With the release of The Rover on DVD in the UK, this interview surfaced with Huffington Post.  Some of it seems familiar especially the keeping out of tabloids, and perhaps it’s pieced together, but I thought I’d share it anyway.

“As his latest film, ‘The Rover’ filmed on Australian soil by the talented hand of David Michod (‘Animal Kingdom’) and co-starring the mercurial Guy Pearce, is released on DVD, Robert Pattinson tells HuffPostUK about the demands of the project, why he’s happy NOT playing James Dean in his next film, and how he deals – or tries to – with tireless tabloid attention.

How would you describe the themes of ‘The Rover’?

I think it’s just a story about survivors. I think they’re quite simple people in extraordinary circumstances. They’re trying to figure out how to live when it seems like there’s not a lot of hope. It seems like there’s nothing to do tomorrow, so what are you supposed to do at any point during your day? Even the gang I’m in, they’re stealing money and there’s nothing to use the money for at all. It’s very difficult to know why to keep living if everything seems totally worthless, and yet people do.

Would you say that the film has a political subtext? It’s set after an economic collapse…?

There’s definitely a message shooting out of the film. There were weird physical manifestations of it when we were shooting it. If you look at some of the shots, there were these weird massive mines, which they’re still digging, but they’ve basically just devastated the landscape. You stand there and look at it and there’s absolutely no wildlife anymore – nothing’s going to be able to grow in these places for hundreds of years. And it’s not just that bit of land: it’s wrecked absolutely everything around it, even if it doesn’t look like it has. You kind of think, ‘For what? – so we can sit around and play video games?’

From Hamburg Film Fund Schlesig–Holstein:

“For his latest project Anton Corbijn has returned to the Hanseatic city. Post Republic is currently preparing the color grading for the Australian-Canadian-German co-production of Life.

“It’s wonderful to be here again,” says Anton Corbijn. Dutch director and photographer who shot A Most Wanted Man in Hamburg and was enthusiastic about the locations and the special atmosphere in the Hanseatic city. His latest film Life tells the story of Hollywood photographer Dennis Stock, who meets an unknown James Dean in 1955 at a party.  After that special meeting a wonderful friendship begins that leads to the world-famous portraits of a Hollywood icon.

Anton Corbijn who became famous as a photographer mainly by his portraits of musicians said the topic was very appealing to him.  Corbijn has also worked on films with artists and personalities – his first film [Control] was on the life of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the band Joy Division.

The German producer of Life is Wolfgang Müller (Barry Films) and it is expected to be released in German cinemas in 2015 to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of James Dean. The main roles are played by Dane Dehaan and Robert Pattinson.  The Hamburg Film Fund Schlesig–Holstein has supported the film with €250,000 in production.”

Translated with the help of Google Translate.

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I came across this interview of Benedict from the Philippine Daily Inquirer that has a quick mention of Lost City:

“I don’t suffer from being a workaholic,” he emphasized. Laughing, he said, “At heart, I am incredibly lazy. I love nothing better than to kick back, see friends and family and just go on a few more holidays. I did actually have quite a lot of time at the beginning of this year. I was going to be doing a film, ‘The Lost City of Z’ with (director) James Gray. That was put on hold because of problems with the location. Hopefully, it will start in spring next year.

“The Lost…” is James’ adaptation of David Grann’s bestseller. He will portray Lt. Colonel Percival “Percy” Fawcett, a British artillery officer, archaeologist and explorer who supposedly discovered a mythical city in Brazil’s Amazon jungles in 1925.”

Fingers crossed.

 

Just don’t read Rob’s last answer if you don’t want to feel the pangs of the what should have been this week *notcrying*.  Oh wait I just saw they referred to Rob as “Brit Babe” bwah

 

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LMAO Rob’s response to what his next film with David Cronenberg will involve.  From the Winnipeg Free Press:

“The Free Press spoke with Pattinson about Round 2 with Cronenberg:

FP: So, again with the limo sex?

RP: Yeah, it’s weird. Apparently, Cosmopolis was just the audition for this one. I’m thinking that’s what I’m going to use as my head shot: me leaning out of the limo window.

FP: David Cronenberg likes to use certain actors, such as Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons, more than once. Do you have to have a certain rapport to be a member of that club?

RP: I think it was just luck at the beginning. I really get on with him. He’s a really nice person, and he’s fun to be around. I did consider that he likes to use the same cast for years and years, so that’s my welfare cheque.

FP: It must be gratifying that he sees you playing roles as different as a solitary, somewhat unhinged billionaire in Cosmopolis and as a hungry Hollywood wannabe in Maps to the Stars.

RP: Very different characters, yes, but both in limos and both in black suits. That’s got to be the through line. I’m thinking in the next one, I’m going to be run over by a limo.

FP: You live in Los Angeles, so do you recognize the reality of this movie?

RP: Definitely. Some of the characters seem to be archetypes, but I’ve met a lot of them. I remember certain scenes, like the scenes with all the young actors when they’re all bitching about each other. That really reminded me of when I first started coming to L.A., before camera phones, when you would go to nightclubs and there would be really famous 15-year-olds and you could see them openly drinking and it was so weird. There was like a different set of rules. But now it’s not the same anymore, because kids in bars get found out immediately. But I remember coming from England and seeing that, because I was still not being let into clubs in England when I was 20 and here, there were kids drinking!

FP: Are you more comfortable in an ensemble as opposed to carrying the movie as in Cosmopolis?

RP: On something like this, there’s obviously a lot less pressure, so I like it a lot. When you don’t have to drive the movie forward, it’s not as hard a decision to make.”

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