Mickey 17 is quite an offbeat dark comedy for Robert Pattinson. He portrays an “expendable” who dies and is repeatedly cloned for dangerous space missions until he confronts one of his clones. As soon as the sci-fi movie’s first trailer premiered,

It would've been very easy for Robert Pattinson to play it safe with his career. He broke out as Hogwarts pretty boy Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter movie, then scored the most significant teen heartthrob role of the 2000s as the Twilight saga's dashing vampire Edward Cullen.

Thanks to starring in the Twilight franchise and 2022’s The Batman, actor Robert Pattinson has the freedom to take on virtually any project he’s interested in. Lucky for audiences, the actor is typically drawn to boundary-pushing storytellers and unconventional material,

In a recent interview, Robert Pattinson has confirmed that anime was influential in his performance for Mickey 17 in a major win for anime fans.