Robert Pattinson says 'Batman: Shaman' comic inspired his performance, his Batman voice came from a place of "profound sadness"

Robert Pattinson set down with GQ to talk about his new movie Primetime, as well as some of his others, including The Batman. Pattinson revealed that he took a lot of inspiration from the graphic novel Batman: Shaman for his performance as The Dark Knight.

“[Batman: Shaman] was all about the kind of metaphysical aspects of what the symbolism of the specific bat means and just trying to abstract the idea, rather than taking away the logic of becoming Batman and saying, ‘No, I’m becoming this other thing.’ And it’s not just to scare the criminal. It's for yourself. It’s because you feel a profound connection with this creature that you’ve created, which you then think you’re becoming or that it truly is you, even though you’ve constructed it yourself."

“I’m doing so many conversations and things in this outfit, and I’m like, you have to believe that it’s not an outfit and it’s just your skin. "I was trying to draw a lot from that one comic. I thought it was very helpful."

As for his Batman voice, Pattinson said it came from "a profound sadness, more than anything else. That was the one thing that hadn't really been touched on in the other movies", he added.

Check out the video interview below for more. The Batman talk starts at the 09:53 mark.