Fatherhood has reworked Robert Pattinson — in additional methods than one.
In a canopy story with Icon Journal, set to hit newsstands on Tuesday, October 14, Pattinson, 39, admitted he’s turn into only a typical suburban dad since welcoming his daughter with fiancée Suki Waterhouse in March 2024.
In a preview shared by way of Instagram on Friday, October 3, the actor informed the journal that he has “a lot extra persistence” as a mother or father to a 19-month-old, including, “It’s humorous, it’s not even persistence; I genuinely take pleasure in hanging out with infants. That shocked me.”
He continued, “It’s additionally humorous the way you begin having actual, normie conversations – about issues like faculties or daycares … it’s so unusual. It’s like, there’s this gravitational pull … Like, I’ve to put on Patagonia puffer jackets and cargo shorts now. I simply must.”
On display screen, nevertheless, Pattinson mentioned he finds it tough to play “regular” individuals, as he’s continuously forged as characters on the sting — together with vigilante superhero Batman and Twilight’s romantic vampire Edward Cullen.
“At one level, I actually wished to play some regular guys,” Pattinson informed Icon. “And it’s really sort of tough to play a standard individual while you’re used to taking part in freaks and stuff.”
In his upcoming movie Die My Love, Pattinson performs a brand new dad reverse his onscreen spouse, Jennifer Lawrence. The psychological drama by Lynne Ramsay facilities round a mom, Grace (Lawrence), who develops extreme postpartum melancholy and enters psychosis.
“Ever since [my daughter] was born, it’s reinvigorated the way in which I strategy work,” Pattinson mentioned at a press convention for the movie throughout Cannes in Could. “Yeah, it’s simply, you’re a very completely different individual the subsequent day.”
Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson attend The 2023 Met Gala. hoto by Cindy Ord/MG23/Getty Pictures for The Met Museum/Vogue
Lawrence, 35 — who shares two kids born in 2022 and 2025, respectively, together with her husband, Cooke Maroney — defined that she and Pattinson have been in a position to tackle the roles in Die My Love as a consequence of their shared expertise as new dad and mom.
“We have been in related locations in our lives,” Lawrence mentioned of her and Pattinson’s connection throughout a Q&A after a screening of the movie final month. “He had simply had a child and I had a child and was pregnant and so we have been on this related place in our lives the place all we wished to speak about was our youngsters, which is nice and simple. I imply, he’s a very simple individual to get together with. He’s so candy. And he’s additionally immensely proficient.”
Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse‘s relationship has solely gotten stronger throughout her being pregnant. “[He is] nervous about changing into a dad,” a supply solely reveals within the latest situation of Us Weekly concerning the couple, who’re presently anticipating their first baby. “[He has] been loving taking good care of Suki.” Pattinson, 37, and Waterhouse’s thrilling information […]
Pattinson’s companion in life, Waterhouse, 33, couldn’t agree extra. She mentioned he’s “the dad I might have hoped for” in a July interview with British Vogue, including, “I imply a dad and his daughter? It’s an precise love story.”
“He was there with me [in the labor and delivery room] and like all dads, he was actually nervous,” she recalled, “however for somebody who’s fairly an anxious individual, he’s been very calm.”
Waterhouse, who’s been with Pattinson since 2018 and received engaged in 2023, additionally mentioned that she knew he was the one when she was “nonetheless actually into” the connection, six years after it started.
“That’s by no means occurred to me earlier than, that’s like a loopy factor,” she informed British Vogue. “This love and having a household and having just a little world … No matter occurs, that is my dream.”
