Thanks to the Batmobile, “Batman Begins” star Katie Holmes now understands men a little bit more.
“I saw the ‘mobile take off and go down the street, and I was like, ‘OK, I get it. I get why guys love cars,’ ” she tells zap2it.com. “Every day I was on set, I was e-mailing my friends: ‘I just rode in the Batmobile. Ha ha–what are you doing?’ “
Holmes plays Rachel Dawes in the franchise’s fifth film, a prequel to the other movies. Dawes, although not a character in the comic book, is a friend of Bruce Wayne (played by Christian Bale) who works in the district attorney’s office.
In the film, a young Wayne witnesses his parents’ murder, learns the ninja arts in Asia and returns to Gotham City only to discover a cave–and an armored suit–under his home. The freshly minted Caped Crusader then battles a mafia don and a villain known as The Scarecrow.
Besides Bale and Holmes, the partly Chicago-filmed “Batman Begins” features big stars Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman.
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Edited by RedEye staff (ritaredeye@tribune.com)
