Robert Pattinson talks Claire Denis and High Life with The Credits

Rob was interviewed by Loren King after wrapping up on #TheDevilAlltheTime. Here is an extract, but you can read the full interview at The Credit|MPAA:

Once he was cast, Pattinson says he wasn’t sure how to play Monte since the actor signed on when High Life was just a 23-page treatment that was less dialogue and more “detailed equations about how to get energy from a black hole,” he says. “I had zero clue how to approach it at all. Juliette had a complete idea of how she was going to play [her role] and knew exactly what the story was about. I still don’t know what it’s about after I’ve seen the movie. I can’t tell you what it’s really about or why it touches you in a certain way but it felt like that on the set as well. It felt like it was being led in subtle ways, with specific emotions and I found that easy to relate to. I didn’t need specific explanations of things.”

Denis’s immersive approach allowed the actor “to go with it,” he says. “She has a pervasive personality and in this enclosed set. It was like if you just gave yourself to it, it was like being in Claire’s mind all the time. I must have played every scene a billion ways. The more I let myself go with it, the easier it became rather than trying to wrangle with some kind of focussed idea. I realized this over the last two years. You’re much better off not having a full or tight idea of who the character is. Claire’s style is so much about the way the body moves, sensuality, and textures and things.”