Pattinson, 38, performs a person so determined to flee the clutches of mortgage sharks that he agrees to be an “expendable” crew member on a mission to colonise different planets. Each time he dies, he’s cloned along with his reminiscences intact, which means that he needed to play 17 variations of the identical character.
The actor mentioned: “Bong Joon-ho has been on my bucket record of administrators I’d like to work with for so long as I can bear in mind. I’ve been watching his movies since I used to be a child, so when this got here to me, I used to be very excited. Then I learn the script and liked it.
“I based mostly him on a couple of various things, however sure, one in all them was a really badly behaved canine I used to have. Irrespective of how a lot you skilled it or tried to cease its dangerous habits, it simply wouldn’t study.
“You could possibly inform it off for doing one thing like going to the lavatory in the home, however it will simply roll over on to its again and never care. That’s what Mickey is prefer to me, for the primary 17 instances. He lives, he dies, he comes again, however he doesn’t study his lesson till he lastly realizes, 17 deaths later.
“From the second I learn the script, I had this concept for what Mickey may sound like. At first, it was a extra excessive model of what it’s within the movie. I attempted it out, studying a couple of traces to my girlfriend, however Bong described it as like nails on a chalkboard, so it modified somewhat from there.”