Robert Pattinson confirmed he's set to tackle certainly one of his most dynamic roles but in Dune: Half Three.
Pattinson, 39, mirrored on his jam-packed schedule whereas filming a number of tasks back-to-back in a joint interview with Die My Love costar Jennifer Lawrence with IndieWire on Monday, November 3. It was then that he let some particulars about filming the upcoming Dune installment slip.
“It's truly very nice. After I was doing Dune it was so scorching within the desert that I simply couldn't query something,” he instructed the outlet of being exhausted by work at occasions. “And it was so stress-free, like my mind truly wasn't working, I didn't have a single functioning mind cell. And I used to be simply listening to Denis [Villeneuve]: ‘No matter you need!'”
Pattison was additionally requested if he will probably be enjoying a “villain function” within the movie, to which he merely responded, “Sure.” Lawrence, 35, chimed in telling Pattinson, “You're a busy boy. You simply shot that, you've gotten it popping out.”
It was first reported by a number of retailers in April that Pattinson was being eyed for the function of Scytale in Dune: Half Three, primarily based on the 1969 Frank Herbert novel Dune Messiah. On the time, a proposal had but to be prolonged to Pattinson, per The Hollywood Reporter. Nonetheless, followers had been fast to hop on board with the casting hypothesis, with images of Pattinson arriving to movie Dune: Half Three in Budapest circulating X in July.
“What a legendary run of movies Pattinson is about to go on. 🔥,” one X person wrote in a put up on the platform in July, as a second person stated, “Can't wait to see him in dune!! he's such an ideal actor and certainly one of my favorites.”
Villeneuve's iteration of the franchise kicked off with 2021's Dune starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem. Dune: Half Two adopted in 2024, with forged additions together with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher Walken.
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Pattinson made his curiosity within the Dune franchise recognized a number of years previous to becoming a member of the trilogy.
“There's solely been two films — properly, three now — the place I needed to do a sequel: the Apes films, Sicario and Dune,” he instructed Variety in March 2022. “I noticed each of the Apes films within the cinema and I simply thought what he might do with mo-cap was simply so unbelievable. If he might try this with a monkey's face, then he can get a efficiency out of me as properly.”
Dune: Half Three will probably be premiering in theaters late subsequent yr. The Twilight actor additionally identified that he has one other film, Primetime, popping out in 2026. The crime drama is directed by Lance Oppenheim and likewise stars Phoebe Bridgers, Merritt Wever, Sean Bridgers, Skyler Gisondo and Matthew Maher.
“Cash troubles?” Lawrence playfully requested Pattinson when he introduced up Primetime, to which he responded, “The strike actually affected me! I'll by no means let that occur ever once more.” (The 2023 WGA strike lasted for 148 days as screenwriters lobbied for higher pay, residuals and the regulation of AI, halting Hollywood productions earlier than reaching a tentative settlement.)
