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“That’s Rob circa 2005. He (and the ‘Harry Potter’ cast) were in NYC for the ‘Goblet of Fire’ premiere in November and Rob played an Open Mic Night at a bar uptown. He was amazing! After the show, he and his friends just hung out. He asked me questions about myself and what it was like to live in the city…”
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Donna went on to say that Barbara is a tour de force who specializes in seduction—particularly that of innocent young men who join her circus troupe, which brings us to the subject of Donna’s kissing scenes with Rob.
“I love that I got paid to kiss Robert Pattinson and he wasn’t sick,” Donna said, citing Reese and Rob’s admissions of runny noses during their scene. “He was very sweet. He’s genuinely shy,” she said.
Donna explained that during the scene where her character is performing her burlesque dance and takes her top off to “twirl her tassels,” Rob was particularly taken aback.
“When I did it, I turn around and take off my top, his face was, I think, very genuine,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Oh my God, am I really seeing this?’ In my opinion, he was a little bit shy about speaking to me in the makeup trailer for a few days after that day,” she added with a chuckle. “It was a little bit hard for him to look me in the eyes. It was so genuine.”
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Do children still dream of running away to join the circus?
Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel, “Water for Elephants,” evokes an earlier time, when towns came to a standstill to watch the circus folk parade down Main Street, the glint of tinsel could pass for glamour and the smell of sawdust could make a boy’s heart race.
To be more precise, the novel is set in 1931, a few years after the heyday of the Big Top. The Great Depression is culling the stragglers, and the surviving outfits scavenge off the remains, picking up flea-bitten big cats and starving artistes on the cheap.
Directed by Francis Lawrence (“I Am Legend”) from a screenplay by veteran Richard LaGravenese (“PS I Love You”), the movie version does a pretty good job balancing the surface exoticism of the Benzini Brothers Circus and the shabbiness that’s fraying away at the edges.
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Gary Johnson (Tai’s trainer) talks about Robert Pattinson 1 comment
Robert Pattinson was always willing to spend time with Tai… Rob, if we needed to rehearse something, he was more and more willing to accommodate. I just can’t say enough nice things about him, because he was great. He’s a big deal. To me, being a novice, he seemed to work very hard on this. I think he gave 110 percent. And he’s just the nicest person, not one ounce arrogant or anything.
Tai’s elephant memory brought some recognition when she reunited with her “Elephants” co-stars a few months after the shoot… After we finished shooting “Water For Elephants,” a couple months later, we wound up doing stills with Rob and Reese. It seemed like she kinda knew who they were. They both came over individually when we arrived to say hi, and I think she had a little recognition of them.
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When many of you think Robert Pattinson, tabloid headlines and all things vampire come to mind. Pattinson, even more than any of the other main actors in the popular “Twilight” movie series, seems to be purposefully creating a body of work outside of his tween following.
This weekend, Pattinson shows that there’s a lot more depth to him as an actor than we’ve seen in his “Twilight” character Edward, as he co-stars with Reese Witherspoon in the adaptation of the best-selling novel “Water for Elephants.” When we talked recently, I wondered if there was a lot of pressure on him because of his “Twilight” success.
“I think it’s actually a little less pressure. It’s a little weird. There’s a kind of a strange thing that happened and it’s the same thing that happened when I did first did ‘Twilight,'” he said. “I’d never heard of the ‘Twilight’ book series. I didn’t know anyone who’d read it. I just kind of did it, so I wasn’t nervous at all. Later on, it became this huge thing. With ‘Water for Elephants,’ again, I’d never heard of the book. … And then, I accepted the part and suddenly noticed people sitting next to me were reading it on three different airplane rides. So I guess I just missed the thing again and therefore also missed the nerves again. Now I just love it. Kind of everything about it. I could really connect to it all.”
Not a lot of men connect with the movie so passionately. It’s not really what might be called a “chick flick,” but it’s very romantic and very beautiful.
I know. It’s strange. My dad loves it and he never reads anything. I think maybe because the reality of working in a circus? And then it can be so harsh … maybe (it’s) more relatable to men. But it’s not really a totally romanticized story. It’s impossible to romanticize.
You’ve worked with werewolves in “Twilight.” What was it like working with Tai the elephant in this?
She’s incredible. She’s one of the best actresses I’ve ever worked with. She plays Rosie in the book, and that’s an incredible difficult part to play. It’s really integral to the story. It’s really difficult casting to find an elephant that could pull it off. … Plus, she does impressions.
Seriously?
She does impressions of chickens and stuff. And her general attitude is crazy, but she was also just so calm. She could be in a massive crowd of people … but she just stayed totally calmed, looking quite cheerful all the time. She just needs a bit of hay and that’s it.
You two have that in common, right? I’ve seen you very calm in massive crowds of screaming teenagers.
Yes, but I complain about it afterwards. She doesn’t complain about it; she is an incredible creature.
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