🏅Hollywood star . went down memory lane to recall a meeting with renowned filmmaker about playing Scarecrow in the 2005 film 'Batman Begins'.
💖The actor made the comments during a Q&A with the audience following a screening of '' at the Aero Theater in Los Angeles.
ꦗ"I'm pretty sure that I heard like, 'There's this role, Scarecrow,' and I was like, 'psh, I'm Scarecrow'," Downey Jr. said in a video shared on X by Griffin Schiller.
🔜He continued: "I remember meeting for tea, and I was like, 'He doesn't seem like he's really leaning in on this interview.' And he was polite and all that, but I mean, you know, you can tell when someone is kind of like, 'It's not gonna go your way'."
💧The role of Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, would ultimately go to Downey Jr.'s Oppenheimer co-star Cillian Murphy, reports deadline.com.
♌Nolan recently recalled why he cast Murphy as the villain instead of the titular character in Batman Begins.
🙈In an interview with EW, Nolan said he had been reading about Murphy starring in 28 Days Later but after a screen test the actor said he didn't feel like “Batman material."
ﷺ"We did two scenes --there was a Bruce Wayne scene and a Batman scene -- and I made sure that executives came down and watched what you were doing on set," Nolan recalled.
🐻"Everybody was so excited by watching you perform that when I then said to them, ‘Okay, Christian Bale is Batman, but what about Cillian to play Scarecrow?' there was no dissent."
ဣNolan continued: "All the previous Batman villains had been played by huge movie stars: Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, that kind of thing."
𒊎"That was a big leap for them and it really was purely on the basis of that test. So that's how you got to play Scarecrow."
