recently admitted that he worried about the film industry’s future because of the pandemic and the labor strikes. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Pattinson spoke about Mickey 17 and how it feels to have the film finally come out after several delays.
Pattinson used the time to share how significant challenges, like COVID and the strikes, worried him about his future as an actor. “It’s strange because the last few years for the film industry, starting with COVID and then the strikes, everyone was constantly saying cinema is dying,” Pattinson said. “And quite convincingly.
I was literally almost turned off. It actually started to get a little worrying.” According to Pattinson, the movies being developed felt “very studio,” with every actor questioning the nature of the business. “You can even see in terms of scripts, I mean, every actor for two years was saying, ‘What is happening?
Nothing’s cool,'” Pattinson explained. “Not saying that everything that came out wasn’t cool, but actually it was very studio.” What snapped The Batman actor out of this funk?
Acclaimed movies like The Brutalist, Anora, and Armand inspired Pattinson as more “cool parts” became available to actors. “There’s this flurry of very ambitious movies,” Pattinson said. “I feel like the stuff that’s going to get nominated for Oscars this year is going to be really interesting, and it seems like there’s suddenly a new batch of directors who the audience is excited about as well.” Pattinson is the star of Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming sci-fi movie based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton.