Robert Pattinson recently spoke to GQ magazine as part of the publication’s summer cover story on “The Odyssey” and revealed he had a home gym installed in order to pack on muscle ahead of filming “The Batman: Part II.” The actor was doubling down on his fitness schedule after some viewers of 2022’s “The Batman” found 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 role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in director Matt Reeves’ long-awaited sequel, which will also star the likes of Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson. The filmmaker teased last month that production on “The Batman: Part II” was imminent by posting a first look photo of the Batmobile racing down a snowy street. Not that Pattinson knew any details 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 said.
Training for “The Batman: Part II” was probably easier for Pattinson after filming Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which he told GQ magazine was one of the most exhausting sets he’s ever worked on. The actor filmed many of his scenes alongside Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland at the Castello di Santa Caterina on the island of Favignana in western Sicily. The shooting location required the cast and crew to walk up a path 900 feet in the air every day. Those who were not able to walk used a helicopter, which also transported the big pieces of film production equipment.
“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 told the publication.
Pattinson remembered sitting at a hotel bar during a day off 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 read “The Odyssey” summer cover story in its entirety.
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