Robert Pattinson’s Tenet and The Devil All the Time ranked at No. 2 and 6 respectively

According to Screen Rant, IMDB has ranked Tenet and The Devil All the Time as No. 2 and 6 respectively in the 10 best movies released during the Pandemic. From Screen Rant:

2. Tenet – 7.8

Two agents are on a mission that could be vital to preventing World War III. However, unlike any spy film, this secret organization, known as Tenet, utilizes the concept of time-reversal as the only means of saving humanity and its future.

Having changed its release date three times, Tenet became one of the first major films to be released in theaters since the shutdown. Nolan once again presents another mind-blowing movie with great performances by the cast and spectacular action sequences. Tenet is still currently in theaters worldwide.

6. The Devil All The Time – 7.1

The Devil All the Time is the latest Netflix film that will leave viewers emotional and heart-broken. Arvin Russell, played by Tom Holland, does all he can to protect his loved ones in a town filled with corrupt and wicked people. Through a series of tragic stories from several characters, their stories eventually cross paths, with Arvin at the center of it all.

As an adaptation of the novel, The Devil All the Time presents a depressing yet vengeful story that centers around several character arcs. Specifically, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson gave some of the best performances throughout the film in an already huge ensemble cast. The Devil All the Time is streaming on Netflix.

Robert Pattinson featured in the behind the scenes video of The Devil All the Time

This BTS scene was recently shared by ETOnline, but here it has been spliced before the actual scene which gives us the before and after which is great to see.

Robert Pattinson & Director/Co-Writer Antonio Campos discuss acting, accents, inspirations, and the making of The Devil All The Time.

Antonio Campos talks Casting Robert Pattinson in The Devil All the Time

UPDATED: 26 September 2020 – LA Times & Final Draft added to top of post (previous interviews after the cut)

26 September 2020: From LA Times:

Antonio, from the moment the trailer for ‘The Devil All the Time” was released people have been talking about Robert Pattinson as a sleazy Southern preacher. I don’t know what your conversations were like before shooting, but as a director, what do you do when Robert Pattinson shows up with that performance?

Campos: You go give him a big hug [and say], “Let’s do this.” It’s exactly what Sean was saying like with Carrie and that scene; you get these great actors, [and] you gotta embrace it and encourage it. Rob was very close to the vest about his process leading up to shooting. We talked about character, but he didn’t want to, like, share his accent with me. We kept trying to schedule dialect coach sessions with him. And he would always find some reason for it not to happen. And it was clear he didn’t want to engage in that process, which was really important in some ways, because everybody had to be from West Virginia or Ohio. So we really had to nail that sound.

But Rob kind of came from another part of the world. So it didn’t really matter that he sounded like anybody else; he sounded like he was [from] Tennessee, but also there’s nothing else to compare him to. So he really kind of had the freedom to run with that. And so when he showed up and he came into the scene and he did that accent and he was talking the way he talked, it was like, “OK, there’s the guy.”

And I will say that my No. 1 note to Rob in this movie was, “Go as far as you want to go.” I was like, “Don’t be scared to go big. You cannot go too big.” And he definitely did it at times, which is really funny because he would make himself laugh when he went there. But we always knew that we could rein it in. I just love performances that swing for the fences.

From Final Draft (link to podcast or watch YouTube below)

Antonio and Paulo Campos talking Rob – they talk about Rob wanting to be Teagardin, what it was like for them to see the characters in their mind coming to life and Rob’s performance. It starts around 15:08:

New behind-the-scenes photo of Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, and Antonio Campos on the set of “The Devil All the Time”.

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"This is from my favorite scene in the entire film." ANTONIO CAMPOS takes us behind the scenes of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME – his haunting Southern Gothic thriller just released on Netflix and led by an incredible ensemble cast including Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. See the exclusive on-set photo gallery in our Journal, accompanied by Campos’ lovingly dedicated notes to his cast and crew. (Link in bio) #thedevilallthetime @thedevilallthetime_

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Erik Singer thinks the music and melody of Robert Pattinson’s accent in The Devil All the Time is fascinating work

IndieWire spoke with Hollywood dialect coach Erik Singer (apparently the internet’s go to expert on accents) who had this to say about Rob’s accent in The Devil All the Time:

“I mostly loved it,” Singer said of Pattinson’s accent. “First of all, I haven’t seen this noted anywhere, but the character’s actually from a different world. He’s from down in Tennessee. The fact that he does sound a little bit different from everybody else is in support of the story that they’re telling. There are a great many sharply and specifically observed features that are right for the place and time.”

“He’s a preacher who is absolutely in love with his capacities with language,” Singer added, noting the exuberance in Pattinson’s vocal delivery is a character trait and thus not a slight on his accent work. “He’s buying into his own magic, and he’s intoxicated by it.”

The one flaw Singer shared about Pattinson’s accent was his character’s opening monologue about chicken livers, to which Singer said he believed the actor was “not completely dialed in.” Other than that, Singer said, “I think his music and rhythm and melody is really fascinating work. It’s both of the place and time, but also of the character and his profession, and deeply idiosyncratic.”