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Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
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Tom Holland says that while filming 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' (2017), Michael Keaton would whisper 'I'm Batman' during fight scenes
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Ridley Scott is not a fan of superhero films
“They’re fucking boring as shit … Their scripts are not any fucking good … they’re superhero movies. So, why don’t [they] have better stories? … They’re mostly saved by special effects”
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Denis Villeneuve says his upcoming sci-fi film ‘Rendezvous With Rama’ is ‘Arrival on Steroids’
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Robert Downey Jr. was paid $10M for only 8 minutes of screen time in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
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Quentin Tarantino says he doesn't have a foot fetish
"That’s just good direction"
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Quentin Tarantino says Rick Dalton passed away today at the age of 90
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In 'The Dark Knight' (2008), during the fundraiser scene, Alfred was supposed to have some dialogue when the Joker first shows up, but it was Michael Caine's first time seeing Heath Ledger as the Joker and he was so scared that he forgot all of his lines 🃏
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'Kung-Fu Panda' (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves 🐼
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Christopher Nolan says the scene he is most proud of in his entire filmography is the opening plan scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012)
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The lunch tray scene in ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) was not CGI. The scene took Tobey Macguire 156 takes to get right and required a 16-hour long day of shooting to achieve
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In 'The Matrix' (1999), They couldn’t hide the camera in the doorknob’s reflection, so they put a coat over it and a half tie to match with Morpheus’
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Austin Butler lost the role of Rooster in
#TopGunMaverick
to Miles Teller and then Miles Teller lost the role of Elvis to Austin Butler
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Christopher Nolan was asked if he ever worries that viewers won't be able to follow one of his "complicated" films
"Fuck it"
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In 1998, Marvel offered Sony the movie rights to almost all of their characters including Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, & Ant-Man for just $25M
Sony counter-offered with $7M for just Spider-Man because they thought 'nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters'
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A young cameraman by the name of Christopher Nolan (1990) 🎥
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Psychiatrists studied 400 movies to find the most realistic psychopath, and Anton Chigurh from 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) was the winner
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Leonardo DiCaprio still has 'no idea' what happened at the end of 'Inception' (2010)
'You’re just focused on your character, man'
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In 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' Indiana Jones was supposed to have a lengthy duel with this swordsman that would take 3 days to film but Harrison Ford was suffering from dysentery. He then suggested to Spielberg that they just 'shoot this son of a bitch'
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In 'Mulan' (1998), Mulan touches her hair a lot because the directors noticed that voice actress Ming-Na Wen touched her hair a lot while recording. So, they added it to the character
via u/numerous-lemon
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Michael Shannon fell asleep watching 'Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice' (2016)
"Zack Snyder is gonna kill me ... I was tired"
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In ‘Parasite’ (2019), Bong Joon-ho added subtle scenes with lines or objects separating poor and rich characters throughout the whole movie 🦠
🎥 filmthusiast | IG
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Robert Eggers on making films set in modern times
“No thank you”
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Jonah Hill was hospitalized with bronchitis after shooting 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (2013) because he had been snorting Vitamin B for close to seven months due to all of the scenes where his character rails coke
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Leonardo DiCaprio improvised his trailer freak out scene in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Quentin Tarantino — 'That was all improvised and wasn't written in the script'
Brad Pitt — 'And I will go on record, it is one of the best meltdowns laid on film'
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Photos from an early Venom costume for 'Spider-Man 3' (2007) 🕸️
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Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. He said, 'I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back'
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Robert Downey Jr. says he was 'a hundred percent' concerned that being in the MCU for a decade would affect his acting skills while filming
#Oppenheimer
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Jim Carrey improvised the “Big Gulps, huh?” line in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ (1994)
Also, the Big Gulpers weren’t even extras. They were hanging out watching the filming and director Peter Farrelly put them in a scene
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Shia LaBeouf has done some wild stuff for his David Ayer films
For 'Fury' (2014), he cut a scar onto his face and got a perfectly healthy tooth removed 🦷
For 'The Tax Collector' (2020), he tattooed his entire chest 💉
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In 'Poltergeist' (1982), the skeletons used in the pool scene were actual skeletons as it was cheaper to use real ones rather than fakes ☠️
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Robert Pattinson tried to keep his Batman audition a secret from Christopher Nolan while filming 'Tenet'
'I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said ‘it’s a family emergency’ he said: ‘You’re doing the Batman audition, aren’t you?' 😂
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