‘Babylon’: Director Damien Chazelle and stars Margot Robbie and Diego Calva rejoiced in making a film without compromises.
Margot Robbie and Diego Calva knew as soon as they dove into “Babylon’s” audacious screenplay that they wanted the “roles of a lifetime” in Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle’s grandiose and destined-to-be-talked about silent-film era epic.
The hard-R-rated “Babylon,” opening Dec. 23 in theaters, also stars Brad Pitt as alcoholic matinee idol Jack Conrad, Jean Smart as gossipy newspaper columnist Elinor St. John and Jovan Adepo as Black trumpeter Sidney Palmer, to name a few. “My first reaction was I have to be a part of this,” she recalls. “For me it felt like ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘La Dolce Vita’ had a baby — the wheels had come off.”
That was the longest time Chazelle’s ever had for filming, but given the broad reach of the story Chazelle felt — as he did with 2014’s “Whiplash” with Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons — he and the cast and crew needed to “hit the ground running” every day. “I said I thought after doing ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ that I would never be on a set like this again and then this role came along 10 years later,” she adds.“A lot has happened in the last couple years and I don’t know if anyone is ever going to be on a set again with 100 extras practical explosions and an orchestra playing. That size it’s just too economical with CGI.
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