Robert Pattinson hit back at critics who claimed he didn’t bother to get in shape The Batman, and he doesn’t mince his words about it.
Talk to GQ Magazine as part of the publication’s summer coverage on The OdysseyThe 40-year-old actor addressed the lingering perception that his physique in the 2022 film was sub-standard for a superhero.
The reality, he said, was very different.
“[Everyone was like]’You haven’t worked at all.’ I worked out every fucking day,” Pattinson said.
“Even after that, I still look like I’m not working out. I was working out twice a day, at like three in the morning. I’m like, ‘That’s just because I said so in an interview.’ [once that exercise was uncool]. I was trying to look cool!”
There you have it, the offhand comment about not believing in the exercise that circulated widely before the release of the first film was, by its own admission, a posturing rather than a policy.
The irony is that he has been following him ever since.
Now, Pattinson is preparing to do it all again for The Batman: Part 2director Matt Reeves’ long-awaited sequel, for which he had a home gym installed.
The film will also star Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson, and Reeves recently teased the production by sharing a first image of the Batmobile on a snowy street.
Pattinson, however, appears to be one of the last to know the details of what awaits him.
“I just heard from the stuntman the other day. He said, ‘Ooh, 11 weeks of nights.’ I’m like, “Excuse me? “I’m like, ‘No one even sent me a schedule,'” he said.
