Mickey 17 | Featurette: Two Mickeys - video Dailymotion

Mickey 17 is sent on a colonisation mission to the ice world Niflheim and is replaced by a new version of himself after one iteration of him dies.

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00:00I think two characters that have to be very much delineated.

00:03That's difficult.

00:04They're tons of fun.

00:06I think it feels quite miraculous.

00:07When you have someone like Derek,

00:09a bomb who's extremely talented,

00:10just swinging for the fences.

00:13You're playing with the inexpendable piece?

00:15Yeah.

00:15You read through the whole application?

00:17Once you die, we'll print a new version of your body.

00:20You know, I should have read through it.

00:21As a living person,

00:23I wanted to make it rich.

00:26This is 100% love.

00:28Robert Pattinson added a lot of ideas to it.

00:32Especially Mickey 18.

00:34Even on my 17th go-around,

00:36I really hate dying.

00:37Feels like there are not a lot of rules

00:39for what you're allowed to do in the performances.

00:41He's doing two contrasting but similar characters

00:43at the same time.

00:44He's playing both of them back to back.

00:46It's a real piece of character work.

00:49I don't like you.

00:50But I'm you.

00:51I'm gonna kill you.

00:53It's just interesting having a hero

00:55who's as incapable of seeing themselves as a hero.

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