Eddie Redmayne Reveals the DC Villain He Wants to Play

While Eddie Redmayne is hardly a Hollywood newcomer, but there's one area of cinema he hasn't tapped into yet—and is apparently interested in exploring.

The Academy Award winner recently spoke with IMDb at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he and other stars were asked which supervillain they'd love to play if they could choose. Redmayne has previously played bad guys in films such as Jupiter Ascending (2015) and Hick (2011), however he hasn't taken a stab at any comic book adaptations. As reported by ComicBook.com, the actor chose DC's Riddler.

"I’d love to play The Riddler," Redmayne declared. "Just putting that out there."

His The Aeronauts co-star Felicity Jones said she'd play a character from Roald Dahl's 1983 book The Witches, to which Redmayne pointed out that it was too late. The classic story, which got its first big-screen adaptation (starring Anjelica Huston) in 1990, is being adapted again with Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci; the film is due out in 2020.

Though the question posed to Redmayne was purely hypothetical, it could happen. Matt Reeves's The Batman is set for a 2021 release, and so far only star Robert Pattinson has been cast, leaving plenty of villain roles up for grabs.