‘The Batman’: Barry Keoghan shares the audition with which he landed the role of Joker

The premiere of “The Batman” on March 4th was a complete success. The Matt Reeves-directed film cost about $ 200 million and grossed more than $ 770 million worldwide at the box office. For this reason, and not without first having to beg, the news was confirmed on 23 August Reeves and screenwriter Mattson Tomlin had already set to work on the script for the sequel, after signing a multi-year contract with Warner Bros..

Who we will not know if he will be part of this second episode is Barry Keoghan. The “Dunkirk” actor had a brief cameo at the end of the original film as the Joker, where he was barely recognizable. Now, Keoghan shared on his Twitter account the audition that ended up assigning him the role of Bruce Wayne’s popular enemy..

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? Barry Keoghan (@BarryKeoghan) October 3, 2022

In an interview for GQ magazine, Keoghan assured that the test was sent with the intention of playing Enigma. Furthermore, he reveals that he sent it as soon as he learned of the production of ‘The Batman’, without being requested by the title team in any case. However, producer Dylan Clark informed him that this role had already been taken on by Jonah Hill (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), although it later ended up in the hands of Paul Dano (“Wells of Ambition”). Four months later, his agent called to tell him that he had been cast to play the Joker..

Keoghan adds that his version of the villain is someone “adorable and a little hurt, a broken boy” what is hiding “to a human being behind the makeup”. “I want people to identify with him … to know [el maquillaje] it is a facade that sets”explained the actor

A little more thanks to the deleted scene

While her aforementioned appearance in the original film was very brief, Warner released a deleted scene where we got a little more appreciation of the actor’s work.. In the following video, we can see this moment in which his character has a tense conversation with Robert Pattinson’s Batman when he visits him at the Arkham Asylum.

Obviously, the plot of “The Batman 2” is kept secret, so it’s still impossible to know if Keoghan will be a part of it or not. For the part of him, has already made it clear that he would be willing to put himself back in the role of the villain “as soon as the call comes”. Predictably after Reeves’ renewal as director, but these are just guesses. We will have to wait to find out a little more about this film, which will take a few more years to arrive..