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Guy Pearce reveals shock reason he missed out on Batman role despite friendship with Christopher Nolan
Pearce had previously played the lead role of an amnesiac in Nolan's 2001 neo-noir picture Memento, alongside The Matrix bombshell Carrie-Anne Moss.
The acclaimed trilogy began with the 2005 release Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the title character opposite Liam Neeson as the villain Ra’s Al Ghul. The acclaimed trilogy began with the 2005 release Batman Begins, with Liam Neeson playing the villain Ra’s al Ghul - the role Nolan asked Pearce to read for This year, Pearce had a major role in the three-and-a-half-hour historical epic The Brutalist, playing an American industrialist who employs Adrien Brody's lead character, a Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust.
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