Robert Pattinson Got ‘Almost Turned Off’ From Acting Amid COVID and Strikes: ‘Every Actor for Two Years’ Was Saying ‘Nothing’s Cool’ About New Scripts

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Pattinson admitted in an interview with Vanity Fair that he nearly convinced himself that cinema was dying and it was time to maybe stop acting as Hollywood struggled in the wake of the COVID pandemic and two major labor strikes.

But then came a few movies like Oscar contender “The Brutalist,” directed by his friend Brady Corbet, that made him excited about the movies again.

Corbet directed Pattinson in the filmmaker’s debut feature “The Childhood of a Leader.” “It’s strange because the last few years for the film industry, starting with COVID and then the strikes, everyone was constantly saying cinema is dying.

And quite convincingly,” Pattinson said. “I was literally almost turned off. It actually started to get a little worrying.” “Then looking in the last few months, there’s this flurry of very ambitious movies,” he continued. “I feel like the stuff that’s going to get nominated for Oscars this year is going to be really interesting, and it seems like there’s suddenly a new batch of directors who the audience is excited about as well.” Pattinson is hoping that “Mickey 17,” his science-fiction black comedy from “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, comes out in “a period of enthusiasm for cinema.” Warner Bros.