People Are Losing It Over Robert Pattinson’s Latest “Freaky Little Voice” In The Trailer For His New Movie, And I Can Barely Even Believe It’s Him
Since rising to fame as a teen heartthrob in the 2000s, Robert Pattinson has packed his résumé with a whole load of eccentric acting performances.
And if there’s one thing we’ve come to expect from an R.Patz movie, it’s that he’ll probably show up speaking with some kind of unusual accent.
Throughout his career, Rob has done so many accents that it’d probably take too long to list them all here. But, as far as some highlights go, we’ll start strong with his monotone Edward Cullen voice in the Twilight movies.
Stepping away from vampires, Rob mixes things up with an edgy Queens accent in the Safdie brothers’ Good Time.
Playing a drunken lighthouse keeper in The Lighthouse, he has a New England-ish accent, which sometimes makes him sound like a pirate.
Things then get kind of creepy in The Devil All the Time, in which Rob delivers a high-pitch southern drawl to portray a church preacher.
While donning the Batsuit, he took inspiration from his predecessors and gave his take on the husky Batman voice.
And we can’t possibly forget that French accent in The King, which is equal parts bonkers and terrifying.
In movies like Tenet, for example, Rob occasionally opts to speak in his own English accent. But that’s not nearly as fun — which is why fans are so pleased to see he’s just added another weird voice to his sprawling résumé of dialects.
If you’ve not heard, Rob will star in Mickey 17, the long-awaited sci-fi black comedy by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho.
The upcoming film — based on the novel Mickey7 — stars Rob as Mickey, a man sent on a mission to colonize an ice world. The hitch? Mickey is an “Expendable” employee, which means he gets sent on the most dangerous expeditions, and each time he dies on the job, he gets cloned and brought back with all the same memories.
The trailer finally dropped yesterday, and in addition to acting opposite himself when Mickey comes face to face with one of his clones, it seems Rob also had the joy of developing one of his most unique accents yet.
Some have described it as a “quirky nerd voice,” while I’m hearing some hints of Steve from Sex and the City. Either way, fans appear to be loving it.
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Hailing Rob as an “all time great,” one user praised the actor’s dedication to crafting new, interesting dialects for roles in which “other actors would just do a normal american guy voice.”
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Comparing his diverse range of accents, one fan wrote that he's deserving of an Oscar.
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Meanwhile, someone else suggested his talents could be put to good use in an “animated movie in which he is the voiceover actor for every single character.”
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Sadly, Mickey 17 doesn’t release until January 2025. So, between now and then, we’ve got plenty of time to rewatch the trailer and revisit Rob’s previous chaotic accent work.
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