Invoice Skarsgård Thinks He Can Be Your New Batman or Joker

Followers love fancasting, and so they particularly love doing it with Batman. Whereas Robert Pattinson’s nonetheless donning the cowl for Matt Reeves’ recently delayed crime saga, people are ready to see who’ll play the Darkish Knight within the additionally still-upcoming Courageous & the Daring. If issues went Invoice Skarsgård’s approach, he’d greater than keen to play both Batman or Joker.

Throughout a latest look on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the brand new Nosferatu expressed his curiosity in enjoying Batman (or on the very least, Bruce Wayne) for the brand new DCU, which doesn’t have one but. Courageous’s standing is at the moment in flux after director Andy Muschietti lately implied it obtained pushed again. Whereas Skarsgård is aware of as a lot about that film as anybody who isn’t Muschietti or James Gunn—aka, “not very”—he’s greater than open to teaming with the director once more after they beforehand collaborated on the It series.

Equally, Skarsgård’s assured there’s a “actually cool fucking Joker” in him, and thinks enjoying the Clown Prince can be “fairly sick.” That character’s place within the DCU is a bit more unclear in the intervening time, since he hasn’t gotten a shoutout in Creature Commandos and the subsequent main piece of Bat-media is 2026’s Clayface film. However typecasting be damned, if anybody is aware of the best way to play a well-dressed homicide clown, it’s this actor.

Or possibly he will be Batman and Joker? Skarsgård’s finished some interesting style work the previous few years, and even when those movies weren’t solely good, he’s been pretty good in them. That’d be a problem, however an fascinating one, and possibly he’s obtained what it takes to tug off that bizarre swing. It’s been a minute since one actor’s performed twin roles in a film, but when Sinners can do it, so can DC.

[via Forbes]

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