Paul Dano Shares Some Advice for Fans Looking to Recreate His Riddler Costume from 'The Batman'
justjared.comPaul Dano is offering some advice to fans who want to recreate his Riddler costume from The Batman.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the 37-year-old actor revealed that he went to extreme lengths to get into character on the set of the film. Click inside to read more… Paul said that he wanted to reflect the iconic character’s meticulous nature but also acknowledged that he may not have the same resources as Batman.
He chose to incorporate cling-wrap into his costume, which became a very suffocating as he shot the movie. “I wrapped myself in cling wrap which I thought looked scary because of the light and I thought I’m not going to shed any hairs here on the crime scene,” he explained. “The first day of filming about an hour in and I just start to see white, and colors, and my brain is getting very tight… and it’s day one so you don’t want to be the actor who’s like ‘I’ve got a little headache,’” the actor continued. “You suck it up [but] you can’t sweat.
That’s the issue, it goes back inside you.” Paul went on to say he managed to get through a day of shooting but Googled “brain swelling” when he got home. “The next day we started to poke some holes in the cling-wrap, my head could breathe, things got a little better,” he said. “I might as well take this opportunity to offer a disclaimer to any Halloween costumers, or cosplayers out there: maybe skip the cling-wrap.” The film is set to hit theaters on March 4, 2022.
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