“All people is the hero of their very own story.” That is an idiom that I’ve continuously heard and seen in interviews with actors – usually by these taking part in who’re taking part in villains and aiming to know the character’s perspective. For Robert Pattinson within the making of author/director Bong Joon Ho’s improbable Mickey 17, nonetheless, he discovered himself taking over a really totally different type of protagonist: a hero who cannot even start to understand the concept of seeing themselves as a hero.
It is a position that Pattinson clearly delighted taking over, as acknowledged within the above unique clip from the upcoming residence video launch of the critically acclaimed 2025 film. He performs the titular Mickey – a simpleton who, in an act of desperation, indicators as much as be an “expendable” aboard an interstellar ship heading to a planet dubbed Niflheim. The job requires him to be uncovered to every kind of harmful procedures and environments, and when he dies, a brand new model of him is printed out.
If this existence sounds completely horrible… you might be one hundred pc appropriate, and Robert Pattison laughed as he acknowledged this reality from a macro perspective:
It is a horrendous story for Mickey; he has a completely horrendous life… I feel you want that stage of extremity in how they’re really treating him, as a result of it begins to spotlight the heroic facet of his character.
Mickey isn’t the brightest bulb, however what he has signed up for (albeit with out studying the necessities for the gig) does qualify him for hero standing. A correct hero is somebody who’s keen to sacrifice themselves or their very own wants for the betterment of others, and that’s exactly what the protagonist does in Mickey 17 – and that is all earlier than he has to try to cease the genocide of an extraterrestrial species.
As Robert Pattinson explains, Mickey’s self-worth is so pathetic to the purpose the place not solely does he not see himself because the hero he’s, however he would not even acknowledge simply how monstrously he’s being handled by his fellow human beings. Says the actor within the clip,
He would not worth himself in any respect – to the purpose the place he would not even acknowledge that he is being tortured as a result of he desires to be accepted by the group a lot and have function that he is not even conscious of being tortured… It is simply attention-grabbing having a personality who’s incapable of seeing themselves as a hero.
As famous by Bong Joon Ho firstly of the featurette clip, Mickey 17 not solely stars Robert Pattinson in a terrific twin position, however the ensemble solid additionally contains the abilities of Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and Steven Yuen. The movie first arrived in theaters firstly of final month, however will probably be arriving for buy on digital tomorrow, April 8, from main on-line retailers. For these of you who dig bodily media and are excited so as to add the film to your assortment, the 4K UHD and Blu-ray might be arriving in shops on Might 13.