Robert Pattinson is booked and busy this year with three movies lined up for release, including Dune 3. Fans got the first look at his character as Scytale in the trailer, which dropped on March 17. During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 20, he revealed that director Denis Villeneuve was impressed with his look.
Dune 3 director was in awe of Robert Pattinson’s Scytale look
The villains in the Dune franchise have very distinct looks; Robert Pattinson’s Scytale remains no exception. Days after the world got its first glimpse at the blonde-haired and bleached-browed Scytale, he opened up about Denis Villeneuve’s reaction to his transformation. The British actor is currently busy promoting The Drama, one of the three movies in which he stars alongside Zendaya, and stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! recently.
When Kimmel asked if Pattinson’s two-year-old daughter recognised him in the trailer, he revealed that she had. He recalled that the little girl had pointed at his head and said, “Eggy!” The hilarious reaction made him wonder whether his whole face looked like an egg or whether she meant there was an egg on his head.
Pattinson further recounted Villeneuve’s first reaction to his look as Scytale. He said, “It was like a three-hour makeup job. I remember looking in the mirror & being like ‘Okay.. okay.. this is how it’s gonna be’, & Denis is looking at me going ‘It is so sexy. I love the hairline. It’s so sexy!’ & I was like [shocked] ‘Interesting.'”
Elsewhere in the interview, the Remember Me actor also stated that he and Zendaya were not aware of each other’s casting in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. He explained, “We ended up doing the Odyssey, which was totally the most secret casting in the world. So, we didn’t even say it to each other when we got cast.” When Kimmel asked whether they had discovered it on set, Pattinson confirmed they had.
Originally reported by Ankita Shaw on Mandatory.
