Robert Pattinson has revealed that a dancing scene in his upcoming movie, Mickey 17, gave him a ‘mental breakdown’.
In promotion for his new film with filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho, the Twilight actor and Parasite and Snowpiercer director sat down to discuss their upcoming project.
‘It seems to be it almost every movie, apart from Mickey 17, there’s some moment where they’re like “Now here’s the dancing scene,’ he told his director
He added that dancing on set was ‘my equivalent of Mickey’s life, where you’re just like living a hell every day.’
He then told a story about his upcoming movie, Lynne Ramsay’s thriller, Die, My Love, alongside Jennifer Lawrence.
‘I did this movie with Lynne Ramsay, and she’s a really good dancer. And Jennifer Lawrence is a really good dancer. They just find it so easy. They’re like, “Just dance, it’s just music playing, just dance,” he told Bong during an interview with GQ.
‘I was like, “I’m going to have a mental breakdown when this happens. We need to either choreograph it or cut it.”
‘And they’re like, “No, just dance, stop being a little freak.”
‘It came to the day, and I was sweating so much, the insides of my trousers, with sweat, were wet.’
He laughed at the director’s shocked face and added, ‘That’s a little exaggeration.’
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The actor’s latest movie Mickey 17, sees him play Mickey Barnes, a man who agrees to work as an ‘expendable’ for a new human colony in space.
Unfortunately, he failed to read the fine print and realise that this means he does all the most dangerous work and is cloned and brought back to life every time he dies.
While promoting the blockbuster, Robert told PA Agency that he would have previously been frightened of this role. ‘This is a role that I would have been probably quite afraid of a few years ago,’ he said.
‘What I love is that I’m approaching my job as a practice. It’s like every job I do, I try and get better, and it’s kind of trial and error, and I’m taking it easy on myself and trying to have as much fun and stay as present as possible.
‘And I’m just loving the journey.’
Mickey 17 is released in cinemas in the UK on March 7.
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