Nicholas Hoult: I found out before audition that Pattinson had won Batman role

The 34-year-old, who roseate to fame successful About A Boy and Skins, earlier going connected to humanities bid The Great and superhero movie X-Men: First Class, was up for the relation of the Caped Crusader successful Matt Reeves-directed 2022 movie The Batman.

Hoult told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that it was an “emotional blow” to find retired helium would not beryllium playing Batman.

He said: “I retrieve a week earlier we did the Batman test, I was driving successful my car and I had the vigor connected and they were… talking connected the vigor astir however Rob was going to beryllium the caller Batman.

“And I was like, ‘Well, It’s not confirmed yet, I’m auditioning adjacent weekend’. I was like, ‘Give maine a chance’.”

Hoult said blockbuster casting tin beryllium “a batch to enactment yourself done emotionally”, and it is “weird” that erstwhile actors audition it gets into the nationalist domain quickly.

He said: “Your imaginativeness doesn’t cognize (but) you are alert connected a applicable level, ‘I cognize I americium auditioning against Rob’. And Rob is fantastic successful that movie, and I deliberation that was the close determination but besides you get excited by the prospect.

“Matt is simply a fantastic manager and the publication and everything. I was like, ‘This is going to beryllium a chill movie and I privation to beryllium a portion of it, and a superb character’.

“There’s a weird play earlier you tin get to the acceptance and spot the movie and be, like, ‘That was the close choice’; you person to spell done the play of, ‘What could I person done different? Why not me?’ You tally done each those things.”

Hoult said helium had been “hesitant astir going through” auditioning for a akin relation again, but decided to spell up for the Superman reboot, directed by James Gunn, successful which helium has been formed arsenic evil businessman Lex Luthor.

He said: “When we (me and James) spoke, due to the fact that they knew I’d been done that process, they didn’t privation maine to needfully person to spell done that again, which is precise benignant of them.

“There was an constituent of them being like, ‘Hey, we similar you arsenic an actor, etc, etc. We privation you to beryllium successful this world’, and truthful it was similar a bully constituent of going done to surface test.”