Robert Pattinson reveals the hardest scene to shoot in Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17

We already know there are many Mikcey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) in Mickey 17, it is already a hit before its official release on March 7, 2025. It first premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2025, and 89% of critics on Rotten Tomatoes have approved it already.

Recently, Pattinson, the lead actor, and Bong Joon-ho, the film's director, discussed the film during GQ's Epic Conversation, where the actor revealed the toughest scene to shoot in the film. He didn't exactly say which scene was this but he did reveal that it was a sequence at the end of the film.

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Robert Pattinson didn't want to spoil Mickey 17's ending

Despite the film already seeing such a positive response, Pattinson didn't want to spoil the film for the audience, that thing still needed to reach theaters. So when Bong Joon-ho asked him about what was the hardest scene for the actor, he said:

"I think maybe that, or I think probably the whole sequence at the end. I don't wanna give away spoilers. Actually, no, when they're literally fighting against each other, 'cause I think in general I will do a take and I wanna do the next take totally different, 'cause then I feel if I'm repeating myself, then I'm always afraid the director's gonna see it as fake, because suddenly the illusion is broken. I want it to feel like it's just like coming out of you."

It appears like this scene from Mickey 17 was satisfactory for him and for everyone for that matter. The last time we saw Pattinson in a science fiction setting, he was handling the Protagonist (John David Washington) in Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020), accompanying him through a weird flow of time. Despite him being the supporting character (Neil), audiences found the performance satisfactory.

Pattinson's character in Mickey 17 isn't just a fictional male in a sci-fi setting who finds himself in a situation, it has a deeper meaning to it. The director, while in a chat with the South China Morning Post, explained how it sheds light on the working conditions of industrial Korean workers.

The film is about a couple of friends, Mickey and Timo (Steven Yeun), who sign up for a space mission (well, much like an experiment) as they are in a financial crunch.

Like Pattinson, we won't spoil the film for you but you should know that Pattinson's character becomes a part of an Expendable program that, as the trailer suggests, gives us so many Pattinson copies after he dies in funny ways that he eventually gets comfy with all the chaos.

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