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I was like,Why me?
Why, why all these blessings?
he recalled in an interviewwithExtra.
Its worth noting that, by his own admission, Pattinson has lied in interviews before.
Pattinson was pouring sweat for the entire screen test, which lasted for about eight hours, hetold ComicBook.
Even Reeves noticed, with the director laterrecalling toEsquirethat Pattinsons cowl started to sag on his face from heat.
PattinsontoldPeoplehe was absolutely boiling in the suit and his sweat caused a major makeup issue.
Until he received his own Batsuit, the experience continued to haunt him.
And so for six months Id been thinking,I dont know what Im gonna do.
I need to get some Botox for my sweat glands or something.
I broke my wrist at the beginning of it all, doing a stunt, even before COVID.
I was like,How can we be doing 40 takes of this?
Im like,Wow.
I just look like Im theres nothing.
Theres nothing happening, Pattinson recalled with a laugh.
Hetold Kimmelhe asked the costume department to put a flap on the back for easy access.
But according to his interviewwithPeople, he still had issues using the porta-potties on set.
And in general, he found it difficult to move in the suit.
The main thing was the shoulders and also the neck, he said.
I could technically get out of my clothes, but I couldnt see where anything was.
And when you try around, youd get trapped in rooms.
You could get in, but you couldnt get out without going backwards.
Its not exactly clear why hed need to wear the Batsuit for these tasks.
(To be fair, you dont need to be in a Batsuit for that to be true.)
The suit also posed challenges during shooting.
Youre trying to be like the cool guy, but its embarrassing.
The curtain is constantly being pulled back, he said.
Minute one on set, youre like, Im Batman.
And then its like, Im dying!
Ah, the duality of man.
Counting sips of water
PattinsontoldPeoplehe was careful about everything he ate or drank as shoot days approached.
Hey, its not the first timeBatmans diet has been restricted.
Angering fans
The actor riled fans multiple times throughoutThe Batmans production timeline.
First, there was the backlash to his casting as the titular character.
The following month, he quickly retracted his statement.
I wasnt educated about the subject, hetoldTime Out.
People got very angry about it.
I still cant understand the argument.
Okay, hes a superhero, Im sorry!
I think if youre working out all the time, youre part of the problem, he said.
This attempt at dry humor was taken by some as a sign he wasnt taking the role seriously.
That really came back to haunt me, hesaid toMovieMaker.
I just always think its really embarrassing to talk about how youre working out.
He explainedto MTVthat he had wanted to undersell and overdeliver.
According to Pattinson, people instead called for him to be canceled for a lack of effort.
According to Pattinson, he almost never saw the sun.
Even just being in the suit all the time.
In the darkness and his suit, the actor entered what he called a strangely simplistic state.
Youre just constantly in that world.
When filming resumed after a break prompted by COVID-19, measures were put in place to limit person-to-person interactions.
Speaking toMovieMaker, Pattinson compared the set to a military operation.
Many scenes were controlled remotely, the actor said, so there was frequently no one behind the camera.
By the end of the shoot, Pattinson didnt recognize himself in photos taken for his last makeup test.
HetoldThe Sunhe didnt look human; hetoldGQhe appeared green.
But Pattinson explainedto Sun Showbizhe was also wearing an earpiece he couldnt remove on his own.
And then occasionally theyd leave on every single persons walkie-talkie on the entire set, he said.
According toGQ, he had come to London with only about three T-shirts.
Unfortunately, there were technological hiccups along the way.
My phone broke, the internet broke, everything broke, he said.
Hehopedthe article could serve as a proof of concept that would attract a potential business partner.
This explosive scene was not a joke, as some readers speculated.
I was fully, actually trying to make that pasta, heassuredGQtwo years later.
Getting COVID-19 himself
The Batmangot the green light to resume production in September 2020,according toEW.
Then Pattinson contracted COVID-19.Vanity Fairreportedthat this caused filming to be halted only days after filming had started up again.
Pattinson would later describe his positive testtoGQas very embarrassing.
Losing Batmobile privileges
Its about drive; its about power.
Pattinson reportedlytoldEmpire Magazinehe took the Batmobile on an unauthorized joyride.
After that, I was never allowed to drive it without someone else in the car.
He repeated the storytoAccess Hollywood, sharing more of the consequences of his impulsive decision.
I think I actually, by accident, got it photographed by paparazzi as well.
And it took me quite a long time that I felt absolutely broken …
I shaved my head afterwards.
Although production wrapped in March 2021, Pattinson didnt recover right away.
Well, normal for him, anyway.
