On Nov. 18, he’ll reprise his role as vampire/new father Edward Cullen opposite Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 2, the final installment in Stephenie Meyer’s behemoth series.
But before that, he’ll appear in a surreal role as a Wall Street banker in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (due in August), which earned a standing ovation for its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I used to think it was a good thing to have a safety net,” says Pattinson, 26, of his starmaking Twilight role. “To know you’re always safe is not real. It’s got to matter.”
So after Breaking Dawn, Pattinson will launch into a busy slate of projects that are starting to take shape.
“I have five things going — actually six,” he says. “I’m pretty sure I know which one is going to be first.”
That would be Mission: Blacklist (2013), based on the true story of the interrogator credited with locating Saddam Hussein after the fall of his regime. After that, Pattinson will head to Australia with Guy Pearce to shoot The Rover, a thriller set in the post-apocalyptic future. It will be directed by David Michod (who wrote and directed 2010’s critically acclaimed Aussie film Animal Kingdom).
Like his role in Cosmopolis, this movie doesn’t quite fit into a box.
“It’s really complicated to explain,” Pattinson says, laughing. “I seem to like choosing movies lately that are difficult to promote.”
Friday the 1st of June is a packed evening at London’s Regent Street Apple store. If you live in London and haven’t taken advantage of the wealth of Meet the film maker talks that the Apple Store host, you are really missing out.
This friday sees Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt discuss their latest movies. It’s totally free, but seats are limited, so make sure you get there early.
Between 6 and 6.45pm, you can hear director David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) discuss their new film, Cosmopolis. Eric Packer (Pattinson) is a billionaire being chauffeured across New York in his extravagant limousine when wild activity erupts on the city’s streets. The movie is already attracting rave reviews and Cronenberg already wants R-Patz in his next project.
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Five minutes after meeting her, Robert Pattinson found himself having sex with French actress Juliette Binoche in the back of a limo. “She literally turned up and was like, ‘Let’s do it,’” he grins.
“It was just hilarious. There wasn’t enough room in the limo so she was banging her head on the ceiling.” So this is what’s it’s like to be Robert Pattinson. “It’s just boring,” he counters, almost apologetically.
What happens when you’re mega-rich, mega-handsome and mega-bored? You flip out. You get in a limousine and go on a ride that could change your life forever. Bouncy, backseat sex with an Oscar-winning actress. Boozy, late-night clubbing. Rabid crowds trying to get their hands on you. You beat up a guy in the street. You kill a man…
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