Hollywood Life caught up with Rob’s The Rover costar Guy Pearce, while he was at Sundance promoting his latest film “Breathe In.” He had plenty to say about Rob!
“He just seems like a bright and sensitive kid,” Guy tells us. “So I just think he’s really right for the role.”
We told Guy, who has starred in movies like The Kings Speech, Memento, Lawlessand the upcoming Iron Man 3, that we bet Rob thinks it’s pretty cool to work with such an experienced actor.
“Um I don’t know, hopefully he thinks so!” Guy says. “I think it’s about collaborating and all getting on the same page. It doesn’t matter how experienced or inexperienced someone is, you hopefully just all understand each other and realize you are all on the same film together.
We can’t wait to see them together on the big screen.
Synopsis: A dirty and dangerous near-future western set in the Australian desert.
Why We’re Looking Forward To It: The last time Guy Pearce starred in a Australian western we got John Hillcoat‘s fantastic The Proposition. This time around, we’ve got Animal Kingdomdirector David Michod, Robert Pattinson (proving his talent in David Cronenberg‘sCosmopolis), the underappreciated Scoot McNairy (Killing Them Softly, Argo, Monsters) and a near-future setting — it’s safe to say we’re quite excited. With a shoot gearing up in a few months, we hope this one will make it to theaters before the year’s end. – Jordan R.
R:It’s set 20 years in the future,in Australia. Basically,I’m an American whose brothers is in a criminal gang in Australia.Guy P’s character kinda kidnaps me to try and find my brother. Other than that it’s really complicated.But it’s cool.It’s really fun.
Q:How do you prepare for a night like this?You presented at the Oscars,you present tonight,how do you prepare for it?
R:You can’t. It’s impossible. I’m always so nervous. Up until I get out of the car I’m so nervous.
Q:Whats going through your head.
R:Now I’m alright.
Q:Why(he’s nervous)?
R: I have no idea. It’s weird I’m not very good… I’m not good with people.
Q about crazy Twi carpets, if it’s a different feeling standing next to Glenn Close.
R: No, it’s amazing.You feel a lot of responsibility as well.”
Director/Writer: David Michôd Producer(s): David Linde and Liz Watts U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce, Scoot McNairy
His four-star, stellar criminal underworld saga Animal Kingdom officially put first-time helmer David Michod on the map. His sophomore film was a top sales title in Cannes 2012, and the pic contains an impressive trio of three so far (further casting announcements should be made shortly) with Scoot McNairy easily enjoying his time in the spotlight.
Gist: The Rover is set in the Australian desert in a dangerous and dysfunctional near future. Eric (Guy Pearce) has left everything and every semblance of human kindness behind him. When his last possession, his car, is stolen by a gang of dangerous criminals, Eric sets off to track them down and is forced along the way to enlist the help of Reynolds (Robert Pattinson), the naive member of the gang left behind in the bloody chaos of the gang’s most recent escape.
Release Date: Production begins this month in Australia, so this means programmers from Telluride, Venice, Toronto, NYFF all have wishes of nabbing a world premiere. Surprisingly, no U.S. distributor has sunk their fangs into this.
As “Twilight” fades into the rearview mirror, Robert Pattinson’s future is looking very bright. Well, that’s not entirely true — when looking at one of Pattinson’s upcoming projects, “The Rover,” the future actually looks pretty bleak.
Pattinson stars alongside Guy Pearce in director David Michod’s “The Rover,” a futuristic Western set in the Australian desert. Pearce stars as Eric, a no-nonsense loner who loses his car and only remaining possessions when he’s robbed by a gang. Eric forcefully enlists one of the abandoned and wounded gang members, Rey (Pattinson), to help him track down the gang and get his belongings back at any cost. It’s a complicated and dangerous plot indeed, but it’s also one that Pattinson is more than happy to embrace.
“It’s a really tough script,” he told MTV News while promoting “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2.” “I don’t really know, I don’t even know how to talk about it yet. It’s one of the best I’ve read. It’s one of my top five favorite scripts I’ve read since I started doing this. It’s really nerve-racking.”
Nerve-racking as “The Rover” is, it pales in comparison to the real-life dangers presented by “Mission: Blacklist,” Pattinson’s upcoming war movie based on the true story of Army interrogator Eric Maddox, who was involved in the capture of Saddam Hussein. The role requires Pattinson to film in Iraq, which understandably made his family members uncomfortable at first — but the actor thinks his loved ones are beginning to warm up to the idea.
“My parents seem to be coming around to it now,” he said with a laugh. “That’s strange. I don’t know what happened.”
Buried in a Deadline article revealing that he’s linked up with WME, McNairy has joined David Michod‘s Animal Kingdom follow-up The Rover, with Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce.Described as an “existential” western, the film is set in the near-future and follows a man who treks across the Australian outback in an attempt to recover his stolen car from a gang of punks — one of whom is portrayed by Pattinson (and perhaps another could be McNairy).
In some roles played over long periods, performers can find a way to make their character evolve, bend to their will. But in the glittering vampire world of “Twilight,” star Robert Pattinson found that some things really do last forever.
“It’s a strange character because there’s not too many places to go,” says Pattinson of much lusted-after, noble “vegetarian” vampire Edward Cullen. “He’s gonna be around forever, he can’t die, can’t get hurt, his emotions are quite fossilized as well. I think (series author Stephenie Meyer) mentioned this in a book: With vampires, once you start feeling one thing, it just stays like that for ages. Once he’s fallen in love with Bella, that’s it. There’s no other place to go but worrying about her.”
Pattinson looks fit, if surprisingly thin, and perfectly put together as he puffs on an electronic cigarette in this Four Seasons suite in Los Angeles. However, with the promotional blitz for the franchise’s final film – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” – only just begun, he’s already sounding a touch weary, though unfailingly polite and willing to answer questions. Perhaps it’s the sound of a man with one more hill before the finish line.
“It’s a very strange character to play when you’re projecting absolutely every human emotion onto another human. You’re living vicariously through them. That’s why he’d almost become a noncharacter, up until the last two movies – ‘Breaking Dawn’ is when he suddenly realizes, ‘Oh, I have to actually live for myself. I’m not just living for her.’ He spends the first three books completely saying, ‘I don’t exist.’ I mean, that’s how I read it.
“I guess I made the boldest choices in the first one. I was really thinking, ‘How do I fix problems in my performance?’ “ He laughs at himself, then wistfully adds: “The first one was crazy; you could do anything you wanted. Entirely different thing.”
Rob mentioned during Cosmopolis promo in an interview during the New York press junket that he will start shooting ‘The Rover’ in January and ‘Mission: Blacklist’ next summer.
[About Mission: Blackilist] We’re going to shoot in Iraq next summer. In January I’m doing this other movie [The Rover] with David Micôd, who did the Australian movie Animal Kingdom—a futuristic western with Guy Pearce.
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