The Batman movies were just the beginning for Murphy and Nolan’s collaborations. So I just came in for that one day, did that little bit on that amazing set, and then waited to see the movie. ![]() Just tell me what I’m doing, just tell me what my motivation is, and then I want to see the movie.’ I didn’t want to spoil it. “I remember when you called, you said, ‘You want to read the script?’ and I said, “‘You know what, I don’t actually want to read the script. “I love that scene,” Murphy said in the chat. Cillian Murphy in The Dark Knight Rises Image: Warner Bros. Instead, Crane kept finding his way back into the Dark Knight trilogy, popping up in the sequel and then again in Rises as a kangaroo court judge. Nolan, falling so hard for Murphy’s slimy, needling take on Scarecrow, never actually locked up the villain or killed him off. Nolan screentested Murphy anyway, and said he “made sure that executives came down and watched what you were doing on set.” When the director pitched the risky casting choice of Murphy as Jonathan Crane, there was apparently no dissent from the folks writing checks at Warner Bros. “I felt like, this is somebody that I want to work with, somebody who has an interesting take on things creatively when we had our first conversation I think both of us knew that you weren’t going to wind up playing Batman.” I felt an immediate connection,” Nolan said in conversation with Murphy in a new dual interview in Entertainment Weekly. for the screen test and we had dinner at a hotel. But the thing Nolan realized at the time was that Murphy had the stuff, and just needed someone to anoint his movie star status. Those roles went to names like Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jim Carrey - movie stars. The unexpected success of Danny Boyle’s low-budget zombie nightmare 28 Days Later made Murphy a known entity in Hollywood, but not a box office draw or even a logical name for the premiere villain role in a Batman movie. ![]() What wasn’t as known at the time is how truly smitten Nolan was with Murphy, who was still a relative unknown.
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