New The Rover Cannes portrait with Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd
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*VIDEO* New Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce And David Michôd Interview With Associated Press 1 comment
Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce And David Michôd Interview With Associated Press
Videos of Robert Pattinson from ‘The Rover’ Q&A in Los Angeles 1 comment
Videos of Robert Pattinson form ‘The Rover’ Q&A in Los Angeles
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David Michôd talks about The Rover and Robert Pattinson 1 comment
Here are two new interviews of David Michôd talking about Robert Pattinson and The Rover
TWITCH: In contrast, there is Pattinson’s character, who I think is extraordinary in this film. Can you talk about bringing him into the role? How did you work with him on attenuating his performance, making sure it didn’t get too broad?
MICHÔD: In a way, the answer to both questions is that Robert came in and tested for me and his tests were just extraordinary. I, like everyone else, didn’t know what he was capable of. Certainly his previous work didn’t give you a clear indicator. I met him before I even knew I was going to make The Rover, and there was something about him that I really liked. He’s obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available. When [Pattinson] came in to audition for me, he came in with a really beautifully defined and sophisticated reading of the character that seemed from the outset to avoid all of those possible moments of caricature that that character could so easily slip into.
How did Pattinson get hooked into the project?
I had a meeting with him maybe a year before I made the movie and it became immediately apparent to me in that meeting that he not only loved Animal Kingdom but had seen all of the shorts that I had made with my friends. He had beyond that a really eclectic, sophisticated interest in cinema. He was actively looking for interesting things to do and actively looking to meet interesting filmmakers.
Had he done any of his Cronenberg work when you first started working together?
Yes, I had seen Cosmopolis. I had even had a phone conversation with Cronenberg to see what working with Rob was like generally. [With] Cosmopolis, that is another character that is quite brooding and still in a way that’s not similar to the stuff he does in Twilight. It didn’t give me a clear indication that he could do the 180 degree shift that I was going to ask him to do on The Rover.
I always needed to see an audition. He was willing to do it because he knew that he wanted to play the character and that he needed to work hard to get it.
I love that whole notion of you as a director in Australia just calling up Cronenberg and asking him for advice. Is that a common thing? I picture some secret handshake between directors where you exchange private numbers.
I think in the world of filmmakers and generally those kinds of phone calls are reasonably easy to facilitate because they’re reasonably important. I didn’t want to ask David whether or not Rob was a good actor. I felt that I had seen that in the tests and long auditions that he had done for me. What I wanted to know was what he was like as a human being on set because those things can be important. David shared his experience which turned out to be much the same as mine, that he was delightful and hard-working.
New Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd interview with Reuters Leave a comment
After winning over critics with the complex, dark family drama “Animal Kingdom” for his directorial debut, director David Michod wanted to pare things back to tell a simpler story about survival in his next film.
“The Rover,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday, follows a lone character, Eric, who has his car stolen and embarks on a journey to recover it, handling threats and obstacles along the way.
Australian director Michod created a stark, stripped down, decaying setting in the outback of his native country and said he was inspired by his “despair” at the world today.
“I felt like I was literally making a movie that was set in a strange, dangerous and inhospitable version of the present day,” the director said.
And yet, Michod said he still wanted to feature some hope for Eric, played by Guy Pearce, who finds it in an unlikely friendship with Rey, played by Robert Pattinson. Rey, an American petty criminal left for dead, is rescued by Eric and forms a bond with the introverted man, who takes him on a journey to recover his car and reunite Rey with his brother.
Pattinson delivers a performance in “The Rover” that takes him a world away from the brooding teenage vampire that rocketed him to fame in the “Twilight” film franchise.
The British actor transformed himself to play the dim-witted young Rey by adopting a jolted southern accent accompanied by twitches, tics and blank stares.
“It was quite interesting playing someone who has basically zero faith in himself,” the actor said. “As soon as he starts opening his mouth, he’ll either start almost questioning his own sentence as it’s coming out of his mouth, and then trying to hide away from it.”
The talkative Rey poses a sharp contrast to Eric, whom Pearce described as “a wounded animal,” a product of surviving the harsh landscape of a decaying world, who spends much of the film in silence.
“I really enjoy working without necessarily relying on words and talking,” the actor said. “The story you’re to be telling is totally possible without actually having to say anything and then when you do speak, it really is more effective.”
Michod said the biggest challenges he faced on “The Rover,” made for about $12 million and distributed by A24 films, were related to the isolated, hot outback they filmed in, and in particular, a car chase sequence that he called “draining.”
Despite the dark nature of the film that Michod compares to a dark fable, he hoped the end result is more optimistic for audiences.
“This movie is about how even in incredibly violent and challenging circumstances, people still have a basic need to try and find intimate connection with other human beings, so I like to think about this movie as a movie about love,” he said.
*VIDEO* New Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd interview with Moviepilot – LA Press Junket 1 comment
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In The Rover, Guy Pearce plays a man in post-apocalyptic Australia pursuing the thieves who stole his car and left him with nothing. On the way, he picks up a man (Robert Pattinson) who gets separated from the family of carjackers, and that’s when it all really begins.
I knew a video interview with the cast and director of The Rover would be short, but I had a few questions I wanted to get in there and ask. Mainly, Robert Pattinson has been rumored to be in the running for a reboot of Indiana Jones, and he humored me when I asked him to compare it to Edward Cullen from Twilight. And I was curious to know what Guy Pearce thought of the violence of the film. Director David Michod sat between them as we discussed the film’s themes and practicalities – and how loud prop guns really are.
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New Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd interview with TIME 1 comment
Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce find solace and inspiration in The Rover’s desert setting
When making his new film, The Rover, director David Michod may have uncovered the only location on Earth where Robert Pattinson is not followed by a hoard of paparazzi. The poetically sparse film, out nationwide this Friday, takes place in a desolate world 10 years in the future after the collapse of society, and reveals what could happen if humans are forced to survive by any means necessary. To create that world, Michod took Pattinson and his co-star Guy Pearce to the Flinders Ranges in the Australian desert, an area several hours north of Adelaide with few roads and fewer people. The cast and crew spent eight weeks shooting in early 2013, moving around to various locations throughout the desert, including the town of Marree, which has a population of 90.
“I didn’t quite realize how remote a lot of it was going to be,” Pattinson tells TIME. “It’s quite a big paparazzi culture in Australia. So I was expecting more of that. I remember setting up the contract and really thinking ‘If we’re going to be shooting exteriors all the time there’s going to be tons of people around. It’s going to be awful. I’m going to be playing this part and everyone’s going to think I’m weird.’”
Thinking of Rob 