Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie chat with USA TODAY’s briantruitt about their new film BabylonMovie
Art imitates stressful life in a massive scene early on during Damien Chazelle’s over-the-top ode to old Hollywood. In “Babylon” , filmmakers are trying to line up a key shot in a silent costume drama where A-list power player Jack Conrad plants a kiss on his leading lady just as extras bang around in swords and shields behind them, an orchestra plays, an explosion goes off and the sun sets – all at the same time. And that had to be like clockwork for Chazelle and Co., too.
The film casts her and Pitt as silent movie actors in the 1920s on different trajectories as sound pictures come into vogue. Jack is the highest-grossing star in the world , wannabe actress Nellie LaRoy is a spitfire who makes the most of her chance when she gets one, and young Mexican assistant Manny Torres is the go-getter connected to both.
Much different than their on-screen counterparts – “They were a bit destructive,” Pitt cracks – the two A-listers talk with USA TODAY about “Babylon,” Hollywood stardom and if they could hack it in the silent film era .I just loved her hunger. She has this insatiable appetite for everything, like things that feel good. If she likes something, she wants it more and again and bigger. She felt unforgettable on the page and I thought this would be a role of a lifetime for me.
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