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PRINT: Safdie Bros Talk Robert Pattinson at The Independent Spirit: A Directors Roundtable ~ 28 February 2018

Robert Pattinson says he felt somehow attached to the Safdies via a Heaven Knows What still

 

The Spirit Awards will be upon us within 24 hours.  Film Independent held a Directors Close Up Roundtable and this is what Josh and Benny Safdie had to say about Rob and Good TIme:

Robert Pattinson knew he wanted to work with the Safdie brothers after seeing a still from their 2014 drama Heaven Knows What. That’s right—a single still. “He wrote an email that was extremely confident, because he can be, and he said, ‘I feel somehow attached to the purpose of your life via this still,’” recalled Josh.

Benny added, “There was an intense desire to do anything on his part. He just wanted to disappear, is what he said to us.” And the duo took him at his word.

Location shooting and union vs. non-union shoots were two of the crucial aspects of filmmaking the panel discussed. “We were operating under a project called Untitled Social Work Projects,” said Josh. Because, he said, if the public had gotten word about Twilight star Pattinson shooting in Queens it would have caused a mass frenzy.

“Not one person noticed,” he said. “We spent months and months with Rob developing the character so that by the time we were shooting, he would go through hair and makeup before he even left basically where he was staying,” The duo mentioned that they shot without the unions, as their budget would have skyrocketed otherwise.

Rob and Good Time are nominated for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Male Lead, Best Supporting Female and Best Supporting Male.  Fingers crossed they walk away with at least one of these awards.