AUDIO @CBCRadioQ Interview with Robert Pattinson (w/our blog tweets)
Cast Interview Robert PattinsonHere’s our tweets from blogging this excellent and fascinating interview with David Cronenberg.
Here’s the link to listen:
http://www.cbc.ca/q/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2243139039
We’re tuning in now to interview of David Cronenberg by@CBCRadioQ
#Cronenberg: I am suffering f/separation anxiety, I just said goodbye to Rob [Pattinson] after three weeks [promoting] with him.#Cosmopolis
He says he’s “really feeling” it (missing time with lead actor). He and # Pattinson clearly hit it off (our words). #Cronenberg
#Cronenberg: Not scathing critique of capitalist system. Philosophical about it and &there’s link made to Occupy Wall St. movement…
Occupy Wall St. is “really pro-capitalist–it’s people saying we want more of the capitalist dream but you aren’t giving to us” #Cronenberg
#Cosmopolis ”is more complex than that.” World catching up to what DeLillo was writing about. #DeLillo #Cronenberg on @CBCRadioQ
On why #Cronenberg cast Robert #Pattinson in #Cosmopolis: “Well, you are looking for a great actor; it is a very difficult role.. CBC RadioQ
…“there’s a lot of dialogue, really complex, and..quite funny too.” Need actor that “gets all that and can do it. ” on choosing #Pattinson
Note: we’re trying to do our best with exact quotes from CBDRadioQ#Cronenberg interview-we’ll post AUDIO on blog later-so all can
#Cronenberg ”I had seen [Pattinson] in Little Ashes where played young Salvador Dali. “Extreme,difficult Spanish movie (accent speak. Eng.)
Cronenberg thought: “now this is a guy whose not afraid to do something really challenging; “…not afraid to play…an unsympathetic role.”
“So I thought [#Pattinson] had the chops”, “but until you do the movie you don’t know the breadth of it” (what you see in actor) #Cosmopolis
#Cronenberg [Pattinson] “gives a fantastically subtle &beautifully modulated performance” (v.dif. by end to what he was at beg.)#Cosmopolis
“Art is not an email…UR “delivering an organic little universe. There’s no [particular] meaning/message. A movie is a life.” #Cronenberg
#Cronenberg wanted #Pattinson to not think too much, to trust his instinct & intuition (hadn’t “yet learned to do that”). #Cosmopolis
Baseball analogy: “Pitchers say ‘I am thinking too much, analyzing too much, outsmarting myself. I should just throw the ball!” #Cronenberg
Cronenberg mentions ‘London Whale’ (we tweeted about); investormoved vast amounts of money using microscopically-timed computer investments
‘London Whale’ lost billions and “destroyed the economies of various countries without being aware of it. And that’s kind of Eric Packer…“
#Cronenberg: Eric Packer lives in an abstracted world of finance and has lost touch with humanness.” #Cosmopolis
“To be successful financier of this type- have to be anonymous; it’s part of your weaponry. So it is with Packer [in his limo]“ #Cosmopolis
Europe &Euro crisis interesting.”Money is a human technology. It doesn’t exist in nature.Human solution has to be found.”#Cronenberg
Rob found review on internet: Cosmopolis “aggressively unlovable.”Cronenberg: Yes! We are!Desire to be loved is death when it comes to art.”
Cronenberg on making something “true” versus making something with main goal of being liked…
#Cronenberg:can’t do anything cutting, interesting, &profound in art that way.Does character provoke?What he does illuminating?#Cosmopolis
“If you are looking for something more”, you want something that is more than “watchable.” Cronenberg on #Cosmopolis
We like that last quote as in the film Eric Packer is “looking for something more” #Cosmopolis #Cronenberg on CBC radio.
Cronenberg:…but can’t take your eyes off Rob in this film…All this makes U question what is art/entertainment what U look for in a film?
Ironically economic crisis making hard to get films like this made. Capital drying up. Film industry very sensitive (not essential business)
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