The mouth as Kurt
Michael Pitt, 24 years, phantom rock'n'roll at Gus Van Sant, and follower of film of author.
By Sabrina CHAMPAGNE
Friday May 13, 2005
On believed it two or three things of Michael Pitt: constantly out, would cumulate them "in": ingérable, unstable, undisciplined, inintelligible... Very near to Blake which it interprets in Last Days, of Gus Van Sant, it would push the resemblance until smoking more than the fitted carpet, would make turn any interview to: even zappés deferred appointments, erratic remarks intersected with belches... What one saw: a solar boy, of an astounding beauty and a softness.
With the chalk line. It arrives per hour, the lowered glance as it is said that have it timid people. It makes one meter eighty but, slightly arched, appears rather frail, its tee-shirt discovers shoulders of postadolescent. "I would prefer being as a realizer here, blows it of start. Of an actor, one waits so much that it is very beautiful, charismatic." It being said to him that it is it, it answers thank you with a smile, this time without the translucent eye cille. Would Michael Pitt, announced like the wolf in the sheep-fold, rebels refractory with the Hollywood yoke, be badly playing the number of the good-looking young man at ease with her image? "the media, I do not have anything against, but is not necessary to try to kiss me..." For the hour and even if it "did not close the eye of the night", it seems to agree planning to the chalk line which awaits it during its four days of Small cross.
Michael Pitt does not want clearly to recover already from its second turning with Gus Van Sant (after a minor part in Forrester in 2000). To wander, marmonner, to keep away from the others, nothing was not difficult to him under the crook of the scenario writer on which it is dependent of friendship since 1997 and which it regards as "the best current American realizer": "I specifically did not prepare, I read some books on Kurt Cobain, of which I was already fan. There was no script, we did not speak about precise facts, one discussed state of minds just much, of environments." If not, the clothes, they are them his (those of the day could make the deal besides), except the dress, "which are an idea of Gus... Me, I get dressed as a girl only for the pleasure with my girl friend " a time, one heard here and there, it was Asia Argento, present in Last Days and which directed it in the Book of Jérémie; one will take care not to check ("is not necessary to try to kiss me"). And to appear naked? "That does not pose problem to me, that pleases even to me to go against the weak American puritanism, which censures this kind of scenes but not those of slaughters."
Leitmotiv. With hair, it is undoubtedly like that that general public, in any case in France, started to remember Michael Pitt: in The Dreamers, of Bernardo Bertolucci (2003), it plays a young American who discovers simultaneously Paris in full May 68, the cinéphilie and the triolism in the arms of a incestueuse phratry interpreted by Louis Garrel and Eva Green. Two wire and girl of... (Philippe Garrel and Marlène Jobert), when leaves to him nowhere. That is to say Orange West, New Jersey. His/her parents are a mechanic and saleswoman in a family store of clothing; it has a brother and two sisters. At 10 years, it decides to become actor, to 16 it leaves for New York (where it always saw), is registered with a course of dramatic art, makes the dispach rider à.vélo to join the two ends. Figurations in small independent films or telefilms, it makes its ranges until 1999, where its service in a play played off Broadway opens the doors of tele to him: the role of a seed of champion of American football in Dawson, series worship around a group of banked-up bed... This crenel teenage was used as springboard with others Depp, Di Caprio, Brad Pitt... He plates it with the end two seasons. "They did nothing but repeat me: "Would be happy, would be happy..." Television, I want well, but quality." To turn in "good films, not the American weak trick" unceasingly returns in the mouth charnue. A leitmotiv which its catalogue of films confirms resolutely arty: Larry Clark, James Cameron Mitchell, Faye Dunaway, Tom DiCillo, Julian Goldberger, Schroeder Barbet spaniel...
After Cannes, Michael Pitt initially intends to devote himself to the music: the fan of Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, who sings twice on the BO of Last Days, finishes recording a first album with his group, Pagoda, and would like to connect with a round. "As long as I am young and that I have this energy, it is necessary that I benefit from it." He had just been 24 years old, he was beautiful like a child...