Robert Pattinson Asked Zendaya for a Dune

On Monday, Pattinson appeared alongside his co-stars, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and director Denis Villeneuve at AMC Century City to unveil the first teaser for the upcoming Dune 3, where he revealed how he became a part of the trilogy for its final installment.

During the panel, Pattinson revealed that while on set together for their upcoming A24 romcom/thriller The Drama, Pattinson asked Zendaya, “Can I get in one of those Dune movies?” Oh, is that how easy it is?

I can only imagine this is how Pattinson gets all of his roles. One Jennifer Lawrence movie, please. One Batman, please. One forgettable Christopher Nolan movie, please. Ask, and you shall receive, Robert.

“I know a guy,” Zendaya responded. Pattinson then got a call a few months later for the role, saying at the panel, “I kind of did think you [had] something to do with it!” Well, of course she did. She’s Zendaya.

The two appeared at The Drama LA premiere on Tuesday, and while Zendaya had her hands full dodging questions about Euphoria and whether she is secretly married to Tom Holland, Pattinson was experimenting with the limits of his unconventional media approach. When asked about his most toxic trait, he answered that he was “quite delusional.”

“I have no sense of reality,” Pattinson said. Same!

Based on what we already know about him, this tracks. He’s admitted to frequently lying to the press about innocuous details of his life “for fun,” like when he told a story about witnessing a clown die in an explosion. If that’s what gets you through a press tour, that’s fine by me. Maybe his delusion and radical honesty are the reasons I’m so compelled by his celebrity. I truly believe he’s one of the good ones!

Zendaya’s willingness to vouch for him just confirms this for me. He also received continuous praise from his co-star Jennifer Lawrence while promoting Die My Love—who shared a similar story of kind of, just asking Pattinson if he wanted to be in a movie with her. Forgive me for expressing a little shock that a male actor in Hollywood is consistently liked by his female co-stars. It’s rare!

In the Dune 3 teaser, the starkly pale, bleach-blonde Pattinson plays Scytale—and I was getting major Edward Cullen war flashbacks, so I will be seated this December. If not for him, then for mother, Rebecca Ferguson.

So I’ll admit, I am enjoying this Pattinson–Zendaya press tour. They’re like Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell if they were more likable, didn’t overdo the fake flirtiness, and Sweeney didn’t suck.

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