Robert Pattinson Says He Is “Too Sensitive” to Watch One Particular Genre

The Batman actor Robert Pattinson has admitted to not being quite as brave and bold as the Caped Crusader he famously portrayed in Matt Reeves’ 2022 superhero movie. He revealed in a GQ video interview that his movie-watching habits have changed significantly as he has grown older, noting that he used to love watching all kinds of horrors unfold on the screen, but he has now become “too sensitive” for the genre.

“I used to watch a lot of really dark stuff when I was younger and think ‘yeah, this is cool.’ And now, I’m too sensitive. I watched Henry [Portrait of a Serial Killer] again the other day. It really frightened me. It’s strange, you’d think it would go the other way round. As you get older, you become less frightened of these [films]. I can’t watch horror movies anymore.”

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Bong Joon-ho, who recently directed Pattinson (with his strange accent) in the sci-fi dark comedy Mickey 17, attributed the actor’s aversion to horror movies to the changes that occur when becoming a dad. Pattinson welcomed his first child with Suki Waterhouse in March 2024, but Pattinson couldn’t trace it back to that time, as he joked that it “happened before that,” though he acknowledged it could have been a contributing factor to worsening his fear of frights. Pattinson had an example of a recent experience that left him so afraid that he wasn’t just sleeping with one eye open, he also armed himself with knives.

“I had to do a meeting with the director, and he’d done this horror movie, and I watched it, and I kept thinking that someone was breaking into my house. And so, I was sitting on my sofa with two kitchen knives waiting for the person to come in. And then I fell asleep with them basically in my neck on the couch… It was probably a squirrel.”

He Might Not Like Watching Horror Movies, but He Has Starred in a Few

Given Pattinson’s resistance to the horror genre, it must be a living nightmare when he stars in a scary movie. The actor found himself slipping into a dark descent to madness in Robert Eggers’ black-and-white psychological horror The Lighthouse, which received widespread critical acclaim. He later joined the cast of the coming-of-age crime thriller The Devil All the Time to portray a morally corrupt preacher before cleansing his palate with a memorable turn as Bruce Wayne — a role he is reprising in The Batman Part II, but it looks like there is a long wait ahead for that one.

Pattinson’s latest role is that of Mickey Barnes in Mickey 17, a potential future sci-fi classic based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. His character is described as an “expendable” worker who literally dies for a living, as he is sent on a variety of lethal assignments. However, he keeps getting back up again as he is reprinted after every fatality, but matters become muddied when two versions of him are set loose at the same time.

Mickey 17 hits screens on March 7, 2025.

Source: GQ

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