Robert Pattinson Says a Horror Movie Scared Him So Badly He Slept with ‘Two Kitchen Knives’
“My girlfriend [Suki Waterhouse] came in and she was like, ‘What is happening?!’ ” the Mickey 17 actor recalled.
By Jen Juneau | Published on March 6, 2025, 11:46 AM EST
Robert Pattinson’s fear tolerance isn’t what it used to be!
In a conversation with Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho for GQ, the 38-year-old actor admitted that while he “used to watch a lot of really dark stuff” in his younger years and think it was “cool,” things have changed.
“Now, I’m too sensitive,” he said. “You’d think it would be the opposite—as you get older, you’d be less scared. [But] I can’t watch horror movies anymore.”
When Bong, 55, suggested it might be because Pattinson is now a father, the actor admitted, “It happened before that, though,” before laughing along with the director. “But maybe that has added to it.”
A Late-Night Horror Movie Left Pattinson Armed—and Asleep
The actor recounted one particularly terrifying night after watching a horror film by an unnamed director before meeting with him.
“He’d done this horror movie, and I watched it, and I kept thinking that someone was breaking into my house,” Pattinson recalled. “So I was sitting on my sofa with two kitchen knives, waiting for the person to come in.”
Eventually, exhaustion took over:
“I fell asleep with them basically in my neck on the couch,” he continued. “My girlfriend [Suki Waterhouse] came in and was like, ‘What is happening?! Why do you have two knives in your face and you’re sleeping?!’ ”
Laughing, Pattinson admitted, “It was probably just a squirrel.”
Dance Scenes Also Make Him Nervous
Another thing that makes Pattinson uneasy? Dance scenes.
Filming a dance sequence for Die, My Love, his upcoming film with Jennifer Lawrence, was a nerve-wracking experience.
“I was sweating so much,” he told Bong. “Lynne Ramsay [the director] is a really good dancer, Jennifer Lawrence is a really good dancer. And they were like, ‘Just dance, it’s just music, just move.’ ”
Pattinson, however, struggled:
“I was like, ‘I’m telling you, I’m going to have a mental breakdown when this happens. We either need to choreograph it or cut it.’ And they were like, ‘Just dance, stop being a freak.’ ”
Mickey 17 hits theaters Friday, March 7.