Robert Pattinson was 'almost turned off' of acting over 'very studio' movies the past few years: 'Nothing's cool'

Robert Pattinson is calling it like he sees it.

"The last few years for the film industry, starting with COVID and then the strikes, everyone was constantly saying cinema is dying. And quite convincingly," The Batman star said in a new interview with Vanity Fair. "I was literally almost turned off. It actually started to get a little worrying."

The movies felt "very studio," he said, and had "every actor for two years saying, 'What is happening? Nothing's cool.'"

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But Pattinson noted that he sees a change for the better happening in the past few months.

He credited a "flurry of very ambitious movies" that cinephiles have defeinitely heard of, even if they haven't marked them off their to-be-watched lists yet.

"I feel like the stuff that's going to get nominated for Oscars this year is going to be really interesting," Pattinson said. "And it seems like there's suddenly a new batch of directors who the audience is excited about as well."

He has a few favorites, which have also been hailed by critics.

"I saw this Norwegian movie Armand, which I thought was amazing. My friend Brady Corbet's movie The Brutalist. Anora. You can even see in terms of script," he said. "I don't know what was going on really, what happened in the Saturn return or whatever it is, but now there's really cool parts everywhere."

Pattinson will next be on the big screen in Parasite writer-director Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, in which Pattinson portrays the title character — or characters.

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The first trailer for the film, released in September, explained that Mickey dies and gets "reprinted," or recreated with all the same memories, multiple times while exploring an alien planet. He dies and gets recreated over and over, much to his discontentment.

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"Mickey 17 is someone who has the lowest expectations of his life, and yet the world keeps pushing those expectations, to the point where he has a job that tortures him every day," the former Twilight star (Team Edward!) said of the project at CinemaCon in April. "And then 18 comes along, and he's got frontal lobe damage and no self-control, libido out of control. It's like playing an evil brother or twin."

At the time, he lauded the project for having "the most unusual, bizarre, funny script."

Mickey 17 arrives in theaters on March 7; Pattinson's sequel to The Batman is expected in 2027.

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