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Alessandro Nivola discussing The Neon Demon filming
AKT: You did a film with Nicolas Winding Refn [The Neon Demon] in the meantime, didn't you?
AN: Yeah. I managed to find the one role that demanded that I have the same moustache as Frederick Treves.
AKT: I don't remember when I last saw you without a moustache.
AN: Well, I can't remember what I look like without it. I'm so sick of it. My family, my friends, they are all going to be shocked and horrified when I shave it off. I can't wait for the day. The night of our closing in London. So long as Bradley doesn't insist that we take it to Singapore or some other…
AKT: Is he thinking about taking it elsewhere or are you making this up?
AN: I'm making it up. But one never knows what the next stop might be. He's enjoyed doing it so much. As have I.
AKT: Tell me more about the Refn movie. Was he wearing shorts?
AN: He basically poached the cast of Sally Potter's Ginger And Rosa. I assumed that he wanted me in the movie because he had seen that movie. Elle [Fanning] was starring in it and Christina [Hendricks] was in that one.
(later in the article)
AKT: What is your role?
AN: I'm like a … one of the biggest designers in the world and I'm a star maker. It's a bit like the guy in The Red Shoes [Boris Lermontov played by Anton Walbrook in the Powell Pressburger film]. I kind of pluck her out of obscurity.
AKT: That's where the moustache came from? Walbrook's looks great.
AN: I am gay in the film but I appeal to her vanity and ambition. And plant the seeds for her destruction. It was a very enjoyable character to play. He offered me another role initially but he only shoots in sequence. My character's role in the movie was supposed to be shot a few days after I was to go to London for the play. He refused to move the scenes to an earlier day in the shoot because of his insistence on the sequence. So I couldn't do it and it looked like I couldn't be in the film. And then he wrote this part for me so that I could shoot it before leaving for London. The role only exists in the middle of the film. So that it could be finished before Thursday. I finished it a few days ago.
(later in the article)
AKT: For the rest of your life! That would make a good horror movie. By the way, how do you look in The Neon Demon? In Only God Forgives he transformed Kristin Scott Thomas so drastically, that she was almost unrecognisable.
Alessandro shows me a picture of himself not even remotely looking like Kristin Scott Thomas.
AN: This isn't much of a transformation. I just had a very deep tan and fashionable outfit.
AKT: You don't look grotesque at all. The sleeves are a little big.
TPL: First Images Of Elle Fanning In Nicolas Winding Refn's 'The Neon Demon' [NEOND]. May 13, 06:28
No mention of Alessandro Nivola in either Article. {nm} May 13, 06:30
One article is using the other article as source material {nm} May 13, 07:05
Alessandro Nivola discussing The Neon Demon filming May 13, 07:15
i wonder how edgy this would be. elle wasnt quite 17 when filming started {nm} May 13, 07:08
'The Neon Demon' Wraps shooting next week according to Variety May 13, 07:25