Forlani puts visible effort into projecting yearning and indecision into her backward glances. First she stops and looks back, and then he does, then her, then him, her again, him again, and then, boom, cars.
The weird part is the scene that precedes it, in which Pitt and Claire Forlani walk away from each other down a city street for what feels like forever, the soundtrack assuring us that this is the most poignant shit we've ever seen. The slapstick severity of the accident isn't even the weird part. Technically, he gets hit by two cars, the first launching him into the air to bounce off the windshield of the other with the rubbery spring of an egg soaked in maple syrup. “And I was, like, ‘I don’t know if I have more.’”īut she rose to the occasion and, while it ended up being the “hardest I’ve ever worked on a film”, Robbie loves the fact that Chazelle demands so much.A video of Brad Pitt getting hit by a car went viral a few months ago. “But Damien comes up to me after that first take and he’s, like, ‘Um, that was great, we just need way more.’ “I give it a lot on my first take, like, I go big,” Robbie says. “You know when you read a script and even the night before (filming), you’re, like, ‘I don’t know what to do in this scene, it’s so insane.’”Ĭhazelle was also unlike any director she has worked with. She wondered how she would pull off two especially wild scenes, one involving a rattlesnake and another, throwing up.
Says the 32-year-old, who starred in the comedy The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) and was Oscar-nominated for the biopic I, Tonya (2017): “I remember reading the script and being particularly terrified and excited by the whole thing.” Robbie had a similar reaction to the screenplay, which casts her as an aspiring actress named Nellie LaRoy – a character based on silent-film sex symbol Clara Bow. Margot Robbie and Diego Calva in Babylon. It wasn’t until I saw some of the films, at Damien’s urging, that you find a real charm and warmth in them.” “I hadn’t really paid attention to it because it’s not an acting style I relate to and it’s not what we gravitate to now. “I had kind of dismissed that era,” Pitt says. “And – you saw it – it’s mayhem,” he says with a smile.īut the story is also “really well grounded” in the history of Hollywood’s silent era, he adds. And the film-maker’s reputation got a further boost in 2017, when he became the youngest person to win the Best Director Oscar for La La Land at age 32. Pitt says he had been itching to work with Chazelle since his breakout work Whiplash. I was surprised at how much stayed in the movie.” “And it pretty much turned out that way, to Damien’s credit. I’m going to pace this thing at a minute a page,’” recalls the 59-year-old American actor, who won an Oscar for another drama about Tinseltown history, Once Upon A Time In. “So my first question to Damien was, ‘What’s going to get cut?’ And he said, ‘Nothing. Says Pitt, who plays a silent-film star named Jack Conrad: “The script was 180 pages long and it’s hard enough to shoehorn 120 pages into a film.
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