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Rob is working with Mona Fastvold on The Bleaching Yard


Interesting tidbit from Brady's latest interview -- he says Rob is working with Mona on her new film.

Given that he feels so strongly about the mythology of fan culture, it's ironic that he has cast Pattinson in the film, as the actor has built up an ardent following in the years since the Twilight films, with a large number of fan sites dedicated to his work and even the internet-friendly abbreviation RPatz. Corbet says he was interesting in using certain expectations to his advantage.

"It’s really bizarre," says Corbet "There’s a couple of things. First of all, I’m not that connected to the notion of Rob as a celebrity, because I’ve known him for a long time and I didn’t discover him that way. The other thing is that I thought it would be really, really interesting to have this sort of Janet Leigh in Psycho effect, where you have someone who is a public figure and people have their eye on him, he’s interesting, he’s charismatic, he’s compelling, he’s handsome. And I thought, that it would really give weight to the first 20 minutes of the film. So I hired him for all of those reasons. I hired him because the role was written for a young man that was a bit younger than the female character, handsome and English, so I thought of him.

"Anyone who has spent any time with the guy will know that he’s super hard-working and he never complains. I was just talking to the Safdie brothers, who are directing a new film with him [Good Time], and Josh was like, ‘Dude, we were shooting 19 hour days and he didn’t *beep* complain once.’ They were just amazed by his work ethic and so am I. I think he and I will work together for a long time."

Corbet isn't sure yet whether Pattinson will feature in his next film Vox Lux yet. "It's a big cast and it’s an ensemble piece and I have to work out what age everyone is in relationship to each other," he says, but the British star is working with Corbet's wife and collaborator Mona Fastvold on her upcoming film The Bleaching Yard.

http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2016-08-19-brady-corbet-on-making-audiences-think-christianity-and-robert-pattinson-and-the-culture-of-celebrity-feature-story-by-amber-wilkinson

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Thanks so much for posting, Curzon.

What great comments from Brady and the Safdies, too. And to hear that he's working with Mona on her next is excellent news!!

Brady says this about the film:

"It’s a period drama," says Corbet "The source material is from a very famous Norwegian author called Tarjei Vesaas and she’s set it in a whaling community in the 1940s, which is not in the book. It’s really great. We’re making that with Chris Cohen who produced Childhood as well and her producers from The Sleepwalker. This is the first time as a family that we have made two separate projects."

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LOVE this quote.

"Anyone who has spent any time with the guy will know that he’s super hard-working and he never complains. I was just talking to the Safdie brothers, who are directing a new film with him [Good Time], and Josh was like, ‘Dude, we were shooting 19 hour days and he didn’t *beep* complain once.’ They were just amazed by his work ethic and so am I. I think he and I will work together for a long time."

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A whaling community in the 1940's--I love it already. Rob is so good at different eras, he's not stuck in only being contemporary the way some actors are, he has real versatility.

Very excited about this project already, and wondering where they will film it.
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There's not much out there on the bare bones of the plot (which Mona no doubt has changed in her script), but I found a couple of blurbs:

Stuck fast in their village communities, Vesaas’s characters aretypically pushed beyond their ordinary limits by the arrival of anewcomer into their small society. In the Bleaching Yard, John Tander's fate is decided when, against the background of his wife’s quietly repressed sorrow at their inability to produce a living child, a fresh young girl comes to work in their laundry and becomes a focus of jealousy and desire.

And some comments about the play version. Note that this doesn't just outline the plot (and it's different than the above, really), but also reveals the ending...so click only if you want to know. A portion of the play is there to read if you would like to.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1h2SzLlLQ4C&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=%22the+bleaching+yard%22+play&source=bl&ots=jcmq7bBloH&sig=Oe47cne0xAzVvhVPCLp8UWn9ycU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8soPPhM7OAhWBOyYKHX6UBPsQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=%22the%20bleaching%20yard%22%20play&f=false

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Oh, that sounds very intriguing. I'm excited to hear more about it. Hope Rob is the main character, and can't wait to find out the other leads :)

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Thank you for posting Curzon! Great, although not surprising, comments about Rob and his work ethic.
The project with Mona is intriguing. Can't wait to hear more!

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I concur. Rob works hard and is noticed.



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Nice to see that Rob has another project and that Brady wants to work with him again.

Rob: 15 times on French news programmes. His face is a Greco-Roman marvel.

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