Robert Pattinson's Interview with The Mirror (UK)

British tabloid newspapers publish a lot of untruth and made up interviews, which makes me question just about every interview they actually publish. This one 'sounds' like Rob... but I'll always be cautious...

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Robert Pattinson appears a little befuddled. The Twilight heart-throb has come straight from a night-shoot on the movie he’s filming, Water For Elephants, into our interview. In real life, Rob couldn’t be further removed from the character he plays in the Twilight saga, Edward Cullen. He’s warm, funny, and, in sharp contrast to Edward, very relaxed. There are no pouts and fiery-eyed stares from Pattinson. He and co-star Kristen Stewart will not discuss their off-screen relationship, despite ’jokingly’ stealing a kiss on stage at the MTV Movie Awards in June, but he’s happy to talk about anything else, from the serious to the trivial. Clearly, he was not built for superstardom – he finds the interview process awkward – but he’s loosened up since his early pre-Twilight interviews and luckily he’s not cursed with an A-lister’s ego. Dressed in jeans and white shirt, his famously wild hair neatly cropped, he settles down for a natter about life…

Have your mates ever called you Edward by mistake?
People have called me Edward – not family, that would be weird! My mates might have done it to rib me. They don’t really know about Twilight, but some of them found out about this R-Pattz thing, so now one of them always calls me R-Pattz, which he thinks is hilarious.

Edward can read thoughts. If we could hear your thoughts, what would they sound like?
Complete silence, dust blowing in the wind. Or maybe just like white noise…

What aspects of Edward do you most identify with?
It’s changed a bit in this film. In the first two, I guess there was his feeling that you can’t relate to anyone, or no one can relate to you. I was like, ’I never want to talk to anyone’. I used to feel like that when I was younger. I’ve grown up now. (Kat - you sure have grown up... and in a beautiful way!)

Are you a traditionalist, like Edward?
It is quite pronounced in the movie, and I respect that, but when I work on other films, I want to play really amoral characters. (Kat - you're not the only one who wants you to play amoral characters...) I don’t feel like I have to stand by his values, but I respect them. I guess courtship is a good thing, but only if it’s pleasurable. Some people meet each other in a bar and sleep with each other that night, then stay with each other for the rest of their lives. Or they could stay with each other and never get married. It just doesn’t make any difference.

You definitely play an amoral character in your next film, Bel Ami.
Yes. There’s something fun about Bel Ami, going from Edward to some guy who pretty much abuses women to get money out of them. Edward so wouldn’t approve – and I thought that was a funny irony. In Bel Ami all the women my character screws over are all attracted to him to begin with, so he starts having affairs with them and destroys their lives.

You are much less intense than Edward, clearly…
I don’t know, I guess in a lot of ways. I think the main thing is he’s very extreme in his way of thinking, and I’m not like that. I don’t think in such absolutes, like ’I can’t be with this girlfriend, I’m going to kill myself!’ It’s quite a teenage thing.

Can you go out anywhere without being mobbed?
In LA, sometimes I can. I wish I still had the beard I wore for Bel Ami. (Kat - mmmmm, beard!) It was a good disguise. But LA is definitely harder than London, although London’s changed recently. The good thing about Britain in that respect is that people are often too embarrassed to come and say stuff. They’re embarrassed to have even seen you. I used to go into the same HMV shop all the time and they had New Moon posters everywhere, and I was worried I’d get stalked, but the guys at the counter would not even look at me, even though there were posters everywhere.

How hard is it to dodge the paps in London?
I can’t believe I was photographed recently going to buy underpants with my best friend in Marks & Spencer. They were 5ft away – we were going to have this nice little day, and they photographed me buying underpants! (Kat - See it's bits like this that make me wonder about this interview... do guys really call their guy friends their best friends? On a side note... M&S undies are the best, I've lived in the US for 10 years and I still stock up on M&S unmentionables when I'm home.. OK I digress, back to Rob!)

So you can laugh it off?
Yeah, the only time things matter is when people start calling my family for stories. That gets in the way. 99 per cent of stuff is just made up. The thing is, the more stuff is reported, the more it starts to affect your career. If you’re constantly in gossip magazines people think, ’He’s not a proper actor, he’s just a gossip person.’

Do you want to step out of the limelight?
I want to produce a film. It would be so satisfying to turn up to work and not have to go into costume or make-up. You stand behind the monitor and don’t even have the responsibility of the director.

You recently said you think you might be dead by 30. What was that about?
I was talking about luck running out. When I was doing interviews for Harry Potter, I was thinking, ’I don’t want this to be all the luck in my life.’ So now I’m getting ridiculously lucky and I wonder if I might suffer some punishment at the hands of the universe and be dead by the time I’m 30. I like to believe in fate, so I’m not responsible for anything!

You’re working with animals on Water For Elephants. How’s that?
Almost every day I’m working with an exotic animal; there are scenes where I’m leading buffalo and elephants into cages. It’s insane, like I got bitten on the arm by a lion with no teeth. They were like, ’It’s fine, he does it all the time.’ And I was like, ’Erm, OK…’ But they had to get him to do it harder, because he was being so gentle and just licking my arm. (Kat - would you mind if I licked your arm?)

Is it true you’re going to play Kurt Cobain in the Nirvana movie?
Sometimes these things just appear. I love Nirvana, but I love them a bit too much – I’d be embarrassed. And you see all these comments, like from Courtney Love, saying ’What the f*ck! He’s totally wrong for it’, and I’m like, ’I f*cking said no, you d*ck!’ I didn’t get offered it. For one thing, I’m too tall, and I can’t sing like him, I’m nothing like him!’ It’s ridiculous.

Source via Gossip Dance

19 comments:

Brooke Moss said...

