Robert Pattinson not too long ago spoke to GQ magazine as a part of the publication’s summer season cowl story on “The Odyssey” and revealed he had a house health club put in with a view to pack on muscle forward of filming “The Batman: Part II.” The actor was doubling down on his health schedule after some viewers of 2022’s “The Batman” discovered his superhero physique underwhelming.
“[Everyone was like], ‘You didn’t work out at all.’ I worked out every fucking day,” Pattinson quipped. “Even after that, I still look like I didn’t work out. I worked out twice a day at, like, three o’clock in the morning. I’m like, It’s just because I said it in an interview [once that exercise was uncool]. I was trying to sound cool!”
Pattinson is returning to the function of Bruce Wayne/Batman in director Matt Reeves’ long-awaited sequel, which will even star the likes of Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson. The filmmaker teased final month that manufacturing on “The Batman: Part II” was imminent by posting a first look photo of the Batmobile racing down a snowy road. Not that Pattinson knew any particulars of the sequel’s filming schedule when he spoke to GQ.
“I just heard from the stunt guy the other day. He said, ‘Ooh, 11 weeks of nights.’ I’m like, ‘Excuse me?’ I’m like, ‘No one’s even sent me a schedule,’” Pattinson mentioned.
Coaching for “The Batman: Part II” was most likely simpler for Pattinson after filming Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which he instructed GQ magazine was probably the most exhausting units he’s ever labored on. The actor filmed a lot of his scenes alongside Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland on the Castello di Santa Caterina on the island of Favignana in western Sicily. The taking pictures location required the solid and crew to stroll up a path 900 toes within the air each day. Those that weren’t in a position to stroll used a helicopter, which additionally transported the massive items of movie manufacturing gear.
“In the middle of our shoot, we had a location for two weeks where the crew had to start at the bottom of this path at call, go 900 feet up in the air, at whatever pace they could manage,” Nolan instructed the publication.
Pattinson remembered sitting at a resort bar throughout a time without work filming “and then people started drifting in [after set], and I’ve never seen people look so exhausted. And this was only a third of the way. I started a third of the way through the movie, and they’d already been to [two] countries by that point and people just looked like…. I mean, at the end of every day people were broken.”
Head over to GQ magazine’s website to learn “The Odyssey” summer season cowl story in its entirety.
