Why Robert Pattinson Says He 'Felt So Alone' Playing Batman

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Robert Pattinson is opening up about his experience making . The 35-year-old actor covers the March issue of , and reveals why he felt alone when he suited up to play the superhero.Filming of the flick, which is due out March 4, began at the end of 2019, and kicked off with an injury for its star.«I broke my wrist at the beginning of it all, doing a stunt, even before COVID,» Pattinson says. «So the whole first section was trying to keep working out — looking like a penguin.

I remember when that seemed like the worst thing that could go wrong.»Then, more went wrong, as the world reeled amid COVID-19, which Pattinson himself tested positive for in September 2020.

Eventually filming started up again in earnest, leading to an 18-month-long shoot.«The nature of the shoot was so kind of insular, always shooting at night, just really dark all the time, and I felt very much alone,» he recalls. «Even just being in the suit all the time.

You’re not really allowed out of the studio with the suit on, so I barely knew what was going on at all outside.»Despite his loneliness, Pattinson found comfort in having something he knew he could count on amid a time of so much uncertainty.«I just always had this anchor of Batman,» he explains. «Rather than thinking you’re flotsam to the news, you could feel engaged without being paralyzed by it.