Robert Pattinson May Lie About Many Things In Interviews, But His Idea for Microwavable Handheld Pasta Was Not One Of Them
Robert Pattinson is an enigma - if he weren't cast as Batman in The Batman, he'd honestly also be a good choice for The Riddler, because he has that kind of energy to him.
Case in point? In his most recent GQ interview, Pattinson admitted something he's admitted before - that sometimes, in interviews, for lack of having something to say, he'll just make up something completely shocking and out of left field - y'know, to keep things interesting. He once said that he took his stalker on a date and bored her to death; another time he told Seth Meyers a story about how his rap name used to be "Big Tub."
But, to even further that point, amidst this admission, the former Twilight actor wanted to make it clear that, during his last GQ interview, his attempts to invent a handheld, on-the-go pasta dish (that somehow involved cornflakes and a lot of sugar) were real - painfully, hilariously real.
"I was fully, actually trying to make that pasta. Like I was literally in talks with frozen-food factories, and hoped that that article would be the proof of concept. My manager was like: 'Is this really what you want to do? You want your face on handheld pasta? You know you've got to go to Walmart and really sell it, for potentially very little return.' And there was a part of me that was, like: 'Is there a world where this works?'"
Pattinson eventually gave up on the idea, presumably not long after he nearly set his kitchen on fire during the interview - which occurred in 2020, shortly after the coronavirus lockdowns began. Everyone else started making sourdough, Robert Pattinson tried to make InstaPasta. (Pinsta? Inpasta?)
Of course, handheld pasta and lies aren't the only things Pattinson discussed during the interview. He also talked about his time as The Batman, naturally - and (as has been clear in a number of his other interviews), he REALLY wants to stress that this version of Batman is a lot more melancholic and a little closer to the monster line than we may be used to seeing.
"Normally, in all the other movies, Bruce goes away, trains, and returns to Gotham believing in himself, thinking, I'm gonna change things here. But in this, it's sort of implied that he's had a bit of a breakdown. But this thing he's doing, it's not even working. Like, it's two years into it, and the crime has gotten worse since Bruce started being Batman. The people of Gotham think that he's just another symptom of how shit everything is.
"There's this scene where he's beating everyone up on this train platform, and I just love that there's a bit in the script where the guy he's saving is also just like: 'Ahh! It's worse! You're either being mugged by some gang members, or a monster comes and, like, fucking beats everybody up!' The guy has no idea that Batman's come to save him. It just looks like this werewolf."
You can see this werewolf when The Batman hits theaters March 4.
