Two new/old videos from the Water for Elephants press junket.
“Interview with Robert Pattinson from the Water for elephants junket in LA, April 2011. One of two interviews that day for swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.This is an unedited version – in the beginning I give him a book by a swedish Nobel prize winning author, but never had the time to talk to him about books.” @mariaalindholm
Have you learned anything from Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart about dealing with the media attention?
I have no idea how they stay sane with all that kind of attention. I know, knock wood, I’ve been able to avoid that kind of thing. I’m just in awe of their ability to handle that stuff.She also talks about Breaking Dawn Part 1
Breaking Dawn Part 1 comes out in November, and it’s your last Twilight film. How do you feel?
At the end of the shoot, it felt celebratory. It wasn’t sad. It was like a job well done. It was also like 5 a.m. It was a long night and we were just sort of glad that everyone managed to make it through five movies without losing any toes to frostbite. I’m sure I’ll feel nostalgic once the movie comes out, but mostly it’s exciting that we made it through without any serious injuries.Everyone’s talking about the wedding scene. What was that like?
There has been so much build-up about it. But I’m sure that if I say a word about it, (the movie company) will have me killed. So, I will just say I hope we look warm because we were all really cold.
JC: Is it true that you were in the running to direct “Twilight”?
GVS: Yeah. In an interview, Robert Pattinson was asked, “What’s up for the next Twilight?” They had been asked this a thousand times. So he said, “We want to get a filmmaker like Gus Van Sant to do the next one.” I was surprised at reading this and I thought, “Am I actually considered? Am I in the running? Would they actually even think that way?” So I told my agent to put my name in the hat.
I went out to the interview and, naively, I wasn’t aware that I was expected to sell [myself to] them. They wanted to see your plan even though the plan was to do the movie exactly the way the book read, because if you deviated an inch, you’d be killed by the fans. Of course, the other filmmakers who were much more savvy had long 45-minute displays of these ideas and they got the job. It was a really bad scene because I got really nervous and I realized it was just completely going down. Obviously, I screwed the whole thing up.
Sarah Gadon talks with CBC Live about Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson
Natalia Tena talks about meeting Robert Pattinson and Bel Ami in an interview with The Herald
They met in their late teens on a photoshoot for up-and-coming British actors. Afterwards they went to the pub and got drunk. Tena was holding down two bar jobs at the time, so actor Tom Sturridge, also on the shoot, rang her boss and said she’d had an accident and wasn’t coming in. “Needless to say I got fired,” she says. They then decided to go to Berlin, but only got as far as Tena’s flat. She couldn’t find her passport. “We had this summer of being really close,” she says. “Then I remember Robert taking me out a few months later. He was like, ‘I’m just saying goodbye because I’m going to America for a few months to do some vampire thing.’ I said ‘Cool, I’ll see you when you get back.’” And she explodes into laughter. “Now he’s massive. Literally massive. He used to be like a labrador puppy, but he’s much more mature and serious now.” So no problem with the sex scene in Bel Ami, then? “Because we know each other, it was cool,” she says. “We just took the piss. I said ‘You just bang me. Can we make it like anal sex, because it looks worse?’”
Read the rest of the interview at The Herald.
Uma Thurman talks about Robert Pattinson in the Italian Vanity Fair
Translation via RobPattMoms
Vanity Fair: You also shot Bel Ami, by Guy de Maypassant’s novel with Robert Pattinson
Uma Thurman: Robert is beautiful. Almost more beautiful in person than on screen. He is also a good actor. He will make a great career, there will not be only Twilight in his career
Marisa Quintanilla , who plays Huilenin Breaking Dawn – Part 2, talks about Rob in an interview with The Monitor
She worked directly with Robert Pattinson (Edward) and Kristin Stewart (Bella).
“It was surprisingly amazing and easy and just so easy, breezy, cool and casual,” she said. “They had no attitude; everybody on the set was just kind, generous and in a way that I was just really taken aback by because these people are so famous.”
In spite of how some media paint Stewart out to be a snob, she was anything but, Quintanilla said.
“She was just the sweetest thing. She was really nice and shy, if anything,” she said. “She’s so much like (her) character: shy, a little awkward – in the cutest, most endearing kind of way.”
And Quintanilla had nothing but praise for Pattinson, too.
“Rob, as well, (was) just so nice and soft-spoken. Neither of them is ever loud or getting all the attention or anything like that on set,” Quintanilla said. “They’re just really quiet and do their job and nice to everyone.”
Read the rest of the interview here
Thinking of Rob 