Transcript (en)

In many ways, in the same way that people were telling me, hey, you can't go play Patrick Bateman, it's career suicide. And I was like, bring it on. I definitely want to do that. Other people also said, hey, you know, if you play Batman, that's it. You're never going to play anything else again. You will always be Batman. And I went, bring it on. Let's see if that happens. Because I just always felt like, look, if I don't have the skill to be able to rise above that, then I don't deserve to either. I absolutely know and cherish the fact that that will be the role I'm probably remembered for most, you know, every reason. an iconic, you know, larger than life role. But I don't view it really as, oh, being stopped in the street. For me, it was, ah, I could pay off my house. That's a huge relief, you know? That was a dream of mine since being a kid. So I really appreciate that. I thank Chris Nolan No End for that, you know, the experience of actually working with him, of course, and we went on to make, you know, four films together.