【新闻采访】Tom Interview - Première Magazine Feb

以下为英文翻译
It appears you speak French better than Bradley Cooper. Is it true?
Really? [In French] It’s up to you! I learnt your language in school in England, from 10 to 16 years old. Then I worked in France in a theatre company and, most recently, I shot Midnight in Paris in your area under the direction of Woody Allen. I try not to become rusty.
Last May, Only Lovers Left Alive was presented in Cannes competition. It was your first time on the Croisette and you almost didn’t come…
Don’t remind it to me, this has been an epic travel! The day before the film screening, I had to take the plane in London, but the airport closed in front of my nose at 22pm because the engine of a plane was on fire and an emergency landing procedure had to be setting. In short, my flight has been cancelled and because there was no Eurostar left, I made hitch-hiking and I took a taxi to go to Douvre. It was raining cats and dogs, I was soaking wet. So at 2am, I found myself in a boat ; at 5am I landed at Calais and I jumped in another taxi to join Paris ; at 8.30am I was at Orly Airport : at 9.30am in a plane to Nice ; and at 2.30pm I arrived exactly for the press conference!

It’s funny; you travelled by night by sea and land, like Nosferatu. You were in the character…
Absolutely! But I survived the sun rising…
Is it Loki, the gloomy super-villain character you played in Thor and The Avengers, who gave to Jim Jarmusch the idea of choosing you for the role of a vampire?
No, he has not seen those films! I simply showed to Jim a photo of me in The Avengers so that he could be aware of how I look like with black hair. Because I am naturally blond, he was afraid it would appear weird, but he was relieved.

We imagine your meeting at dusk in a Detroit local bar…

[Laughs] Absolutely not! We met each other for a cup of tea in a very cozy cafe in Manhattan. I was promoting War Horse and was on the verge of starting Henry V, a BBC series adapted from the Shakespeare play. He asked me not to read the scenario and described me the character like an “Hamlet who would be played by Syd Barrett”! That was enough to convince me. In any case, I love Down by Law, Dead Man and Night on Earth so much that I was already conquered.
Were you looking for an independent project to stretch your legs between two blockbusters?
I don’t think like that. I don’t tell myself:”Well, I am going to alternate big productions and little independent projects.” I chose what motivates me when the things occur. In order to be in good shape you have to eat everything. The combined diet is healthier than protein-enriched diet. And it works also for the cinema. I already played a certain number of soldiers and super-heroes. Here, Jim allowed me to personify romanticism and melancholy. Adam, my character, is a talented musician et a brilliant engineer. Music fascinates him as much as science. He likes resonating particles, whether it is string instruments or stars in the outer space. As a member of the audience I want also to eat everything: a romantic comedy like The Proposal with Sandra Bullock, and Lars von Trier’s Antichrist.

Adam has an amazing quickdraw, midway between the vampire and rock star. Who have you inspired?
We studied pictures of rock stars of the 60s as Syd Barrett, Mick Jagger - at the time of Performance (Nicolas Roeg and Donald of Cammell) - or Keith Richards. Adam has to be elegant, sophisticated, and at the same time he is wearing vintage clothing that Lord Byron would not have disowned. As Jim wanted to give a rock look to the film, it was also mentioned Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Bach … In short, people imbued with this spirit. And then with Tilda (Swinton, his partner in the film), it was agreed that Adam and Eve were like wolves. They are following their animal instinct of wild creatures. Despite their erudition, they are not brain but react in a physical way and are capable of appetites, in every sense of the word.
We finally see them as specimens of a species endangered that we would like to save.
Absolutely. Adam is fragile and delicate, he may be dying. Moreover, it is possible that he has no more reasons to live. Hamlet by his side, he has a tendency to melancholy and considers suicide as a possible loophole. Eve, she is there to protect him. This is also what interested me: translate a relationship in the context of immortality. This eternity is it a blessing or a curse? And finally, what is an “old” couple?

