ROBsessed Quickie: Sarah Gadon about Robert Pattinson - "He’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart"

ROBsessed Quickie: Sarah Gadon about Robert Pattinson - "He’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart"



“I love what Rob (Pattinson) did in Cosmopolis…on the outside he’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart….I get along really well with all my leading men.

~Sarah Gadon to ASOS

ROBsessed Quickie: John Cusack - "It's wise and speaks highly of Robert Pattinson that he's formed a thing with David"

ROBsessed Quickie: John Cusack - "It's wise and speaks highly of Robert Pattinson that he's formed a thing with David"

Time for a quickie.



This one brought to you by John Cusack...



Young stars should seek shelter wherever they can, [Cusack] says. His Maps co-star Robert Pattinson is going about it the right way. The film is Pattinson’s second collaboration with Cronenberg after the Don DeLillo adaptation Cosmopolis, which helped R-Patz break from Twilight. 

“I think it’s very wise – and speaks highly of Robert [Pattinson] that he’s formed a thing with David. He can try to be good and have a space where he’s not just this product that’s going to be followed around by TMZ. That speaks to the healthier instincts of the guy. I don’t know if there’s that space for other people.”

~John Cusack to The Guardian

AUDIO Interviews: David Michod & Guy Pearce Talk Robert Pattinson & 'The Rover'

AUDIO Interviews: David Michod & Guy Pearce Talk Robert Pattinson & 'The Rover'

Fantastic audio interview from Radio4 with The Rover director David Michod, it's well worth listening to the whole thing. The Rover talk starts at the 9:07 mark and David talks about Rob around the 13:00 mark. He says some great things about Rob (no surprise there ;)).

Click on the pic below to listen



Guy Pearce was a guest on Steve Wright's Radio 2 programme and also mentioned Rob.
Guy's interview starts around 10:15 and the Rob talk is at the 13:14 mark.

Again click on the pic below to listen.



via RPAU
Thanks PJ!

'He's Amazing, Heartbreaking ....... In The End I Was Nervous He Was Going To Steal The Film' ~ Guy Pearce Talks Robert Pattinson + New 'The Rover' Stills

UPDATE: Added another New Still & BTS Pic and older stills now in HQ
'He's Amazing, Heartbreaking ....... In The End I Was Nervous He Was Going To Steal The Film' ~ Guy Pearce Talks Robert Pattinson + New 'The Rover' Stills

Guy Pearce spoke about Rob and The Rover to Australia's GQ magazine and the praise he gives Rob is once again guaranteed to put a big smile on your face.



We also get some new stills & BTS Pics and some older ones that we've seen before but now in HQ.



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via Pattinson Artwork
Thanks PJ!

David Michôd talks Robert Pattinson: "He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available"

David Michôd talks Robert Pattinson: "He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available"

What a great read. GREAT read. Directors continue to have amazing things to say about Rob. His talent, his intelligence, his work ethic, his character....they are always praised above and beyond the typical praise.

David Michôd spoke to Twitch about The Rover and this is the excerpt about Rob.



Twitch Film:

TWITCH: In contrast, there is Pattinson's character, who I think is extraordinary in this film. Can you talk about bringing him into the role? How did you work with him on attenuating his performance, making sure it didn't get too broad?

MICHÔD: In a way, the answer to both questions is that Robert came in and tested for me and his tests were just extraordinary.

I, like everyone else, didn't know what he was capable of. Certainly his previous work didn't give you a clear indicator.

I met him before I even knew I was going to make The Rover, and there was something about him that I really liked. He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available.

When [Pattinson] came in to audition for me, he came in with a really beautifully defined and sophisticated reading of the character that seemed from the outset to avoid all of those possible moments of caricature that that character could so easily slip into.

How did Pattinson get hooked into the project?

I had a meeting with him maybe a year before I made the movie and it became immediately apparent to me in that meeting that he not only loved Animal Kingdom but had seen all of the shorts that I had made with my friends. He had beyond that a really eclectic, sophisticated interest in cinema. He was actively looking for interesting things to do and actively looking to meet interesting filmmakers.

