New Picture of Rob from 'The Rover' set + New Interview
'It's very odd,'' Robert Pattinson says. ''There's something strange and disturbing about the whole relationship.''
The Twilight actor is talking about the two characters at the heart of
his new film, The Rover, which finished shooting on Saturday in outback
South Australia.
He plays a young man, Rey, caught up in an uneasy, dangerous alliance
with a stranger, Eric (Guy Pearce), in a not-too-distant future.
The Rover is the much-anticipated new film from David Michod, the
writer-director of Animal Kingdom. The title refers to Pearce's
character: damaged, solitary, utterly without hope.
Pattinson has been casting his net widely since his lead role in the
wildly successful Twilight movies brought him celebrity and a certain
amount of paparazzi attention. He's quick and sometimes
self-deprecating, and has a surprisingly hearty laugh. Looking for roles
post-Twilight, he says, ''I don't know if I'm necessarily any good at sculpting a career or anything. But I know what I want to do.''
He wanted to be part of The Rover because ''it was an original script
and it was one of those parts where you read it and you think, 'I'd
love to do this, but I know I'm never going to get it.'''. There,
''already self-defeating before I've even started'', he says.
In this film, he's a long way from the debonair 19th-century Frenchman
of Bel Ami or the New York billionaire of Cosmopolis, two of his recent
roles. The near-future that Rey inhabits has a broken-down, improvised,
desperate feel, and Pattinson's appearance is in keeping: unkempt and
unshaven, with make-up that discolours his teeth.
Rey is an American who has come to Australia with his brother. He is, Pattinson says, ''the
kind of person who has been brought up to believe they're incapable of
living independently. Someone has always been looking after him.'' When
he's separated from his brother, ''almost the first person that comes
along, he grabs them. It doesn't matter how he gets treated''. And Eric treats him very badly at first.
The Rover was shot over seven weeks, ending with more than a fortnight
in the remote small town of Marree, 685 kilometres north of Adelaide,
whose population of 90 more than doubled with the presence of the movie
crew. Almost every part of Marree has been incorporated into the world
of the movie. The filmmakers said it felt like their own Hollywood
studio backlot.
The Rover takes place ''in an unspecified relatively near future, after a number of years of quite seriously steady Western economic decline,'' Michod says. ''It's not post-apocalypse. This is an Australia that has broken down into a kind of resource-rich Third World country.''
He did not start with the idea of this near-future, but with the
enigmatic, shifting relationship between the two central characters. He
wrote the role of Eric for Pearce, but did not start thinking about
Pattinson until they met in Los Angeles.
He had not - and still has not - seen any of the Twilight films, but had
been told that Pattinson was interesting. He found Pattinson was ''really
smart, and not the sort of pretty boy I was expecting. As soon as it
was time to start testing… he was my first choice, by a long way.''
From
Courier Mail:
Edward Cullen wouldn't last five minutes in the baking heat of Marree, a one-pub town 650km north of Adelaide.
But Robert Pattinson has channelled the physical discomfort of his
seven-week, summer shoot in the middle of the Australian Outback into a
character that he hopes will make an equally indelible impression as the
Twilight vampire.
“It’s added lots to the performance – being covered in dirt, pouring
sweat, with tons of flies around, you lose your inhibitions quite
quickly,’’ the English star said on the set of his latest film, The Rover, in which he sports a crude, DIY haircut and badly-decayed teeth.
A neo-western set in a brutal, anarchic near-future, the $12 million
film is director David Michod’s hotly-anticipated follow-up to the
internationally-acclaimed Animal Kingdom.
Guy Pearce plays the title character, an embittered outsider with whom Pattinson’s naive victim forms an uneasy alliance.
Located at the intersection of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks,
Marree, population 90, is about far from Hollywood as an actor can get.
“That’s good in some ways,’’ says Pattinson. “You definitely end up making a different movie. Being in the desert has a funny effect. It does change you in a way.”
Pattinson admits the
different time zones and lack of mobile phone reception have taken a
toll on his private life.
“Yeah, it’s tough. But at the end of the day, it’s only two months.”
Filming on The Rover, which has spent time on location in Hammond, Quorn, Copley, and Leigh Creek, wrapped yesterday.
Pattinson said he was intending to take the next three weeks off, but
confirmed his participation in three upcoming projects: Werner Herzog’s
Queen of the Desert, with Naomi Watts and Jude Law; Maps to the Stars, a
comedy directed by David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis), and Hold Onto Into
Me, with Carey Mulligan.
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