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Robert Downey Jr. Says He Pitched Himself as Batman Villain Scarecrow to Christopher Nolan: Didn't 'Go Anywhere'

Robert Downey Jr. revealed that he once met with Christopher Nolan to discuss playing the Batman villain Scarecrow in Nolan's 2005 movie 'Batman Begins.' "I remember meeting [Nolan] for tea and I was like, 'He doesn't seem like he's really in on this interview,' " the actor recalled.

At a recent Q&A at Los Angeles' American Cinematheque theater, Downey Jr., 58, confirmed that he once met with his Oppenheimer director Nolan, 53, about playing the villain Scarecrow in 2005's Batman Begins. Murphy appeared as Scarecrow — a psychologist in Gotham City who uses various gases to induce fear within his victims — in all three of Nolan's Batman movies. Downey Jr. first played Tony Stark in 2008's Iron Man and led the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the next decade before appearing in Oppenheimer.

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