Caitlin Cronenberg shared this BTS pic of Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamatti before the ‘Cosmopolis’ premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

Caitlin Cronenberg shared this BTS pic of Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamatti before the ‘Cosmopolis’ premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

One year ago today Robert Pattinson was in Cannes to promote Cosmopolis. Here’s a flashback pic post of him in Cannes. I love the chemistry between Rob and David Cronenberg. Enjoy!
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The tone of Cosmopolis is this very straight-faced, serious type of wacky. How did Cronenberg describe the tone to you?You know, he didn’t, in a lot of ways. I think he just trusted we’d get a sense of it. Even though the dialogue is very odd, you know what his sensibility is anyway, so you kind of know what the tone is. I did something I don’t normally do on a movie…I just came in at the end, after they shot most of the movie, and I asked David if I could watch the footage, because I wanted to see the tone of the movie and what Rob looked like, talked like, and moved like. I felt it was something I needed to see, because I’m playing a guy who always has a fantasy of him in his head. I did ask to see the footage for exactly what you just said: it’s an odd tone. I wanted to just watch some of it, so I could see how I could fit into it and, in some ways, veer off of it.It is similar to a few of his previous film in how abstract the story can be at times. When you get a script this dense and full of symbolism, do you try to apply meaning to everything or do you just go with it?In this instance, with this script, I read this whole script many, many times. I usually do that anyway, but, on this, it felt essential for me to read it a bunch of times. It wasn’t about just concentrating on my stuff, partially because it was so interesting. I just had such a good time reading it and thinking about it. Like you said, there’s a tonal thing, and I needed to have a sense of that in my head. I also feel like the character has a real awareness of Rob’s character, so I felt like I needed to know Rob’s character. Certainly, in my scenes, it all had to make crystal sense to me [Laughs].
Here’s a video of Paul Giamatti speaking about Robert Pattinson on Good Morning America. He speaks about Rob at 2:15 and the new Cosmopolis clip is at 1:28
we’ve posted videos about it before HERE but some got pulled so here’s a new link:
Full interview:
More after the jump!
Here’s a new interview with Rob, David Cronenberg and Paul Giamatti from Toronto Press Junket. The video can be watched only in Canada, we’ll add youtube video as soon as possible. *UPDATE* Youtube added