The newest Dark Knight, Robert Pattinson, says he fell into the same trap as Christian Bale when he developed his Bat-voice for The Batman.
When asked how long it took to create his Bat-voice by late night host Jimmy Kimmel, Pattinson explained that his first attempt did not go well. “I actually found out a funny thing about it, because I wanted to do a radically different thing to all the other Batman [sic] and I started in a kind of — I just thought that because everyone has this kind of gruff, gravelly thing — I’m like, I’m going to do the opposite and going to go really whispery. And I tried to do it for the first two weeks and it just looked absolutely atrocious. And they told me to stop doing it.”
However, Pattinson wasn’t the first actor to try something so unusual. “But then I found out from Nick, who was putting me in the suit everyday, that’s what Christian Bale did on Batman Begins as well,” he said. “And if you listen to the first Batman Begins teaser trailer, you can hear the original voice, and I only found this out a couple of weeks ago. So, [it’s] kind of interesting.” The actor also said he knew when he’d found the right Bat-voice. “You can feel when it feels right. You put the suit on and you have to speak in a certain way.”
The Bat-voice is an important part of the Batman character and is something Bruce Wayne uses not only to intimidate the villains he apprehends, but to also protect his identity. A recent trailer for The Batman gave fans their best chance so far to hear Pattinson’s Bat-voice in action, being met with near-universal praise.
Pattinson recently spoke of how difficult it was to maintain the voice throughout some of the longer scenes in the movie. He cited keeping in his voice in an artificially lower register as the main cause of the problem and explained that The Batman has “long dialogue scenes as Batman, which is quite unique out of a lot of the other movies in the series.” Maintaining the voice was such a problem, that when it came to additional dialogue recording in post-production, Pattinson says that he “couldn’t even do the voice again, it had completely reverted back to normal.”
You can hear Pattinson’s Bat-voice when The Batman arrives in cinemas on March 4.
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