Had he done any of his Cronenberg work when you first started working together?

Yes, I had seen Cosmopolis. I had even had a phone conversation with Cronenberg to see what working with Rob was like generally. [With] Cosmopolis, that is another character that is quite brooding and still in a way that's not similar to the stuff he does in Twilight. It didn't give me a clear indication that he could do the 180 degree shift that I was going to ask him to do on The Rover.

I always needed to see an audition. He was willing to do it because he knew that he wanted to play the character and that he needed to work hard to get it.

I love that whole notion of you as a director in Australia just calling up Cronenberg and asking him for advice. Is that a common thing? I picture some secret handshake between directors where you exchange private numbers.

I think in the world of filmmakers and generally those kinds of phone calls are reasonably easy to facilitate because they're reasonably important. I didn't want to ask David whether or not Rob was a good actor. I felt that I had seen that in the tests and long auditions that he had done for me. What I wanted to know was what he was like as a human being on set because those things can be important. David shared his experience which turned out to be much the same as mine, that he was delightful and hard-working.

LOVE LOVE LOVE. Can you imagine that awesome phone call between the Davids?? Click HERE to read the full interview!

Guy Pearce talks about Robert Pattinson: "This guy is going to have just the most incredible career"

Guy Pearce talks about Robert Pattinson: "This guy is going to have just the most incredible career"


Excerpt from Den of Geek:

Were you guys uncomfortable during the shoot and did you want to be, to help get into the spirit of the film?

Well, there is a certain level of uncomfortability that's necessary obviously because you're out there in the heat and it's dusty, but I find it awe inspiring as well because that landscape is incredible. You feel like you're just away from everything. You're away from all the noise of the city and all those things that you sort of live your life by these days, iPads and iPhones and all the i's, you know, all that stuff slowly didn't work the further north we got. The phones didn't work and then we sort of lost Internet connection. So it's sort of tough but it's equally kind of inspiring because you're aware of it being put down on film and it being part of this film that you're making. Every kind of difficult and fascinating location we got to, you would just think, "Oh wow, this is going to be incredible on film." We had pretty hot weather but we had breaks in the weather too occasionally, like it would rain and cool down for a bit so we kind of felt like we were okay. I mean it was pretty brutal and pretty hot a lot of the time, and I know it was hot for Rob because he wasn't so used to it. I've done a couple of films in the desert now. I love it out there.

How was it working with Rob? His fame maybe has overshadowed his talent to some degree.

Well, I mean, that performance that you see him deliver in the film -- I detected that on the first or second day or whenever I went to set and watched him work, I was like, "Wow this is going to be great." I mean, Rob is a pretty quietly spoken guy. I think it is difficult for him dealing with all of the publicity that he gets and all that sort of stuff and so he just sort of wants to get out of the way and not get hassled. You don't get too much of a sense of who he is and then he starts performing and you just think, "Wow, this kid's incredible." And you think about the popularity that he has and how amazing he looks, and you couple that with that talent and you think, "Wow, this guy is going to have just the most incredible career." He has an amazing career already, but for him to now be able to just string together one more interesting role after another I think will be fantastic.

He was great to work with. He was so relieved to be out there and not be hassled by paparazzi and press and fans and stuff that he had a really great time. We didn't really know each other very well, in fact we didn't know each other at all and just slowly got to know each other through the course of the film, which was good because we're not meant to know each other at the beginning anyway. We all just sort of slipped into it kind of nicely. There was a nice respect for David and for the movie he was making and for each other, and the characters we were playing. I think what was interesting was once I started to realize what that dynamic between us was going to be -- I got it on the page on an intellectual level, but once I started to see what Rob was doing and how needy and vulnerable the character was, then I really knew what was going to work as far as what I offered up and what I delivered with him. It's always interesting when you are reading relationships in a script, the transition between that and the actual doing of it, once you start meeting actors. Something can go wrong and another actor would be horrible or they could think you're horrible and you just think this is going to be really difficult. But then other times you just go wow, this whole thing is opening up now. Now I get it so it's interesting.

