Robert Pattinson Is on His Post-Gym Batman Grind

Robert Pattinson, like most actors who’re members of the striking SAG-AFTRA union, has clocked out within the title of solidarity. Filming schedules have been wiped. Pattinson must be in the course of capturing the second (3.2?) Batman film. However as a substitute, he is driving about New York Metropolis on a Brompton foldable like another regular man—however he is nonetheless trying a bit Bruce Wayne.

Not the hedge-funds-and-dinner-gala Bruce Wayne, however Pattinson’s youthful, odder, sadder model of Bruce Wayne—Bruce Wayne on a post-workout cycle house. In all black gymwear (manufacturers like Below Armour take pleasure in as a lot reputation outdoors of the health club as inside it), a backwards baseball cap, and a few hipster-dad wraparounds, it is Emo Health Batman—a billionaire tycoon that is as jacked as he’s glum.

Which is a vibe! And though the IRL Batman crossover is unintended, it is also acquired cachet past Gotham. Echoing the well being goth wave of 2014, and because of us all Instagram and seeing hencher, fitter individuals with each single scroll, fitnesswear has turn into a trend factor all in itself. For Very Well-known Folks, meaning massive matches on the brisk stroll from an overpriced PT session to an overpriced automobile. Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde know this gauntlet all too properly; now, so does Pattinson (and with him, Bruce Wayne).

Rob’s On Running sneaks additionally level to a hi-spec exercise (the model’s flagship UK retailer feels much less like a store and extra a MoMA exhibition), whereas the Oakley Flags—sorta batwing-shaped, kinda sick—are outfitted with options resembling no-slip nostril pads and glare discount lenses. However the one factor decidedly un-Batman? An Unbiased Truck Firm Clothes T-shirt. Skateboards aren’t very Bruce Wayne in any respect.

However the whole lot else is. And regardless of Batman‘s postponement, Bruce Wayne is seemingly alive and properly—and in a really massive match.

This story initially ran on British GQ with the title “Off-duty Robert Pattinson appears to be like so much like off-duty Batman”