David Cronenberg: “Robert Pattinson Is A Wonderful Actor & He Will Surprise People"
Interview with David Cronenberg for The French Magazine Metro
David Cronenberg: “Robert Pattinson will surprise you”
Cosmopolis is one of the most anticipated films of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. His director spoke to Metro.
A few months after telling the disagreement between Freud and Jung in A Dangerous Method, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg returns to theaters with Cosmopolis, in theaters on May 25th. The adaptation of a short novel by the American author Don DeLillo in which a young businessman, Eric Packer, drive through New York in a limousine. The beginning of a journey that also implies sexual violence and that will leave no character apart. Alongside Robert Pattinson, star of Twilight saga, there is also Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton and two frenchies, Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Amalric. Awarded with the Special Jury Prize for Crash in 1996, and in competition in 2005 with History of Violence, David Cronenberg spoke to Metro.
How did you approach the adaptation of Don Lillo
’s novel?I wrote the script in six days. The first three days, I transcribed the dialogues in their entirety. The next three, I added descriptions for each scene. In short you will find all the dialogue from Don DeLillo, because it is a great language. However I have not kept the interior monologues. Instead, you get visual ideas that the book aroused in me. I’m very excited about the film and even more by Robert Pattinson’s performance.
This is a choice that seems surprising to some of your fans …Rob is a wonderful actor and I think he will surprise people . He is young, he’s handsome, he has had great success with Twilight and many people concluded that he was a bad actor. I'm aware of that . But I can assure you he is very good and he works very seriously.
(Kate: Nods Yes he does) The best way. Besides I can not wait to rework again with him. I even said I would love to have him and Viggo Mortensen in an upcoming film.
(Kate: ooh really, hmmmmmmmmmmmm)
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