The film even gets a (Cannes-awarded) screaming score courtesy of Brooklyn-based electronic producer Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never), heightening our visceral response to the siblings' doomed plight. To everyone's credit, there's nothing muted about Pattinson's performance and the film feels very embedded in a certain reality - blue-collar underdogs, forsaken correctional facilities, eerie amusement parks and tawdry neon glows. People literally had no idea we were shooting a movie." I've never seen a less conspicuous crew in how they moved. "My experience shooting in New York years ago led me to think it would be physically impossible, but it actually never came up as a problem, ever. "What I really loved about Heaven Knows What was the seamlessness of it, where the movie bleeds into real life and the crowds," he explains. Shooting a hypnotic heist thriller with two of New York's most unorthodox indie auteurs, known for filming in real locations without permits, he wondered whether hordes of passers-by and subway commuters would see right through his peroxide head and pockmarked mug. Pattinson will be the first to say his celebrity status left him massively worried at the outset of Good Time. So it became about tapping into that on a performance level with the character and the writing." There's this PTSD quality within him he moves around like he's been through war, constantly trying to hide from people and disappear. I wasn't interested in Rob playing a passive, brooding character. When we met him, we realised he just has a lot of energy pent up and this yearning to break free. "Here's a guy who operates on a metaphysical level. There's this weird purpose in this image within me.' It was very Connie, and that was interesting to me," considers Josh. "Rob told us, 'I feel like we need to work together. They were busy tweaking their Uncut Gems script - a thriller set in New York's Diamond District, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, going into production at the start of the year. Truth be told, the pair had zero intention of making such a movie until Rob reached out. People literally had no idea we were shooting a movie" – Robert Pattinson "I've never seen a less conspicuous crew in how they moved. "I remember we had a conversation, like, 'what would we do with him?'" recalls Ben, who is electrifying on-screen in Good Time as Pattinson's brother Nick. That impulse resonated loud and clear with the Safdies, who don't exactly have a track record for pastel-hued understatement (nor do they cast franchise-film superstars). Then, the Heaven Knows What trailer came out and it was exactly what I wanted to do: a performance where every single character is very confrontational… not in any way passive." I imagine it must have been very strange of me to send them an email and say, 'I've seen this photo, and I know I want to do a job with you.' I don't think I'd ever done that before. "I had never seen any of their movies," admits the actor, "but I just felt this powerful connection to a promo photo from Heaven Knows What. Which begs the question: how did Pattinson even come across the Safdies? But the loopy Queens criminal isn't a part one would immediately tack on to the RPatz repertoire. The British actor's impulsive, adrenaline-fuelled performance deserves all the "career-defining" kudos it's been getting (he can finally put his neutered Edward Cullen days behind him). His shady schemes and nocturnal misadventures are half-baked attempts at breaking free from a suffocating cul-de-sac of low wages and cold shoulders. Pattinson's frantic character, Connie, doesn't merely aspire to decamp from Queens with his brother. The tragedy is it's not a place where you aspire to live in." Queens was originally designed as a retreat from the city and then it just kept sprawling out. Others still live on the same block where they grew up. "A bunch of people I grew up with moved to the city (i.e., Manhattan) - as in, they made it. "There's a yearning to leave Queens," Josh Safdie tells me at Montreal's Fantasia Festival last week, upon asking why he refers to the birthplace of Mobb Deep, Joey Ramone and Run-D.M.C.
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