James Gray’s “The Lost City Of Z” opens up in the U.K. this weekend, and the cast has been doing the press rounds overseas. The epic Amazonian jungle movie stars Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, and the latter was on the recent Kermode and Mayo podcast and revealed some intriguing nuggets about some of his future projects.
Pattison stressed his post-“Twilight” direction of working with auteurs (David Cronenberg, David Michod, Anton Corbijn, Werner Herzog) to the podcast hosts. “You can have a great director with an OK script and the likelihood is they’ll probably make a good movie. I like feeling alien in an environment,” he explained. “The next few things I’m doing are wildly swinging in the other direction.”
In a separate interview with Metro, he echoed the same sentiment about working on left-of-center movies. “My jobs are going to get weirder. This year I have tried to accelerate that road to weirdness.”
With Kermode and Mayo, he spoke about his next movie “Good Time” directed by Ben and Joshua Safdie (“Heaven Knows What”) which is rumored to be a strong contender for Cannes and is described as an “neo-grindhouse” crime flick.
“The next movie is this really hardcore kind of Queens, New York, mentally damaged psychopath, bank robbery movie,” Pattinson plays the lead next to Jennifer Jason-Leigh and Barkhad Abdi. It’s been in post-production for months so Cannes could be a good bet.
The actor then spoke about “Damsel,” a western from the Zellner brothers (“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter“) co-starring Mia Wasikowska that’s now in post-production. “[It’s] a kind of slapstick comedy,” he said, adding that his duties on this one went beyond being in front of the camera.
“I don’t play that much any more, though I am doing music for [‘Damsel’]. I used to differentiate between music and acting but the more I don’t play music, the more I push that area of my brain into acting. I improvise like I would when I play music,” Pattinson explained.
The actor then revealed an intriguing new film he has on deck. “And then hopefully [I’m] doing this 100% improvised movie afterwards. You just try and do things that you hope you won’t be bored in and then hopefully other people won’t be bored in it too,” Pattinson teased. Any guesses on that project?
Somewhere down the road the actor will also be doing Oliver Assayas’ gangster flick “Idol’s Eye” and Claire Denis‘ “High Life,” perhaps singlehandedly keeping indie/art house cinema funding alive.
Listen to the podcast interview below (starts around the 44 minute mark), check out a set photo of “Damsel,” new-ish “Lost City Of Z” photos and the beautiful recently released ‘Z’ poster from the U.K. Update: here’s the isolated interview on its own.
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The career Robert Pattinson has made post-Twilight is just awesome, I hope one day he gets an oscar nom and possibly a win.
Don’t think he has that much Talent,He is a weak actor,and makes weak choices in other walks of life.
Robert Pattinson is a multi-talented person. Then go find someone else that you can render a positive comment about. This is obviously a personal comment that has nothing to do with his professional career.
“Eye”,” Eye,” Captain, HE is cunning and sly, she is the perfect match for him. They keep themselves in the media with their on off marriage. He doesn’t want to loose fan’s by being married, and she will wait for ever for his money
Robert Pattinson is developing a diversified library of work as an actor thus proving he can do any role. He’s an excellent musician who can play piano and guitar and has been since he was a child. He can do both, and putting out an album would definitely be something he should pursue. I’m disappointed LCOZ changed the rating on the movie to PG. To stifle a film of that magnitude is erroneous at this point.