Some losses arrive quietly, through a car radio rather than a phone call, and they tend to be heard as the world's casual gossip before they become one's own private fact. Nicholas Hoult learned that another actor would wear the Batman cowl while he was still waiting for his chance to be considered, and he spent a stretch of time asking the question that nearly everyone asks after a door closes: why not me? Over time that question loosened its grip, and he now regards Robert Pattinson's work in the 2022 film as the right outcome. His story, told on a podcast, is less about Gotham than about ho
Nicholas Hoult Reflects on Losing Batman to Pattinson and Finding His Place in Gunn's Superman
Why not me? You run through all those things.
Mark
What stands out to me is the radio. He found out he'd lost a role he hadn't even tested for yet.
Mimi
Right, a week before the screen test. He remembers saying out loud that it wasn't confirmed and to give him a chance.
Luke
Worth noting that's his recollection of a radio report. We don't know from this piece how firm the casting actually was at that point, only that he heard it that way.
Mark
Fair. But he doesn't sound bitter now.
Mimi
No. He says Pattinson is fantastic in the 2022 film and that it was the right decision. He also admits there was an in-between phase of asking why not me.
Mark
And Gunn handled things differently?
Mimi
By his account, yes. They knew about the Batman process and didn't want him to repeat it, and told him they liked him as an actor.
Luke
Again, that's Hoult describing the conversation. The report doesn't say what, if anything, the audition for Luthor involved, or what Gunn would say about it.
Mark
So what do we actually know going forward?
Mimi
Hoult plays Lex Luthor, and Superman is due July 11, 2025.
Luke
And how the performance lands is the part nobody can tell us yet.
El Pulso
- Hoult learned he had lost Batman while driving, when radio presenters announced Robert Pattinson as the next Caped Crusader before his audition had even happened.
- He spent a difficult stretch wrestling with the question 'why not me?', a raw emotional tension that unsettled his sense of his own career.
- Auditions at this scale leave actors excited and then forced to live with the outcome, a cycle he describes as emotionally taxing.
- Hoult has since watched the 2022 film, and the resolution is settled: he now calls Pattinson's performance fantastic and the right decision.
- The DC landscape shifts as James Gunn's team spared him a repeat audition process, and Hoult will now play Lex Luthor in Superman, due July 11, 2025.
Some losses arrive quietly, through a car radio rather than a phone call, and they tend to be heard as the world's casual gossip before they become one's own private fact. Nicholas Hoult learned that another actor would wear the Batman cowl while he was still waiting for his chance to be considered, and he spent a stretch of time asking the question that nearly everyone asks after a door closes: why not me? Over time that question loosened its grip, and he now regards Robert Pattinson's work in the 2022 film as the right outcome. His story, told on a podcast, is less about Gotham than about how a person moves from disappointment toward a kind of peace, and how the industry's next chapter, a Superman film set for July 2025, opened a different door for him.
A week before his Batman screen test, Nicholas Hoult was driving with the radio on when the presenters started discussing the next Caped Crusader. They said it would be Robert Pattinson. Hoult had not yet auditioned, and he remembers talking back to the dashboard, insisting it wasn't confirmed and that he deserved his chance the following weekend.
He told this story on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, describing how hard the news was to absorb. He spoke warmly of the director, Matt, and of a script and character that had pulled him in. He had wanted to be part of that film badly.
He was honest about what came after. There was a strange stretch of time, he said, when he replayed every question about what he could have done differently and why it had not been him. Auditioning for roles of that scale, he added, is emotionally taxing, because excitement is followed by the need to live with the result.
That chapter has closed. Hoult has since seen the 2022 film and has no quarrel with the casting. Pattinson, he says, is fantastic, and the right decision was made.
His experience with DC's next Superman was very different. He praised James Gunn as a fantastic director and said the filmmakers, aware he had already gone through the Batman process, chose not to make him repeat it. He called that kindness and said the message was that they liked him as an actor and wanted him in this world. The outcome is that Hoult will play Lex Luthor, a role he was offered rather than one he chased, and audiences will see how it lands when the film reaches theaters on July 11, 2025.
A week before his screen test for Batman, Nicholas Hoult was driving, the radio on, when the presenters began discussing who would be the next Caped Crusader. According to them, it was going to be Robert Pattinson. Hoult, who had not yet auditioned, remembers talking back to the dashboard: it wasn't confirmed, he thought, he was auditioning the following weekend, and they should give him a chance.
Hoult told this story on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, describing how hard it was to take in. The role was in a film directed by Matt, whom he called a fantastic director, and he said the script and the character both pulled him in. He recalled thinking it would be a cool movie and that he wanted to be part of it.
He was candid about what followed. Hoult described a strange stretch of time before a person can reach acceptance, a period in which you run through questions about what you could have done differently and why it wasn't you. He said auditioning for roles of this scale can be emotionally taxing, because you get excited by the prospect and then have to live with the outcome.
That period has passed. Hoult said he has since seen the 2022 film and has no quarrel with the casting. In his words, Pattinson is fantastic in it, and the right decision was made.
His experience with the DC universe's next Superman film was very different. Hoult said he was excited by what James Gunn is building at DC and called him a fantastic director. When the two spoke, he said, the filmmakers knew he had already been through the Batman process and did not want him to have to go through that again. He called that very kind of them. As he recalled it, the message was that they liked him as an actor and wanted him in this world.
The result is that Hoult will play Lex Luthor in Superman. The film is set to reach theaters on July 11, 2025, which will show how the role he was offered, rather than the one he chased, plays out on screen.
Citas Notables
Rob is fantastic in that movie. That was the right decision.— Nicholas Hoult, Happy Sad Confused podcast
They knew he had been through the Batman process and did not want him to go through that again, which he called very kind.— Nicholas Hoult, on James Gunn and the Superman casting
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