Guy Pearce Talks About ‘The Rover’ and Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson’s co-star in The Rover, Guy Pearce, had nothing but kind words about Rob

From The Herald Sun:

The two actors have just spent seven weeks together in the South Australian Outback, filming director David Michod’s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Animal Kingdom, with Pearce waxing lyrical about his co-stars “beautiful face”.

“The best thing about Rob is that he is a really great actor,” says Pearce.

“Watching the rushes back, you go: ‘OK, he is just going to be fantastic’.”

Guy Pearce says his co-star in The Rover Robert Pattinson is a ‘great actor’.

The Twilight star plays white trailer trash from the southern states of America in the futuristic western, set in an apocalyptic near future where society has broken down in the wake of a severe financial crisis.

“He plays (the character) slightly backward, emotionally useless and really vulnerable,” says Pearce.

“He’s got this beautiful face so you are completely entranced by that face no matter how ugly he makes himself or how wounded he is, or how manky his haircut.”

See a video interview with Guy after the break More…

First Official Still of Rob Pattinson in ‘The Rover’

From EW:

Australia was founded as a repository for crooks and criminals — a wretched hive of scum and villainy, like the British Empire’s own Mos Eisley. Of course, that was a long time ago and the Australian national demeanor has since shifted from “kill or be killed” to “live and let live,” but David Michôd’s gritty 2010 drama Animal Kingdom chronicled some of the country’s more modern criminal descendents. In his upcoming sophomore effort, The Rover, the director takes things even further.

Robert Pattinson plays a denizen of the Outback in the near future, after a worldwide financial collapse has sent many like him running to the still viable mines of the Australian desert. “It’s like a new gold rush,” says Michôd. “Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers.” Guy Pearce, who had an uncharacteristically reserved role in Animal Kingdom, gets to sink his teeth into a nicely nasty part opposite Pattinson. “The basic story is really quite elemental,” says Michôd. “You’ve got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy’s character, and in Rob’s character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul.”

Read the rest of the article at EW

First still is out now!! Can’t wait for a trailer!