Robert Pattinson says he didn't 'look human' after 'all-encompassing' Batman role

• Pattinson said playing Batman was "all-encompassing."
• "You're just constantly in that world," he told Entertainment Weekly.

Robert Pattinson says he went through the wringer to play the Dark Knight in "The Batman."

"Normally, I don't have a problem [shaking a character off at the end of the day], but this was so all-encompassing," Pattinson told Entertainment Weekly.

"I just stayed in a hotel for the whole week right next to the studio because I'd have to get there at like 4:30 a.m. to start training, and then you'd train after, so you'd be finished at like 9:30 at night," he continued. "You're just constantly in that world."

Pattinson revealed recently to Insider and other media outlets during a post-screening Q&A of the movie that along with the physical challenges, he also had to figure out how to act with the mask covering half of his face.

He recalled one time director Matt Reeves having him do 40 shots to get the look right. Because Reeves said he couldn't see Pattinson's eyes.

"That was maybe the worst day of the whole shoot because I really genuinely thought it was you that was wrong," Pattinson admitted to Reeves during the Q&A. "I was like, how can we be doing 40 takes of this?"

"And I was looking at it. I'm like, 'Wow. I just look like I'm — There's nothing. There's nothing happening," Pattinson recalled of realizing Reeves was right.

Pattinson told EW that all the hard work resulted in him being completely exhausted by the time the movie wrapped.

"When I look at photos of myself from the makeup test on the last day, I don't even look human by the end of it," he said. "I look like I'm a piece of bubble gum that's been stuck on the streets for like three years and has just been scraped off and put in a Batman outfit."

"The Batman," which also stars Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Colin Farrell as The Penguin, and Paul Dano as The Riddler, will open in theaters on March 4.