Robert Pattinson certainly knows a thing or two about Hollywood’s ridiculous male body standards. In an interview for the cover of ES magazine, the Batman and Twilight actor railed against the pressure on actors to look a certain way in the entertainment industry, admitting to partaking in the “extraordinarily addictive” and “insidious” practice of counting calories.
“It’s very, very easy to fall into that pattern as well, even if you’re just watching your calorie intake,” he told ES. “It’s extraordinarily addictive—and you don’t quite realize how insidious it is until it’s too late.”
Pattinson went on to claim that while he’s never struggled with his own body image, he’s “tried every fad you can think of” when it comes to dieting, including [checks notes] eating only potatoes for a fortnight. “I once ate nothing but potatoes for two weeks as a detox,” revealed Pattinson. “Just boiled potatoes and Himalayan pink salt. Apparently, it’s a cleanse…you definitely lose weight.”
While Pattinson claimed that he spent two weeks dining on nothing but potatoes, it’s important to note that the actor has a pronounced history of lying in interviews. Writer Carrie Wittmer mapped out Pattinson’s history of making up ridiculous stories for the press in a story for The Ringer, “Robert Pattinson Has Been Lying to You for Years,” in which she investigated various claims that Pattinson had made on the record, including that he bored his stalker so much that she stopped stalking him (reportedly a lie), that he once watched a clown die (definitely a lie), and that his favorite television show is Cops (inconclusive). “Even though Robert Pattinson is a self-proclaimed blatant liar, he might be one of the most honest celebrities we’ve ever had,” Wittmer concluded.
To his credit, Pattinson has admitted to fibbing on the record. “I definitely do get a certain high from it,” he told Willem Dafoe in a 2018 article for Interview magazine, with the two promoting their upcoming film, The Lighthouse. “There’s a little gremlin inside of me that thinks, Just say something shocking. You’re only here for a few minutes, say something terrible. There’s a kind of perverse glee I get from that. But I’ve given my publicist a number of heart attacks.”
So we’d say it’s best to take Pattinson and his boiled potatoes with a healthy grain of salt. That said, he did mention another, more conventional diet he’s tried. “I tried to do keto once. I was like, Oh, there’s a diet where you just eat charcuterie boards and cheese all the time?” he told ES. “But I didn’t realize that you can’t have beer, as it completely defeats the purpose.”
Potatoes, maybe, but this we believe.
Chris Murphy
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