Cast announcement and new trailer for 'Batman: The Caped Crusader' (updated)

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Batman: Caped Crusader has done such a thorough job of keeping the identities of the actors who voice its new heroes and villains under wraps that the performers themselves sometimes didn’t even know who their costars were. “I have a question for you. Who plays Bruce?” says Jamie Chung (Lovecraft Country and Stone Cold Fox), after discussing her ominous new version of Harley Quinn. “I feel like you have more information than I do.”

The actors recorded their lines separately, in part because that early part of the production process for the Amazon Prime show (debuting August 1) took place at the end of the pandemic lockdowns. Although they’ve all seen the finished episodes, no one knows who plays whom. Vanity Fair is clearing the smoke bomb for the exclusive reveal.

Here’s the answer to Chung’s question: Hamish Linklater, the terrifying priest from Midnight Mass, Abraham Lincoln in the recent Manhunt series, and one of the doom-predicting traders from The Big Short, will play the new Bruce Wayne and Batman—a fact he had difficulty keeping secret, at least from his children. “I never in a million bajillion years imagined that I would actually get the part. Not only had I never been cast to do voiceover work before this, but also—it’s Batman! You don’t go from zero to Mount Olympus,” Linklater says. “Then I got the call and I screamed so loud. I just ran and grabbed my kids and was just like, ‘Dad’s Batman!’”

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Even now, most of the supporting-character voices remain cloaked, but two other major figures can be revealed: Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets and The Lizzie Borden Chronicles) will voice jewel thief Catwoman and her socialite alter ego Selina Kyle, while Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show and Better Things) will take on the smarmy and corrupt Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent, who becomes the double-crossing villain Two-Face.

Chung’s performance as Harley Quinn is a radical departure from the madcap Brooklyn accent typically associated with the character (who will soon be played by Lady Gaga in this fall’s live-action sequel Joker: Folie à Deux). Batman: Caped Crusader significantly reimagines her villainous origin story as well. Chung’s Dr. Harleen Quinzel is still a psychiatrist, but one who chooses wrongdoing on her own rather than being driven insane by The Joker, who is not a presence in her life (at least, not yet). If anything, this version of Harley Quinn as a self-appointed vigilante has more in common with Batman himself, since her crime spree involves capturing and manipulating the wealthiest citizens of Gotham.

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