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Susannah Butter

Batman’s Paul Dano: ‘I thought I’d only be playing dorky guys with glasses’

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(Picture: Chieska Fortune Smith )

Paul Dano attracts a few curious looks as he arrives at the Rosewood hotel.

The 37-year-old actor in a worn-out black hoodie has played such a wide range of characters that people can’t pin down where they recognise him from. He was the taciturn Dwayne in Little Miss Sunshine, both Paul and Eli Sunday in There Will be Blood and Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy (he put on so much weight for that role that he tore a ligament in his leg trying to play basketball). Even IMDb doesn’t know what box to put him in, describing him as an actor who ‘often plays characters who receive beatings’, which makes him laugh.

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