Nouvelle ITW Interessante de Robert Pattinson avec Collider. Il Parle de 'TLCOZ’, 'Good Time', 'High Life', Films de Superhero & Plus!
With The Lost City of Z now playing in theaters around the country, I recently sat down with Robert Pattinson
for an exclusive in-depth interview. During the wide-ranging
conversation he talked about got involved in the project, why he wanted
to work with James Gray, who decided his character
should have an epic beard, shooting on film, memorable moments from
filming which included an epic two-and-a-half-hour hike at 3 a.m.
through a pitch black forest, why he can’t wait for people to see the Safdie Brothers’ new film Good Time, his experience watching The Handmaiden in NYC, when he’ll be shooting Claire Denis’ High Life, if he’d like to be involved in a superhero movie, and so much more.
If you’re not familiar with The Lost City of Z, the film is based on David Grann‘s
best-selling book, “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in
the Amazon”, and it tells the incredible true story of British explorer
Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the
Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a
previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited
the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who
regard indigenous populations as “savages”, the determined Fawcett –
supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland)
and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson) – returns time and again to his
beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his
mysterious disappearance in 1925.
Loaded with exceptional performances, breathtaking cinematography,
and a fantastic script, I absolutely loved the film and strongly
recommend checking it out. It’s definitely one of my favorite films of
2017. For more on The Lost City of Z, you can read Chris Cabin’s glowing review.
Here’s what Robert Pattinson had to say:
COLLIDER: You won’t remember this, but I actually interviewed you in New York for Remember Me, back in 2010. So, you’ve landed on your feet.
ROBERT PATTINSON: God. So long ago now and it was 2010.
Yeah. Long time ago.
PATTINSON: Doesn’t feel like a very long time ago.
Time goes by very fast. There’s something I want to talk to
you about: I’m a legit fan of your acting. One of the things that I am
impressed by is the movies you’ve done. You’re going for cool roles with
good directors and you’re going after scripts. For example, I really
enjoyed your work in The Rover. And I think that one of the
things is a lot of actors have to work because of, you know, they have
to pay the mortgage. And I think that one of the benefits you have is
you gained that financial freedom after a certain franchise to be able
to pick the projects you want to do. Can you sort of talk about what
you’ve tried to do over the few years as an actor and the roles you’ve
been gravitating towards?
PATTINSON: Yeah, that’s completely right. I mean, I have been
incredibly fortunate to be able to do that. But I also think if you get
sort of early success there’s always this part of you which feels like,
“I need to address the imbalance, I need to kind of earn that success
after the fact” [laughs]. And so I try to find roles that are hard and
also, I still find now, even after I’ve done loads of really random
movies, directors are really surprised that I want to play the parts
that I want to play. They just assume that you want to only do the
honorable good guy lead who saves the day or dies at the end [laughs].
It’s like, I don’t know, I just kind of don’t think any audience would
want to see me do that, or I always think that you have to have a
certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a
public person as well as a character. So yeah, I generally try and find
ways to get my characters severely punished [laughs].
