Robert Pattinson #TheDevilalltheTime Featured in Sight & Sound Magazine
Rob and The Devil All the Time are featured in the October 2020 issue of Sight & Sound. Below is an excerpt about Rob and his performance:
Preston Teagardin is the gluttonous and lustful preacher who arrives in Knockemstiff and instantly turns his attention towards the local teenage girls, winning their trust with his honeyed words and grooming them with the promise of private rides in his car. One of the most unsettling scenes in the film is one of its quietest, when Teagardin takes Arvin’s younger foster sister Lenora (Eliza Scanlen) on such a drive and encourages her to disrobe for him. “To show yourself, as the Lord made His first children, is to truly turn yourself to Him”, he tells her and she hesitatingly complies, her faith and trust having been weaponised against her. Pattinson fully throws himself into the role, giving Teagardin a disarming, seductive quality while refusing to soften his repellent behavior. “I’m pretty sure Rob was the first one to come in on the movie”, Campos says. “He said he wanted to play Teagardin and I said OK. He had a sense of that character I think he was drawn to how complicated Teagardin was and where he could go with the character.