If you were a vampire, who would you want to bite?
Ah, I love this question! Wait, I have to think … It would have to be someone who has poetry because it is a quality that is lost. Someone who wants to continue to learn and improve himself throughout his life and uses the immortality responsibly, but is not afraid to enjoy it. Tom Yorke (lead singer of Radiohead). David Bowie. And then a woman, of course: Tilda!
尽管是抖森的采访，不由得说一句，太多了。。。。。。。
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你说法语比Bradley Cooper说得好，是吗
真的吗，那得由你决定。我在英国学校学你们的语言，从10岁学到16岁。然后我在法国的戏剧公司工作。我在巴黎拍了Woody Allen指导的午夜巴黎，尽量让自己的法语不生疏
去年五月Only Lovers Left Alive在戛纳电影节竞赛中获奖上，那是你第一次在Croisette大道，你差点没来。。。。
别提了，那真是一场史诗般的旅行啊。在电影展映的前一天，我必须到London坐飞机，但机场因为一架飞机的引擎着火了，紧急着陆的计划必须确定，所以机场在晚10关闭了。简而言之，我的那个航班被取消了，并且因为没有欧洲之星【火车】。所以我搭免费便车和一辆出租车到Douvre。那天下着倾盆大雨，我全身都湿了。在早上2点，我发现自己在船上，5点到达Calais，然后我又打车去巴黎。8点半到了Orly 机场，9点半上了去Nice的飞机。下午2点半我正好赶上记者会 【艾玛，太曲折了，心疼。。。】

你在晚上在海上和陆地的旅行真有趣，像Nosferatu
当然了，但我在太阳升起时活了下来
是在雷神和复联阴暗的超级坏人角色loki给了Jim Jarmusch选你当吸血鬼的想法吗
不，他还没看到这些电影。我仅仅是把我在复联的照片给他以便于他可以看到我黑头发什么样子。因为我天生黄头发，他会觉得有点别扭，但他终于松了口气

又没有人

我们猜你们在底特律一家当地酒吧见面
当然不是，我们在Manhattan的一家咖啡馆见面。当时我在宣传War Horse和刚刚拍摄Henry V,一个根据Shakespeare 戏剧改编的BBC剧。他让我先别读剧本并且先给我描述这个角色像Syd Barrett演的Hamlet。这就足以说服我了。不管怎样，我非常喜欢Down by Law、Dead Man 和 Night on Earth，我已经被征服了
你是想在两部大片之间寻找一部独立影片吗
我不这莫认为。我没告诉自己‘’好吧，我要在大制作和小成本之间转换‘’。当事情发生时我选择我的动机是什么。为了保持身材你必须什么都吃，混合的饮食比丰富蛋白质的饮食更健康。这个道理同样适用于电影界。我已经演过了不少士兵和超级英雄。Jim允许我将浪漫和忧郁人性化。我的角色Adam是一个天才音乐家和杰出工程师，音乐和科学一样使他着迷。他喜欢产生共鸣的粒子，无论是弦乐器还是外太空的星星。而作为观众的一员，我也喜欢看各种类型的电影。

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Adam有一种特异能力，介于吸血鬼和和摇滚明星之间，你有什莫感触吗
我们看了一些60年代的像Syd Barrett、Mick Jagger的摇滚明星。Adam必须优雅高贵并且久经世故。与此同时，他穿着Byron 公爵不会否定的古老的衣服。正如Jim想让这部电影有摇滚风，而且也提到了Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Bach …总而言之，人们充满着这种精神。然后Tilda认为 Adam 和 Eve 像两只狼。他们凭着野生动物的直觉追踪猎物。
我们最终见到他们是作为我们想拯救的濒危物种的样本
是的。Adam是脆弱的，纤弱的，他可能会死。此外，也可能是他没有活下去的理由了。Hamlet 在他身边，他有一种忧郁的倾向，并且认为死亡可能是一种解脱。Eve在保护他。这也是吸引我的地方；将一段关系转化成永恒，这永恒是祝福还是诅咒?最后，什么是‘’老‘’情侣?