“It was a little hard to come down from this character.
It takes a lot of energy to get there.”
“There’s a sequence with Peter Sarsgaard’s character [Gotham district attorney Gil Colson].
That was intense,” Dano said.
It takes a lot of energy to get there.
The difficult shoot extended to Dano’s costume as The Riddler.
Director Matt Reeves liked the idea, but the first attempts at the costume were literally painful for Dano.
“My head was just throbbing with heat.
It was like compressed from the sweat and the heat and the lack of oxygen.
It was a crazy feeling,” he said.
The costume department eventually made some changes to make the mask more breathable, thankfully.
The Riddler won’t be a typical villain, however, it seems.
What he might lack in screen time, he makes up for in terror, apparently.
“The Riddler is omnipresent, but almost as a ghost,” Reeves said.
The full EW interviewis packed with interesting insight about The Batman, which opens March 4.
In addition to Dano as The Riddler, the movie features Robert Pattinson as Batman and Kravitz as Catwoman.
The movie runs fornearly three hours.
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