Robert Pattinson Worried He’d Have ‘Mental Breakdown’ in Dance Scene with Jennifer Lawrence: ‘I Was Sweating So Much’

Robert Pattinson is admitting to feeling some degree of stress when it came to dancing in his upcoming movie with Jennifer Lawrence.

While Pattinson, 38, and his Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho took part in a video interview with GQ published Monday, March 3, to discuss their new science-fiction film, the actor expressed some level of dismay for having to dance for the cameras while acting.

"It seems to be in almost every movie, there's some moment where they're like, 'Here's the dancing scene.' Except for Mickey," Pattinson said, after Bong asked if he ever danced and sang for a role. "The amount of times and my equivalent of Mickey's life where you're just a living hell every day."

"And it came to the day and I was sweating so much — the insides of my trousers were wet [with sweat]," he added with a laugh. "That's a little exaggeration."

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After Bong, 55, and Pattinson joked that he certainly didn't dance in 2022's The Batman, the actor said, "Almost every movie, and everyone is like — especially if there's a writer/director and they've just written, 'Yeah, then they dance.' And it just seems totally normal if you're a person who dances."

"I did this movie with Lynne Ramsay and she's a really good dancer, and Jennifer Lawrence, really good dancer," he continued, referencing their upcoming film Die, My Love. "And they just find it so easy, and they're like 'Just dance, it's just music playing, just dance.' "

Added Pattinson, "And I'm like 'I'm telling you, I'm going to have a mental breakdown when this happens. We need to either choreograph it or cut it,' and they're like 'Just dance, stop being a freak.' "

According to Deadline, Pattinson and Lawrence costar with LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte in Die, My Love, an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same title by Ariana Harwicz.

The film centers around Lawrence as a woman "engulfed by love and madness," per a Deadline longline; Pattinson portrays Lawrence's husband in the movie, while Stanfield portrays her over.

That movie is one among a number of projects Pattinson has in the works, including the long-awaited sequel to The Batman, a movie titled The Drama that costars Pattinson with Zendaya, as well as a role in Christopher Nolan's currently in-production epic The Odyssey.

Mickey 17, meanwhile, stars Pattinson as "unlikely hero" Mickey Barnes who, according to a synopsis, "has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job … to die, for a living."

Based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi flick also stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.

Mickey 17 is in theaters Friday, March 7.