A First Look at Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in Babylon
Very little has been known about one of Oscar season’s most lavish epics, Babylon, with Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and newcomer Diego Calva in the lead roles. But today, VF’s Rebecca Ford dives into Damien Chazelle’s movie, which focuses on Hollywood in the 1920s, just as it makes the uncertain transition from silent movies to talkies, and everyone is angling for fame and money. Pitt and Robbie play bold (fictional) stars of the era—one looking back on a long career, the other new to the spotlight—and Calva plays a Mexican immigrant who, like the audience, is trying to understand the raucous landscape. “Everything is shifting underneath people’s feet,” says Chazelle, an Oscar winner for La La Land, “and I became really fascinated by the human cost of disruption at that magnitude, at a time when there was no road map, when everything was just new and wild.”
Elsewhere in Hollywood today, we walk you through the awards-season lessons of the Telluride Film Festival; Nina Hoss talks about playing Cate Blanchett’s wife in the already-revered psychological drama Tár; Jay Duplass riffs on his role as a billionaire in the acclaimed series Industry; and, in an excerpt from the new book The Architecture of Suspense,Christine Madrid French explains how the Vandamm House in North by Northwest inspired a new chapter in cinema.
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