Robert Pattinson is the illest actor according to Kid Cudi

Is “illest” the new “sick”. Who can keep up. Kid Cudi had this to say about Rob to Esquire:

“I have friends that I look up to and can learn from. Like Robert Pattinson is another; he’s the illest actor. He’s up there with Shia. Timmy [Chalamet] as well. And a new friend, John David Washington.” (Cudi got to see Tenet in a private IMAX screening: “It was fucking ill.”)

“I learn from these guys,” he says. “I try to make sure Rob can see an episode; I try to make sure John comes over to see an episode. I want them to see my shit, you know, because I want to know what they think. I honor these guys in such a major way.

Tenet is also a film about Robert Pattinson wearing a succession of truly astonishing suits. For that, we thank Jeffrey Kurland

Esquire spoke with Jeffrey Kurland, costume designer on Tenet, about, amongst other things, the “astonishing suits” worn by Robert Pattinson. Here’s what he had to say about Rob and Neil’s attire:

At Esquire, we were excited about the tailoring as soon as the first stills dropped. Can you talk me through your approach and thinking there?

My feeling was that each character, especially the three male characters – Neil, the Protagonist, and Sator, the oligarch – they all basically are going to be wearing suits in a good deal of the movie. And I needed to separate their characters, so that it wasn’t just a bunch of suits walking around. So I used different tailors for each of those characters, because I knew the way they worked and I knew what I could get from them character-wise. For John David [Washington, who plays the Protagonist], a much more European cut, a more fitted look. Rob [Pattinson, who plays Neil] a little looser, still quite elegant, but much more free and moveable.

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The other standout suit, for me at least, is the double-breasted pinstripe number that Robert Pattinson wears while scouting out the Freeport. Can you talk me through that one. It’s astonishing.

That’s an extraordinary piece of fabric. When I found that fabric I just fell in love with it. As we’re going along, I talked to Chris, I said: “When Neil goes there, it’s his first disguise, outside of the world of John David. He’s going into the real world. What would his disguise be?” A little fashion-forward in a way, and he’s a little bit forward-thinking, because it pops when it’s lit in a certain way. If you saw it in the IMAX, you literally can see the threads, you can see the colours. There was an elegance and over-the-topness to it that fit Neil’s personality.

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You can really see that in the suit Neil wears when you first see him – looser, more relaxed, almost a foppish energy that really suits his character. And I can’t really remember seeing a suit like that, especially not on screen, for a long time.

Again, it has a slightly older feel to it. Because my original thought when I read the script was Neil struck me an ex-pat, he’s gone off on his own and he’s just living life the way he wants to. There’s a certain laissez-faire to him, an I-don’t-care quality. His suit is rumpled, it’s not the cleanest in the world, but he still looks good in it because his personality shines through. So the suit was made and then aged so that it was saggy and drippy, and slightly toned and stained so it didn’t look new. But it still stands out in the way that I wanted it to, because it fits his personality.

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But I love Neil’s suit with a shawl collar. That was a daring move that Chris accepted. He was into it, because it was very Neil. You’re never gonna see this on anybody else. But Neil could wear it. You know, Rob Pattinson could certainly sport it.

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I wanted to steal that look for myself, with the scarf and the popped collar. It’s such a strong image that really stands out, I guess because like the suit itself, it felt so distinctive and authentic to the character.

It’s a wonderful pairing of actor, character and suit. The actor fit the character beautifully, the suit [fit] the character, and that just all came together nicely. With all of them, to be honest. 

Antonio Campos Talks Robert Pattinson and Preston Teagardin with Esquire

Esquire spoke to Antonio Campos about The Devil All the Time and this is what he had to say about Rob and his performance:

Reverend Teagardin is a magnetic character who really commands your attention. What were some of Robert Pattinson’s inspirations for that role?

We looked at a lot of different YouTube videos of evangelical preachers and also the pop-stars of the time, like listening to interviews with Elvis and hearing the way he would talk. Then Rob’s own madness; he had his own process and was on his own consuming a lot of different references. I didn’t really hear the accent until we started to shoot, he really showed up in character and showed me Teagardin for the first time.

Did he stay in part throughout the filming process?

He would let it go and come back, he’s very fluid like that. I would say: “Don’t be scared to go as far as you want to go, throw it all out there and let’s see where it goes”. And sometimes he’d go so far he’d make himself laugh and even in those takes we might get something brilliant, but it was like he would kind of zero in and be in it. The performance is almost closer to a possession than it is a performance.

Watch the upcoming TV Spot for Esquire featuring Robert Pattinson

Watch the upcoming TENET TV Spot from Esquire featuring Rob

Robert Pattinson Outtakes by Simon Emmett | Esquire UK

Two beautiful shots thanks to Simon Emmett for Esquire UK back in 2014. Click for HQ. You can check out more photos from that shoot at our Gallery

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Robert Pattinson Tells Esquire US “My style is always sort of utilitarian”

Rob is featured in the March 2020 edition of Esquire US where he talks his style with Garrett Munce for The Short Stories Keeping Gotham Weird

Pattinson, 33, has also become a low-key fashion hero—and it started with Good Time. “The director saw a construction worker walking down the street outside his office, got him to come in, and we stood beside each other to make sure we were the same build. We bought everything he was wearing, and that was my costume,” he tells me, adding: “I kept a lot of stuff.”

His secret is adopting a uniform. “My style is always sort of utilitarian,” he says, explaining that he goes through stretches in which he’ll wear the same thing every day. For him, it’s been Dr. Martens and black baseball caps and corduroy jumpsuits (discovered in Copenhagen, too warm for L. A.). “If something fits right, it can genuinely change my life,” he says.

Next year, Pattinson—who’s the current face of Dior’s new men’s cologne—will bring his weird vibes to the role of Bruce Wayne in The Batman, which also marks his return to big-budget films. The question is whether he’ll pinch some of the Caped Crusader’s wardrobe.