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EW 2009 Outtake of Robert Pattinson: Now in UHQ 6 comments
Bel Ami Production Notes: Directors Declan Donnellan & Nick Ormerod Talk About Robert Pattinson 3 comments
Casting
“We asked actors that we really wanted to work with, people that we have admired for a long time, explains Donnellan of their casting choices. “Kristin Scott Thomas we know of old. Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Robert Pattinson we have always admired. There’s also Colm Meaney, a wonderful Irish actor who plays Rousset and Phillip Glenister. They are all actors we love.”
Ormerod and Donnellan were thrilled to be working with such a diverse cast. Donnellan describes the moment that the actors turned up for rehearsals. “It was absolutely fantastic to see them arriving one after another. They are all incredibly professional and great fun with wicked senses of humour in their own different ways; Uma, Kristin and Christina are all very different people. We had a ball, an absolutely wonderful time because the material was so fantastic, the roles and screenplay are fantastic. Everybody felt like they were being stretched, especially us because it was our first movie. Kristin, Christina, Uma and Robert would all agree that they were doing things they hadn’t done before, which was what made it so thrilling.”
Talking about Georges’ costumes
Dicks-Mireaux explains how the costumes she designed for Georges help to tell the story of his progression throughout the film. “He wears black virtually all the way. Maupassant writes very clearly about starching, and we spend a lot of time and effort on the shirts. This period is a very transitional period between the boiled shirt and the pleated shirt so we’ve done a combination of the two. We’ve engineered this ingenious way of making sure we can always have the stiff cuffs. I’ve gone for very high collars on Robert because he suits them really well and it makes them all stand up correctly. If you look at the British royal family they seem to wear a slightly broader look. You look at the French drawings and they seem to have a much tighter, narrower look – a bit like Christian Dior suits: that very pinched, nice, narrow, elegant, long lined leg. He had a journey and then right at the end of the journey he sort of dips and goes a little bit more bourgeois and slightly pompous. He thought he might have a moustache at the end.”
Georges ‘Bel Ami’ Duroy
The central character of Georges was a complex and captivating subject for Rachel Bennette, as she explains. “Georges is a difficult character, that’s what makes him so fascinating. He’s quite enigmatic in certain respects and he’s not a typical character in many ways. He’s very reactive as opposed to the active protagonist that you’re used to. So it was a question of trying to get the measure of him.”
“He never works and he still gets it all. That’s what’s so maddening about Georges Duroy,” Donnellan concurs. “He gets the lot with no effort and it’s something we have to live with. Georges has a talent to get to the top and he’s a businessman with one commodity to sell. Another thrilling thing about Georges is his emptiness; people can project anything into him which is another reason why he’s so successful.”
Bennette concludes: “I find Georges really compelling, even if I don’t always like him. There’s something about his audacity, and his daring, and his absolute refusal to be told his place. And there is something quite appealing about that: essentially it is a kind of mad courage that he has.”
You can read the full production notes document with full synopsis, production details etc here
New HQ Pictures of Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart from the Handprint Ceremony 3 comments
High quality pictures from the hand print ceremony in LA that we havent posted before.
More pics after the jump
Miranda Cosgrove Jokes About Wanting Robert Pattinson as iCarlys Boyfriend 2 comments
Robert Pattinson to be a Guest on Top Gear? 2 comments
***UPDATE: According to Chris Mooney the Editor of Topgear.com, this is actually false. Sorry guys.***
Madeleine Stowe Mentions ‘Unbound Captives’ and Robert Pattinson 5 comments
Madeleine Stowe mention Robert Pattinson and ‘Unbound Captives’, the project Rob has been linked to in the past.
Q. You are the latest example of a long list of great actresses who do their best work in years in television..
A. Something now that didn’t exist before, is that you can work in both mediums, film and television. There is no stigma. Realistically we all know how difficult it is to find film work for an actress my age. So I stopped working a long time. I focused on a project that I wrote and directed, The Unbound Captives with Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson. Now, my greatest interest is the cinematic narrative, rather than being an actress but I’m having very well with Victoria [in TV series Revenge].
During Breaking Dawn Promo, Rob said that he might be too old for the movie. “It’s an amazing script, but I think I might be too old for it”
Robert Pattinson to Appear at the Peoples Choice Awards! 4 comments
“Robert Pattinson is a People’s pleaser.
