3 March 2025

Esquire Italy: Robert Pattinson: “Better to get in trouble than give banal interviews (translated via google)

What’s the strangest thing you’ve learned for a role? To tickle fish. We were in Colombia, and we had to relax them so much that they could then fish them with their hands. Then, to hypnotize chickens : just draw a line on the ground in front of them. They will remain still for thirty seconds thinking they are trapped.

he commercial shows different sides of the male personality. Is there one you identify with? Playing the Dior man was extremely difficult: having to look attractive while doing different things like dancing or boxing . I’m not the best boxer, anyone would be better than me after three lessons. But in the end that sensuality , that amateur role is the part that resembles me the most.

Is it self-deprecating? It happens mostly during interviews . Back in the Twilight days, I would give hundreds of two-minute interviews and only answer boring questions. It was crazy. I felt guilty, so I started thinking of creative, surreal, funny answers. Sometimes I got into trouble . What do you want from me, banal answers?

Is there a particular scent that reminds you of a movie set? The smell of the Batman mask that I had in front of my nose for 12 hours a day. It was the role in which I paid the most attention to the senses ever. I keep it in a glass case, at home, and when I lift the glass to smell it again, it traps me like the first time.

Which of your characters would wear the new Dior Homme? I’ve played so many assholes , if you’ll pardon the expression, that I’m almost afraid to answer. Maybe everyone would wear it. It’s every man’s perfume.

We were hoping Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter would answer . Of course, of course. Edward might be a little more floral. Maybe he’d choose something funereal. Chrysanthemums.

26 February 2025

Further to Rob alluded to knowing what The Batman 11 is about whilst on the red carpet for the London premiere of Mickey17, Deadline has chimed in providing this further update from James Gunn & Peter Safran:

“Matt Reeves has yet to turn in a script, but from what Gunn and Safran have read, they love it. Production outlook is end-of-year 2025. The release date is October 1, 2027, a weekend on which Warner Bros still owns the domestic opening record with 2019’s Joker ($96.2 million).”

and although not Batman II related, there has been rumours around that Rob would be joining the DC Universe. Those rumours have now been put to rest:

"Robert Pattinson is 100% not the DCU Batman. A new actor will take on that role."

THE BATMAN: New Rumor Claims To Set The Record Straight On Whether Robert Pattinson Will Be DCU's Dark Knight https://t.co/bJaV9QjRF4 via @comicbook_movie

— Robert Pattinson AU (@RPAustralia) February 24, 2025

Esquire UK interviewed Rob on the release of the new Dior Homme. Here is what Rob had to say. You can read the full article to catch up on what Francis Kurkdjian had to say on creating the scent:

Esquire: Hello Robert. Who is the character you play in the new promotional film for Dior Homme Parfum?

Robert Pattinson: I guess it’s a continuation from the first campaign in 2013. The original character was someone who’s really listless. There’s a kind of aggressive longing. Of not really fitting in anywhere. [The team] were drawing from archetypal characters: James Dean and Marlon Brando. My character wants to experience everything. He’s never quite at home. He’s trying to define himself in quite a passionate way. And I think as the campaigns have progressed he’s become more romantic and sensual.

Your job is to sell a sense (smell) by creating a feeling and an atmosphere within a commercial. That’s quite a strange gig. Does the scent inform that?

Robert Pattinson: I mean, I’m absolutely atrocious. I’ve realised over the last few hours how bad I am about talking about scent at all [we are speaking at the end of the day, during which Pattinson and Kurkdjian have been doing multiple interviews]. I do have the ability to turn my sense of smell on and off, though – which I find quite a useful skill. It’s interesting to see how Francis approaches his work. The scent was developed a long time before any of the campaign came around. So, yeah, I guess it’s all just really a response to Francis’s work.

30 December 2024

Whilst promoting Nosferatu, Robert Eggers talks about hoping to work with Rob again (starts at 22:16):

I’m planning to see Nosferatu this week since it’s being released tomorrow. I too hope we see both Robs work together again in the future!

26 December 2024

Variety shared this clip of Matt Reeves talking with Zoe Kravitz about writing his process of writing the script for The Batman and visualising Rob in the role. If you want to read the full by clicking the Variety hyperlink

When #TheBatman director Matt Reeves was writing the film’s script, he imagined Robert Pattinson in the role. | Variety #DirectorsOnDirectors presented by @AmazonMGMStudio https://t.co/uOpiEBMZ57 pic.twitter.com/hEzyVtjzOl

— Variety (@Variety) December 18, 2024

Extract Transcript:

Kravitz: How do you feel about casting? Especially when you’re doing a superhero film where there’s been so many other versions.

Reeves: I had to find a personal way into Batman and then think about how somebody could bring something personal to me. You’re always looking for an internal life that’s going to take what this story is and make us feel like you’re getting a glimpse into what this person’s struggle is. It’s weird: To be totally honest, when I was writing, I was thinking of Rob.

Kravitz: It just popped into your head?

Reeves: Well, I just started thinking about the children of Princess Diana, and the idea of being this orphaned prince. For some reason, I don’t know why, that made a connection to Kurt Cobain for me. And then somewhere in there, someone told me to watch [the 2017 Robert Pattinson movie] “Good Time.” And I was like, “That’s the only person I could imagine as this Batman. I don’t think that I know what it is if it’s not him.” It was weirdly fated, because it turned out that he was obsessed with Batman.

Robert Pattinson may have wanted to be an actor without being a celebrity. But then he turned his fame into its own kind of performance. “I can’t believe this is still going,” he said in an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine. https://t.co/vvTtIFf4Oe pic.twitter.com/qapbbM7Kkn

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 4, 2024

7 December 2024

Thanks to @love_cinema we have four more great photos from this shoot