"He Has The Chops & He's Doing What He Loves To Do" ~ Kellan Lutz Talks Robert Pattinson

"He Has The Chops & He's Doing What He Loves To Do" ~ Kellan Lutz Talks Robert Pattinson

Kellan Lutz was at Cannes and spoke to the Associated Press about catching up with Rob while there, how he was proud of what Rob was doing and how he believes an Academy Award in Rob's future.

Get in line Kellan, we've believed that for a VERY long time now.

"It's great chatting with Rob and seeing his success," Lutz said at a resort outside of Cannes this week. "I think one of the great things talking with Rob after we did 'Twilight' stuff is he just doesn't care about the money. He's doing good work and he wants to work with great directors and great actresses and actors and working with great material, as we all should."

"I think that the blessing of being part of the 'Twilight' franchise is it's given us this safety net," he added.

Lutz has taken more action roles, which he calls his passion, since the "Twilight" films wrapped, while Pattinson has gravitated to edgier projects. Lutz said he believes an Academy Award is in Pattinson's future.

"He has the chops and he's doing what he loves to do and I'm so proud of him for everything that he's doing," he said.

'He Was Lovely & I Was So Impressed With What He Did In The Film" ~ Guy Pearce On Robert Pattinson In 'The Rover'

'He Was Lovely & I Was So Impressed With What He Did In The Film" ~ Guy Pearce On Robert Pattinson In 'The Rover'

High praise indeed coming from Guy Pearce.

Guy sat down with The Daily Beast in Cannes and spoke about The Rover, Robert Pattinson& more.
Here's the snippet where he talks about Rob and the relationship between Eric and Rey.

Your uneasy relationship with Robert Pattinson jump-starts the narrative.

Yeah, he was lovely and I was so impressed with what he did in the film. I was touched by the vulnerability of his character. He’s almost like a little kid or a vulnerable animal that needs to be looked after. You can’t help but empathize with him. And then it meant that I knew the power that I, as Eric, could exert over him—even in the few first moments when I speak to him. I just let him know that he means nothing to me. I guess I’m trying to deny what he does mean to me and I end up having to take him with me to find his brother. I just have to let him know that he means nothing to me, personally. It’s a way of him asking if we can connect and me more or less responding “absolutely no way.”

There’s almost a sort of Of Mice and Men dynamic between the two of you.

That’s right, particularly because of his Southern accent.

Check out the rest of Guy's interview over HERE
via TheRoverFilm.com

'The Sydney Morning Herald' Talk To Robert Pattinson & David Michod

'The Sydney Morning Herald' Talk To Robert Pattinson & David Michod

This is a really good interview with David Michod and Robert Pattinson talking about The Rover.
You can read ALL of David's interview over HERE but you'll find the part where David talks about Rob and Rob's interview in the excerpt below.

The story began as an exploration of the relationship between characters – only gradually did Michod begin to delineate their world. ‘‘This is ... a version of Australia – perhaps representative of a larger Western world – that has broken down," he says. "There’s still an infrastructure, there’s still a society, but everything’s a bit broken, a bit loose. There are still families, people trying to make a living, but you get the feeling there is violence bubbling under the surface, in a way that’s far more palpable.’’

Within that environment, two contrasting characters meet and join forces – for reasons that only gradually become clear. Michod wrote one of the roles with one of his Animal Kingdom stars in mind: Guy Pearce. Pattinson, however, was far from his thoughts until they had an unrelated meeting in Los Angeles.

‘‘I like to meet actors, and I like to meet actors whose work I’m not necessarily familiar with,’’ Michod says. He had never seen any of the Twilight films, the hugely successful vampire romance franchise that made Pattinson a household name and a paparazzi target. ‘‘But I heard a couple of people say that he’s interesting.’’ When they met, he found Pattinson ‘‘very smart and not the sort of pretty boy I was expecting’’.

