With Zoë Kravitz and Paul Dano in place as Catwoman and the Riddler, respectively, Batman is going to have quite the rogues gallery when he rejoins the DC Extended Universe in 2021 in the form of Robert Pattinson. The one villain the new Dark Knight definitely won’t be meeting, though, is Joaquin Phoenix’s Clown Prince of Crime, who is currently making a killing at the box office in his controversial solo movie. Joker director Todd Phillips has already said that Phoenix won’t appear in Matt Reeves’s The Batman, and Pattinson confirms as much to Yahoo Entertainment while talking about his new movie, The Lighthouse. “It’s kind of a different world,” the actor says of Phillips’s film, adding that he still hasn’t seen Joker. “I might watch it tonight! Joaquin is the best — he’s awesome in everything.”

For the record, Pattinson also claims he hasn’t seen the final version of his new Batsuit, which is still hidden from public view in Warner’s Batcave. “Matt has got a really awesome idea about it,” he allows. “I think this thing is going to be very, very cool.” He’s fortunate to have received some costume advice from none other than Dark Knight trilogy architect, Christopher Nolan; Pattinson was shooting his role in the director’s next movie, Tenet, when he officially became the latest Batman this past summer. “Chris told me a little bit about how to get the camo off my face — that amongst other things,” he teases.

Seagulls, rather than cats or riddles, are Pattinson’s main antagonist in The Lighthouse, the sophomore film from Robert Eggers. Like the director’s previous feature, 2015’s The Witch, The Lighthouse is a horror-laced period piece that unfolds in a largely isolated location, in this case on barren spit of land seemingly at the edge of the world. It’s here that veteran lighthouse keeper Thomas (Willem Dafoe) arrives with his new assistant, Ephraim (Pattinson), who has difficulty adjusting to the solitary nature of their existence, to say nothing of the harshness of the conditions. As the rough days give way to cold nights and the noise of the gulls — not to mention Thomas’s frequent farts — echoes in his ears, the young man allows his grasp on sanity to steadily loosen. Pattinson talked to us about how Ephraim’s costume helped him get into character, and why he’d love to make a horror movie like The Cell.

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Yahoo Entertainment: Going in, I didn’t know quite what to expect from The Lighthouse, but I certainly didn’t expect it to be as funny as it is. At what point did you realize it’s essentially an odd couple comedy?

Robert Pattinson: I mean, the script was hilarious, but then I've learned many times over the years that my sense of humor may not necessarily be everyone else's sense of humor. Or may not even be humor at all! I always get a little bit worried if I think something's funny. [Laughs] When I first watched The Lighthouse, I could hear the audience laughing and it was such a relief. At the same time, I was genuinely shocked how easily they were able to laugh at it!

As soon as we were rehearsing it was really funny. The first time I saw Willem in full costume with his fake teeth was hilarious. [For our first scene] we were sitting across from each other eating, and there’s just bits of stuff flying out of his mouth! So the humor was quite natural. But Robert’s a really funny guy as well, and he takes a perverse glee in the crazy parts of the script, which made everything easier.

I’m a sucker for a good fart joke going back to Blazing Saddles, and excessive flatulence is a big part of Dafoe’s character. Was he farting on set or were those added in post?

We did a Q&A recently and somebody asked him that. He said, “Half and half.” I never heard him, so if he was doing them on set, they were definitely silent. [Laughs]

You’ve worked with director like Eggers and David Cronenberg who have made legitimately terrifying movies, but the films you’ve been in aren’t traditional horror stories. Is that something you’re curious to do: make a full-on horror movie?

I think so. The thing is, I get really frightened at horror movies. I'm incredibly squeamish, so maybe I’ve been avoiding it because of that. I like using certain elements of horror. Especially now, it seems like horror seems to be the only genre where you can be pretty experimental and they'll get into theaters. In that way, it’s really the most innovative genre at the moment. And there’s something subversive about the genre itself: you’re making entertainment out of killing people, so you can stretch that premise into a lot of different areas. I’m sure at some point I’ll want to do one. I’ve always loved The Cell. I’d absolutely love to play a part like that.