Translated from Premiere Mag France
David Cronenberg: ‟I can really see Rob having a career like Johnny Depp's.”
Sex, power and limo: the Cosmopolis film director tells how he guided Robert Pattinson into living his performance.
Première: What is it like to come back to Cannes with Cosmopolis?
David Cronenberg: The festival and me, we have a long history. In a sense, I feel like I'm coming home. I think Cosmopolis is an ideal film for Cannes and I am very excited at the thought of taking Rob to it. (Kate: So are we. We can't wait)
Première: It is impossible now to imagine anyone else in this role. Yet, you had originally offered it to Colin Farrell...
David Cronenberg: When Colin left the project to shoot the remake of Total Recall, (Kate: Oh Colin, you fool! But it was fate. This role BELONGS to Rob) I started to rethink everything., He was too old for the role, anyway; he is 35, and if I wanted to be faithful to the book, I had to find someone who is 25. I then began to study actors of that age, and that's when I thought of Rob. I had seen him in Twilight, of course, but nothing he had done until then really predisposed him to play in Cosmopolis. Except that you choose an actor for the potential you see in him, not for his resume. And the more I thought about it, the more the idea appealed to me.
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