David Cronenberg Interview with Metro France (Robert Mentions)
“Robert Pattinson will surprise you”
Cosmopolis is one of the most anticipated films of the 65th Cannes Film Festkival. His director spoke to Metro.
A few months after telling the disagreeement 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 are 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 aware of that . But I can
assure you he is very good and he works very seriously. 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.
Do these famous actors contact you directly to work with you?
Most of the time, they tell their agent to tell my agent that they
are eager to work with me. (Laughs) But sometimes I ask to work with an
actor without knowing if he knows my films. This is the case with Rob.
And it turns out he knew my works very well, indeed it is a guy who has a
wonderful cinematographic education. On the set of Cosmopolis, I
remember he had long conversations with Juliette Binoche about obscure
French short films. He is a true cinephile.
Having himis also a way to attract a different audience from yours?
Once we have confirmed his part in Cosmopolis, a lot of blogs have
begun to talk about the film. I saw teenagers reading Don De Lillo’s
novel and said that it was great. And I hope the film will please them.
But if they only like Twilight, they will perhaps be disappointed. But
if they are actual Rob’s fans, they’ll love Cosmopolis. It was the same
when I worked with Viggo Mortensen the first time. If you were a fan of
Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, you wouldn’t perhaps want to see him in
History of Violence. But if you like the actor, then you are ready to
follow him in different projects.
You have adapted several novels in your career, starting with Naked
Lunch by William S. Burroughs or Ballard Crash J.G. What kind of reader
are you?
I just do not like reading from the perspective of making a film. In
the case of Cosmopolis, it is the producer who contacted me. He said “I
have rights and I think you’re the perfect person to direct the film.”
And he was right! The rest of the time I read a book because it feeds
me, because it excites me, because I’m just interested. I love David
Foster’s novel, Wallace that I discovered after his death. The Pale
King, his posthumous book, is absolutely brilliant.
Source => Metro France / Translation => Le RPattzClub / Via => Spunk Ransom
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