{"id":160263,"date":"2022-12-17T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brad-pitt-damien-chazelle-on-the-wildest-babylon-movie-scenes-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T05:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T05:55:03","slug":"brad-pitt-damien-chazelle-on-the-wildest-babylon-movie-scenes-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brad-pitt-damien-chazelle-on-the-wildest-babylon-movie-scenes-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, Damien Chazelle on the Wildest ‘Babylon’ Movie Scenes \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBabylon<\/em>Damien Chazelle’s star-studded exploration of the depravity and excess of 1920s Hollywood, had its world premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday alongside stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva. <\/p>\n

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\tChazelle first came up with the concept, which focuses on the era when Hollywood transitioned from silent films to talks, 15 years ago when he first moved to LA <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI just became really interested in the origins of this, this whole insanity, and I think what really made me think there was a movie there was I would read things just out of curiosity and I’d find myself continually shocked by them,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> on the red carpet. \u201cI’d read about the parties, the drug use, the way movies were shot in these days \u2014 the uninhibited, unhinged wildness \u2014 and I would just find my jaw on the floor all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI kind of felt like, ‘OK, if I can capture some semblance of that and put that onscreen, and not compromise it, not sanitize it’ \u2014 I just feel like so many movies about old Hollywood buy into the old Hollywood myth of everything being clean and elegant and it wasn’t that, at least in this time,\u201d the writer-director continued. \u201cSo if I could do that, it felt like, ‘OK, that’s a movie worth making.’\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tPitt plays fictional silent film star Jack Conrad in the movie, with Robbie as aspiring actress Nellie LaRoy and Calva as Mexican immigrant Manny Torres, who is searching for his big break. In casting his three leads, Chazelle said Pitt was the first to sign on, and \u201cthere are not many people, I think, who could play Brad’s role in this. the character is an all-time movie star so you kind of need an all-time movie star to play it; there aren’t many of those today. With Margot, you needed someone who is a movie star but also someone who has arrived on the scene recently. I wanted someone who kind of mirrored her character’s journey a little bit and also was utterly fearless.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAs for Calva, who counts the film as his first major English-language project after appearing in Narcos: Mexico<\/em>, Chazelle said, \u201cThat was kind of the Hollywood clich\u00e9 of a true discovery. I had this dream it would be someone in that role who we didn’t know, who was a newcomer for people, but that’s a hard thing to actually do, to find someone who’s really new who can hold their own against Margot and Brad and people like that. So I was just lucky, it was the luck of the draw to be able to stumble upon Diego and find him and put him onscreen. I think he’s a true movie star.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tOne of the film’s biggest talking points has become its crazy, extravagant scenes, which included hundreds of extras, snakes, alligators and a party scene so debaucherous it took almost two weeks to shoot. <\/p>\n

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\tPitt admitted that when it came to filming the party, \u201cthe first day was a bit shocking, even for me. I went, ‘Wow, wow, we’re really doing this,’\u201d teasing there was \u201ca lot of nudity, a lot of nudity. And then day three it was like, ‘Yeah, a lot of nudity.’ And then two weeks into it, it was just like another day at the office.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tThe star also pointed to another scene \u201cwhere we’re racing the light and there are 700 extras behind us, and we’re trying to capture this shot and everyone’s panicked to get it and rushing and the crew’s going mad \u2014 that to me represents filmmaking, that’s a lot of times what it’s like.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tPitt added of exploring the 1920s era of Hollywood, \u201cIt’s a whole different acting style. They were big, they indicated, and it wasn’t until I started studying them that I could see the real charm and artistry in what they were doing.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tAside from its lead trio, Babylon<\/em> features a starry ensemble including Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Max Minghella, Flea, Lukas Haas, Eric Roberts, Jovan Adepo and Li Jun Li.<\/p>\n

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\tMinghella recalled first reading the \u201cinsane\u201d script, saying Chazelle had \u201ca singular vision, it was really clear he saw something that none of us were going to be able to see until we were there. When I sat down to watch this movie, I sort of was almost weeping throughout, just from the joy of seeing something this cinematic.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tLi said when she first watched it, \u201cI remember holding onto my face so hard that I had handprints on my cheek after I got out. I also remember that Jean Smart and I were at the same screening and we came out and both of us were saying to each other, ‘Whew, we forgot to breathe,’ because it was such a wild ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIt may have been the wildest ride for the producing team, as producer Matt Plouffe said when he first heard Chazelle’s idea 13 years ago, \u201cI thought it was probably the most impossible movie that I’d ever be involved with. Honestly, I’m just really grateful to be here because for so long I thought, ‘This movie will probably never get made.’ There are just so few places in the world that would make this movie, to be honest, and Paramount stepped up and did something that is just unheard of, to back a movie like this, made this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tPlouffe added, \u201cIt really felt like every day the whole thing could come apart, so it was almost like there was something spiritual looking out for us \u2014 maybe our Hollywood ancestors.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBabylon<\/em> hits theaters Dec. 23. <\/p>\n

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