This month, Ricci stars in Bel Ami, based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant. She plays Clotilde de Marelle, who’s seduced by social-climber Georges Duroy, played by Robert Pattinson. At the time of filming, Pattinson was at the peak of Twilight hysteria. Did the more experienced Ricci give him advice on handling the attention?
“God, no,” she says. “I’ve not experienced that kind of fame and I don’t think I ever will, so I wouldn’t have any advice to give.
“But it doesn’t seem to get to him at all,” she adds. “When we were shooting in Budapest, there were quite a few girls screaming on the street, but he wasn’t annoyed by it in the slightest.”
Ricci found herself in the position those girls dream of – filming love scenes with Pattinson. “We joked and had a laugh about it,” she says. “We made a point of trying to put each other at ease. It’s just part of the job. Sometimes those scenes can be funny, but they aren’t terribly thrilling.”
Giamatti hadn’t worked with Cronenberg before, but he was excited to hear that someone was adapting one of Don DeLillo’s novels. The script, with its single very long scene for his character, won him over completely.
“I thought the script was just bonkers,” he says. “And then the part was really interesting. And then it’s also 20 minutes long. That doesn’t come along very often.”
Here’s a new interview of Rob with Rai News – Italy (dubbed but you can hear it some):
Translation
I: Is it weird for you to be here in Cannes with Kristen Stewart, who is in another movie? R: Even my friend is here and it’s really weird; this is the year when Twilight ends and both me and Kristen and my best friend Tom are here in Cannes.
I: Robert pattinson, in this movie you are a vampire of finance. Can we analyze this role in this key? R: I mean, kind of. I actually never considered it to be a movie about banks or Wall street. I don’t think Eric sees himself as a person working in the finance world. I think he believes he made money thanks to finance but what he actually likes are numbers; so i don’t think the movie is necessarily about the conclusion of capitalism, not at all. I don’t even know what it is about.
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