Robert Pattinson Mixes Micheladas and Mulls Over His Favorite Movies in the Latest A Toast to Cinema

That is wrong. Yes.

Oh, I've already messed it up. Oh, yi yi.

Why am I acting like I've never poured a beer before?

I've done something wrong with this.

This doesn't feel right at all.

Hi, I'm Robert Pattinson

and we're gonna make some cocktails

inspired by three of my films

and three of my favorite films.

[jazz music]

This is a Dark and Stormy, for The Drama.

So we start with the lime juice.

Oh, I've already spilled.

Good start.

And we have some ginger syrup.

This is one kind of rum, I've totally forgotten what it is.

Black Strap.

[Speaker] Should those be going in the shaker?

Oh [beep], sorry. It's all going in the same hole.

Obviously, I'm doing my improvised version.

Should probably go in the shaker,

but I like doing it this way.

So you put like how much you can fit in the little hat.

Well that smells really nice.

And another one, and maybe a couple more.

Soda water.

I put it in here.

[beep], I messed up the whole thing.

Now I understand why you have to put it in the shaker.

And then you put it in the shaker, obviously.

Mm, just shaking all up.

Delightfully presented Dark and Stormy.

Oh, it's [beep]. There's more.

Oh, spill it everywhere.

And that'll be $35.

[Robert laughing]

That doesn't look properly shaken at all.

Mm, The Drama.

Oh, garnish. You put it on like this?

Ooh, okay.

This is the moment of truth.

Quite nice.

I don't think I really mixed the ingredients up very well,

but yeah, we'll get the job done.

The first time I read the script

I instinctively was reading,

Oh, this is really strange.

I'm just reading it as myself.

And I've done an English accent a couple of times,

but you get terrified that people will think

that the character is you.

And so when I was ended up being incredibly brutal

on the character and filled with as much self doubt

that I am as a person.

Zendaya's very, very good dancer.

Didn't know this until I started doing it

and I am not a hate dancing.

So that was fun. It's a nice bonding experience.

Found the look of the character

through a lot of trial and error.

Considering when you watch the movie,

he looks quite like a normal guy.

It's really hard to find normal guy clothes

'cause when you try too hard to look like a normal guy,

you end up looking like you're on like a sitcom.

It was one of the most extensive fittings

that I've ever done, like considering we just end up

with like a JanSport backpack and like it's perfect.

It was cool. I kind of like it.

I like that sort of slightly professorial look,

I definitely connected with it a lot, I feel like,

that was, could have been

potentially me in a different life.

I kept the entire wardrobe from this, and I wear it,

I think the last time I did that was on the first Twilight

where I ended up wearing that stuff

for many years afterwards.

So this is an Old Fashioned, the granddaddy of drinks,

for The Batman, the granddaddy of superheroes

and the most relevant and important.

Okay. Start with the bitters.

You go one, two, oh, ah Jesus.

This is much more complicated than it seems.

I thought this one was gonna be an easy one.

Ah, hey, there we go.

And then we start with a simple syrup

and put in the bourbon.

[Robert chuckling]

I feel very innocent doing this.

And then there was this,

I believe, was some club soda.

Is that right? No?

That was not part of it.

Okay, then we squeeze on the, oh,

wow, I thought you were joking, that actually did something.

And we go a little bit of this.

Then we have the little cowl ears.

Oh, no. That is not what happens.

I do the stirring.

You have to come out again, ears.

Well since I started doing the part,

you look into the kind of legacy of it.

So many people have seen it,

there's characters that look like the Batman

in like ancient civilizations.

I mean there's something about that face

that's a very deep and primal thing.

It connects to people, it connects to children,

it connects to adults,

and then the legacy of the movies as well.

I mean they just got incredibly lucky with how they started

and the filmmakers who were attracted to the character.

And so like they've made

so many really, really great Batman movies

and everybody wants to add to the legacy.

No one wants to be the person who messes it up.

I love Matt Reeves. I loved his Planet of the Apes movies.

I love a lot of his movies.

I think he is incredible at making blockbusters

that don't feel like you're being shortchanged,

that feel very interesting.

All performances are really good,

and...

Can't kill a fly on camera.

It seemed like one of those parts that was,

it's like climbing Everest or something.

Like you kind of, you don't really feel

like it's a possibility but I felt something in my heart

but I really, really wanted to do it.

And the second you put that suit on,

it's funny, people can't help

but respond to you in a certain way.

Even crew members, they see you turn up to work.

I remember when you put the suit on, there's like,

everyone's a little bit more frightened of you.

Everyone kind of like stays out the way,

like, I mean it's kind of, it's amazing.

Yes, the Old Fashioned's definitely,

even this one actually looks more correct

than the last one, actually looks like an Old Fashioned,

feels like something

Batman and Bruce Wayne would drink.

I'm sure we'd have a very nice bourbon in the manor.

That's quite delicious.

[elegant music]

This is a Michelada

with 1664.

Twilight.

I really like Micheladas but I've never made one.

I think this is the start, yes.

Forgotten what it's called,

but you put the lime on the coconut.

[indistinct] wiggle it around a little bit,

and then we pour the 1664 in.

That is wrong, yes.

Okay. First you put the ice in.

This seems to be more,

this seems to be more appropriate cup actually.

Nice big cup. I went on a road trip when I was 22.

I was obsessed with Micheladas

and we kept stocking off

in various different towns throughout America,

just googling what the best Michelada was.

There was a little tiny place in Texas

and it was by far the best one I've ever had in my life.

We were sitting outside, there's a monsoon rainstorm.

