Robert Pattinson needs to 'cut out beer' to bulk up for new film role

The Twilight star says his love of booze is making it difficult to bulk up for his role in new flick Cosmopolis.

The 24-year-old actor has signed up to play the lead role in David Cronenberg’s big-screen adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel.

But he has less than two months to transform himself into a “masters-of-the-universe type”.

He told Entertainment Weekly: “I have to change my body shape quite a bit. I’m playing one of those masters-of-the-universe types and I have to have about six per cent body fat… which means I need to lose about 70 per cent.”

He added: “If I could just cut out beer, that’s my one thing.”

The London-born star has recently finished filming Water For Elephants alongside Reese Witherspoon, in which he plays a veterinary school drop-out who joins a travelling circus after his parents die.

And he revealed that he loved making the film – which is due to be released next month – because it meant he could finally get rid of the make-up and contact lenses he was forced to wear for the Twilight movies.

He said: “Water For Elephants was a relief because, for one thing, I didn’t have to wear all that make-up and those contacts… My God, I’ll be glad to see the last of those.”

He added: “I actually want to get some kind of plastic explosive. I want to re-animate them into something, so I can kill them.”