Robert Pattinson ‘I can guarantee you, at the end of the day, I’m an angel’

 

Bill Goodykoontz recently interviewed Robert and this is what he had to say:

Question: Without giving too much away, there’s a scene in which a dye pack goes off in a car, and you are covered in dye. How did you shoot that?

Answer: That’s just the dye pack going off in the car (laughs). I mean, that’s just what happened. And it’s almost impossible to get it off. And also I had bronchitis at the time, so I was breathing in this basically, like, red paint dust, so I was coughing out everywhere. It was absolutely disgusting. But yeah, it would be difficult to get away with a robbery (laughs).

Q: It doesn’t seem like a good career move.

A: People think that bank robbery has gone away as a crime in a lot of ways. But people do these little bank robberies all the time.

Q: It sounds like you’ve done your bank-robbery research.

A: I was talking to a guy, a 21-year-old guy who was in prison — well, he’d just been released, but he got put in when he was 21. He had robbed like 70 banks or something. And he did it the exact same way, just robbing them for like five or six grand at a time. Apparently that’s a big thing, because every bank has an insurance policy. Most banks don’t have an armed guard anymore. If most banks had an armed guard there would be no bank robberies whatsoever, pretty much. But a bank robbery, yeah, a teller will pretty much give you the money, basically.

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The Lost City of Z in F Magazine (Italy)

  

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Five Questions with James Gray

Turning this movie was adventurous?

A hell from the viewpoint of physical: 4 months in the forest at 40 degrees, between snakes, spiders, crocodiles and malaria. We’re back Exhausted and many members of the Troupe got sick.”

Where did you shoot?

“In Colombia along the course of the Rio Don Diego. Shooting in the jungle was inspired by the originals shots of the explorer Fawcett and light for paintings by Henri Rousseau.

He is not the first to be inspired by Percy Fawcett.

“Yes, about him, Conan Doyle, He modeled the professor George Challenger in novel The Lost World, which in turn inspired Michael Crichton’s world with Jurassic Park and Lost. “ 

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The Jungle Obsession That Devours Everything

We are from the parts of Apocalypse Now of Coppola or Aguirre, Herzog goddess. That is: the jungle is a heart of Darkness and the hero of the turn is prey to an obsession that it places it in the dimension of myth and at the same time it damns. Only this time behind the camera is James Gray, More controlled director, less extreme than a Coppola or Herzog. The result is a classic film, in which, drawing from David Grann’s book Looking for Z The Lost City (Corbaccio), Gray tells us the true story of the English explorer Percy Fawcett who, sent by the Crown to trace the borders between Brazil and Bolivia, thought he had found the remains of a lost civilization, much older than the European white one. To accompany him between malaria fevers, ambushes, indios traitors and fatigues, a small one Group of guides and carriers. Twice Percy came back in Amazonia, sacrificing to her obsession wife, children and all that Which had then disappeared swallowed from nothing. Presented at the festival Of Berlin with success, the film tackles intelligently a very present theme: the white man’s racism that has always been to consider other inferior civilizations. “All they deserve to have dignity, whether it be Indigenous or women, “said the director.

Thanks Posh.

Robert Pattinson talks about wanting to bring the story of the Band to the screen

  

IO Donna (Italy) posted a new interview with Robert, although to me it seems like a cut and paste job from previous interviews and articles (although this could have been gleaned from round table interviews I believe were given in Cannes).  Even the last question, as much as I want to believe it, has been floating around since 2012.  I don’t want to get too excited – hopefully when he says he wants to bring to the screen he means he wants to play Richard Manuel – Robert playing a pianist is like a dream come true … yes?  Anyway – here it is thanks to Google translate – make of it what you want:

Robert Pattinson, “To turn good time I lived in a basement and ate canned tuna”

In the last film he plays a criminal who assaults the banks. To get well into the part you really are burrowing into a subscale in New York. He had already experienced it: at the time of “Twilight” had to barricade himself in the hotel to escape the fans unleashed…

My first encounter with Robert Pattinson dates back to the fall of 2008: the occasion offered him the first episode of Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s saga became, shortly thereafter, a global phenomenon that transformed its three protagonists – Robert, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – in the world’s most popular diva-teen.

The meeting with him was repeated at the exit of each new chapter : it was evident that for Pattinson, in his early twenties, the weight of fame and success proved unbearable. He lived holed up in a hotel or barricaded behind walls of bodyguards. Today recalls that experience as a descent into hell: he, who aspired to be a method actor (follower of the Stanislavski method acting) was instead became a matinee idol , pursued by millions of teenagers. An image that since then, methodically, is committed to unhinge. He left Los Angeles and returned to live in London. He declined to commercial film offers, turning instead choosing independent works and characters are light years away from the diaphanous hero of Twilight ..

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Robert Pattinson and Good Time Featured in Cinema Scope

 

Here is the full “Spotlight” article featuring GOOD TIME.

  
 

Thanks Posh.

Transcript concerning GOOD TIME after the cut *contains spoilers*

Robert Pattinson featured in Vanity Fair (Italy)

Be still my beating heart.

 

Robert Pattinson Giving the Performance of his Career in GOOD TIME

 

It features a strong performance from the criminally underrated Robert Pattinson, Collider

[Pattinson] once again demonstrating his capacity and range in a commanding, robust performance, The Hollywood News

Not sure if you’re following my retweets of the initial reaction to the film at Cannes this morning, but to say they are overwhelmingly good is an understatement.  Here’s the first print reactions, I will update regularly so stay tuned.  UPDATE: Here’s the link for LETTERBOXD (currently has positive reviews as at 26 June 2017  – may include spoilers – this will update automatically as users add their reviews)

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The Hollywood Reporter (#Cannes70)

Led by Robert Pattinson giving arguably his most commanding performance to date as a desperate bank robber cut from the same cloth as Al Pacino’s Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, this is a richly textured genre piece that packs a visceral charge in its restless widescreen visuals and adrenalizing music, which recalls the great mood-shaping movie scores of Tangerine Dream.

Variety (#Cannes70)

Robert Pattinson hits a career high in Benny and Josh Safdie’s nervy, vivid heist thriller, which merges messy humanity with tight genre mechanics. … A career-peak performance from Robert Pattinson, as a scuzzy Queens bank robber on a grimly spiraling mission to break his mentally handicapped brother out of jail, will attract more eyeballs to this A24 release than the rest of the Safdies’ oeuvre combined, though this “Good Time” is still no commercial picnic. Rather, it’s exciting proof of its makers’ ability to chafe and challenge audiences in a growing range of registers.

Indiewire (#Cannes70)

The actor is astonishing in the Safdies’ rambunctious heist thriller, which takes place in a single frantic New York night. … This time, Pattinson provides the propulsive energy that makes the whole apparatus churn. Pushing beyond the muted roles for which he’s best known, the actor transforms into a vain, reckless character driven against impossible odds.