Hey, what's up guys. Welcome back to the channel.
So today we're going to be talking about Robert Pattinson and how he is refusing
to bulk up to play Batman.
And this is very irritating to me as well as a lot of other fitness people on
YouTube. And it's, I mean,
I think it's disrespectful and a huge slap in the face to every other actor.
Who's basically gotten shaped to look the part, to play a superhero, right?
It's what comes with the role, especially as one,
as iconic as Batman.
And this is all stemming from an article that came out or interview in GQ
magazine, where he kind of did like a tell all.
And when they got to the part about him exercising and staying in shape to make
sure he's ready for his role as Batman,
he basically said my trainer dropped off some stuff and I'm doing nothing
because I don't feel like it. And I'm tired of other actors, like my CoStar,
Zoe Kravitz setting
this precedent that you need to work out four to five days a week to be a bad
ass when you're on screen playing a superhero.
And then he starts going off on this rant where he's talking about like
James Dean back in the seventies and how actors back then didn't have to work
out when they were going on screen. And it's like, well, dude, any,
it's not 1970. We're in 2020.
Not only has the industry itself evolved,
not only has fitness evolved since then quite a bit,
but the character in general, just the character.
Batman has evolved so much since his first onscreen appearance.
And I want you guys to take a look at this chart right here.
It's a really cool chart.
This just shows how Batman has changed dispersed onscreen appearance.
In 1943, look at the costumes. They started off.
There were basically like a spandex suit with a mix shift mask, right?
And then as we go into them,
it starts to change a little bit by the time Adam West comes out in 1966.
And then we see, you know, Michael Keaton in 1989, thou Kilmer 1995,
George Clooney, 1997, Christian bale 2005.
And then we have Ben Affleck in 2016. The suit is drastically changed. Why?
Because the character has evolved as everything out around it
as the world has evolved. Right?
And so I think it's a little ridiculous to try to hold a hero like
Batman to standards that are in the 1970s. I mean,
even look at the comic book guys,
look at the frigging toys that everything has evolved. The comic book,
Batman has evolved so much toys of Batman have evolved so much.
Now they're all jacked and ripped too, right? They have muscles. They look,
they just, they look a certain way for a reason because when we think superhero,
we think somebody that, you know, going to be strong enough to save everyone.
That's kind of like the gist of it, right? And granted,
Batman is a special case because he's human superheroes like
Superman, not every Superman was as Jack has Henry Cavill,
but it didn't matter because Superman could do what Superman can do,
whether he's Jacked or not. It's just because he has super powers.
That's the main difference. Batman. He not only needs to look strong.
He has to be strong. The dude is out fighting crime every single night.
He has all these gizmos and gadgets that require strength to use.
When's the last time you shot a grappling hook and then swung from it as you
hold it, right? You takes quite a bit of strength in it to be able to do that.
Now granted, he, a lot of the times he straps it to his utility belt,
but still right, you need to be able to fight crime and look believable.
And I think that's the biggest thing and why it's becoming so frustrating
because you can make,
you can build a suit and stick it on Robert Pattinson and he'll look pretty
good, but then you'll take them out of the suit. And you're like,
this guy has an average bill. I mean, look at them,
look at them back in Twilight from him and Twilight to him.
Now they're really doesn't look like much of, much of a difference.
He looks like an average, like skinny guy that has some muscle tone and stuff.
Now he has a little more chest hair. That's about it.
And it would not take much for Robert Pattinson to bulk up just a
tiny bit in order to play the role.
And if we look at the average size of Batman over the last, like 10,
15 years, I guess, you know,
the easiest place to start would be with George Clooney, right?
So if you look at George Clooney's Batman,
he's got 171 pounds and the costume itself weighed 90 pounds.
So you've gotta be able to walk around this 90 pound costume
And I would think the feet alone of wearing the Batman costume
would put some muscle on you,
which is why if you take it off and you look like an average skinny guy,
it just, it just doesn't make sense, right?
It's not like the iron man costume powers itself. And that's how it moves.
It's literally a costume you wear and you're moving it on your own,
but let's continue from there and go to Christian bale.
Christian bale is about 180 pounds. I think Christian bale looked the best.
Personally. I think Ben Affleck at 216 pounds. I mean,
he looked great, but he was also really fit. I think Christian,
Bale's like a really good sweet spot for Batman and for him to get to that
weight. Granted, you're not gonna be able to put on tons of muscle all at once,
but if he just trained full body three to four days a week,
think about this guys.
If Robert Pattinson right now looks like he's never trained in his life.
I think he has like an average build. Like I said, has some abs.
That's about it.
If you just boosted his calories and did a full body workout four or five days a
week,
he'd probably tap into newbie gains in build a physique that looks slightly
above average and be ready by the time Batman stats shooting,
which I think is going to be sometime next year because of the quarantine
everyone's stuck at home. He is too,
except that he's the only one who doesn't want to work out. He's being lazy.
And that's so frustrating, dude. You are,
you have not been popular since Twilight granted, you also,
also in Harry Potter,
but you died and your character died in the goblet of fire. So it's like,
that's all I remember from him. And I know he's been in other things,
but I know him from Twilight and Harry Potter and that's about it.
And he hasn't made a huge comeback since then.
And so for him to be handed this role as Batman and to already
be basically shitting on it and coming up with these excuses of,
I don't want the precedent to be set is absolutely ridiculous.
