Rob chatted with Amber Wilkinson of EyeForFilm.co.uk about the challenges and rewards of “High Life” at the film’s European premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival. We’ve shared a couple of excerpts from the interview, including the challenges of casting a baby. You can read the interview in its entirety HERE.

“The night before, I was trying to bond with these kids for two-and-a-half hours and the only way I could make them even slightly happy was to pretend to be a monster. They weren’t even happy, they would just stop crying for one second and scream instead. I was like, ‘This is not going to work, unless you want to have an entire movie with a baby that’s looking absolutely terrified.’ So we cast Scarlett, who’s one of my best friend’s kids like the night before we started shooting and, so, I didn’t want to be horrible to her because she’s my friend’s kid.”

“As for the less mainstream nature of his more recent films, he says: “I don’t feel like I’m ‘properly’ arthouse – these are big names. I don’t feel like I’m trying to be super-obscure.”

“I think most super-commercial movies, generally the directors have only done TV commercials before or they are random people. With mainstream movies, I feel like I’ve seen them all before. The amount of scripts you get that are quite formulaic and I don’t know what the point is.” 

The Hollywood Reporter asked Rob who or what film inspired him to act and although we already knew about his obsession with Jack Nicholson and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, it was great to see him included in this short clip.  Rob’s short little stint starts at around 0.20

It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t checking A24’s website almost daily – mainly for The Lighthouse but today they’ve added Robert Pattinson #HighLife under “coming soon”.   The dedicated page is still under construction, but no doubt stay tuned for updates.  2019 isn’t that far away – says the woman who is yet to see #Damsel.

Given the reactions the other day post premiere, I did see a few people saying this was right up A24’s alley and well – they were right.  Fabulous news for all involved, now I just hope Australia gets on board.  

According to Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has acquired North American distribution rights to the provocative sci-fi drama High Life, which made its Toronto Film Festival debut Sunday night at Roy Thomson Hall. The film marks French filmmaker Claire Denis’ long-anticipated English-language debut, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin. Script was written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox. 

Deal was low seven figures, and A24 will go with a traditional theatrical release.

My interpretation of “traditional theatrical release” seems to suggest theatres first and not VOD or Netflix.  Time will tell.

In the meantime, A24 also came to the party with the following tweets:

The Robert Pattinson-A24 Quartet is nearly complete.

— A24 (@A24) September 13, 2018

The Rover, Good Time, High Life, The Lighthouse

— A24 (@A24) September 13, 2018

You may recall that Madants is one of the production companies for #HighLife and they shared these great photos on their Facebook page

It’s impossible to not get excited when a car turns up at the entrance to a red carpet and out steps Rob … but this clip really shows how difficult it is for him to please everyone and how demanding fans are.  Have to take my hat off to Rob – he’s a saint.

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