Robert Pattinson is the focus of the just-released Bel Ami trailer. In this Bel Ami film version of Guy de Maupassant's novel, Pattinson plays down-and-out former soldier Georges Duroy, who wins the hearts and bodies of a whole array of Parisian women. Among those are Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Natalia Tena, and Holliday Grainger (here billed as Holly Grainger).
I could swear I'd read — or perhaps saw a clip of — Robert Pattinson telling an interviewer that he found the Bel Ami screenplay to be hilarious. Watching this Bel Ami trailer, however, the film comes across as anything but funny. Bel Ami is Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod feature-film directorial debut. The screenplay adaptation was by Rachel Bennette.
Bel Ami, which was partly shot in Budapest last year, will presumably come out later this year in the United States. I'm no fangirl, but I'm looking forward to this one.
He didn't mean hilarious as in "funny". I think he was referring to the sheer audacity of the story/concept and that it's something that actually can and does happen. With Robert, you have to often read between the lines. He's got a very British sense of humor that can be somewhat lost on Americans.
me too..
I'm looking forward to it too.