Tom Percival
Published June 2, 2026 8:08pm
Updated June 2, 2026 8:11pm
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Robert Pattinson isn’t happy… or should that be Battinson? (Picture: John Salangsang/BFA/Shutterstock/AP)
Robert Pattinson has hit back at people who say he isn’t fit enough to play Batman.
Ever since the Twilight star, 40, was first cast as the Caped Crusader, he’s faced a certain form of villainy.
No, it’s not the Joker, Bane, or Scarecrow.
It’s a far more insidious villain. Namely, fans who don’t think he’s got the right physique to play the Dark Knight.
And it seems that this continued criticism has gotten under the actor’s skin.
‘[Everyone was like], “You didn’t work out at all.” I worked out every f***ing day,’ Pattinson told GQ magazine.
Tob made these comments during an interview in GQ about The Odyssey (Picture: Alex Prager / GQ)
‘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.’
So who’s to blame for this unfair reputation? Well, Rob didn’t do himself any favours.
‘It’s just because I said it in an interview [once that exercise was uncool],’ he explained. ‘I was trying to sound cool!’
Rob made these comments six years ago, ahead of the release of The Batman, while speaking to GQ.
‘I was trying to sound cool!’ (Picture: Jonathan Olley /Warner Bros. Pictures)
During that interview, he claimed to be ignoring the trainer hired for him by the studio.
‘I think if you’re working out all the time, you’re part of the problem,” he said.
‘You set a precedent. No one was doing this in the ’70s. Even James Dean— he wasn’t exactly ripped.’
Rob played a different kind of Batman (Picture: AP)
When told that his co-star was exercising five times a week, he apparently said: ‘Literally, I’m just barely doing anything.’
As filming on The Batman: Part 2 begins, however, Rob’s in pretty good shape,having exhausted himself working on the set of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic, The Odyssey.
‘I’ve never seen people look so exhausted[working on a movie],’ he explained.
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Previous Page Next Page‘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… at the end of every day, people were broken.’
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Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman: Part 2 will see Rob once again don the cape and cowl to keep Gotham safe. While plot details are more hush-hush than a superhero’s secret identity, fans think the main villain will be Harvey Dent (Sebastian Stan), aka Two-Face.
Rob isn’t the only star returning to the crime-ridden streets of DC’s worst city. Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan are all expected to return.
Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson and Charles Dance are set to join the cast as Harvey’s wife and father, respectively.
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