Patrick Leahy, the New President of the United States Senate, Has Appeared in Several Batman Films

He now occupies third place in the order of succession to US President Joe Biden . On January 20, and for the second time in his political career, Patrick Leahy, 80, was sworn in before the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris , as the new interim president of the United States Senate. Under the mask – Covid obliges – some Batman fans will have recognized a familiar face from the cinematographic universe linked to the superhero.

Patrick Leahy appeared in five Batman films

A great fan of comic books, Patrick Leahy is a huge fan of the adventures of the batman, a passion that dates back to his earliest childhood. As proof, he appeared in no less than five feature films devoted to the superhero: Batman Forever (1995), Batman and Robin (1997), two parts of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy , The Dark Knight: the dark knight ( 2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), as well as Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016. He also had his animated version in Batman: the animated series (1995). In The Dark Knight in particular, he faces the Joker ( Heath Ledger), when the latter bursts into a cocktail party. A face to face which is worth to the apprentice actor and politician to find himself with a knife under the nose.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the new Senate President Pro Tempore and therefore third in line for POTUS, is a HUGE Batman fan 🦇

Here are his cameos in:

-The Dark Knight & TDKR
-Batman v. Superman
-Batman: The Animated Series
-Batman & Robin

(h/t @frankpallotta) pic.twitter.com/MCsBQvnpNg

— Post Cred Pod (@PostCredPod) January 20, 2021

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Patrick Leahy donated each of his acting fees

When Patrick Leahy can link his passion to his political struggles, he does. In the 1990s, while serving as chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, the man tried to push for legislation to ban the export of landmines. He’s even working with DC Comics on an issue of Batman that would warn of the dangers of his mines. Patrick Leahy has always donated the fees of the films he participated in to the Kellogg-Hubbard library in Montpellier, Vermont, the city where he comes from and where he read Batman comics as a child.