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Excerpt from
Maps To The Stars production notes:
THE
LIMO DRIVER
“Plus we’re both
dual
-
disorder
”
When Agatha Weiss returns to Los Angeles, she makes an instant connection with the first
person she encounters: her limo driver, a would
-
be screenwriter who
chauffeurs
the far more
successful, and who becomes increasingly entangled in her larger
-
than
-
life drama.
Taking the role of Jerome is leading
star Robert
Pattinson, who wanted to work with
Cronenberg again on the heels of taking the lead role in
Cosmopolis
(coincidentally, Pattinson played a
billionaire who is a limo
passenger
throughout that film.)
He was one of the first cast
members to sign on, which Martin
Katz says helped
buoy
the
project.
“Robert’s enthusiasm for
Maps to the
Stars
is one of the things that
really got us underway.
Jerome is not a large role but it’s very significant in the story and his joining the cast gave us a terrific
amount of momentum,” recalls the producer.
“In a sense he is playing Bruce Wagner, who was
himself at one time a limo driver and unemployed writer.”
Cronenberg was thrilled to reunite with Pattinson, and in such a different kind of role.
“I think
Rob was really happy to be part of an ensemble,” he says.
“But Jerome is also a critical character, a
lovely character and it
was a chance for Rob to give a more naturalistic performance. I knew he would
be fabulous and he was.”
Pattinson’s experience working on
Cosmopolis
with Cronenberg was so profound that he
agreed to the role of Jerome before reading the script. But when
he finally sat down to read it, he
recalls,
“Within two pages I was thinking wow, this is so unbelievably different and hilarious. I don't
even know what people are going to make of this, but it feels dangerous. It’s sort of satirical but it’s
also a ghost story and it’s also a kind of thriller. It defies genre.”
He came to see
Maps To The Stars
as more than just another L.A. story.
“It’s really about
10
people who lie to themselves
–
right up until the end,” he summarizes.
Yet within all that, Pattinson sees Jerome as the most ordinary of the film’s roster of
outrageously deluded and
desperate
characters
--
typical of a certain kind of everyday L.A. dreamer, a
regular guy with a regular job who nevertheless always believes h
e is just one move away from
becoming a major actor and writer.
“Jerome would never accept that he is just a limo driver. I think he feels he’s just waiting for
his break,” Pattinson observes.
“And yet, he’s seemingly the only one in this story who's not going
insane
--
or who isn’t a ghost. He's a fairly normal guy, which is slightly odd for me, as well.”
Working with his fellow cast members was another big draw for Pattinson. Of Julianne Moore,
he says:
“She’s hilarious and also very sane, which is kind of ironic given who Havana Segrand is. And
she shifts so subtly into character, you barely notice what she is doing. It’s kind of amazing.”
He worked most closely with Mia Wasikowska as Agatha, who comes to rely on Jerome as her
sole friend in the city.
“I knew Mia was going to be wonderful in this,” he says.
“She’s so lovely that it
was horrible for me to watch Agatha be bullied by her entire family.”
For Cronenberg, the chance to work
with cast members like Pattinson and Gadon multiple
times is one of the most gratifying aspects of his career.
“It's really beautiful for me to see that
blossoming and the evolution of actors as I work with them,
” he
concludes.
....
ROBERT PATTINSON (Jerome Fontana)
is best known for his portrayal of the vampire Edward
Cullen in
The Twilight Saga
.
Most recently, Pattinson appeared on screen in David Cronenberg’s
Cosmopolis
and will be seen this summer in David Michôd’s
The Rover
, in which he’s paired with Guy
Pearce. He recently wrapped work on Werner Herzog’s
Queen of the Desert
opposite Nicole Kidman.
Currently, Anton Corbijn is directing Pattinson in
Life
, a film about th
e friendship between Life
magazine photographer Dennis Stock, played by Pattinson, and James Dean, played by Dane Dehaan.
Pattinson
gained industry notice at 19 years of age when he joined the Harry Potter franchise
in Mike Newell‘s
Harry Potter and the Go
blet of Fire,
playing Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts’ official
representative in the Triwizard Tournament. Last year, Pattinson starred in
Water For Elephants
,
joining director Francis Lawrence and costars Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in bringing the
Ne
w York Times bestselling novel to the screen. Prior, he headlined the drama
Remember Me
,
directed by Allen Coulter, appearing opposite Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Emilie De Ravin.
Pattinson starred in
Bel Ami
, a film based on the novel of the same nam
e written by Guy de
Maupassant in which he played a young journalist in Paris who betters himself through his
connections to the city’s most glamorous and influential women, played by Uma Thurman,Kristin Scott
Thomas and Christina Ricci.
Pattinson began his professional career with a role in Uli Edel’s
Sword of Xanten,
opposite Sam
West and Benno Furmann. He also appeared in director Oliver Irving’s
How to Be,
winner of the
Slamdance Film Festival’s Special Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature. Pattinso
n played the lead
role of Salvador Dali in
Little Ashes,
directed by Paul Morrison. His television credits include “The
Haunted Airman” for the BBC.
As a member of the Barnes Theatre Group, Pattinson played the lead role in Thornton Wilder’s
“Our Town.” Ot
her stage credits include Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” “Tess of the D’Urbevilles” and
“Macbeth” at the OSO Arts Centre.
FULL notes and downloads after the cut!
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Pearce says, “Eric finds some sparks of life and love, ultimately through Rey, that don’t necessarily wake him up and change him or give him any sense of hope or positivity, but they kind of confuse him because he’s lived for so long now in a very depressed state… We see the power shift a little bit, and we actually see that Eric starts to feel something for this kid, and that is not good for Eric. He hasn’t felt anything for anybody for 10 years or so, so it becomes a really complex scenario for him.” 
He was one of the first cast
members to sign on, which Martin
Katz says helped
buoy
the
project.
“Robert’s enthusiasm for
Maps to the
Stars
is one of the things that
really got us underway.
Jerome is not a large role but it’s very significant in the story and his joining the cast gave us a terrific
amount of momentum,” recalls the producer. “In a sense he is playing Bruce Wagner, who was
himself at one time a limo driver and unemployed writer.”
“Jerome would never accept that he is just a limo driver. I think he feels he’s just waiting for
his break,” Pattinson observes.
“And yet, he’s seemingly the only one in this story who's not going
insane
--
or who isn’t a ghost. He's a fairly normal guy, which is slightly odd for me, as well.”
For Cronenberg, the chance to work
with cast members like Pattinson and Gadon multiple
times is one of the most gratifying aspects of his career. “It's really beautiful for me to see that
blossoming and the evolution of actors as I work with them,
” he
concludes.
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