The Batman actor Robert Pattinson has admitted to not being fairly as courageous and daring because the Caped Crusader he famously portrayed in Matt Reeves’ 2022 superhero film. He revealed in a GQ video interview that his movie-watching habits have modified considerably as he has grown older, noting that he used to like watching every kind of horrors unfold on the display, however he has now turn into “too delicate” for the style.
“I used to observe numerous actually darkish stuff after I was youthful and suppose ‘yeah, that is cool.’ And now, I am too delicate. I watched Henry [Portrait of a Serial Killer] once more the opposite day. It actually frightened me. It is unusual, you’d suppose it could go the opposite means spherical. As you become older, you turn into much less frightened of those [films]. I can not watch horror films anymore.”
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Bong Joon-ho, who just lately directed Pattinson (together with his unusual accent) within the sci-fi darkish comedy Mickey 17, attributed the actor’s aversion to horror films to the adjustments that happen when turning into a dad. Pattinson welcomed his first little one with Suki Waterhouse in March 2024, however Pattinson could not hint it again to that point, as he joked that it “occurred earlier than that,” although he acknowledged it may have been a contributing issue to worsening his concern of frights. Pattinson had an instance of a current expertise that left him so afraid that he wasn’t simply sleeping with one eye open, he additionally armed himself with knives.
“I needed to do a gathering with the director, and he’d finished this horror film, and I watched it, and I stored considering that somebody was breaking into my home. And so, I used to be sitting on my couch with two kitchen knives ready for the particular person to return in. After which I fell asleep with them mainly in my neck on the sofa… It was in all probability a squirrel.”
He Would possibly Not Like Watching Horror Motion pictures, however He Has Starred in a Few
Given Pattinson’s resistance to the horror style, it have to be a dwelling nightmare when he stars in a scary film. The actor discovered himself slipping right into a darkish descent to insanity in Robert Eggers’ black-and-white psychological horror The Lighthouse, which acquired widespread crucial acclaim. He later joined the solid of the coming-of-age crime thriller The Satan All of the Time to painting a morally corrupt preacher earlier than cleaning his palate with a memorable flip as Bruce Wayne — a task he’s reprising in The Batman Half II, but it surely appears like there’s a lengthy wait forward for that one.
Pattinson’s newest function is that of Mickey Barnes in Mickey 17, a possible future sci-fi basic based mostly on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. His character is described as an “expendable” employee who actually dies for a dwelling, as he’s despatched on a wide range of deadly assignments. Nonetheless, he retains getting again up once more as he’s reprinted after each fatality, however issues turn into muddied when two variations of him are set free on the identical time.
Mickey 17 hits screens on March 7, 2025.
Supply: GQ