Robert Pattinson inThe Batman(2022).
Robert Pattinsonwants you to know that he did indeed beef up to play Batman.
“I just always think it’s really embarrassing to talk about how you’re working out,” said Pattinson, laughing. “I think it’s like an English thing. Unless you are in the most unbelievable shape, where people are just genuinely curious, going, ‘How have you achieved, like, physical perfection?’ or whatever.”
“You set a precedent,” he added. “No one was doing this in the ’70s. EvenJames Dean— he wasn’t exactly ripped.”
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And while he said his costarZoë Kravitz, who plays Selina Kyle/Catwoman inThe Batman, had been working out five days a week, “Literally, I’m just barely doing anything,” Pattison told the magazine at the time.
The actor clarified in hisrecent interview with MovieMakerthat he was, in fact, keeping up with his fitness (“You’re playing Batman. You have to work out”) — just not at a level he may have been, given a different situation.
“I think I was doing the interview when I was in lockdown, as well, in England,” Pattinson said. “I was in a lower gear of working out.”
“It’s the same thing as saying in an interview when I was like 21that I didn’t wash my hair,” he continued, laughing. “It just sticks for 15 years.”
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Fans can expectthree full hours of superhero actionwhenThe Batmanhits theaters in March. The official runtime for the Matt Reeves-directed film was confirmed Thursday as 2 hours and 55 minutes including the credits, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Additionally, the Motion Picture Association announced last week that the film received a PG-13 rating for “strong violent and disturbing content, drug content, strong language, and some suggestive material.”
The Batman’s length nearly matches that of Marvel’sAvengers: Endgame, which clocked in at 3 hours and 1 minute and broke box-office records in 2019. Recent releaseSpider-Man: No Way Homeis 2 hours and 28 minutes, and the director’s cutZack Snyder’s Justice League, which debuted on HBO Max last year, is a massive 4 hours and 2 minutes long.
The R-ratedJoker— which garnered anOscarfor starJoaquin Phoenix— was 2 hours and 2 minutes, and the lengthiest entry inChristopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy was 2012’sThe Dark Knight Risesat 2 hours and 44 minutes.
The Batmanswoops into theaters March 4.
source: people.com
