Hillary Butler of Filmoria sat down with Rob, Guy Pearce, and David Michôd during the U.K. press junket to chat about their new film, ‘The Rover’. We’ve included a couple of Rob-related excerpts from the interview, as well as some new photos of Rob, Guy and David, and you can check out the full interview on the Filmoria site. Great read!

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The Rover was shot over the course of seven weeks in a remote part of South Australia. That obviously had its challenges for the production, but it was also a bit of a welcome change for Pattinson, who is constantly plagued by paparazzi under usual circumstances. “There wasn’t really anyone out there,” the actor laughingly explained, “There was a pub with an English person working in it.” However the actor, who made a name for himself in the extremely successful Twilight franchise continued to say, “It was incredibly peaceful. You really realize the value of your anonymity again.”

Pattinson also notes that working on a smaller, independent film can also come with its advantages. “When you have a big budget it creates expectations of how you’re supposed to be treated. When there is literally no other option than staying in a shipping container it’s kind of nice. Everyone is totally equal.” Pearce, who also has experience working on blockbusters, most recently in Marvel’s Iron Man 3, discussed the differences adding, “Often really the differences are just the people you are working with. Obviously when it comes down to it and you’re standing in front of the camera and you’re acting and you’ve got a director who is wanting a particular thing and you’re just trying to successfully do what it is that you do there is sort of no difference really. But you stand back and there are lots of executives around being nervous about lots of money… In a way i prefer the more intimate situations.”

Pattinson and Pearce did a lot to get into their character’s minds, with Pearce even cutting his own hair with a pair of scissors for the part, mimicking what Eric, in a time of unrest, would have done. Pattinson took to annoying the man in charge of keeping the firearms organized on set to get into character. Whatever worked for the actors clearly translated to screen, with both of them managing to successfully portray the powerful emotions their very different characters had to struggle through. As would be expected, The Rover is full of unrelenting scenes of tension, violence and emotional grit. However there’s one scene in particular where Pattinson’s character really manages to cut through all that, adding some balance. “I wanted there to be, at that moment in the film, a particularly dark juncture for Rob’s character, for there to be a moment that reminded the audience that his character was just a kid who in different circumstances would be just listening to music and thinking about girls. It felt very important to me that you have that one moment of that,” Michôd stated,”The movie can be a little relentlessly grim without those moments of levity.”