El Pais Interview

El Pais, an newspaper in Spain, has a new interview with Rob and Azahara was kind enough to translate it for all of us!

What attracted you to Little Ashes?

It's an exceptional tragedy. I doubt I could do something with more tragedy in all my career. (laughs) I had no idea about Dali, Lorca and Buuel before this movie. And the more I discovered about them, the more obsessed I got. Specially with Dali's writings. Many people don't know, but he was an incredible writer. I found we had a lot things in common.

For example?

He was very self-conscious and about how people see him. And he worked to manipulate that. That's something I did in my childhood and in my teens.

Dali turned out to be a vampire too. What casting directors see in you that the always cast you as a vampire?

It's strange. During a rehearsal of Little Ashes, Marina Gatell (who plays Lorca's friend) said to me: "You know? You're a vampire" I found it very strange and now that I remember it, even stranger. (laughs)

And what do you think about doing your first sex scenes with a man?

The worse about it is that they are not very romantic scenes at all, they are very traumatic. You don't feel arousal, you feel pity for them (laughs). It was very uncomfortable, not just because I had met Javier (Lorca) the day before. It was shot with no privacy, with all the Spanish technicians talking Spanish, a language I didn't understand, laughing at us.

And who kiss better? Javier or Kristen?

Definitely Javier. (Laughs) (more…)