Tenet: Robert Pattinson and fellow cast members on secrets to Christopher Nolan’s spy epic – all you need to know
- Tenet, which wrapped last year before the coronavirus outbreak, blends sci-fi with espionage – it’s ‘full of intrigue’, says Kenneth Branagh
- To keep the film’s storyline under wraps, pretty much all the cast and crew ‘didn’t even see the full script’, says Robert Pattinson
Spoken in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet , the words “beyond secret” could so easily refer to the latest opus in the career of this very singular filmmaker.
“Pretty much all the actors, outside the four of us, didn’t even see the full script,” says Robert Pattinson, when we speak over Zoom. The others in that privileged quartet? John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, and Elizabeth Debicki.
“People were coming in and shooting for months, and really having no idea what the story was,” adds Pattinson, “which I thought was pretty fascinating.”
The hush-hush nature of the project is typical of the modus operandi at Syncopy, the production company Nolan set up with his wife and long-time producer Emma Thomas.
“We’re making this not for people to experience in little dribbles here and there with little bits of information that they find on the internet,” Thomas tells the Post. “We’re making this film for the couple of hours that they’re going to spend in the theatre.”