I was sitting having the best times

with my two of my best friends,

and it was also the first time I discovered fire ants,

which all crawled up my leg and bit me loads.

I always remember my Texan Michelada.

Okay, so I do the ice.

Yeah, this looks way better.

This is the way,

you don't need a straw if you've got one of these things.

The beer first? Yeah, why not?

Well, I said that is really something I haven't done before.

I'm normally very, very good at pouring beers.

That's very embarrassing.

Lime juice.

[Robert laughing]

This literally looks like I'm doing

a chemistry experiment.

Again, not actually how to make it.

Pepper.

Maggie, have a bit of that.

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce.

Oh, maybe not that much.

I've done something wrong with this.

This doesn't feel right.

That does not look appealing at all.

Everybody has a different way of making Michelada.

I like mine very spicy, extra spicy.

There was one thing I did see the other day,

which is quite funny,

where I'm sitting down in the cafeteria the first time

and I've literally never noticed this,

and I, for some reason I go like this

on the table to sit down.

Like I thought it was a like elegant vampiric thing to do.

I think that was what the thought process was.

But looking at it 20 years later, you're like, Huh.

It's very strange. I really love that movie.

I think it's kind of,

I think I would've done exactly the same.

To be honest,

I don't even think I'd be able to do the performance now

'cause it was so, everybody was approaching it so earnestly

and took it really, really, really seriously.

There was no kind of tongue in cheek element.

No one's winking at the audience. It's like it's very real.

It was just strange for me, a vampire romance, though.

I envy my past self.

The visibilities.

I'm going to try it.

Actually not bad.

It's not a good idea to put it in a jug.

[upbeat music]

This is a Rhubarb Collins for one of my favorite movies,

A Room for Romeo Brass.

I saw this movie when I was a teenager

and it just, I thought it was so funny and so powerful.

I think the performances are just incredible

and the writing's amazing.

Paddy Considine is like legendary in it.

We start with little lemon juice,

rhubarb syrup,

then you get some gin, liberal saucing.

And then I do a little thing

I like to call spanking the minty.

To get the oils out.

And then you shake it.

[drink rattling]

Oh.

This is way more complicated

than I thought it was gonna be.

Ooh, nice. Mm.

This actually looks delicious.

Did one correctly for once.

Ooh. Ugh.

Too soon.

Twist it up.

Oh no. Oh.

Oh, it's all going downhill.

That still looks okay. I'd buy that.

It's just one of those movies where I've just kind of,

I just remember so many parts of it so clearly.

When I was younger,

like I used to watch it all the time.

It's like kind of my like Anchorman.

It's also one of the only movies

that says the phrase roly poly in it.

And no one ever really knows

what you're talking about in America

when you say roly poly, it's like a forward roll.

I literally learnt when I was doing Tenet,

how to do a roly poly, took me about three months.

Then when I went into Batman afterwards

and then they said, What stunts are you comfortable with?

I'm like, Need me to roly poly anywhere,

I can do like 50 in a row.

If you need Batman to like roll down the street, I'm down.

That's actually delicious. This is a really good drink.

Whenever they come out like this color, I'm like,

That's my kind of thing.

This is a Shandy for The Big Blue by Luc Besson.

This one seems

about the only one I can do, hopefully correctly.

Oh, I've already messed it up. Oh yi yi.

Okay, take two. [beep].

Yeah, this is, instead of just doing it with lemonade,

to do it with lemon juice.

Sweetened lemon juice? Yes.

And club soda.

Because it's nicer.

Ooh, that already looks delicious.

Lemme put a little lemon on it.

Delicious.

I kind of saw around about the same time

I saw A Room for Romeo Brass,

like kind of late teens.

It's sort of about competitive free diving,

but it's a love story.

It's not really an unrequited love story,

but it's, you know,

the main couple don't end up together at the end.

I was extremely moved by it.

I mean I met Luc Besson years later

and he was like, Yeah, that's my story.

I always just thought I was a dolphin.

And I thought it was one of the sweetest things ever

and I really, he said it with such deep meaning.

I think he really did think that.

This is a Pickle Margarita for The Exorcist.

Okey dokie.

So we put some chamoy on it,

looks delicious, tart and spicy.

Now I get a different ice thing. Yes.

So we start with the pickle brine. Put it in here.

Actually smells delicious.

I'm gonna really like this one.

Lime juice.

Some triple sack, a little tequila.

[Robert humming]

Hopefully I'm gonna spill it everywhere.

Smells delicious.

Smells like those potato chips.

My thingy. There it is.

I think this is correct.

[calm music]

And do a little slice of lime

and a little pickle.

That quite nice. Pickle Margarita.

That's dope. I can't believe I just said that.

I saw it for the first time around at my friend's house,

when I was at school, we were having a sleepover.

It was the time when all boys liked

to light each other on fire with deodorant.

Kind of really heightened the experience for me.

Whenever anyone fell asleep, they got flamethrowered.

And I think I saw it properly when I was about 16

and thinking that it was just incredible,

and I just thought there was something,

I've seen it so many times.

I think it's probably my favorite movie.

I just love how it makes you believe in the supernatural

and you can feel the filmmakers

just give so much credence to every single level of it,

I love the opening 45 minutes.

The very opening in Iraq is incredible.

I just think it's beautiful,

I think every performance is perfect,

and it's the coolest movie ever.

You have to completely

abandon your own whole sense of self

in order to save your child.

I think it's really powerful.

[jazz music]

I hope you'll enjoy these drinks at home.

If you make them properly, you're not like how I made them.

And enjoy the movies.

See you soon. Bye.

♪ Bubabubabee, bubeebabee ♪

A toast.

I already feel wasted.