Robert Pattinson was “going crazy for three days” on a film — until Zendaya stepped in.
In a March interview for French magazine Premiere, Pattinson, 38, recalled preparing for a day of shooting opposite his costar in the upcoming film The Drama, from Dream Scenario writer-director Kristoffer Borgli.
“We had a scene together in it that was driving me crazy,” the Mickey 17 star said of his costar, 28. “I was desperately looking for its meaning, to the point of writing pages and pages of textual analysis… I ended up calling Zendaya the night before shooting the scene in question.”
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Pattinson continued: “I shared my doubts with her, I spoke for two hours, and blah blah blah, and after a while, very calmly, she finally made me understand that the line just said what it meant to say, that there was no hidden meaning.”
Prior to that, the English actor added, “There I was going crazy for three days…. I tend to bang my head against walls. Sometimes for no reason.”
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The Drama, also starring Mamoudou Athie and Alana Haim, counts Ari Aster among its producers. Per IndieWire, the romance comedy-drama “centers on a couple whose romance takes an unexpected turn before their wedding.”
The A24-distributed movie does not yet have a release date.
Reading too far into scripts is part of Pattinson’s filmmaking process, he explained in his Premiere interview, which covered his past roles in 2014’s The Rover, 2019’s The King and more. “I tend to stumble over the meaning of things,” he quipped. “To the point of overdoing it, trying to solve mysteries that aren’t really mysteries.”
Asked about playing characters who have a “victim side,” he said, “My character from Twilight had a bit of that… I wonder where it comes from. An unconscious need for punishment? A repressed masochistic desire?”
“To compensate” for that, he added that his next role might be “a character who is very self-confident.”
Pattinson, meanwhile, is making headlines for his titular role in writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi satire Mickey 17, in theaters now.
Among his upcoming projects are Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love opposite Jennifer Lawrence, and Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey — again sharing the screen with Zendaya, as well as Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o and Anne Hathaway.
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