ET Canada spoke to Sarah at the Whistler Film Festival about working with David Cronenberg on both films. There’s some fun chat about Robert Pattinson too.
If you live in Canada you can watch the video directly at ETCanada.
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*VIDEO* Sarah Gadon talks Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg and Cosmopolis with ETCanada 3 comments
Patricia McKenzie Talks About Filming Cosmopolis With Robert Pattinson Leave a comment
Patricia McKenzie who plays Kendra Hays talks about Cosmopolis and filming with Robert Pattinson.
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In “Cosmopolis” you play Kendra Hays, Can you tell us something about her? Who is Kendra?
Kendra is an exhibitionist who craves power and wants to dominate Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) sexually. She was initially hired to be his bodyguard, but quickly becomes his lover. They are opposites in many ways, but both are hollow inside and searching for meaning in their existence. Ultimately, they risk leaving each other feeling as empty as they started.
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*Video* David Cronenberg Gives an Update on Cosmopolis and Speaks About Robert Pattinson 2 comments
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From MTV:
When the director walked the red carpet last week at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in support of his film “A Dangerous Method,” he stopped to speak again with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz, revealing which scenes in particular were the most challenging for Pattinson.
“Probably the last couple of days was where there was just a long, long, maybe 15-minute scene with Paul Giamatti, just the two of them in a couple of rooms,” Cronenberg said. In “Cosmopolis,” Pattinson plays Eric Packer, a young millionaire who just wants to get his hair cut. Things go awry when his limo gets stuck in traffic and a stalker, played by Giamatti, causes even more trouble.
Cronenberg said that one of the biggest testaments to Pattinson’s skill as an actor was the effect he had on his Academy Award-nominated co-star. “They were both brilliant, and Paul was really impressed,” he said. “If Paul’s impressed, he’s a good judge of other actors, and he said so publicly.”
The director is simultaneously promoting “A Dangerous Method” and putting the finishing touches on “Cosmopolis.” Cronenberg said that juggling both has never been an issue: “I’ve edited ‘Cosmopolis,’ and I’m about to go to Paris next week to do the sound mix of it, but I can switch over. It’s like having two kids. When one kid comes through the door, you’re there for that kid.”
Read the full article here.
*VIDEO* David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis) mentions Robert Pattinson and the Twilight-fame 1 comment
Cronenberg mentions working with and casting Rob at about 1:57:
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David Cronenberg talks about his motivation casting Robert Pattinson
Your casting of Robert Pattinson in ‘Cosmopolis,’ someone whose acting might not be as critically lauded as Mortensen’s, was obviously a well-thought-out decision, then.
Well, Keira’s acting doesn’t always get praise from high-brow critics, either. I would use that parallel. You have a young actor who’s found success with a franchise just like Keira did with ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ who’s underrated because of that. In each case, they’re too pretty and too successful so people are jealous. As a result, people assume that they can’t possibly be good actors.So what was the exact motivation for casting Pattinson in ‘Cosmopolis’?
He’s the right age, he’s got the right screen presence, and when I looked at his other work I thought he’d be really interesting for the role. Casting is a black art – it’s a bit mysterious how you come to these things – and it’s subjective, too, of course. As a director, there are no rules to guide you. You have to go with your gut, ultimately.
Read the full interview at moviefone
Tons of Great Robert Pattinson Pic Edits Made by @Carolinee81 3 comments
Here are some great pic edits made by Carolinee81. Check out her Tumblr here.
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David Cronenberg talks casting Rob, Twilight, fans and more with NY Magazine 1 comment
What was it about Robert Pattinson that made you think he was the right guy for the lead?
He’s the right age. He looks right. He looks good in a suit. He looks like he could be a young, tough, billionaire. And I’ve actually thought he was quite a good actor who was very underrated in a similar way to Keira Knightley, I think, when I was thinking of her for Dangerous Method. Both of them have had great financial success and are stars based on franchises, but of course to do that you have to have a kind of screen charisma, you have to have a presence, which you can’t buy or create; you either have it or you don’t. That doesn’t mean you’re necessarily a good actor, though. But you have at least that. I looked at all the stuff that he’s done, and I thought he’s a really good actor. And then I spoke to him, and thought not only that, but he’s a really smart actor. And he’s funny, and he’s very sweet. That’s when I tried to convince him to do the movie, which he was a little afraid of, just because I think he doesn’t know how good he is, basically. And I think now that he’s done the movie, he’s starting to understand how good he is. Because he’s terrific.
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Cosmopolis #7 on NASDAQ’s ‘Top Movies To Look Out For In 2012’ 3 comments
From NASDAQ:
7) “Cosmopolis,” director: David Cronenberg (TBA):
Robert Pattinson will get a chance to shed his “Twilight” persona for a tale about a millionaire and his dealings over a 24-hour period in Manhattan. Jay Baruchel and Paul Giamatti co-star in the latest from master director David Cronenberg, the filmmaker behind “Eastern Promises,” “A History of Violence” and upcoming release “A Dangerous Method.”
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David Cronenberg talks about Robert Pattinson + Possible Cosmopolis Trailer in January 5 comments
David Cronenberg talks about Robert Pattinson in an interview with Huffington Post
Why did you want Pattinson for the part in “Cosmopolis”?
Cronenberg: Well I’d watched a movie that I think not too many people have seen called “Little Ashes,” where he plays Salvador Dali, and he plays him as a young man and plays him with a Spanish accent. So I thought, well that’s really interesting, I mean this was before he was a “Twilight” star, because, it takes a particular handsome young man to decide to play that role. And then I did watch some of the “Twilight” stuff and I watched “Remember Me” and I felt that he had a lot going on. He’s supposed to be a super smart billionaire at a young age, 28 he says in the movie. It’s intuition. I didn’t know him as a person, but I’d figured from the movies that I’d seen, like “Little Ashes,” that I could maybe interest him in doing something that’s not “Twilight” obviously.
Read the rest of the interview over at Huffington Post
Possible trailer in January
Grégoire Melin’s, one of the producer, from Kinology, emailed @Gossipgyalabout the possibility of a trailer in January.
“We’re now editing a trailer from the footage we showed in Estoril, which should be released in January”
David Cronenberg talks Cosmopolis and Rob – Gothamist and Bloomberg News interviews 2 comments
From Gothamist
Viggo Mortensen, Magneto, and a movie with Rob Pattinson next, with all that Twilight hoopla around him. You don’t mind stars with franchise baggage it seems.
It’s like with Viggo with The Lord of the Rings, frankly. We’ve talked about this a lot. He wouldn’t have been a candidate for A History of Violence if it hadn’t been for Lord of the Rings because he wasn’t well-known, he was really kind of a B actor, character actor before Lord of the Rings made him a star. Therefore, he would not be somebody who could get you the financing that you need. It’s something about casting that people don’t think about but as a director, you really have to think about it because your producers make you think about it and so do your distributors. You say, “I want this guy,” and they say “Forget it! Nobody knows who he is and we can’t build a campaign around him to release to movie.” So not only do you have to get the right guy, you have to figure out who that guy is creatively but he has to want to do it to, you have to be able to afford him, he has to be available at the time you want him and he has to have the star power to get your movie financed. It’s very tricky casting a movie and for a director it’s a huge part of what you do, to weave your way through this mine field and end up with the right guy in your movie. Because if you make a huge miscasting mistake, it can kill your movie before you’ve even shot a foot of film.
Thinking of Rob 