Robert Pattinson, the Hollywood star with a ‘handsome boy appearance’, outstanding acting skills, and star quality, visited Korea. After rising to global stardom through the ‘Twilight’ series and receiving love calls from masters such as Christopher Nolan, James Gray, and David Cronenberg, he visited Korea for the first time to introduce the film ‘Mickey 17’, in which he collaborated with ‘Chungmuro master’ director Bong Joon-ho.

Despite his busy schedule, he began his visit to Korea with a strong will to ‘report I definitely want to come to Korea, the home country of director Bong who directed the film’ and attended a press conference held at the CGV I-PARK MALL in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the 19th, where he fully expressed his ‘endless affection’ for director Bong.

He asserted, “There are probably only four or five directors in the world with the same (directing) level as director Bong’, and said he could not forget the fresh shock he felt when he first saw ‘Memories of Murder’. That‘s why, when he heard that Director Bong was considering him for the lead role of ‘Mickey 17’, he didn’t hesitate and said, “I raised my hand,” and laughed.
He also said that he really liked the character he played in this production. In the drama, he plays the main character Mickey, who is repeatedly involved in dangerous tasks that put his life on the line. Even though he loses his life while working, he is revived using the ‘Human Printing’ technology and is a so-called ‘Expendable’ who has to enter the scene of death again.

Pattinson said of Mickey, “He‘s a very stupid character with no confidence,” and “I thought of a very spoiled puppy I had who wouldn’t be trained at all, and I acted like that. Whenever you try to train Mickey, he‘s like a puppy that only knows how to lie down on its back and act cute. “Untrained Mickey is a character who realizes something only after dying 17 times,” he explained.

He then emphasized that characters like Mickey are rare in Hollywood SF, drawing attention. “Director Bong’s charm lies in creating unique characters who don’t lose their light humor in such a large-scale movie,” he said. “They film on a huge set that looks like ‘Star Wars,’ but they also pull off some quite humorous scenes within it. It’s very brave directing.”



Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com
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