Talking to Pattinson, in the final stages of the shoot, it is clear he was more than enthusiastic. He was already aware of the members of Blue-Tongue and had seen several of the films. ‘‘I like the way they work together and keep it quite tight. It reminded me of me and my friends, and I knew it was the kind of environment I wanted to work in – with a bunch of young people who were ambitious."

What's more, he loved Animal Kingdom.When The Rover came his way, he was in.

‘‘It was such a startlingly original script. When I read it, I thought, this is one of those parts where you think, 'I’d love to do this, but I know I’m not going to get it.'’’ He did a couple of tests in Michod’s Los Angeles house. ‘‘They were exhausting, they were about three hours long, but it was kind of fun. I liked the way he worked in the audition. Normally, they’re such horrible experiences.’’

Pattinson's character, Rey, is an American. He and his brother have come to Australia to work, but have fallen on hard times. He is naive and trusting ‘‘in a really strange way. He was brought up to believe he’s not capable of being independent. [He is] someone who has always been looked after and he has taken it with him into adulthood.’’

So when he loses contact with his brother at the beginning of the film, he is stranded. ‘‘He grabs onto the first person who comes along’’ – and this happens to be Pearce’s character, who has an ulterior motive for joining forces. ‘‘No matter how he gets treated, Rey just wants to please him. There’s something so strange and disturbing about the whole relationship.’’

Evan Bird from Maps To The Stars compliments Robert Pattinson - "He's a really down to earth guy, but he's a huge star.

Evan Bird from Maps To The Stars compliments Robert Pattinson - "He's a really down to earth guy, but he's a huge star.

I loved this little mention from Evan Bird!



Excerpt from Indiewire:

Evan Bird: A lot of actors my age, they're doing it either to become famous or rich. It's not about that. It shouldn't be. When it is about that, you're not going to be successful. Most people that are succesful appreciate it for an artistic value. You need to enjoy it. You should have no other reason to do it. Of course you make good money, and that's because everyone loves movies. I mean look at Robert Pattinson. He's a really down to earth guy, but he's a huge star.

Huge star indeed.

"Robert Pattinson Has A Treasure Of Unexploited Talent" ~ David Michod

"Robert Pattinson Has A Treasure Of Unexploited Talent" ~ David Michod

Well there's no doubt that David Michod is a big Robert Pattinson fan and I think this excerpt of his interview on Page 11 of the French Press Kit for The Rover where he talks about casting Rob provides even more evidence of that.
What he said about him will surely bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.



Thanks to LeRPattzClub for translating it.

How did you choose your actors ?

I had Guy Pearce in mind since the beginning. We needed a man who was his age , who had a quiet and mysterious strength, who had his talent and his extraordinary attention for details. I didn't forget the pleasure I had working with him on Animal Kingdom. Rob (Pattinson) came later on. We met, I appreciated him a lot and then, he did some screen tests for me, awesome tests, full of life, never forced or artificial and then it was done. And there's something very exciting to have the opportunity to show to the whole world that a star, who was understimated and reduced to a certain image, has in fact a treasure of unexploited talent. I quickly notice that Rob is a great actor. And I'm looking forward to everyone seeing that. 

If Guy Pearce's character is the «Rover» , how would you define Robert Pattinson's character ?

He's also a «rover.» Guy is a rover meaning he is a "tramp". But in classical english, "rover" is also used as a loving terms to refer to a dog. And Rob follows Guy everywhere, just as a lost dog would do

"He's A Really Nice Guy, He's Fun To Hang Out With. We Had A Great Time" ~ Dane DeHaan Talks About Robert Pattinson

UPDATE : Added Video Of Dane (at the bottom)
"He's A Really Nice Guy, He's Fun To Hang Out With. We Had A Great Time" ~ Dane DeHaan Talks About Robert Pattinson

Dane spoke to the Belfast Telegraph about hanging out with Rob and how their relationship developed. I think we could see from the Life set pics that they definitely had fun on the set ;)
Check out what he had to say below.

