Twilight: What Robert Pattinson Thinks About "Good Time"

In a recent interview, published by Vulture, Robert Pattinson talks about his work on the movie Good Time and shares some interesting for the readers facts.

There’s a legend of how you got involved with the Safdies. Did you know their work at all when you reached out to them?

RP: No. It was on the banner of some website, just of Arielle’s face; she just has an amazing expression on her face. I liked the sensibility of it.

How did that first meeting go?

RP: I feel like it was just kind of agreed that we would do something. It wasn’t about any particular project or anything. But I remember leaving the meeting and thinking: Yeah. Usually a meeting about a movie is just with the director. And you’re kind of trying to impress them and they’re trying to impress you.

What do you think of Connie? I didn’t find him so sympathetic.

RP: But he does have purpose. I like the idea of a character who by all conventional expectations is a bad person. But it’s just impossible to just be a bad person.

Robert Pattinson in Good Time. Photo: Daniel Arnold/Courtesy of A24

Mailer had a certain romantic idea of the outlaw as being pure.

RP: He’s a guy who establishes his morality at will as he goes along. But at every moment when it changes, he’s completely convinced of it. Every time that he lies, he has no conception that he’s lying, at all; he’s never lying. If he’s believing something, it’s true.

So during the filming you did more walking around the city than you have in years?

RP: Way more, and way more brazenly. Part of it is that if you look really dirty—

You did look really dirty. Your skin was greasy.

RP: That was the main thing. When we realized the pockmarked thing …

Well, his diet anyway. You looked like you were toxic. Did you change what you ate for the film?

RP: I ate nothing but tuna. Out of little cans. I have this unhealthy thing where when I’m trying to lose weight I only eat tuna. And at the same time, I thought, It’s kind of healthy, I’ll eat tuna.

*The whole article appears in the August 7, 2017, issue of New York Magazine.

source: vulture.com