the american actor Adam Driver talked about the passing of the years in his latest film, “White Noise”, which debuted in Venice Film Festival on Wednesday (31), but said he liked what he saw when he saw himself with hairlines and a few extra pounds.
Former Marine who appeared muscular in previous films, Driver was asked if he was “scared” about having to become a middle-aged father with a belly in the new film from the Netflix directed by Noah Baumbach.
“I am very satisfied with the way things are going. The movie was a window into the future and I’m ready,” the 38-year-old star told reporters, adding that his stunt double was not called.
“I got fat. For support, we had a supportive stomach, but we didn’t need it. It was just my weight,” he said.
Driver plays a professor specializing in Hitler who has to face a “toxic event” with his curious children and wife, played by Greta Gerwig who suffers from a mysterious illness that brings its own set of traumas.
“The movie is about life and death and how essentially we have to recognize that they are the same and they exist together rather than being two different things,” said Baumbach, who last worked with Driver on the 2019 film, “Story of a Wedding”.
“White Noise” is an adaptation of a 1985 satirical novel by Don DeLillo, but the film still resonates in a world struggling with the lessons of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 .
“I was rereading (the book) by chance to see if it coincided with the pandemic. I couldn’t believe how relevant it felt and how it felt so much to the moment,” Baumbach said.
The film projects a sometimes surreal version of a small town in 1980s America, with exaggerated colors, people dancing in supermarket aisles, atheistic German nuns and university classes that see Adolf Hitler and Elvis through the same distorted lens.
“DeLillo’s novel is a satire of academia as well as pop culture,” Baumbach said.
“White Noise,” which also stars Don Cheadle and Jodie Turner-Smith is one of four Netflix films to debut at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, highlighting the US streaming giant’s growing ambitions.
The long-awaited “Blonde”, starring the Cuban actress Ana de Armas in a vision of the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe, opens next week, while Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film “Bardo” arrives at Lido on Thursday. The French “Athena” completes the Netflix lineup.
Watch the teaser for “White Nose”:
Source: CNN Brasil
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