To many, Adam Driver is going to forever be the overly-emotional, brooding and unstable Kylo Ren from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With good reason, too, as he put forth a stellar performance as the troubled Sith, including some of the film’s most memorable, non-nostalgic scenes. But Driver has had many roles prior to that and continues to hone his craft by taking on diverse roles.
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Adam Driver in Cannes to talk about the transition from being Kylo Ren to being a bus driver in Paterson. The film is the latest from the mind of Jim Jarmusch, who has done some thought-provoking, at times pretty crazy films like Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Stranger Than Paradise, of which Paterson sounds like it fits in quite well with the rest of his lexicon.
Driver talks about the titular character who drives a bus while philosophizing on life, the universe, and everything. While it might seem like a giant leap to go from the fast-paced action of a Star Wars to a more contemplative work, Driver’s approach remains the same. “Even though the tone of them are very different, something like Star Wars where it has a lot of people at a time breaking it up into small pieces, solving all of the small pieces and leading to the next moment and the next moment… The process of working on them seems to the same. The transition, I think, doesn’t seem as abrupt.”
(Via The Hollywood Reporter)
