There is little that Robert Pattinson, 33, likes more than confounding expectations, and plenty were placed on him after the megahit Twilight franchise ended in 2012. Since then, he has reinvented himself as an auteur’s muse, eager to add his mischievous spirit and pop cultural frisson to art-house films by directors like Claire Denis, David Cronenberg and the Safdie brothers.
After spending the last few years in independent films, Pattinson is planning another zig: He’s shooting Tenet, a big-budget summer movie for Christopher Nolan, and he was just cast as the lead in The Batman, a new take on the comic-book