Robert Pattinson wants you to know that he did bulk up in preparation for his role as Batman. The actor, 35, recently spoke with MovieMaker about his role as the eponymous Caped Crusader in the upcoming epic The Batman, confessing that statements he made to GQ about his gym training (or lack thereof) to prepare for the film “came back to haunt [him].” Pattinson laughed, “I just think it’s incredibly humiliating to talk about how you’re working out.” “I believe it is an English thing.

Unless you’re in incredible form and people are genuinely intrigued, asking, “How did you reach, like, physical perfection?” or something similar.” “I’m just hardly doing anything,” Pattison told the magazine at the time, even though his costar Zoe Kravitz, who plays Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Batman, had been working out five days a week. In a recent interview with MovieMaker, the actor confirmed that he was maintaining his fitness (“You’re taking on the role of Batman. You must exercise “), just not to the extent that he may have been in a different situation.

“I believe I was interviewing while in lockdown in England as well,” Pattinson remarked. “I was working out in a lower gear.”

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