{"id":606858,"date":"2026-09-05T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:12:09","slug":"robert-pattinson-says-he-had-twice-as-much-time-after-birth-of-first-child-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606858\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Pattinson says he had \u2018twice as much time\u2019 after birth of first child | Venice film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Robert Pattinson has talked about the \u201caddictive\u201d nature of working on several films simultaneously, having starred in several of this year\u2019s most highly anticipated productions, despite recently becoming a father for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cOnce you get the momentum going, it\u2019s strangely not that hard,\u201d said Pattinson at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/venicefilmfestival\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venice film festival<\/a>. \u201cOnce you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The London-born performer has drawn critical praise this year for his turn as Antinous, the primary antagonist in Christopher Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/the-odyssey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, as well as playing a lead role in the dark romantic comedy The Drama and making his Dune debut in the third instalment of the franchise this December.<\/p>\n<p>Pattinson in Primetime. Photograph: A24\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">On the Venice Lido, Pattinson was promoting Lance Oppenheim\u2019s forthcoming arthouse thriller Primetime, which he joined as a producer before agreeing to star as the lead, and prepared while filming Lynne Ramsay\u2019s Die My Love with Jennifer Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI just had a baby,\u201d the actor told a press conference on the Lido. \u201cSo I had no desire to go out at night, so suddenly I had twice as much time to do anything with, which was very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 40-year-old actor had his first child with the English singer-songwriter and actor Suki Waterhouse in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A \u201cfever dream rather than a biopic\u201d, Primetime sees Pattinson play Chris Hansen, the driven but ethically ambiguous host of To Catch a Predator, a mid-2000s US TV series that orchestrated elaborate sting operations to film adult men seeking to have sex with minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cObviously, I hope [Hansen] likes the movie,\u201d Pattinson said, after Hansen saw the trailer and said he found the actor\u2019s fictional portrayal \u201coverly dramatic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Pattinson said of Hansen: \u201cThere\u2019s something electrifying about him. I would hope the amount of inspiration his character has given a lot of people for years is some kind of compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Pattinson is due to reprise his role as the pointy-eared billionaire vigilante in The Batman II, which commenced filming in London in June and is due for release in early 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI am definitely not doing simultaneous stuff during Batman,\u201d the actor said. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Pattinson has talked about the \u201caddictive\u201d nature of working on several films simultaneously, having starred in several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-606858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}