Aaron Paul Laments Missing Out on Role in Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT Trilogy

Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul is best known for his starring role in the fan-favorite series Breaking Bad, and he has kept busy in the TV and movie business since his breakout performance, but as with most actors, there’s one project that really hurts to have slipped through his fingers.

In a recent interview with ScreenRant, to promote his new video game Dispatch, Paul revealed that he had initially been offered a role in one of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy Batman movies.

"I sat down with Christopher Nolan on another project. This was years ago," he stated, before adding, "I think it was for Interstellar, but I was offered a very small role - you're literally just reminding me of this - in one of the Batman movies he was doing."

However, availability got in the way: "I was literally shooting another project, and I couldn't do it. It was a tiny, tiny, tiny role - but I don't care."

The 40-year-old actor stressed that he just wanted "to be in his universe." Paul commented that he is "[into] classic Gotham. I love Batman. I think Batman's probably my favorite, because he's kind of a real guy, right?

He's just the guy with a lot of money and a lot of toys, and he's not messing around." He also added his passion for the Man of Steel, "I love Superman - I love it all. It's just such a fun, fantastic world where the options are sort of limitless."

While he never specified who his character would have been, he said he "just watched Dark Knight the other night." Paul concluded his answer with, "I thought about that. I was like, 'Ah, it would have just been so cool to just be in 30 seconds of one of those movies.'"

It’s too bad that Aaron Paul didn’t get the chance to work with Nolan in his Batman trilogy, but hopefully he gets another shot at both the superhero genre and working with the great director. Paul is a fantastic actor, and I’d be happy to see him in more roles.