Dane DeHaan has revealed that he made no attempt to become friends with Robert Pattinson before they started filming Life.

The Amazing Spider-Man actor stars alongside the Twilight heartthrob in Anton Corbijn's drama, focusing on the friendship between Life photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and Hollywood icon James Dean (De Haan).

"It's an interesting relationship that they have. They do become close in the film, and they do become friends, but they're not friends from the start," he said.

"So what we did is we didn't try to make any sort of friendship beforehand. We got there and that's when our friendship started. So as it was happening on screen, it was also happening in real life."

The 28-year-old said they bonded on set, adding: " He's a really nice guy. He's totally chill and he's fun to hang out with, and he's fun to be on set with. We had a great time."

Sir Ben Kingsley and Joel Edgerton also star in Life, which wrapped shooting on April 1.

"We just finished a week and a half ago," Dane said.

Life, which is now in post-production, is expected to be released later this year.

Source Belfast Telegraph

Nan Goldin Mentions Photographing Robert Pattinson For Dior To L'Express

Nan Goldin Mentions Photographing Robert Pattinson For Dior To L'Express



In an interview with L'Express recently Nan Goldin spoke about photographing Robert Pattinson for Dior.

It's not the first time she compared Rob to the painter Paul Cadmus. She remarked it in an interview last year with LeMonde and also in that interview she said these nice things about Rob...... "What interests me about him is his person. Robert is a lovely boy, so sweet, he loves playing guitar. Music is his natural element, probably more than cinema."



If you missed that interview last year you can catch it HERE

From L'Express:

I loved taking pictures of women like Kate Moss naked on a horse, or Tilda Swinton, covered with hide. In front of them, I am in "caress" mode. I also enjoyed photographing Robert Pattinson for Dior, in a harsh light. He looks like a portrait of the painter Paul Cadmus exposed at the Brooklyn Museum in New York (see left)... Same brown hair, same blue eyes ... Nothing of him synonymous with "pretty".

Thanks to PattinsonArtWork for the translation and Flavia for the heads up!

And in case you want to get your hands on a copy of "1000 Lives", after all the hassle there was last year, it's available now over on Amazon UK HERE

We Have to Agree With Holliday Grainger, Robert Pattinson Is Lovely

We Have to Agree With Holliday Grainger, Robert Pattinson Is Lovely

Holly Grainger (who as you know was lucky enough to work with Rob not only on Bel Ami but also  on The Bad Mothers Handbook a few years earlier) was being interview by GraziaDaily when she spoke about Rob. Naturally enough she had good things to say about him.

Holliday also told us about her friend Robert Pattinson. The pair have worked together on a number of projects over the years including The Bad Mother’s Handbook in 2007 and Bel Ami in 2012 in which they played lovers. ‘He’s lovely,’ she says. ‘I’ve known him since his pre-Twilight days when he was a normal person and it was still like, “ooh you’re playing Cederic Diggory (in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire)”.

He’s managed to keep very level headed and normal. I don’t understand how. I can’t fathom the idea of living a life like he lives. On the set of Bel Ami in Budapest there would be hundreds of screaming girls there at 5am and they would still be cordoned off when we finished.

He had to move hotels because there were so many people outside his. One day he was signing autographs on the way home from work at 6am after a night shoot. Bless him, that’s an extra level of hard.’

If you want to read the full article, head over to  GraziaDaily
via Flavia

NEW: Robert Pattinson looking GORGEOUS on the set of Queen of the Desert

NEW: Robert Pattinson looking GORGEOUS on the set of Queen of the Desert

OH HOT DAYUM!

