Stadig flere intervjuer om og med Robert Pattinson: Paul Morrison snakker Rob og Little Ashes

Stadig flere intervjuer om og med Robert Pattinson begynner å dukke opp. Er det ikke herlig? Og det vil bare komme mer og mer framover mot New Moon-premieren (selv om jeg lurer på hvordan de har tenkt å gjøre promoteringen for New Moon samtidig som de spiller inn Eclipse til høsten, men de finner nok på noe lurt)...202 dager igjen!

Dette intervjuet er med Paul Morrison, regissøren av Little Ashes, som snakker om "...the strange, complex and forbidden love between Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and surrealist painter Salvador Dali..." - dette er nesten som jeg skulle sagt det selv.

The Dish Rag skriver (dette er et utdrag, lese hele intervjuet på The Dish Rag): "At the time, Pattinson was just another undiscovered young British actor (he'd done "Harry Potter"), and little did Morrison know that this young man would draw unparalleled attention to this small film, which opens May 8.

Dish Rag: Playing Salvador Dali is a daunting role for a young actor.

PM: Yeah, I don't think Rob realized what he was getting into when he agreed to do it, but he really worked hard at it, he really grappled with it, and I think he's done something very extraordinary. It's so difficult to do, because you have to tread light all the time between playing Dali as a young lovable young man, which he was, and suggesting the kind of pastiche of himself that he became in later life, that he presented to the public in later life, and that's a very tall order, and I think Rob pulled it off.

DR: It's wonderful to see a young actor like this, who despite the fame and the adulation is choosing a path and taking some extremely challenging and provocative roles. Do you think he will continue on that path?

PM: He is serious about acting and I am sure that, yeah, he will want to do roles that challenge him. I can't tell you how hard he worked on the role of Dali. I was encouraging him to just play the script, but he was for himself hunting down every day bits of film or tape or interviews or a biography of Dali. He worked really hard at it, both intellectually and emotionally. I think that's in his blood now, I think. I don't think he'll be satisfied with playing less than interesting roles.

DR: Those gay sex scenes and the nude scenes, were those difficult for young actors Rob and Javier Beltran?

PM: I think they were difficult, but I think all sex scenes are difficult, and for all actors of all ages. And I find them difficult, certainly, to direct, and ... you have to get very intense about them, and as a director be clear as to what you're looking for so they know that they're acting and they're not doing it, and I think Rob probably found it harder than Javier, to draw the line between performance and, ah, *Hva?* but that was also in the nature of the part, that Dali's sexuality was so complicated, complex and mysterious, I think even to himself, and his fear of sexuality, and if you're playing that role, that kind of rubs off on you, so I think sex and pain were so closely entwined with Dali that to play those scenes is also hard, and the triangle sex scene is an unbelievably difficult scene. One of those scenes in everybody's life when you're doing something and you know it's really really wrong, it really, it goes against the grain, but you're doing it, so playing that scene is hard, it's always hard.

We also asked why Rob Pattinson and Javier Beltran appear in a blue-lighted, erotically charged water scene, once with underwear on and later, in Dali's recollection, without clothing.

PM: Yeah, what happens is that Dali recalls that scene later on, after Lorca's death, and in his memory they're not wearing underwear. So there is a nude scene, tastefully shot, of course."

Darn it — we mean, of course."


Fra Any4vi via Robsessed. Intervjuet fant jeg via New Moon Movie.

*Little Ashes er en vakker, hjerteskjærende og poetisk film om sårbarhet og ung, forbudt forelskelse. Ikke naken-Rob. Little Ashes er en vakker, hjerteskjærende og poetisk film om sårbarhet og ung, forbudt forelskelse. Ikke naken-Rob.*

*Ikke naken-Rob*

*Ehemm*

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