Robert Pattinson wasn’t too young to star in #HighLife thanks to delay in filming

 

The Observer posted an article today in which Claire Denis said the following about Rob and High Life:

The actor she’s enthused about now is Robert Pattinson, who stars in her upcoming High Life, an English-language drama set in space. She didn’t choose Pattinson, she says, although she’s rated him since Twilight; he approached her. “I thought he was too young, too good-looking. But then the film was delayed and he said, ‘You see? I’m getting older.’”

What High Life will be like, once she’s finished the special effects, is anyone’s guess. What we do know is that the English dialogue is not, as was reported, written by Zadie Smith and Nick Laird; Denis didn’t see eye to eye with them. “We don’t have the same philosophy of life.” Conversely, she got on famously with Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic-Danish artist behind the legendary Tate Modern “sun” installation, whose signature yellow light somehow feeds into High Life’s overall concept. “He was very important to the film because I can talk to him about space. I also worked with a marvellous astrophysicist, Aurélien Barrau, and now they’re working together too.”

Claire Denis is so bad ass – no wonder Rob called her punk.  She’s my kind of woman.

Click on the link to read the full interview.

Thanks Sue for heads up.