Now I know why Robert Pattinson has so many fans! This guy is just great, humble and like anybody else! pic.twitter.com/gTWq6cfJPh
— Hicham HAJJI (@HichamHajji) February 2, 2014

via ThoseBritishBoys

“He's A Really Smart Guy & Knows Exactly What He Wants To Do To Build The Career That He Wants” ~ David Michod On Robert Pattinson

“He's A Really Smart Guy & Knows Exactly What He Wants To Do To Build The Career That He Wants” ~ David Michod On Robert Pattinson



Our Affiliates RobertPattinsonAustralia were lucky enough to be able to attend Flickerfest in Sydney where they saw none other than David Michod!
You KNOW there was talk about Robert Pattinson and The Rover so here are some excerpts from their report.......

David noticed that his films seemed to be from the perspective of a child.  He thought that The Rover was the first time this wasn’t so, but then realised that Rob’s character Rey can be considered childlike in The Rover so maybe he hasn’t really distanced himself from that. (Kate: Childlike ReyRob, God help us all)

After the success of Animal Kingdom he was given the opportunity to direct other people’s scripts, but he realised what he loved the most was that he liked to build films himself from the ground up.  He worked on the script of Animal Kingdom for about 10 years (whilst he did other jobs of course) and he wrote the first draft of The Rover with Joel Edgerton in about 10 days before he even filmed Animal Kingdom.

I can’t tell you enough how much praise David heaps on Rob.  David said he “loves talented people”.  He also said numerous times how smart Rob is.  Really smart. (Kate: God I love this guy. David Cronenberg watch out, you have competition here! :))

David said he he finished The Rover about one to one and a half months ago and that noone has seen it yet.  He wanted to bring a teaser for us today, but he just wasn’t ready to reveal it yet. (Kate: *cries* I can be patient, yeap I can, I really can. Uh-huh patience is my middle name ;})

He said they are rolling it out and showing it to people over the next few months.  He said he felt the same at the end of The Rover as he did with Animal Kingdom.

David “absolutely loved the work done by Guy and Rob.  They created great characters and loved their performances”. (Kate: Can't wait to see Rob and Guy act together in this and this is making me even more excited)

Loads More After The Cut

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365 Days Of Robert Pattinson: December 20 ~ Director Compliment Of Rob

365 Days Of Robert Pattinson: December 20 ~ Director compliment of Rob

It looks like we're all about Robenberg today



Tink
Rob has been complimented profusely by directors before but i’ll never forget this one…. 

"He’s terrific. He deserves the affection that the fans have for him. He’s incredibly sweet, he’s very funny, he’s very bright and he’s also very knowledgeable about cinema. Not just movies but the history of cinema. He knows a lot about it. He’s just a sweetheart. And he’s totally professional. He’s always right there. We had a lot of fun shooting [the movie] because, as I say, he has a great sense of humor. We just played a lot. I think that’s a really great tone that’s set for everybody on the set. The lead actor has a really big influence on the tone of the shoot. If you’ve got a guy who’s very difficult and neurotic or whatever, they can’t help but affect everybody’s day. But Rob is not like that. He’s just a ray of sunshine. In fact, he’s in absolutely every scene of the movie, so obviously his temperament would have a huge influence on how the shoot went … and it was a dream. It was a beautiful shoot."



Kate

I generally try not look at what the other ladies post for their 365’s before I post mine.
 


It’s never a good idea! But today I looked at what Tink posted. BIG MISTAKE.
 

Anyway this is the one I’m going with (also from David) and kind of similar to the one Tink posted (but different at the same time)………

You have to have a kind of screen charisma, you have to have a presence, which you can’t buy or create; you either have it or you don’t. That doesn’t mean you’re necessarily a good actor, though. But you have at least that. I looked at all the stuff that he’s done, and I thought he’s a really good actor. And then I spoke to him, and thought not only that, but he’s a really smart actor. And he’s funny, and he’s very sweet. That’s when I tried to convince him to do the movie, which he was a little afraid of, just because I think he doesn’t know how good he is, basically. And I think now that he’s done the movie, he’s starting to understand how good he is. Because he’s terrific.

He knew my work, yeah. What’s interesting, too, about Rob is that he’s very well educated in terms of movies and movie history and foreign films. On the set, he and Juliette Binoche were talking about the most obscure French films and stuff like that together. He really knows his stuff. And yet, as I say, he’s a completely down-to-earth, sweet guy. Lovely to work with. And very funny.

