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stealing his style from his latest roles
byGARRETT MUNCEROBERT PATTINSON COULD BE UNLIKABLE.
There was all that brooding in the vampire movies. And
then the Trump tweets—remember when our then-
future president tweeted his sympathy for Pattinson
after his breakup with Kristen Stewart, at whom Trump
hurled insults? Pattinson could have taken the vam-
pire fame and run with it or thanked the president-to-
be. Instead, he put his head down and got to work.
It was 2017’s Good Time—made by the same direct-
ing duo behind Uncut Gems—that gave audiences one
of their first glimpses of the fully realized, post-Twilight
Pattinson, or what you might call Weird Pattinson.
Last fall, Weird Pattinson reached full bloom with The
Lighthouse, a movie about two men going crazy in
which he masturbates onscreen.
Pattinson, 33, has also become a low-key fashion
hero—and it started with Good Time. “The director sawa construction worker walking down the street out-
side his office, got him to come in, and we stood beside
each other to make sure we were the same build. We
bought everything he was wearing, and that was my
costume,” he tells me, adding: “I kept a lot of stuff.”
His secret is adopting a uniform. “My style is always
sort of utilitarian,” he says, explaining that he goes
through stretches in which he’ll wear the same thing
every day. For him, it’s been Dr. Martens and black
baseball caps and corduroy jumpsuits (discovered in
Copenhagen, too warm for L. A.). “If something fits
right, it can genuinely change my life,” he says.
Next year, Pattinson—who’s the current face of Dior’s
new men’s cologne—will bring his weird vibes to the
role of Bruce Wayne in The Batman, which also marks
his return to big-budget films. The question is whether
he’ll pinch some of the Caped Crusader’s wardrobe.DANIELLE LEVITT/AUGUST38
Robert Pattinson Wears His
Uniform Home
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