As revealed in a new feature on “Tenet” in The Irish Times, star Robert Pattinson said he tried to sneak away from the set, blaming a “family emergency,” for a screen test for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman.” But Nolan, evidently, knew what he was up to immediately.

“It’s funny because Chris is so secretive about everything to do with his movies,” Pattinson, who was cast in “The Batman” at the end of May in 2019 when “Tenet” began filming, told The Irish Times.

At the end of 2019, Pattinson was on a narrow shortlist to replace Ben Affleck as the new Caped Crusader, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Armie Hammer, and Nicholas Hoult also reportedly in the mix.

Though Pattinson’s casting was announced on May 31, it had apparently leaked two weeks earlier which Pattinson said, in an interview last year, made him “fucking furious.”.

In The Irish Times piece, Pattinson said that the intense regime for suiting up to play Batman was helpful for his work on “Tenet” opposite former football player John David Washington.

“When I’m running on screen I’m generally paired with John David who is an ex-NFL player so it was the most unfair thing in the world,” Pattinson said.

John David turns to me and said: ‘Are you like a really good driver or something