Robert Pattinson: I'm always in work mode


Here are some parts from The San Francisco Chronicle interview:

"It's strange because it already feels much more of a slick machine," Pattinson says of the film, which is being directed by Chris Weitz. "The first one we had such a young cast. Everybody was friends. It was fun. There was nothing like what it is now. Now there are people waiting outside the hotels all the time. We have security. It's crazy."

And Pattinson hasn't even started yet. He's been in Vancouver for three weeks pacing up and down his hotel room while the shoot has been under way because "I like to get some kind of momentum going in my own process, so when I actually turn up on the set I should know vaguely what I'm talking about." (Gozde: Yeah, that's always a good idea)

Pattinson, whose almost ethereal beauty has been a key part of "Twilight's" success, is nothing if not self-deprecating. He delivers his thoughts in a stuttering, half-finished manner distantly related to another British heartthrob, Hugh Grant. He also seems to share Grant's well-known discomfort with attention. In fact, the only respite from all the screaming women recently has been movie sets.

"I feel like most of the time for the past few months I'm pretty much working every time I get out of the house, working or not, so I might as well be working," he says. "I'm always in work mode. Just in case someone comes up to you, you've got to have your game face on."(Gozde: Altogether now: Awwwww!)

Probably none of this will change with the release of his newest film, Paul Morrison's "Little Ashes" - if for no other reason than few of his fans will see it. Shot before "Twilight" made Pattinson a tousle-haired poster boy, the film, set primarily in the 1920s, is about the relationship between Spanish poet-playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and Surrealist gadfly Salvador Dali (Pattinson). What begins as a mutual admiration society of up-and-coming artists becomes much, much more. Speculation has it that Lorca and Dali were, or almost became, lovers. The film goes there, to a degree that made Pattinson very uncomfortable until he actually saw it.

"I guess I was expecting things to be more graphic," Pattinson says. "There's so much shame involved, and the thing I was really worried about was trying to show the madness of it."

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Which is another way of saying that Pattinson is unconcerned about being locked into author Stephenie Meyer's franchise in the same way that the Harry Potter cast has been in theirs. It won't last that long.

Then it will be interesting to see in which direction Pattinson decides to go. No doubt his fans would prefer him to continue looking good, but he appears to have other ideas. He talks about one part he's considering in which he speaks a foreign language he doesn't know and another in which he plays "an incredibly abusive, terrifying character." He certainly seems to like playing characters who are tormented, or at least struggling with who they are.

"I try to choose things which are something that I'm going through in my life," he says. "Jobs that will help me realize or add something about myself. I don't really think about it in terms of a career."

You can read the whole thing here


Thanks to RPO :)

15 comments:

annycullen said...

haha "game face" (= oh robb<3

Mrs. Robinsane said...

Why does the interviewer think that few of Rob's fans will see "Little Ashes'—because it will not be widely released, because of the subject matter, or because some fans may be too young to be admitted?

If it's the latter reason, I personally think that grown (and probably female) adults comprise a large percentage, if not the majority, of his fans, so he should have no problem attracting an audience.

Suz said...

psssst (hey Rob)

I've got a "job" for ya.

Anonymous said...

oooh..."an incredibly abusive, terrifying character."

i can totally see rob as a badass! *fingers crossed*

Tenneil said...

TS & Suz....you guys LOL....

Rob can do anything he wants... hes so talented...

Suz said...

Ten.. where are you??

I've been looking... and looking.
xxx

Suz said...

TS Bad Azz Rob will be HOT~

xxxx

Tenneil said...

SUZ~

I am right here... where else would I be....

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Divinesally said...

TS~ hell to the yes!!! I love bad boy Rob! I want to see him play a character you just hate but since Rob will play him, it'll be a love/hate feeling. So exciting!

He should play a serial killer. Kill me bb, kill me dead!

Sexy ass mofo.

Anonymous said...

OMG DS.

YES.

elaine said...

Tenn~Right, where else are we gonna go! That pic is gorgeous! Why do I keep saying that as if u Robchickas didn't already know! sigh....

lostinphilly said...

An abusive terrifying character, huh? That sounds SO exciting, wow, Rob as a bad-ass.....mmmmmmm......I can go for that! Just like Darkward,Domward, Doucheward,Dickward(ooops, gotta stop)

Chicago girl now in LA said...

Another writer who hasn't done their homework. :( 1) While "Little Ashes" will never do what "Twilight" did (not in enough screens anyway), LA's per-screen take will be respectable--especially for an art-house film; 2) "ethereal beauty"???? Bwahhaahaa! I think she meant enigmatic. Rob is definitely NOT ethereal!

Chicago girl now in LA said...

Oh, sorry, this was written by a man to the San Francisco Chronicle; my mistake. Perhaps, to him, Rob is ethereal.

 
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