‘How to Be’ director is a big fan of Rob’s

RadarOnline.com had the chance to talk to Oliver Irving, director of How to Be, and he talks about a special night when he took the crew to film a scene in a pub, as well as his thoughts on Robert Pattinson. Here's what he had to say:

"That was method acting, that was perfect method acting. I got them all hopelessly drunk. I would tell them what would have to happen in the scene and tell them what they should be doing but they just got completely drunk. A lot of time when you see them laughing in that scene they're having a hoot, and when they're laughing it's because someone would say something and they would all crack up and I would just keep rolling the film and knew that it would be fine. Usually when people laugh in films it looks phony and I wanted them to laugh. You go to a pub, you get drunk and laugh. I wanted them to lift the mood a little bit. All that was for real, that's Rob cracking up. When he's drinking beer and smoking that's for real. When he's getting slapped across the face that's for real and when he's standing in the cold selling all his stuff that's for real. He's standing there getting very, very cold and he looks miserable and he is."

Irving was a big fan of Rob's from the minute he walked into the audition. "We were looking for someone who would be able to take responsibility for playing this big part in a way. Rob just got it a lot more. He was actually very un-pretentious," Irving remembered. "He would laugh at himself and I remember when Rob came in he asked questions about the script and I realized that he actually read the script and got it. We'd start playing with the scene and I'd call him in to work with other actors and we just knew straight away that it would work."

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