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Here they are, as promised. I LOVE this interview so much – so many adorable facial expressions. Rob’s are the best & my most fave in the world – yeah stating obvious I know!
Sonic Scoop interviewed Carter Burwell and the only reason I’m posting this is to confirm the one thing which I’ve highlighted and underlined LOL:
“Cool. What about the fact that Breaking Dawn is a two-parter? Knowing you’re also going to be scoring Part II, does where the story goes from here enter into the picture at all for you? When you’re thinking of these themes?
Well, I’ve read the script, but I haven’t seen any of Part II yet. But I did have to write a theme that Edward plays on camera in Part II. Bill wanted to echo the “Bella’s Lullaby” scene from the first Twilight in the last part, and so I had to write a lullaby for that well in advance so Rob Pattinson could learn the fingering – he’s a musician and prides himself on being able to do that. [my emphasis]
So we know that’s an important part of Part II. And we hint at that theme in Part I. But honestly, it was quite a challenge for me to get my head around the 80 minutes of music for this one. My scores are usually half that. So I didn’t give very much thought to Part II while I was doing Part I.”
OMFG first we are going to have Georges, then we are going to have Edward playing piano and then Eric *_________________________* not to mention the “other projects” Rob hinted at during that 13 minutes of audio I posted this morning. We thought 2011 was going to be Rob’s year, but I think it’s going to pale in comparison to 2012.
Over 6 minutes of Rob is heaven & I like that the interviewer asked Rob some different things too instead of the same old. Won’t spoil, will let you watch. To do so, just click on Rob.
Well he might not specifically talk Rob with Indiewire, he was talking being friends with Viggo, but I just wanted to reiterate this
“But having said that, I just did a movie without him — “Cosmopolis” — because you really aren’t doing an actor a favor by miscasting him. So in fact, casting is one of the main strengths a director can have that people don’t know about. It’s really crucial that you know how to cast your movie because it’s more than half the battle. If you make a huge casting error, it can destroy your film before you’ve shot a single scene. You’re juggling tons of things. Do you want this actor? Can he do it? Can he do it beautifully? Does he want to do it? Can you afford him? Is his fame such that it will support the budget you have? …”
“Working with Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis, is it that same process of really focusing on your actor and giving him a lot of freedom?
He’s in every scene. It’s quite a different structure from A Dangerous Method. I think the only similarity really is that there’s a lot of dialogue, but it’s a very different kind of dialogue, a completely different kind of movie. I did shoot it even more ascetically. We finished 5 days early, and I did my director’s cut in two days. That’s a record for me. And yet it seems to work really well. Basically you’re not giving your editors much to work with. At moments he was begging me to do coverage and I wouldn’t. I said I don’t need that closeup, I don’t want that. I’m confident that letting it hang in the long shot is the way to do it. There are classic mistakes that young directors make, they get so enamored of this tricky dolly shot or steadicam shot, then they don’t want to do closeups because they think they’ve done this genius shot, then in the editing room they realize all the emotion, they can’t see it. you have to do closeups. But that’s a lesson you learn very early on in your career as a director. You have to have unshakeable confidence if you’re not going to do that coverage. You have to know this is exactly what I want it to be.”
David I have no doubt that you know “exactly” how you want that film to be.
“Viggo Mortensen, Magneto, and a movie with Rob Pattinson next, with all that Twilight hoopla around him. You don’t mind stars with franchise baggage it seems. It’s like with Viggo with The Lord of the Rings, frankly. We’ve talked about this a lot. He wouldn’t have been a candidate for A History of Violence if it hadn’t been for Lord of the Rings because he wasn’t well-known, he was really kind of a B actor, character actor before Lord of the Ringsmade him a star. Therefore, he would not be somebody who could get you the financing that you need. It’s something about casting that people don’t think about but as a director, you really have to think about it because your producers make you think about it and so do your distributors. You say, “I want this guy,” and they say “Forget it! Nobody knows who he is and we can’t build a campaign around him to release to movie.” So not only do you have to get the right guy, you have to figure out who that guy is creatively but he has to want to do it to, you have to be able to afford him, he has to be available at the time you want him and he has to have the star power to get your movie financed. It’s very tricky casting a movie and for a director it’s a huge part of what you do, to weave your way through this mine field and end up with the right guy in your movie. Because if you make a huge miscasting mistake, it can kill your movie before you’ve even shot a foot of film.
Have you ever made any huge casting mistakes? Yes, but I won’t talk about them! [laughs] But not enough to kill the movie, I must say. There are only one or two that I would maybe have rethought. But you get lucky sometimes and sometimes the right person not only says yes and sometimes the right person says no. In other words, for some reason you’ve decided to go with somebody and you later realize, “Thank god that guy didn’t do the movie because this guy is the right guy.” But about Rob Pattinson, yeah, of course, if it weren’t for Twilight I don’t think we could have financed the movie around him because he wouldn’t be known. But aside from that, that was a good thing not a bad thing and of course I have to think about all that.
Especially with a movie that’s so focused on one character. Absolutely. You make a bad choice and you’ve killed your movie right away or at least you’re staggering through it trying desperately to compensate for what’s not there that should have been there. I felt really lucky to have Rob, he’s fantastic, and I think people will see that it’s obvious. I don’t think it’s going to be a surprise.”
“Cronenberg: Actors need to scare themselves. When I started to talk to [Robert Pattinson for "Cosmopolis"], it became apparent that he was terrified, as Keira was terrified to do Sabina, and that’s always good.
Why did you want Pattinson for the part in “Cosmopolis“?
Cronenberg: Well I’d watched a movie that I think not too many people have seen called “Little Ashes,” where he plays Salvador Dali, and he plays him as a young man and plays him with a Spanish accent. So I thought, well that’s really interesting, I mean this was before he was a “Twilight” star, because, it takes a particular handsome young man to decide to play that role. And then I did watch some of the “Twilight” stuff and I watched “Remember Me” and I felt that he had a lot going on. He’s supposed to be a super smart billionaire at a young age, 28 he says in the movie. It’s intuition. I didn’t know him as a person, but I’d figured from the movies that I’d seen, like “Little Ashes,” that I could maybe interest him in doing something that’s not “Twilight” obviously.”
So yeah see Little Ashes NOT Twilight impressed David. What a freakin surprise NOT. I know there are loads of us who LOVE Rob’s performance as Dali and I knew it would get him recognised by the right people. Sorry I just get sick of people telling me if it wasn’t for Twilight we wouldn’t even know or remember who Rob is … like I said on Twitter … when I hear that all I hear is “wa wa wa wa wa”.
You know the drill, want to read the full articles click on hyperlinks. Thanks to RobPattzNews for the tip on the last three articles.
Rob on our TV screens yet again – just LOVE it. Channel Eleven (Australia) are screening Twilight Edward this Sunday, 27 November at 8.30PM. Rob’s entrance into the cafeteria never fails to take my breath away *sigh* I’ll be watching for the – how many times have I watched now ?? *scratches head* lol
I love how Rob always looks a little wary in these shots – except for the last one because yeah I wouldn’t mind a photo of Rob looking at me like that *giggles*
I’ve said it before, but when there’s no interviewer and just Rob answering questions … that’s almost as good a s Rob-O-Vision. Anyway we’ve seen some of this before in the Allocine interview, but he talks Cosmopolis at about 3.40. Rob look nervous … don’t be. We know it’s going to be good.
Thanks Nani from Pattinsonworld for sending us the link.
