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Robert Pattinson was โcounting sips of waterโ before his shirtless scene in โThe Batmanโ.
The 35-year-old actor has revealed the extreme measures he went to for his body transformation before taking on the role of the caped crusader in Matt Reevesโ flick.
In an interview with PEOPLE, he said: โI had about three months before the movie started, and then youโre working out before and after work all the time.
You just cut down and cut down and cut down before the couple of scenes with your shirt off, and youโre counting sips of water.โ
He then quipped: โShame is my biggest motivator, 100%.โ
Robert screen-tested in Val Kilmerโs 1995 โBatman Foreverโ batsuit for the part and had to be โdrained of liquidโ because the thick costume made him sweat so much.
Filmmaker Matt recently revealed: โRob did his first [screen test] by himself and he literally was wearing, I believe, Val Kilmerโs Batsuit.
โWhich, by the way, the moment [Pattinson] put it on, that was kind of a crazy moment.โ
The โTenetโ star believes it was a combination of the latex-like suit and being โincredibly nervousโ that made him sweat buckets.
Robert continued: โIt was crazy. But I remember putting it on and thinking, โThis is impossible. This is going to be absolutely impossible.
โI mean, wearing a kind of two-inch-thick rubber suit, or latex suit, and being incredibly nervous and full of adrenaline the whole time.
โI remember we did like two takes and people were just saying, โWhat can we do about the sweat?โ They were like, โNothing! Nothing that can be done.โ I had to be drained of liquid.โ
Meanwhile, Colin Farrell recently warned that Robert is โterrifyingโ as the DC superhero.
The 45-year-old actor takes on the role of supervillain The Penguin in โThe Batmanโ and explained that his โinner child was evokedโ when he saw him on set in costume.
He said: โRobertโs embodiment of Batman is terrifying and damaged and broken and wounded and empathetic and all those other things. My inner child [was] invoked by seeing this iconic image with his cape flowing in the wind and the sky outside of London back behind himโฆ For me, it was just gorgeous to see this whole thing.โ