Nolan says he’d seen the stuff Pattinson had been doing in And then, on maybe the first day of shooting I wish I could tell you whether what I’m about to describe here is a bit, or a piece of performance art, or is in fact sincere—even now, I don’t totally know. There was absolutely no sign of anything from him, literally. He sighs, heavily, looking at it. “I’ve been emailing this guy recently who’s absolutely terrified of me,” Pattinson says. “I literally did this yesterday. Call me.“Nevertheless, penne and water in the microwave for eight minutes. It’s weird.
He’s giggling and crouching as the oven throws off stray flickers of light and sound.“’The fucking electricity…oh, my God,’ he says, still on the floor. It’s not that he is unaware of the perception, that he is a pretty-boy leading man who has spent years repudiating both his prettiness and his leading man–ness. In every single country.” He says otherwise jaded and hard-bitten crew members would come in on their days off to watch Nolan’s special effects because they were so crazy. It’s cool. He assures me it is not.“I reckon probably…10 minutes?”He puts the aluminum sphere, the little pillow, into what he thinks is an oven and I think is a microwave. Sometimes he misplaces so many words in a row, interspersed with so many heavy sighs and nervous laughs, that you momentarily think he’s speaking a different language entirely.Pattinson is old enough now to admit there is a method to the jittery way he approaches human contact, a kind of calculation behind it. Pattinson, who turned 34 in May, has spent his adult life separating himself from the rest of the world. I was trying to figure out how to capitalize in this area of the market, and I was trying to think: “He says he went so far as to design a prototype that involved the use of a panini press, and then, he says, he went even further, setting up a meeting with Los Angeles restaurant royalty Lele Massimini, the cofounder of Sugarfish and proprietor of the Santa Monica pasta restaurant Uovo. Someone get in contact with this poor man and tell him!So he mentions that he’s on The Batman meal plan, but goes into the meals he eats, saying: “Like, I eat out of cans and stuff. I hype myself up into a state of nervous tension before almost anything. “So obviously, first things first, you gotta microwave the pasta.”I watch as he pours dry penne into a cereal bowl, covers it with water, and places it in the microwave for eight minutes. “And so if you’re a tall, kind of floppy-haired English guy, went to private school, and you start acting, well, you’re in period dramas.
‘And I told him my business plan,’ Pattinson recalls, ‘and his facial expression didn’t even change afterwards. I’m doing this for my brand.”At this point, he accidentally ignites one of his latex gloves, which promptly melts onto his palm. And then they were kind of people who are very much on the front foot, like, dynamically making decisions. He says using penne is already new territory for him. Then he gingerly holds up the finished product: some approximation of a P, followed by a C, for Piccolini Cuscino, burned into the top of a hamburger bun.He starts wrapping the whole thing up with more aluminum foil, and then compacts it, and then wraps it some more, and then squeezes it again. That’s probably, that’s probably a major thing. He was 21 when he was cast in the first He was starring in David Cronenberg movies.
He holds up a box of penne pasta that he had in the house. And he will always answer: Anyway, the story Pattinson tells to preface what he is about to do is roughly this:Last year, he says, he had a business idea.
Pattinson has a generous but thoroughly chaotic energy.
“So disgusting,” he says cheerfully. Hey, it is a pretty good movie. In an older interview with Extra, Pattinson was being grilled on his favorite movies in each genre. Lovely.Spoiler alert: You cannot put aluminium foil in a microwave. If you follow anything about Robert Pattinson, or have read previous Robert Pattinson interviews, you could hazard a guess that he’d actually be quite well suited to months of state-imposed self isolation. In an interview with Healthy For Men magazine (via Batman-News), Pattinson revealed what he was doing to get in shape as a Batman.
The GQ article only confirms this. Ahhhhh. Even when you’re looking at him through glass and distance and time. What movie? “And I told him my business plan,” Pattinson recalls, “and his facial expression didn’t even change afterwards.
‘No idea if it’s cooked or not.’ He dumps the pasta in anyway. “And in each country there’s, like, an enormous set-piece scene, which is like the climax of a normal movie.
One of the best parts of this Robert Pattinson interview is the notes on what he is wearing, including: “Scarf (worn on head) $270” and “Flip flops (his own)”. Robert Pattinson Is GQ's June Cover Star Holed up in a London apartment, the actor talks Tenet and The Batman, gives the world's strangest cooking tutorial, and provides his own self-portraits.
There was absolutely no sign of anything from him, literally. “Or it seems more fun proving it.