Future Batman and famous star Robert Pattinson is also in quarantine right now, but the gears of publicity keep grinding on. To get around the limitations of social distancing, he was interviewed remotely for GQ and tasked with taking his own photos and picking out his own clothes. I don’t know if it’s this relative freedom offered to a celebrity that made the interview and images so insane, but I would prefer to think that Robert Pattinson is just a madman who acts this way even when there isn’t a pandemic.
There’s a lot of wild stuff in the interview, but the most stand out section is when Pattinson attempts to cook his new version of pasta he calls “piccolini cuscino” which roughly translates to “little pillow.”
It was so wild, in fact, that Robert Pattinson pasta memes quickly began trending on Twitter.
Robert Pattinson attempting to demonstrate his “fast food version” of pasta to a GQ reporter is peak comedy, I think. pic.twitter.com/zm3lAzQD6T
— ahmad (@ephwinslow) May 12, 2020
I’m actually crying. pic.twitter.com/rzmTeAGAal
— ahmad (@ephwinslow) May 12, 2020
Ingredients include microwaved penne pasta, sugar, cornflakes, sauce, hamburger bun, and cheese. the results are a melted latex glove and a microwave on fire. It’s not your usual interview and I think that’s good!
People have been very taken with this story, and have even attempted to recreate the recipe themselves, but without the burning and arson.
i tried making the robert pattinson GQ pasta so you don’t have to. pic.twitter.com/M8WftZzLW0
— meg! (@megonfilm) May 13, 2020
More importantly, Robert Pattinson pasta memes became a thing, because there is nothing more relatable right now than being in your home, trying to reinvent the wheel with every carb and sugar in your pantry and having it result in complete disaster. Stars: they’re just like us.
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pov: you’re a bowl of pasta about to go into a microwave pic.twitter.com/RaWeyL5RfL
— ᵃ.ᵃ. ᵈᵉ ˡᵉᵛⁱⁿᵉ (@soalexgoes) May 13, 2020
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robert pattinson making his Piccolini Cuscino pic.twitter.com/JwPkJlXR47
— fran (@TrophyUncle) May 12, 2020
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Live footage of Robert Pattinson making a “pasta pillow” pic.twitter.com/r1OSA9xMYK
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong (@iWatchiAm) May 12, 2020
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sorry how is it robert pattinson can cook sugar & cheese pasta in the fucking microwave and you lot are still wet hot and spicy for him but when i do it it’s “we’re getting concerned” and “are you sure you’re coping okay”
— beth mccoll (@imteddybless) May 12, 2020
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i made the robert pattinson pasta sugar cheese sandwich and my review is that the only way to describe how it tastes is to imagine going through all five of the kubler ross stages of grief simultaneously pic.twitter.com/QsjwasbXRR
— TORMABLAS PICKASDFJKLFDSNMKOFDSJ (@Tormny_Pickeals) May 12, 2020
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The article where Robert Pattinson blows up a microwave while trying to invent a pasta pillow is delightful because it’s the first time in months that a confident-yet-bumbling man has been in the news who is not in charge of millions of peoples’ lives.
— Matt Baume (@MattBaume) May 13, 2020
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robert pattinson making pasta pic.twitter.com/I7R0gveAGb
— Kate Halliwell (@katehalliwell) May 12, 2020
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sure why not let robert pattinson style his own fashion shoot from quarantine what could go wrong pic.twitter.com/7vZGcfYZaC
— Sarah Dollard (@snazdoll) May 12, 2020
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robert pattinson is my quarantine mood pic.twitter.com/AQrHbFf3y0
— skylo milo (@Ibabysky) May 12, 2020
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robert pattinson placing pasta into a pot for his piccolini cuscino: pic.twitter.com/oPcCD8dIre
— justine (@edwardsvoIvo) May 12, 2020