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New Picture Of Robert Pattinson and Interview from Correio da Manha – Portugal 1 comment
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How would you define Eric Packer (main character in ‘Cosmpopolis’): it he just a sort of a weirdo or is he a visionary?
He’s just a weirdo(laughs). I think he is a person who is desperately looking for something but doesn’t know what that is. Basically, no one is a visionary, the world repeats itself.But wasn’t Don DeLillo’s a visionary when he write the book? Because the story was written 12 years ago, but is current and reflects the global economy today…
Yes, that’s crazy. But at the same time, the collapse of financial markets… it seemed obvious that would happen.Do you follow news about the economy, the reality of Europe?
In general but not specifically. It’s weird. I know they’re all terrified of what’s happening.The dialogues of ‘Cosmopolis’ explores this theme but in a poetic, theatrical way. Do you believe that there are people that speak like that?
It is a little too theatrical. But Eric is a guy who doesn’t share his world. In his universe, everybody speaks his language, behaves like he wants. He is totally egocentric, maniac, wants to be God.And how different is Robert from Eric?
(Laughs) He’s really confident and thinks no one can change him. While I… I change in every new talk, with every new person. I want to please those who talk to me.But are you a confident person…
Kind of. I’m more confident when everyone hates me.But they all love you, especially because of the success of ‘Twilight’. Did you accept this movie because you thought it would change your career and turn you into a “serious” actor or was it because you would film with someone like David Cronenberg?
I try to do all my jobs as if I’m a serious actor (laughs). And some people forget that I ever did in the past… But David’s (Cronenberg) movies are all so unique and personal that I knew it was important to make this movie.At the Cannes Film Festival, critics were divided: hated and loved the movie. Do you really care about reviews?
I am always surprised. I thought no one would notice the film (laughs). But I like to see such passionate reactions, in any sense whatsoever. And everyone cares about the critics. I care about what everyone says. I care about what girls (fans) outside will tell and maybe they won’t even like itAre you going to work with Cronenberg again?
Yes, in a movie about the movie industry. Really fun and bizarre. I still don’t know when we’re going to film because I have other projects…Do you think ‘Cosmopolis’ could be an Oscar movie?
I don’t know. I keep my expectations low.But winning an Oscar is the biggest dream for an actor…
Completely. Actors are moved by the awards, it is as if they were kicked on the head.
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*SCANS* NEW ‘Cosmopolis’ Stills & Interview with Rob – Atual Magazine – Portugal 2 comments
There are new great new stills in the scans. Translation of Rob’s interview under the scans
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David Cronenberg talks about Cosmopolis and Rob with 20Minutes (France) 1 comment
How would you describe Cosmopolis?
It’s a dark and surreal comedy on the end of the world. I would like the audience not to take it too seriously.
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New Interview with Toronto.com – Rob talks about Breaking Dawn part 2 Leave a comment
CANNES, FRANCE—The vampires and werewolves of the Twilight franchise will be humorously “on Mars” when the final film arrives in November.
That’s the word from lead star Robert Pattinson about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2, due in theatres Nov. 16.
“This one is so odd that it becomes kind of funny,” Pattinson told the Star.
“Now that Bella’s not human, they’re just on Mars now. Everyone in it is a lunatic!”
Pattinson was at the Cannes Film Festival as star of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, which was competing for the Palme d’Or at the festival, which wrapped up Sunday.
He took a moment from his Cosmopolis press duties to talk about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2, the fifth and final film of the record-breaking gothic teen romance phenomenon.
Pattinson said Part 2 will be quite different from Part 1, beginning with the newly released posters, which show individual characters instead of group scenes. The posters have solo shots of Pattinson and also Kristen Stewart, his real-life girlfriend who plays his newly transformed vampire bride Bella in Breaking Dawn.
“I’m excited about the last book coming out because it’s quite different,” Pattinson said.
“Even the posters. I just saw the posters the other day and . . . suddenly there’s a different look. Because all our posters have been exactly the same, until the last one. It’s crazy. I kind of like them.”
Breaking Dawn—Part 2 breaks new ground for the series, too.
“The movie is funny as well, which is weird.
“It’s strange. I guess the first one was quite body horror-y (and) creepy.
“This one is so odd, that it becomes kind of funny. Now that Bella’s not human, they’re just on Mars now. Everyone in it is a lunatic!”
‘Cosmopolis’ Costume Designer talks about Eric’s Gucci Suit and Chanel Watch 2 comments
In the film, Pattinson wears just one costume: a black two button notch-lapel Signoria suit by Gucci. He also wears a Gucci fitted white cotton shirt, a slim black silk tie, a leather belt with silver buckle detail and black leather lace-up dress shoes.
The film’s costume designer, Denise Cronenberg, had initially approached Prada, but they weren’t interested. Gucci on the other hand, who has dressed Pattinson in real life, was gung ho. “It was great because we could never have afforded those suits,” Denise tells THR exclusively. “Our budget was way too small.”
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Rob interview with Next Liberation: talks paparazzi, filming ‘Cosmopolis’ and Jacques Audiard 2 comments
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Everywhere in the streets, Robert Pattinson sees himself on posters, magazines covers and tells himself: This isn’t me. “I don’t recognize my face, my hair, nothing. It’s like an out of body experience.”