To Courtney Love:

You should only be so lucky to have Rob play Kurt, you worthless, disgusting crack head.

Sincerely, Sarah.

(P.S. Sorry to the big Courtney Love fans out there, but geeeez, I can't stand that woman, and her comment about Rob just torques me.)

Kimmie said...

I had to laugh at robs answer to what would his thoughts be.

I can relate my mind would be silence.

You might even hear a tumbleweed pass by. Lol

Pelin said...

Whoa! I can't believe he said "I f*cking said no, you d*ck!" Really?
I don't know if he uses curse in his normal life but in an interview? About a woman even if she is Courtney Love? I don't think so.

But the idea him saying to Courtney Love face to face this line would be quite funny to watch =)

MMc said...

God I hate that he thinks his life will be cut short..........that makes my heart hurt.

LK said...

I'll take this interview with a grain of salt.It's from Daily Mirror after all.

solas said...

I agree, femrok. Someone needs to tell the lad that all of the good fortune and blessings ought not be seen as a set amount to be used over a lifetme, signifying G-d forbid a short life if it all comes at once or too early, but rather they ought to be seen as a test or challenge, especially when given to one so young, as to how he will deal with it--will he squander it or will he do good with it; will he use it only for self-fulfillment/self-advancement or will he share and help others along the way; will he become a pratt or will he be a good person; will he take it for granted/abuse it/his position or will he be grateful? By having such blessings and choices so young, he actually ought to have a LONG life, to constantly show through and despite age and circumstances along the years what he is doing wth it all; May he live a long healthy happy life and pass all tests.

Kimmie said...

This is off topic, but you gals know they are making a parody of Twilight. Like the movie not another teen movie.

But this one is called vampires suck. It looks kind of funny. If you want to check out the trailer, type in vampires suck trailer.


Oh regarding the article. Why does he think he is going to um die at 30?? I can't even start to think of that.

I guess he thinks all this must be too good to be true?? Which it is happening. It's just sad to read that he thinks that his luck is going to run out and just.... I can't even say the words.

He should think like that.

Delle1 said...

Oh yeah I'd luv to lick his arm.....

Georgie said...

"the beard I wore for Bel Ami"?? I thought (and hope) that Durob was clean-shaven in the movie, although Georges had a mustache in the book. Surely he means the beard he wore "before" Bel Ami (Haiti Rob)....

nikola6 said...

Yeah. Hate to shatter any illusions, but Rob ain't no boy scout and he doesn't talk like a Mormon missionary. His girlfriend's gotta a little potty mouth on her too but don't hold it against their characters. It's the environments in which they work. The roughest language in the world is heard on film sets. 90% of them curse like sailors and smoke like chimneys.

And frankly, I got no problem if IF he called Courtney Love a dick in an interview. This is a woman who publicly entertained the idea of hooking up her then 16 year old daughter up with a man in his early 20's...Rob. And if she could have, odds are she would have knocked her own daughter out of the way so that she could have had him first.

And yeah, she was interested in Rob to play Kurt because she was interested in Rob. He said NO (and to more than just the role you can bet your bottom dollar. hey. if she hinted at it in public, you can bet your ass she didn't mince words in private) and so she had to make it seem like she was never interested in him in ANYWAY for ANYTHING in the first place.

She is a reprehensible human being. I swear to god, I'd rather see him with the terrible three; Brittney, Lindsey and Paris (all at once) than with Courtney Love.

Brooke Moss said...

Oh em gee....

Nik, I second everything you just said. I detest Courtney Love. She makes me sick to the tenth degree. Mind you, I am a Pacific Northwest girl through and through, and I went to more than my share of candlelight vigils when Kurt died (WHat? Shut up, I was a senior in High School in Washington state, what did you expect? I drank alot of coffee and smoked a lot of marlboros and wore A LOT of flannel.) And I could see that she was a fame whore and a crack head clear back then. She disgusts me.

LM said...

The lion, the lion. The toothless lion loves Rob. Didn't bite him, did she (had to be a she)? Couldn't even bring herself to fake it. She licked him. Yum, yum. Move over, baby, I'm next.

Brooke Moss said...

I was wondering if I was the only one jealous of the toothless Lion?

HeneciaD said...

I like this interwiev from the first sentence till the last one

Kelly Louise said...

I don't think it's a hundred percent legit, but it's nonetheless a good one. I can just imagine his friend calling him RPattz all the time. I would do the same in his place, just to torture him. Haha. The silence/white noise for thoughts reminded me of Bella.

jmm4832 said...

Solas, I agree! So many celebrities have been blessed and then either squandered their money or ended up dallying in drugs and alcohol. It's what Rob chooses to do with it that's important.

sarsaparilla said...

Luck running out - Nobody can be really lucky all their lives that won't be fair to others out there who really need some miracles to even survive- But blessed -yes some of them can be blessed all their lives - how one chooses to use the blessing of wealth , fame and love is their choice.


I don't even know who this 'Courtney love' person is but I am sure she would deserve that kind of titles from Rob because we hardly see him using colorful language in Public interviews except for shockingly funny outbursts.

jessegirl said...

femroc, solas, jmm...
Yeah, I agree.

I think Rob can't believe he's been blessed with so much and that that is tempting fate. He sounds so Greek--you know, the ancients' mind set. The gods were always jealous of a mortal who had been blessed with too much and they would retaliate, often by killing him,...then softening the blow by putting him in the heavens and naming the new constellation for him.
I mean, he has looks [duh], money and a burgeoning career, any woman he wants, health, influence, fame, incredible talent in acting and as a musician/songwriter. Have I left out anything?
He knows he's got it all, and wonders when the envious gods will retalitate. But...he might be joking.

jessegirl said...

As for Courtney Love...waste of time to comment...Thanks for saying it Sarah and Nik.

 
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