Thread by @Metro_Ents

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨

Ahead of the release of The Batman, @Rishma_Dosani caught up with casting director Lucy Bevan (@CastingLucy) who – along with Cindy Tolan – was responsible for putting the talented cast together 🤩

Let's spill some tea ☕️

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📜 Secretive Batman script📜

‘So my role as casting director is to help the director of the film realise their vision for who should be in the film, and cast all of the actors,’ Lucy told us, emphasising how much secrecy was involved in the project from the very beginning.

‘From reading the blank scripts, I help the director decide who would be best in each role, and get the actors to be in it.'

'It was a very confidential project.’

🤫 Low-key auditions 🤫

Cindy was in charge of casting Robert and Zoe in the lead roles, with Lucy – who has also worked on Belfast, Death on the Nile and the upcoming Anatomy of a Scandal – coming onto the project later, and helping pair actors with more than 80 parts.

But if you think that auditioning for a superhero blockbuster is all glitz & glamour, she poured ice cold water over those claims ✨

‘The script was kept in a safe, so sometimes actors would come in and read, we’d get the script out and they would read [it] in the office'.

‘My office is in Acton, in west London, and actors just come here and read and audition' 🎬

‘It’s interesting for an audience, watching a film like that, to think that the bulk of it was cast out of an office in Acton.'

🌃 Huge Batman challenges in UK 🌃

‘The challenge there was because we were filming in the UK, we had to create Gotham City,’ she said.

‘It had to feel authentically American.'

Despite some challenges on set – mainly due to filming kicking off at the beginning of the pandemic – Lucy took a moment to heap praise on all involved for powering through under such difficult circumstances...

‘We were seven weeks into filming when the whole thing came to a grinding halt,’ she said.

‘It was an incredibly impressive job of the producers to get everyone back together' 👏

For the full interview 👇
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