‘Mapplethorpe’: Matt Smith Defends Playing a Gay Man in Photographer Biopic
He compared the situation to playing a drug addict.
He compared the situation to playing a drug addict.
Ondi Timoner’s biopic of the provocative photographer, whose work helped kick off the culture war, received terrible reviews but gets a stunning trailer.
The British actor known for playing Prince Philip and the star of “Dr. Who” talks about embracing the danger of playing a boundary-pushing photographer.
There’s a ton of nudity in Ondi Timoner’s Robert Mapplethorpe biopic, but that full-frontal approach disguises a film that’s only skin deep.
Ondi Timoner announced the project at a panel discussing her career — including “Mapplethorpe,” her scripted debut that Sundance accepted but she couldn’t screen.
Marianne Rendón will star as Patti Smith, but the performer and author declined to lend her support to the film, which begins shooting July 11 in New York.
Directed by Ondi Timoner, “Mapplethorpe” follows the photographer from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
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