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.
Another day, another great David Cronenberg interview. This time he’s talking toCinemaBlend.comand the topics range from ‘A Dangerous Method’, to discussing character with his actors, to his assumption of the audience’s intelligence. David Cronenberg talks again about his efficient and lean shooting schedule – I always love to hear about that, having marvelled when I saw it first hand during this summer’s filming of Cosmopolis in Toronto. We’ve heard Robert Pattinson comment on David Cronenberg’s confidence and here we hear it from the man himself.
You heard me. And in possible danger of being mauled by almost every member of the female species, I admit that I’ve never understood the mass hysteria surrounding good ol’ R-Putz, I mean, R-Pattz.
Sure, that Pattinson plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies might have something to do with it.
Truth be told, when the British actor was cast as Cullen, the 17 million-or-so fans of the Twilight books duly erupted with the kind of hatred usually reserved for animal abusers or hipsters. They all thought Pattinson was way too ugly to be Mr Perfectly Undead. Cullen, by the way, is described as “the most beautiful creature who has ever been born” by Twilight author Stephanie Meyer.
The laugh’s on them, of course. Pattinson, 25, is the king of that ridiculously popular and successful film franchise – the first three films have already grossed over US$1.8 billion (S$2.34 billion) worldwide.
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