I can exclusively reveal…
The Twilight star is expected to make an appearance at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday.
Pattinson is up for Favorite Movie Actor against Daniel Radcliffe, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp and Ryan Reynolds. He also has his next flick, Bel Ami, to promote before its release in early March.
Pattinson won’t be the only Twi-star at the show. Ashley Greene is on the list to present.
And then there’s the cast of that other hot movie—Hunger Games.
Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson will be presenting. But will Hutcherson be on stage with his Hunger peeps or Vanessa Hudgens, his costar in the upcoming Journey 2: The Mysterious Island?
The People’s Choice Awards airs live on CBS.”
Est Times: 9PM ET / 2AM GMT / 3AM CET.
New/Old Picture of Robert Pattinson with Ayanna Berkshire (Twilight) + Interview 3 comments
Ayanna Berkshire who played Cora in Twilight talks about working with Robert Pattinson, plus new/old wrap party picture.
ETA: Added 2 more pictures from the same night.
Rob with Ayanna (above) and with the frat boys from Twilight (the ones that Edward saves Bella from) Click for bigger.
PattinsonPost: Your scene in the movie did not involve Robert Pattinson, but did you see him on set at all during the filming of the movie? Were you familiar with him before this movie?
Ayanna Berkshire: I was aware of Robert from Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire and from a small role in Vanity Fair. I met him on set at lunch one day, because he was shooting another scene right after us and we all ended up having lunch together. He was funny, charming and incredibly friendly, really very normal, which comes as no surprise.
Inside story: Two days after that lunch I was back to work at my part time job, I worked in an eyeglass shop in Portland named Visage Eyewear. While I was there, an absolutely adorable British couple came in. We INSTANTLY bonded and I ended up talking with them for close to two hours. About an hour in, I finally asked what brought them to Portland and they told me that they were visiting their son, who was working in town. I asked them what he did for work and they told me he was an actor! “REALLY”, I said. (I get really excited for fellow actors, especially since I know every last one in town), “I’m an actor too!! What’s his name? Is he working on anything at the moment?” That’s when they both got a little quiet, “Oh, he’s working on a movie here…” I took a look at both of them again, took in their accents and it suddenly dawned on me. “Is your son Rob?” I asked. They both got this wide-eyed look on their face like they weren’t sure if they should say yes or no. “I JUST worked with him two days ago!” I said, “I loved him, what a great guy!” They both seemed completely relieved that they could tell their secret without having to say anything. After that, we had an even better time and if I remember correctly, they even brought me ice cream from the ice cream shop across the street. For the record, Robert Pattinson has awesome parents!
During the Wrap party for Twilight, a friend of mine (he played one of the frat boys), Rob and I were all standing around talking. I wanted to do an impromptu photo shoot, where either I was about to bite Rob, or vice versa… it ended in a total fail as neither one of us knew who was supposed to bite who. I hope I’ll be forgiven for sharing this less than flattering pic.*
PP: Did you have any idea, being in the first of a five movie series, that Twilight would become so big and that Robert Pattinson would go on to become as famous as he did?
AB: I think that the success of the movies came as a surprise to everyone. I’d had an idea that they were going to be huge just because EVERYONE seemed to be reading the books!
I think that anyone who played the role of Edward was going to experience mega fandom. Edward, of all the characters was the most untouchable, the most mysterious and the sexiest. To watch that type of character brought to real life by an actor (especially an actor like Robert who is fun, approachable and handsome, but who was still sort of a mystery himself), it becomes this instant gratification. The character was written with such passion that as a reader, you want that passion for yourself. It also didn’t hurt that Robert was coming from Harry Potter and had a built in audience who were already excited to see him in something new.
‘Bel Ami’ Screenings Released in Belgium: Reaction Post 8 comments
Advanced screenings of Robert Pattinson’s ‘Bel Ami’ are being released in Belgium tonight and tomorrow. Here are some tweets/reactions/pics from people who were lucky enough to see it. We’ll post more as they come in. There may be spoilers so we’ve posted everything after the jump.
***Spoilers. Click here to read after the jump***
Screencaps of the Bel Ami Trailer – HD & Untagged Leave a comment
Since the Bel Ami trailer came out in HD a few days ago, here are some more screencaps, this time in HD & untagged. Possible spoilers. Click images until full size.
Thinking of Rob 