Andy Serkis during a Q&A for Venom2 was asked about working with Rob on The Batman. Here’s what he had to say:

So I said I can’t talk about Batman but you’re asking me what it’s like to work with Robert Pattinson. It was great. He is an extraordinary actor. He has proved himself to be one of the most versatile character actors in recent times. He’s gone from that massive success with Twilight and now through, all his very interesting choices with smaller budget, but really interesting movies, I think he’s really proven himself to be a brilliant actor. And I loved working with him. But it was very funny that we were doing one of our most intimate scenes and at lunchtime I went back to my trailer and the producers came down and said “Rob’s got COVID” and they closed the whole production down. Which was great because I managed to take 2 weeks off.

Thanks @ilmsharley!

2 more sleeps – that’s all we have to wait to see the new trailer and Rob!

UPDATED: 16 October 2021 (AEDT)

According to rumours, the Batman trailer will drop at 7.30am AEDT on Sunday morning. Personally I hope this is true. DC Fandome will stream for 4 hours starting at 4.00am – guess I’ll risk it and wake up at 6.00am! In any event we will post what we can to rewatch over and over again.

UPDATE: 12 October 2021

Roadshow sent an email today to alert Aussies and Kiwis that if you aren’t around at 4.00am (AEDT) to join DCFandome they are hosting a Virtual After Party streaming at 10.00am AEDT on 17 October 2021. Here you will be able to see highlights (which clearly means Rob) and the new trailer for The Batman. Of course we hope to bring it to you in any event, but if you want to join in the fun bookmark the link above.

Cavan Kilbey from Muse. (UK) wrote an article entitled “Atypical Performance: Reinventing Actors” and has this interesting comment about Robert Pattinson:

Aside from comedians, the other class of actor that is not usually expected to deliver a serious performance is the child star. There is a snooty assumption from most audiences that once you’ve been in something akin to Twilight, you’ll mostly star in complete dross for the rest of your career, but that isn’t always the case. Most of these performers go on to be in interesting projects that capitalise on and subvert their popular image; Daniel Radcliffe alone has been in such a weird range of films that his career deserves its own thesis. The one who has arguably succeeded most from this trend has been Robert Pattinson, who became a household name thanks to his turn as Twilight’s Edward Cullen, but is now lauded as a star of the arthouse scene. You can pick any number of films that feature him ‘playing against type’, including 2017’s Good Time, but the one that sticks out the most is Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse from 2019. Pattinson’s breakout performance as Cullen was often quiet and reserved, resulting in his typecasting as the awkward but well-meaning love interest in films like Water for Elephants, or as the snarky upper class lead in Cosmopolis. But The Lighthouse allows Pattinson to just let it all out and play a character full of guilt, anger, and frustration; he’s a volatile individual who beats up seagulls and tries to gain power over the dominant lighthouse keeper played by Willem Dafoe. Pattinson captures the Promethean struggle perfectly with the way he slowly bottles up rage across the opening acts of the film before exploding in the final third as he buries his friend alive and realises that the knowledge he’s been seeking the entire film has amounted to nothing.

With the exception of Garbo, none of the actors discussed have received Academy nominations for these roles and are seldom talked about in relation to their oeuvre, aside from Pattinson who currently enjoys a career revitalisation and has managed to stop himself from being typecast as Edward Cullen-type romantic leads.

Rob being Rob – the look on Claire’s face in the second photo is priceless.