10 Unusual Demands Made By Actors On Recent Movies

There's nothing wrong with being something of a perfectionist or just having particularly high standards when it comes to your chosen line of work.

But there's proof reading an important document a few more times just to be safe before clicking send, and then there's requesting to perform a scene a whopping 200 times in the pursuit of nailing a cinematic performance. According to The Batman director Matt Reeves, that's roughly how many takes it took for his chosen Riddler, Paul Dano, to deliver the goods in one particular scene in his recent version of all things Gotham.

As revealed in a Hollywood Reporter piece on The Batman's central antagonist, Dano would routinely request another chance to bring a different variation of his consistently captivating performance to the table whilst shooting a scene depicting The Riddler conversing with Robert Pattinson's Bats on a phone through video chat.

But far from being driven mad by the relentless thespian, though, Reeves would confess how he admired how "he was so inventive and creative", whilst also noting how "he’s also very critical of himself.”