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HQ Pictures of Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg at the Apple Store London Q&A 3 comments
Sarah Gadon talks about Robert Pattinson and Cosmopolis 1 comment
So what commentary does the film make? The book is pretty condemning—
SG: Yeah! This is for the one percent descending from their yacht at Cannes to watch a film that points to a gap in society. I think the movie lends itself to a meta-critique of the film industry. Take casting someone like Rob at the centre of this film. He is the symbol of pop cinema, the symbol of capitalism. The film is about the breakdown of that.
And his character’s so hubristic. He tries to tap into this technological system that’s supposed to order the world around him, the dollars and cents of his life, the free market. And we watch it all fall—really hard.
SG: When I read critiques of the film, I think people miss what you’re saying. They ask, “Why is Robert Pattinson in this movie?” Even for David to cast somebody like me who is blonde, blue-eyed and twenty-five and normally reads scripts where I am hyper sexualized or solve everyone’s problem with my smile. He cast me as a character who will not allow her romantic lead to project anything onto her that she will absorb, it’s kind of unheard of. And there is a difference between [Elise] in the book and the Elise that David wrote. In that the last scene between Eric and Elise, in the book, Eric projects onto an accepting Elise. For me, the best part about ending their narrative in the restaurant, in the movie, is that she ends it and she’s out and that’s it.
Read more over at Toronto Sun
David Cronenberg talks about Robert Pattinson and ‘Maps To The Stars’ 2 comments
The British actor Pattinson looks set to become the renowned sci-fi horror director’s new muse. Playing the financial genius Eric Packer – who heads across New York in a white limousine in search of a hair cut – he appears in every scene of Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis, which competed for the Palme D’or at the years Cannes Film Festival and opens in UK cinemas June 15.
Cronenberg today described the star of the Twilight franchise as “a beautiful actor who often responds to scenes without even realising what he’s doing. That’s why I love him.”
Pattinson will perform opposite Viggo Mortensen, best known for his role as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings franchise, who starred in Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method. The two are regarded as creative partners.
Speaking in London today, the Canadian director of The Fly, Scanners and eXistenz said: “There’s a brilliant script by an author friend of mine called Bruce Wagner. All of his books are fantastic. I tried to get this script off the ground five years ago, but I couldn’t get it made. In a way its like Cosmopolis; it’s a difficult sell. It’s edgy in a nasty, disturbing way. It has emotion, but it has a weird emotion like Cosmopolis.
“It’s hard to make difficult movies. When you have very credible actors who bring a lot of attention like Viggo Mortensen and Robert Pattinson, you think it would be easy to raise 15 million dollars, but it’s not.”
More New Fan Pics and Videos of Robert Pattinson from the German Cosmopolis Premiere 3 comments
Here are few new fan pics and videos of Rob at the German Cosmopolis screening. Thanks to German Twilighters for sharing these with us!
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*VIDEOS* more red carpet interviews with Rob in Berlin 1 comment
2 More Red Carpet interviews – they’re dubbed, but the dubbing is not so bad (thanks @veronicaspuffy)
And another one from Troymag.de
Interview with him starts at about 3:00
New one from ZDF
Fan Pictures of Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg at the Apple Store and Curzon Mayfair London Q&A 2 comments
NEW Video from the ‘Cosmopolis’ Press Conference in Portugal – Rob Talks About His Most Difficult Scene To Film 9 comments
Video from the press conference in Portugal. Added a transcript as its difficult to hear.
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What was his most difficult scene to film/to act?
Robs answer at 1.45: “There was a scene that made me incredibly uncomfortable, the rave scene. That was the only scene where there were a lot of extras around that could actually hear what I was saying. They were pretending to rave, but it was totally silent, I think I had like 2 lines, and when youre pretending to speak over music youve really got to shout it. So I was like “YES” and every single person is just, over hearing that, thinking what is this film, so weird. Yeah that was a little bit nerve wracking. But its one of my favourtie scenes in the movie.”
More NEW HQ Pictures with Robert Pattinson from the Paris Cosmopolis Screening 4 comments
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Introducing Robert Pattinson: Serious Actor
Some double acts just make sense. Morecambe & Wise. Cameron & Clegg. Cronenberg & Pattinson…
That’s right, the 26 year-old Twilight hunk teams up with the master of cerebral cinema for this month’s Cannes favourite, Cosmopolis, a gritty drama in which the actor gives a performance most people, including myself, didn’t know he had in him.
“That’s my biggest problem, confidence,” laughs Pattinson. “I’m taking baby steps, and hoping people will keep employing me!”
Cosmopolis is the latest in Pattinson’s non-Twilight career, which has seen the likes of Water For Elephants but never Generic Robot Blockbuster IV. “If there is a way to maintain a career doing small, interesting movies, I would take that option” he says. “I’m not buff enough for robot movies.”
With Twilight about to bow out, he may be ready to leave R-Pattz (“My mum calls me that occasionally”) behind, along with the screaming teens. “I can’t see tons of people watching Cosmopolis and screaming at it,” he laughs.
“It’ would be amazing if they did!”
Cosmopolis is out on June 15.
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