14 DAY TRIAL // Just recently, British heartthrob Robert Pattinson was saying in an interview with AnOther Man magazine that he did not want to be an actor just for the sake of it and that he would like it if he were offered more challenging roles. Either director Peter Kosminsky heard his comment or he was already in the run, but Rob will get his chance in the upcoming Prince Harry biopic, “The Spare,” The Improper says.
Reports are coming in from the British media saying that Pattinson is in the run to play the lead in the film. However, he’s not the only star director Kosminsky has in mind for the part of the Prince, as he’s also reportedly considering “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint and Rupert Friend of the “Sense and Sensibility” fame. While Kosminsky makes up his mind on who to cast for the part, one thing is for certain: the film will show the life of the Prince such as it was to the extent to which that is possible in a cinematographic production.
“The movie would be about the British monarch’s colorful and occasionally tragic life, which includes the loss of his mother Princess Diana in a car accident. Director Peter Kosminsky is set to begin casting for biopic ‘The Spare.’ It will feature the royal’s life, from losing his mother, his tour as a soldier in Afghanistan and almost surely tales of his womanizing and scandalous behavior. Harry as a teen dressed up for a costume party as a Nazi officer, complete with a Swastika armband, touching off an uproar in his home country, where so many suffered during World War II at the hands of the Germans.” The Improper writes.
Prince Harry’s place in the world has always been one of very vague delimitations, Kosminsky tells the British media, which would probably explain some of his most outrageous actions that have generated so much media in recent years. Of course, this is also what makes him and his life a very appropriate material for a film. As of now, ever since the report that Pattinson is considered for the part, the consensus seems to be that he would bring the necessary depth to the character of the Prince.
“I feel a sense of compassion for [Prince Harry]. His parents break up in the most spectacularly public way, his mother dies in the most tragic and, again, public way and everything is picked over. He’s a man born to no role. His brother’s the heir and Harry’s the spare.” Kosminsky says of how he came up with the name for the film.