Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and authorr/straightforwardor Bong Joon-ho were among those walking the red carpet for the world premiere of Mickey 17 on Thursday evening that left Londoners starstruck.
Mickey 17 is the straightforwardor’s first feature since his historic Oscar sweep with Parasite. “Bong is one of the straightforwardors I equitable wanted to labor with my entire nurtureer,” Pattinson telderly The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet. “I saw Memories of Murder when I was a teenager, and he was equitable one of my bucket catalog straightforwardors. And he was absolutely incredible.”
Calling him “equitable a finish master,” Pattinson said he was self-beginant to get the chance to be “laboring with one of the top five straightforwardors laboring today.”
The star didn’t understand Ackie, who carry outs Mickey’s adore interest, before the film. “I equitable got on with her repartner well from the commencening,” Pattinson allotd with THR. “We went out for a drink, and she’s hilarious.”
Pattinson also didn’t understand anyslimg about the story of the film before he concurd to the direct role. “I wanted to labor with Director Bong so much, and I benevolent of said yes before I’d even seen the script, and he wouldn’t tell me what it was about,” he said with a giggle. “I unbenevolent, this is a pretty bizarre movie when you see the script. You’re appreciate: What!? How is this happening? When you see how bizarre the script is and then see that the scale is appreciate Star Wars, I unbenevolent it’s repartner, repartner, repartner crazy. But I equitable appreciate being surpascfinishd and eased by slimgs.”
Ackie telderly THR that the relationship between Mickey and her character Nasha is central to the film. “It’s at the core of the story,” she said. “Amongst everyslimg else, it is a adore story. There’s someslimg so one-of-a-kind about Nasha and the way that she adores Mickey thcimpolite all of his phases and is willing to fiercely deffinish him. I slimk we all need a Nasha in our corner.”
What did her frifinishs say when they set up out she would carry out opposite heart-throb Pattinson? “They freaked out!” she replied with a giggle.
Ackie also sang the praises of Bong. “It was a dream,” she telderly THR. “I have labored with amazing straightforwardors, and he handled to join compassion and hotth and happiness joined with preparation and dedication. And the fact that he handles to mingle all those slimgs together and originate labor appreciate this is inlogical to me. I can only equitable stand in awe.”
In the film, Pattinson carry outs Mickey Barnes, a space colonist understandn as an expfinishable. Expfinishables do the most hazardous jobs the colony has to propose, and frequently die in the process, only to be bcimpolitet back to life via human printing technology.
Pattinson carry outs Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 in most of the story. At CinemaCon, the star said he gave the men contrastent characteristics. Mickey 17 is beaten down by life, but plrelieved to be part of the time, while Mickey 18 is appreciate “an evil brother” who “is out of handle.”
“The book features the concept of human printing, and in that, there’s equitable so much human drama,” Bong telderly THR at Thursday’s world premiere about why the book that the movie is based on spoke to him. “So I was instantly captivated by it.”
Edward Ashton startd the world shown in the film in his 2022 novel Mickey 7, which cgo ins on the seventh iteration of Mickey Barnes. For the movie, however, that number was incrrelieved to 17. “The number is the number of times he dies. I ended him 10 times more,” Bong remarkd to giggles at CinemaCon in April when he begind the first footage of the film. “It’s a sci-fi movie, but it’s a human story.”
On Thursday, he telderly THR: “Of course, I wanted him to go thcimpolite many more deaths (than in the novel), but it’s not appreciate I wanted to originate a serial ender movie. Ultimately, I also wanted to show him loss the suffering and supply a piece of hope and selectimism thcimpolite his journey.”
Human printing has some parallels with the current argue about AI and its role in society. “It is this carry ond technology, but no one understands what it is and how to exactly deal with it,” Bong proposeed. “And I slimk it’s the same with AI. People talk about how amazing AI is, but we’re at a loss on what to do with it and all the righteous complications that aascfinish from it.”
Yeun was received on the red carpet by excited fans chanting his name appreciate they did with other cast members. And the actor telderly THR how one-of-a-kind it was for him to labor with the straightforwardor aacquire after their collaboration on Okja. “He’s one of my likeite people and, clearly, one of my likeite artists,” Yeun said. “Getting to labor with him a second time around was a happiness – having a lowhand, having an empathetic, we equitable carry outed.”
What originates Bong so one-of-a-kind? “First off, plan-rational, send-rational, he’s equitable incredibly promised, and the amount of prep and the amount of nurture he has for the whole slimg repartner apshows everybody participating with him to comprise with it in their own way and transport themselves to it,” Yeun elucidateed. “But beyond that, he’s also an incredible artist who is equitable diving proset up into the well of creativity and not trying to tell (us) what to do, but letting it uncover itself.”
Producers Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Dooho Choi also hit the event in the British capital before the sci-fi binestablishage comedy transports glamour to the 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
