Pattinson, 38, plays a man who is so desperate to escape the claws of loan sharks that he agrees to be a “replaceable” crew member to a mission to colonize other planets. Every time he dies, he is cloned with his memories intact, which means that he had to play 17 versions of the same character.
The actor said: “Bong Joon-Ho is on my bucket list of directors that I would like to work with as long as I can remember. I have watched his films since I was a child, so when this came to me, I was very excited. Then I read the script and loved it.” I based him on a few different things, but yes, one of them was a very poorly worn dog that I used to have. It doesn’t matter how much you trained or tried to stop his bad habits, it just wouldn’t learn.
“You could tell it because you do something like going to the bathroom in the house, but it would just roll on his back and don’t care. That’s how Mickey is the first 17 times. He lives, he dies, he comes back, but he doesn’t learn his lesson until he finally realizes, 17 killing later.
“From the moment I read the script, I had this idea for how Mickey might sound. In the beginning it was a more extreme version of what it is in the film. I tried, read a few lines My girlfriendBut Bong It described it as nails on a blackboard, so it changed a bit from there. “