Robert Pattinson Reveals Why He “Can’t Watch Horror Movies Anymore”
- Robert Pattinson revealed in a recent interview that he can no longer watch horror movies as an adult because he has become too sensitive to them.
Noted…don't try to scare Robert Pattinson.
During a recent conversation with his Mickey 17 director , Bong Joon Ho for GQ , the actor opened up about the reason why he "can't watch horror movies anymore" as an adult.
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"I used to watch a lot of dark stuff when I was younger and think like, 'Yeah, this is cool.' And now, I'm too sensitive," he admitted. "It's strange, you'd think it would go the other way round. As you get older, you become less frightened of these [films]. I can't watch horror movies anymore."
While Bong questioned if it was because the actor "became a dad," Pattinson confessed with a laugh that his fears surrounding horror films "happened before that though." The actor shares a baby girl with girlfriend Suki Waterhouse.
The Twilight star later recalled a moment when he got "very frightened" recently, leading him to actually fall asleep with kitchen knives.
"I had to do a meeting with the director, and he'd done this horror movie, and I watched it, and I kept thinking that someone was breaking into my house," Pattinson said. "And so I was sitting on my sofa with two kitchen knives waiting for the person to come in. And then I fell asleep with them basically in my neck on the couch."
"My girlfriend came in and she was like, 'What is happening? Why do you have two knives in your face and you're sleeping?'" The Batman actor added, before quipping, "It was probably a squirrel."
Though Pattinson didn't name the director of the horror film he was referencing, it could potentially be Parker Finn, the filmmaker behind Smile, as The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reported last year that the actor has teamed with Finn for a remake of Possession , the cult 1981 psychological supernatural horror movie written and directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski.
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