Cillian Murphy set out to play Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, but his "electric" audition got him the role of Scarecrow instead.
"When we had our first conversation I think both of us knew that you weren’t going to wind up playing Batman," Nolan said in a conversation with both Murphy and Entertainment Weekly. "But I really wanted to get on set with you, I wanted to get you on film. We did those screen tests very elaborately, on 35mm, with a little set. There was just an electric atmosphere in the crew when you started to perform."
