'Aquaman' Star Jason Momoa Recalls Auditioning for Batman

Before Jason Momoa was given the role of Arthur Curry in Justice League and then in the standalone film Aquaman, he actually auditioned for the role of Batman. And it didn’t go very well, according to Comic Book.

In an interview Momoa did recently with FOX Chicago, he dished about the audition.

"Yeah I kind of visualized, because it was a generic, general scene from the Christian Bale movie The Dark Knight and it was a big casting call so I knew a lot of people were going to be doing it and I just felt like it was a booby trap and I didn’t want to do it," Momoa said.

Momoa explained how he came up with a unique approach, instead of doing a standard Batman scene.

"So, we did it and I just pretended like Batman got killed in an alleyway and I picked it up and tried to play him like I was just down and out, poor, over it, just done wrong and he wasn’t afraid to punch even good people in the face, I just played him completely opposite,“ Momoa added. "And just go like unforgivable about certain things but also like flawed, like the kind of person who would jump off a cliff and figure out on the way down what we’re going to do."

While Momoa figured he bombed the audition, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder thought the actor could have potential in a different role.

Momoa recalled, "So, they liked that and then I got called in about probably two to three weeks later and that’s when Zack laid it down and said ‘I want you to play Aquaman’, which was completely like ‘Excuse me?'"

That of course led to Momoa appearing in the 2016 film, which set him up for a larger role in the DC Extended Universe. Fans will get to see Momoa in an even bigger role when Aquaman debuts in theaters on Dec. 21.