• Robert Pattinson says Nolan's follow-up to Dunkirk is "unreal"
  • He wasn't allowed to take the script out of a single room though, which is par for the course for Nolan's stuff these days
  • "I've been a little wary of doing big movies for years and years, but there's just something about Chris Nolan's stuff"

If you've been paying any attention to what Robert Pattinson's been up to over the last five years or so you'll know he's become the go-to guy for slightly off-kilter indie thrillers and a favourite of heavyweight directors like Werner Herzog, Claire Denis and David Cronenberg.

Last month Christopher Nolan drafted him in for his follow-up to Dunkirk, along with BlacKkKlansman's John David Washington and Elizabeth Debicki from Widows. We don't know much about what it'll actually entail yet and speaking to USA Today, Pattinson said that he'd been "sworn to secrecy" about the project – but then again, for someone who's been sworn to secrecy Pattinson seemed remarkably chatty on the subject.

He described the film as a "massive, innovative action blockbuster", and added that the security operation had been so intense that he wasn't allowed to take the script outside of a single room, which he was basically trapped in until he'd finished.

"I got locked in a room to read the script - I don't have it myself," he said. "I've been a little wary of doing big movies for years and years, but there's just something about Chris Nolan's stuff. He seems like the only director now who can do what is essentially a very personal, independent movie that has huge scale. I read the script and it's unreal."