Paul Bettany.
1905 Film Network News The Collaboration, a biopic about the friendship between the famous artist Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, is highly anticipated. A few days ago, Paul Bettaney, who played Warhol in the film, admitted that he was "very nervous" about whether he could play Warhol well, and refused at first.
"It's really hard to play Andy Warhol," he said. Hopefully you won't see it when you watch the movie. Yes, it's hard! If you've seen all of Warhol's footage or interviews, you'll see that he's been carefully working on his public image, and when they first asked me if I wanted to play him, I turned it down because I thought maybe Andy Warhol always made cameos in movies for a reason. Then they told me it was a story about Andy Warhol and Basquiat, and I knew their collaboration very well. I've long had a lot of books on the subject, and I was fascinated by the good years of Warhol's life and the partnership between this young and handsome young man who had risen so quickly and swept the art world, and the jealousy or fear that might have existed in Warhol's heart. So I finally accepted it, and then I started the work. ”
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a post-World War II American graffiti artist, one of the representatives of Art Nouveau, he had a well-known relationship with the famous pop artist Andy Warhol, because after a joint exhibition was greatly criticized, the young Basquiat was depressed, and Warhol's death in 1987 also hit him hard, in 1988, Basquiat died of a drug overdose at the age of 28. The film will focus on the deep friendship between these two well-known artists from the 80s, and how they made their different artistic beliefs a driving force for working together.