21 April 2025

Here’s another great photo from the Mickey 17 photoshoot by Kurt Iswarienko thanks to Greek magazine To Vima

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.

Rob talks about working with Dior and a little reflection on space thanks to Mickey17. (Thanks Chrissy)

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.

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

We posted a few days ago that Empire had an exclusive edition featuring Mickey17. Thanks to Chrissy sending me the scans below we can now read the full feature. I love how Bong refers to Rob focussing on the project and his character as watching “a beast go after its prey”.

PS. I forgot to post the subscriber version of the cover the other day – so here it is