Robert Pattinson Australia

PRINT: Signature Reads “Ear Bugs and Broken Noses: On the Making of ‘The Lost City of Z’”

 

Tony Phillips of Signature Reads attended the New York Film Festival and here is his take on it.  I’ve posted the extract in relation to Robert, but you should click on the link for a reminder of what they endured bringing us this wonderful film:

For Pattinson, who plays Fawcett’s heavily bearded compatriot Henry Costin, the uncharted nature of the project was what drew him to it. “There’s a part in the movie where they look at a map,” Pattinson remembers of darkest Amazon, “and an entire continent is basically unexplored.” Ditto the lower half of Pattison’s face, which is covered in thick scruff for most of the film. “Half the pople who see the movie won’t even recognize me,” he laughs, explaining he couldn’t wait to shave it off after the shoot, describing the whole process of growing the beard “laborious” and “disgusting.” He also needed to put back on some of the thirty-five pounds he lost while shooting.

“I never told Rob this,” Gray pipes up, “and thank God we’re months passed, but – close your ears, Robby.” Gray goes on to detail a scene wherein the explorers push farther into the rainforest by dragging a raft up the shallow waters of Colombia’s Don Diego River. “At one point,” Gray remembers, “I see this thing run up the side so I call over one of the guides and say, ‘There aren’t crocodiles in this river?’” The guide responded no, nothing like that, so Gray moved onto the next take. “I see it again,” Gray says, “and I’m like, ‘That’s a crododile!’ So I call the guy over again and he says, ‘No, no, no, that’s not a crodidile. It’s a black caiman.” Gray takes a moment to punch this new information into the production’s SAT phone and “it’s like a larger crocodile! It was the worst news I ever had.”