Robert Pattinson’s star is again in orbit. Earlier than returning to the massive display screen on March 7 in Mickey 17, a sci-fi darkish comedy from Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, he seems as a sensual Everyman in a brand new Dior Homme marketing campaign.
Pattinson rocketed to international fame within the Twilight collection, and that vampire vibe—darkish, moody, enigmatic—formed his early days within the highlight. However when he turns up on Zoom in a Supreme hoodie, his hair standing in all instructions, all of it appears to relaxation extra frivolously on his shoulders. “Everybody has some degree of impostor syndrome, however for a few years I used to be very envious of people that I perceived as feeling very comfy in their very own pores and skin, particularly once they’re performing. Why can’t I simply really feel like that? Possibly it’s only a pure present and I want I could possibly be like that, blah blah blah. I spent a very long time attempting to eliminate anxiousness,” he tells Vainness Honest. “And I suppose after a few years of doing one thing, you notice, oh, you may’t actually eliminate the anxiousness, however you may flip it round and use it as vitality. My insecurities about all the pieces as a performer turned my radar for what to do.”
After working with Dior for 10-plus years, Pattinson has even grown to embrace being the face of a perfume. “I used to be very clear about what I needed to do on the primary [campaign] as a result of I actually knew what I didn’t need to do: a looking-into-the-camera, heyyy horny perfume factor,” he says with fun. “So it has this vitality the place you’re combating in opposition to it. I’ve form of settled into it slightly bit extra, so I suppose there’s extra sensuality. It feels extra grown. There’s a romanticism to it, which is form of fairly candy.”
As each the marketing campaign and his subsequent movie enter takeoff, Pattinson spoke to Vainness Honest about embracing his position as Dior’s main man, confronting self-doubt, and—relaxation simple, Olivia Rodrigo and Grimes—why he has no want to go to Mars.
This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.
You acknowledge within the marketing campaign video that you just don’t know a ton about perfume itself. Have you ever picked something up from working with Dior for the final decade?
I’ve actually acquired press notes for this, and I can’t do it. I can’t convincingly say it. Even after I was saying it to Francis [Kurkdjian, Dior perfume creation director] behind the scenes, to have somebody who has such an informed expertise and deep understanding of scent saying, “What do you assume it smells like?” I’m like, “Nicely, I feel it smells like….” And he’s like, “What are you speaking about? That’s not even barely what it smells like. [Laughs] However what I like about this new scent is that there’s a closeness to it. I’m probably not that into having a scent the place as quickly as you stroll right into a room, everyone’s like, oh, you’re carrying a perfume. There’s one thing about this which mixes along with your pure scent as nicely. It’s not massively obtrusive. It’s extra of an aura factor.
For the marketing campaign video, you dusted off the motorbike abilities you discovered for The Batman. How did the choreography—driving on the seaside whereas a girl straddles and faces you—examine to different onscreen stunts you’ve performed?
For one, it’s very tough to look cool carrying a bike helmet, particularly once you and your love curiosity are each carrying helmets, so you might be vibrating, headbutting one another. There may be actually no technique to make this look cool. It’s unimaginable attempting to journey a bike on a seaside in moist sand. And it’s additionally arctic temperatures, with freezing chilly wind blowing in your face. It was an actual check of what my Blue Metal face can face up to.