Yet standing on the terrace of a big hotel in the morning light, the lead of Cosmopolis, by David Cronenberg, looks like his image. Though, he’s more discret and soft, and above all more happy. He laughs all the time, his contagious cheerfulness that nothing disarms.Subtle. The eternal question on celebrity, for starters. The star of Twilight that caused a riot during his last visit at Cannes (security had to carry him out so he could escape 700 rabid fans), starts with a serious answer. “The most frustrating is to know that it isn’t me they like or hate. To know that I serve as a support to a feeling that has nothing to do with me.” He think for a bit. “The paparazzi, you get used to them. But it’s still weird to see those guys who decided to be assholes their whole lives. You feel like telling them: ‘Why did you chose that job?’ Everyone hates you!'” And then he starts laughing so hard he can’t stop. “It’s like people who give you parking tickets. You watch them, they all seem so happy! Mhhh cool, I’m gonna ruin someone’s day!”
When David Cronenberg called him, he jumped with joy and then with fear. His working method was different for the actor. “David didn’t do rehearsals. A few days before the movie started, I called him. ‘Don’t you think we should talk about it a little?’ He told me: ‘Oh no, don’t worry about it. It’ll come on its own.'” On the set, he tried the old method. “I would lock myself all day in the limo to live like my character. I was hot, sweating and sleeping. They had to shake me to wake me up.” On the third day, he finally got out.
He claims that working with David Cronenberg gave him confidence. “I would look at the end of Twiight approaching and I started asking myself questions ‘What to do, what are the right choices?'” Among his dreams, working with Jacques Audiard. “I love all his movies and his male characters are amazing. I would love to be like this.”
He lives in Los Angeles, like his girlfriend Kristen Stewart, a ‘particular’ life where he can’t really go out for a coffee but he won’t complain. One last anecdote: “When I go to restaurants, if I’m a little drunk … and that I see someone with a phone, I tell myself: ‘He’s taking a picture of me!'” He starts laughing again. “So I get up, pissed off, go to his table: ‘Show me your phone!'” He puts his hands on his sides. “Last time, I almost threw some guy’s phone through the window. He wasn’t he even taking a picture of me, he didn’t even now who I was!”
New Rob interview: talks ‘Twilight’ movies, Cosmopolis, Cannes, Kristen and even about his bodyguard Leave a comment
Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker – a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in “Cosmopolis.”
The “Twilight” heartthrob stars in David Cronenberg’s Cannes Film Festival entry as sleek, self-centered moneyman Eric Packer, who sees his fortune and sense of self evaporate during an eventful day in his stretch limo.
Pattinson’s famously handsome face is on-screen in every scene, but “Twilight”`s young fans may be surprised and confused by a film that explores Cronenberg’s fascination with physical, social and psychic violence.
The 26-year-old actor is not worried.
“If some 12-year-olds went to go and see that, or got the video for their birthday – sitting down and watching that, it’s incredible,” the actor said during an interview on a Cannes hotel rooftop. “I would love that to happen if I was a kid.”
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New Robert Pattinson Interview with Viva Press UK Leave a comment
CANNES – Having ended his vampire duties, Robert Pattinson is working hard to establish himself as a leading man where his acting skills eclipse his heartthrob status. His new film, COSMOPOLIS, directed by David Cronenberg, is a bold step forward in that direction. Pattinson’s striking features are a perfect match for the film’s eerie plotting that owes just as much to Cronenberg’s macabre vision as it does to the original source material, Don DeLillo’s eponymous novel. Making its world premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s official competition, COSMOPOLIS sees Pattinson play Eric Packer, a Wall Street billionaire whose life undergoes a strange sequence of events against the backdrop of his rapidly collapsing Manhattan universe. Is this how the 26-year-old Pattinson hopes to conquer new audiences? “I didn’t expect to be able to find a project as brilliant as this even though I could spend my life working with directors like Cronenberg,” explains Pattinson. “I have led a charmed life so far as an actor but I’m trying to find as many different and complex roles as possible and being able to work on this film is another gift that I’ve been given. It’s up to me to show what I’m capable of now!” Though his previous film, BEL AMI, failed to catch on at the box office, Pattinson has high hopes that COSMOPOLIS will be the film that redefines his screen persona. Pattinson was joined at Cannes by his equally famous girlfriend and TWILIGHT co-star, Kristen Stewart, although they typically avoided appearing together even though Stewart has repeatedly “outed” their relationship and Pattinson has similarly admitted their love affair and commitment to each other. In conversation, Pattinson is exceedingly polite and responsive and utterly indifferent to his celebrity status. One gets the impression he would be just as happy if COSMOPOLIS was his first film and audiences would get to know him afresh.
Q: Rob, your role in Cosmopolis is very different from anything we’ve seen you in before. How would you describe your character, Eric Packer?
PATTINSON: He exists in his own, separate reality in a way and in the course of the film he’s trying to discover something about the world he’s really living in and how he can adapt to it. Packer lives in this complex financial universe which is guided by trading algorithms and he plays the game which is dictated by those laws which are their own distinct reality. That’s his central dilemma. He’s dealing with financial data that is constantly projecting him into the future and he doesn’t know what it’s like to live in the present. Packer has become so disconnected from the world that it’s made it difficult for him to understand what the world is really like. I’m sorry if that sounds very metaphysical but that’s how the story unfolds.
Thinking of Rob 