Robert Pattinson considers his 'deep, deep fear of humiliation' when selecting movie roles
Robert Pattinson is opening up about his fear of doing films where he cannot give his all.
"I have a deep, deep fear of humiliation," the actor revealed during an Interview magazine conversation with comedian Jordan Firstman. The Rotting in the Sun star asked Pattinson, a producer on the upcoming film, if he'd done any projects he was "just so not into at all."
The Batman star replied "not really," chalking it up to the fear. "You sort of know it's down to you. You can say it's a s---ty script or the director's a dick or blah, blah, blah, but at the end of the day, no one's going to care about the reasons," he explained. "You're the one who everyone's going to say is lame. And the vast majority of people will say you're lame even when you tried your best."
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The Twilight star also offered his thoughts on how it's hard to know your place in society. "I'm constantly thinking that you're just going to spend the vast majority of your life unemployed and desperate and kind of feeling like you're a total failure," he said. "I think that's just what life is."
Pattinson has talked about anxieties around his career longevity before. "The problem which I was finding was, however much I loved the [indie] movies I was doing, no one sees them," he told GQ in 2020. "And so it's kind of this frightening thing, because I don't know how viable this is for a career… I don't know how many people there actually are in the industry who are willing to back you without any commercial viability whatsoever."
Nonetheless, Pattinson seems to have found a balance between big films and indie work in recent years, having fronted The Batman and its upcoming sequel while taking swings on less mainstream fare like Tenet and The Lighthouse.
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