Sam Riley"OTR" Interview - Mention Kristen

shortlist Are you happy On The Road is ready to be released?
I felt a huge weight lift off me at Cannes, because I’d been apprehensive from the day I was given [the part]. And I kind of had the feeling that it’s out there now, people can sh*t on it or like it.
How did it go down in Cannes?
The reception after the film was great. There was a big standing ovation – I think someone timed it and it was six minutes – which was better than the tomatoes I was expecting. Then, one of the first pages that comes up when I turn my computer on isThe Guardian film page, and I saw the two stars, and I was like, “Ah, f*ck! Way to ruin it!” (..)
Did Kristen Stewart attract a lot of attention?
Once, we arrived in this little airport and I walked out first, and there were two little old dudes with cameras, and I thought, “F*ckin’ ’ell, it must be slim pickings being a paparazzi here. This is their payday!” They were taking photos of me, and I could see out the corner of my eye Kristen going out the door, into the car and f*cking off. One of them came up to me with a piece of paper, and went [in poor Argentinian accent], “Christian Stewart?” and I went, “No [points at his name], I’m this one, that one’s just walked off!”
Any other incidents?
Some kids found out where the hotel was. They were crossing a river to stand outside the window, and when I opened the curtains, they were like,”Kristy! Kristy!” all night. It was mental. And when we got back to the airport, her bodyguard said, “We’re going to put the producers in the car they think is her car, and drop them off…” And we had to run through the airport, and I saw how aggressive some of these photographers can be. It’s a strange job to chase a 20-year-old girl around…
Is she used to the attention?
She deals with it well. I’d have a caution for thumping them by now if they followed me around like that.
Did you get closer during filming? Garrett barely had a shirt on throughout, and there were sex scenes too… 
Man. I’ve seen his penis more than I have my own brother’s! By the end of it, I didn’t even bat an eyelid. There was a scene where we all sat naked on a rock together, which never made it into the film, but it was so funny – we never looked down, we just looked at each other, like, “You all right?”, “Yeah, I’m fine, yeah.”

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Sam Riley Talks About "On The Road" Mention work with Kristen

guardian At his hippy retreat Salles had Riley and Minnesota-born Garrett Hedlund, who would play Dean, meet everyone he could find who had known the original Beat double act, writers and drug casualties and people who had been around their San Francisco of the 50s.
Neal Cassady's son came for a weekend. And all of these survivors looked Riley up and down. "Obviously I was as surprised as anyone else that Walter wanted a Yorkshireman to play Jack Kerouac," he recalls. "I remember the first biographer we met, a very nice gentleman whose whole life revolved around academic study of the Beats.
Garrett and I greeted him at the door and he said to Garrett: 'You must be Dean.' Then looked over my shoulder and said: 'Which one is playing Kerouac?' I said: 'I am.' He said: 'You are awful tall to be Kerouac, and you don't have blue eyes.' And I started to say something else and he said: 'My God! Are you British?'"

Not surprisingly, after a month of this, Riley and Heglund, and their co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays Dean's wild-child girlfriend, Marylou, were desperately keen to move on. Which was probably Salles's intention. Over the subsequent six months they properly took to the highway. "Walter wanted us to be as bonded as possible. We had to wrap Kristen's stuff in the first three months so we were flying all over the place to get the right weather," Riley recalls. "We went down to Patagonia for four days for the snow, and then Louisiana, 100% humidity, then Arizona, then Mexico, then Calgary, then we finished in San Francisco… "

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