The Washington Post | Associated Press recently interviewed Rob and Claire Denis, below is an extract:
Pattinson, 32, tends to elicit grins from Denis, 72, when he speaks of his youth like a distant past. After the actor says he was happy it took years to make “High Life†— “I was quite young when we first met. I think I was like 28†— Denis replies, “Yeah, you look so old now.â€
“I think I actually got bigger or something,†says Pattinson. “When I saw the movie, it was one of the first times I was like, ‘Oh, it looks like an adult.’â€
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Seeking that kind of holistic acting was part of what drew Pattinson to Denis.
“My main thing in any kind of performance is trying to combat self-consciousness,†he says. “It’s so much to do with using your whole body. I was also kind of scared of doing it, and didn’t really know how to use my own body. A lot of the movies I’ve done before are quite still.â€
Maybe what Denis and Pattinson most have in common is a desire to be unconstrained by prescribed contexts: genres, attitudes, expectations. Denis, who’s planning to reunite with Pattinson for an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s “The Stars at Noon,†says she’s increasingly interested less in even a film’s scene-to-scene cohesion and more in capturing moments, untethered and free.
“This is something I feel more and more,†says Denis while Pattinson nods. “It’s great for the crew and for me. It’s great for acting. We are together at that moment. We live the same moment. Otherwise, we are there checking on continuity and the actors are alone, carrying their continuity on their back. It’s not fun.â€
You can read the full interview here. Also the pic above is a clean version on the one A24 posted