If
Riley relished Mirren's being playful, he sounds less enamoured with
the project he has just finished. For the past six months he has been
travelling all over America, shooting Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack
Kerouac's On the Road. As Sal Paradise, Kerouac's autobiographical
narrator, Riley heads a cast that includes Garrett Hedlund and Kristen
Stewart.
Riley
had to get fit – "my mum calls me a streak of piss" – and spend four
weeks in a beatnik bootcamp. He pulls a face. "Don't fucking ask." Did
they all get stoned? "We were allowed to, but not encouraged. I'm a
30-year-old who used to smoke for breakfast, but the Americans smoke
super-strength skunk so I stuck to my hash. Kerouac experts talked to
us, we watched films, learned the difference between Charlie Parker and
Dizzy Gillespie."
And
how was Stewart, star of the Twilight films, one of the biggest – and,
according to the tabloids who won't leave her alone – grumpiest actors
in the world? "She's just 20! The tabloids can fuck off! She wasn't
grumpy at all. She was a bit of a Rapunzel character in her hotel suite,
not wanting to come to the bar to spend all evening having her photo
taken."
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