During the recent North American press junket for ‘Good Time”, Steven Weintraub of Collider.com sat down with Robert Pattinson and the Safdie Brothers for an exclusive interview. The excerpt below is a quote from Steven’s write-up. To watch the interview from the Collider website, click on the screencap above.

 

During the wide-ranging conversation they talked about how they came to work together, their process of writing realistic dialogue and how Pattinson approaches it as an actor, how they approach exposition, why they cut out a crazy sequence, why they always shoot with a lot of close-ups, the way all of them like to work on set, and so much more

Check out what they all had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by the official synopsis.

Robert Pattinson and the Safdie Brothers:

How Pattinson decided he wanted to work with the Safdie brothers based on a still from Heaven Knows What.
Why did they end up making Good Time instead of Uncut Gems?
Talk about Buddy Duress being called the new Joe Pesci and how great Goodfellas
How did they react to Martin Scorsese producing Uncut Gems?
Is Pattinson trying to talk his way into Uncut Gems now?
Talk about the process of writing realistic dialogue and how Pattinson approaches it as an actor.
How they approach exposition.
Talk about working with close-ups.
How many takes do they like to do for a scene?
How long was their first cut of the film?
Why they don’t believe in assembly cuts.
The crazy sequence they cut and why they took it out.