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Robert Downey Jr. Pitched Himself to Play Scarecrow in ‘Batman Begins’


Robert Downey Jr. recalled pitching himself to play the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins.'

Following a screening of Oppenheimer at the Aero Theater in Los Angeles last weekend, Robert Downey Jr. revealed that he lobbied director Christopher Nolan to play the part that eventually went to Cillian Murphy. “It was clear to me from the beginning that I wasn’t Batman material,” Murphy told Entertainment Weekly during a conversation between him and Nolan last year. Downey Jr. recently won Best Supporting Actor at the Critics Choice Awards and used his acceptance speech to recount some of his worst reviews.

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