I watched Remember Me, and I watched Little Ashes. Which is maybe a movie you don’t know, but he plays a young Salvador Dalí in that movie with a Spanish accent. And I thought that was pretty interesting, very daring of him to do that, and it indicated to me that he was an interesting, serious actor.”


Kat
I'll update when Kat posts

Click the thumbnail if you need to review the December calendar. If you missed the whole year, there's a link on the sidebar :)



If you post your 365DoR links in the comments, give us time to approve them so the DR can see :)
 

Sam Claflin mentions Robert Pattinson and his killer looks during Catching Fire press junket

Sam Claflin mentions Robert Pattinson and his killer looks during Catching Fire press junket

HipHollywood spoke to Sam Claflin during the press junket for Catching Fire. Sam mentions his fellow Brit, Rob, and those looks that could kill. It's a cute mention and happens about halfway through the video but watch the whole thing for context.

Romain Gavras On Working With Robert Pattinson, His Favourite Scene In The Dior Homme Advert & More

UPDATED with more from the interview 
Romain Gavras On Working With Robert Pattinson, His Favourite Scene In The Dior Homme Advert & More

Romain Gavras spoke to Italy's Io Donna magazine and had (not surprisingly) had some very nice things to say about Rob.



Where did you get the inspiration for the video?
Working closely with the team of Dior. A hundred lifetimes in a day and the words of James Dean : " Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. " The result is a character who goes through emotions and different places . Then, with the cinematographer André Chemetoff and production designer Jean -Michel Bertin , we looked for the best visual grammar to tell this story fragmented.

How would you describe the Dior Homme  man?
The man we want to represent is a man who is light, at ease in any situation. He could be on a deserted beach , in a luxury hotel or in an empty house which he has just moved into: he would always be himself. We wanted to move away from the stereotype of the successful, rich and arrogant, and that is why we have added details such as the eighties car that leads to a certain point. The
woman is another great way to characterize a man: in the video is a simple girl, who isn't dressed in  showy .

Tell us an anecdote , a particular story happened on the set?
We shot in Brooklyn, Rockaway Beach , immediately after the hurricane. Looking at the scene of the beach, you can note their signs , for example, the very high sand or cabins destroyed , which give the place a strange , unexpected look, in a video for a luxury perfume . Oh, and we also ended up in the sea with the car ... It took two boats and a tractor to bring it to dry land !

The main difficulty ?
Probably the fact of having to take in so many places at once . We had to run all over New York with Rob, who is a big star in Hollywood, dodging paparazzi and all the rest , not to reveal the images of the campaign prior to submission. Also, before you know Rob had no idea how it would go because we were waiting hectic , very active , and sometimes the actors do not like working under pressure. But he was great , he gave more than we asked , he was with me one hundred percent . In addition, during the shoot, we had great fun .

What is your favorite scene ?
I really like the part on the beach,  it was the first scene we shot . During the first shot something interesting is always happening and at that moment you know if what you had in mind will work or not. It was very nice to hear that it would work.

How was working with Rob ?
Rob is extremely curious, he's leaving the phase of the " poster boy " of Twilight to play more mature roles . He's already making interesting and courageous choices. Speaking as a director, I can say that he is an actor who is very easy to work , he's able to give so much .

Source via  RobPattinsonmoms / Flavia
Translation via Google Translate (tweeked by me ;-))

Producer Martin Katz Talks "Maps To The Stars" & Working With Robert Pattinson

Maps To The Stars Producer Martin Katz was interviewed at TIFF today and spoke about the movie (saying to watch for it next year). He also talks about working with Robert Pattinson ("He's a dream to work with")  & mentions that the scissors that was used to cut Rob's hair in Cosmopolis is going to be part of David Cronenberg's exhibit! 

Martin comes on around 11:23 mark and starts talking about Maps & Rob around 16:45