In a recent interview with
Vulture, the actor was quizzed about his past links with comic book movies, and was quizzed in particular about being offered roles in both
Batman Begins and
Daredevil. Below are a few excerpts from that interview, but be sure to follow the link over to the site to read a lot more!
So there’s this persistent Internet rumor that you were offered the role of Batman in Batman Begins...
I absolutely wasn’t. Chris Nolan flew me to London to talk about one of the other roles in it, ‘cause he sort of had this idea of going a different kind of way. But it didn’t happen, and I don’t know why exactly, and that’s cool.
Can you say what the role was?
It was Liam Neeson’s role. And there was talk about having the mentor be the same age as Christian Bale, rather than be an older mentor. But maybe they tossed the idea around and other people went, No, that’s not gonna work.
Your name was also associated with 2003’s Daredevil, and came up again when they started talking about a Daredevil reboot last year.
Oh, well I was offered the first Daredevil, yeah.
And you turned it down.
Yeah. It wasn’t really my — I mean, I wasn’ t really sort of — I don’t know. Comic-strip stuff isn’t really my cup of tea, really.
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