And if it makes you think that there's other reasons why he might have
issues with wanting to bulk up, I mean, I'm just going to speculate here,
but who knows,
maybe he has some sort of like body dysmorphia or some eating disorder that we
don't know about. I don't know.
There's the interview where he was talking about how Taylor Lautner was asked to
take his shirt off and Twilight and he looked great.
You guys know Taylor Lautner in Twilight.
And he was pretty ripped and jacked. I don't know so much now,
but then they asked Robert Pattinson to take his shirt off and they're like,
yeah, maybe put that shirt back on. And I know maybe that traumatized him.
I don't know. It could be, it happens.
It's not unthinkable to think that why else would he not want to put the work
in? And it's like,
it's not like the dude doesn't have a good work ethic because as much as you
guys want to say, and I mean guys and I know girls watch my videos too.
I know a lot as it you're like, ah, Twilight was so dumb.
I know you've all watched the movies.
Whether you watch them on your own or you watch them with your girlfriend,
I know you've all watched them. I've all watched them.
And if you pay attention to it from a, from a point of the acting,
he did a really great job. He takes his acting very seriously.
And I know in other movies that he's done, he's taken his acting very seriously.
So if he takes his acting so seriously, when he gets into a role,
when you're offered a role like Batman,
why wouldn't you take that seriously too?
And take everything that comes with it. I mean,
Christian bale obviously is the best example of an actor who takes his role
super seriously, because he went from being the mechanic to being Batman.
He went from losing everything, to making all kinds of gains.
And now we're kind of brings up another question, right?
Because we really don't know what these actors are doing in order to bulk
up. Like a lot of the times when the workouts come out of what they're doing,
like, Oh, you know,
the actors are doing two a day workouts and they're training super hard and
they're eating 10,000 calories. And that's why they look so ripped and good.
And it's like,
but they forget to tell you about the steroids that they're also taking when
they're doing these workouts.
And granted a lot of times these workouts that you guys see online,
I hate to break it to you, but that's usually not exactly what they're doing.
They usually pump these things up to make them look so cool that you think that,
okay, that justifies why the way they look like Zac Efron and Baywatch,
they're like, Oh wow, here's his workout and diet. And I'm like, Oh yeah.
Then his workout made his jaw line go from here to here. Right. Anyways,
we're not going to get into all of that, but I know a lot of you agree with me.
So maybe he doesn't want to steroids. That could be another reason.
Maybe he thinks the only way he could bulk up to play Batman is by taking the
steroids. I don't know. I'm just speculating.
That could be a reason he doesn't want to do it.
Doesn't want to put that stuff in his body. And that's totally fine.
But listen up,
if you don't want to look through part and you don't want to put the work in,
then you need to find someone else to play Batman and someone else who's going
to take the role seriously,
because I'm sure there's plenty of other people out there that would take this
role seriously and do a great job. Now, if he did bulk up,
I think that he would do really great job. I think he is a good actor.
I feel like, you know, if you look at him in Twilight,
that kind of like tone that he has, could be morphed into the Batman tone.
Cause Batman's obviously a lot more mysterious. It's a dark knight for a reason.
And I think that he could portray that.
Just it's going to be hard to be believable without the muscles. I mean,
like I said, Batman needs to look like if he gets into a room full of dudes,
that he can actually beat him up. And the suit can only do so much. Right?
I mean, look,
at Shizam as much as that guy is trying to convince the world that that
suit wasn't padded. That was definitely a padded suit, bro.
You look great. You built some muscle, but you did not build this damn muscle.
Okay. Like, let's just let me just get that out.
Cause I don't think I made a video on Shizam and I wanted to say all this I'm
saying it now Shazam was a, was a puffed up suit. But I don't know.
Maybe it's a publicity stunt.
Maybe they're trying to build some hype for the movie.
Obviously Hollywood is suffering right now.
I don't know if this is really hit for you guys yet. Right?
But like New York has shut down. Hollywood studios is shut down.
Nothing's being filmed right now in like another six or seven months.
There's gonna be no shows to watch it.
Probably no new movies coming out because they can't, they can't film. Right.
We're going to have this low where basically there's nothing happening and it's
going to suck, you know, lot for the entertainment industry,
but also for us.
Cause we want to be entertained well you're not going to be
because the quarantine life is killing everything. But I don't know.
These are all just my thoughts.
And I would love to hear from you guys down in the comment section below,
do you think it could be a publicity stunt?
Do you think that if he does not want to bulk up for the role,
they should kick them and find someone else? Or do you think they,
that they should let them just do it? I don't know.
I'm kind of for kicking them and find somebody who's going to take it more
seriously because I like Batman. I love superhero movies. They are great.
I grew up with these just like many of you it's like,
you don't want to come across as a jerk and be like only in shape.
People can play superheroes.
Cause I know there's a movie coming out with Melissa McCartney and there was
like some controversy over that because they weren't like in shape to play
superheroes. It has nothing to do with that.
It's that you're taking a character like Batman who has the strongest
will out of all the superheroes,
there was even a point to where he wore Green Lantern's ring and kick more ass
then Greenland or did what? Wearing the ring. Right?
Do you talking about a character that embodies having the strongest willpower
never gets up, gets it done is human takes hits, keeps going breaks,
bones breaks his back, gets back into it and continues to fight.
And you're going to portray that with an actor who refuses to work out.
It's just ridiculous. So if you guys enjoyed the video,
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And now I'm going to go back and finish that tuna that you guys saw in the
beginning because it has to stop halfway through.
I put way too much hot sauce on there.
See you guys.