NEW PRINT INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks About Doing Music for 'Damsel' & MORE WIth Metro UK

NEW PRINT INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks About Doing Music for 'Damsel' & MORE WIth Metro UK

The MetroUK posted this great new print interview with Rob where he talks about his experience in the jungle on The Lost City Of Z, his fashion choices for the Berlin Film Festival Red Carpet, doing music for Damsel, yes you heard me right and lots more.

Word of advice, if you're about to eat wait until afterwards to read this interview. I'll say one word, maggots.

ALOOF, cool, brooding — that’s what I expect from R-Patz. The reluctant star, who broke through in Twilight, has only agreed to do one print interview (ie, us!) and I’m braced for something akin to teeth-pulling. Instead…

‘Hello, hello!’ Pattinson bounds towards me like a gangly, 6ft Labrador. ‘Where would you prefer to sit? Water?’ He wrestles with the bottle cap while we do a ‘no, you’, ‘no, you’ politeness dance over who gets the comfy sofa.

‘I feel this kind of ignition happens in press scenarios,’ he says. ‘I become suddenly a bit excited and want to please everybody and act like a bit of a moron.’

Bless him.

Aside from those extraordinary, almost reptilian, hooded eyes, which lend an otherworldly handsomeness, in person there’s nothing of Edward Cullen, Twilight’s chilly vampire heartthrob, about the 30-year-old actor and model.

Dior Homme’s latest ambassador is even less recognisable in The Lost City Of Z, in which he wore a ginormous bushy beard and specs to play Henry Costin, one of the first Brit explorers of the Amazon.

‘The real Henry Costin had a very dramatic Victorian moustache,’ he says. ‘I thought, with my face that might look too Noël Coward, so I had to do a full-on beard for eight months. It was pretty awful — I ended up getting these disgusting ingrown hairs xall over my face. Gah! I shouldn’t get into that!’

Even worse, a jungle infection required Costin’s beard to crawl with maggots. Real ones. ‘It was so gross — I was eating them and stuff,’ he says. ‘I think they had to cut that scene to get the rating down.’

A good sport, who attended the same London prep school as Jack Whitehall, Tom Hardy and Louis Theroux, Pattinson says he wasn’t squeamish at shooting in the jungle despite being ‘covered’ in sand fleas and pouring with sweat thanks to the authentic woollen suits.

‘There were caimans [like crocodiles] in the river and me and Charlie [Hunnam, his co-star] were swimming around them,’ he says. ‘One of the crew got bitten in the face by an arbor viper. The props master went straight in, sucked the venom and spat it out — he had no idea what he was doing, he’d just finished on EastEnders, but the guy was fine. There were so many dangerous creatures everywhere in the jungle, you don’t worry. But when I’d come back to my hotel, I’d see one ant in my room and I’d freak out!’

Hunnam takes the lead in Lost City Of Z, with Pattinson his loyal aide-de-camp. Pattinson was also wingman in Life, with Dane DeHaan taking the limelight as James Dean.

‘You can play things more eccentrically if you are on the sideline,’ he explains. ‘You don’t have the responsibility to drive the central story forward, so you can do more flourishes and experiment.’

As all is going swimmingly, I edge nearer the personal. Pattinson was never a gusher about his private life, even before his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart cheated on him, sparking global headlines. He’s dated singer FKA Twigs since 2014 and they are engaged. So is he more romantic than cynic?

‘Um, kind of… I like the idea that there are special things in the world. So I guess I am romantic in that way,’ he offers.

Are his unusual fashion choices (a ‘gorilla’ overcoat and reverse-zipped crop top) a diversionary tactic to distract press from his private life?

‘That would be a cunning parlay!’ he boggles, as I absorb his use of the word ‘parlay’. ‘That red carpet in Berlin [where he rocked the overcoat] was one of the more terrifying experiences I have had recently, just because I wanted to wear something different. When you live any sort of public life, it is impossible to know which way is right to do anything. The only thing I want to do is get the jobs I really want. And not to go crazy.’

The Lost City Of Z is out March 24

Rob on... 

...starving himself for The Lost City Of Z

‘Charlie [Hunnam] was extremely militant so I couldn’t slip off my starvation diet – we were in the same hotel and he stayed in character all the time.

There was this chocolate brownie on the menu and I kept thinking: “When I finish I will eat that and it will be amazing.” I did, and it was one of the most horrible experiences because my body rejected it.’ 

...his loyal Twihard following

‘It is nice knowing there are people who are watching my progression and that they found you in one thing and stay with you. It’s sweet because my jobs are going to get weirder. This year I have tried to accelerate that road to weirdness.’ .

..his music

‘I don’t play that much any more, though I am doing music for a movie I’m in with the Zellner brothers called Damsel. I used to differentiate between music and acting but the more I don’t play music, the more I push that area of my brain into acting.I improvise like I would when I play music.’

Thanks Sky

NEW: Robert Pattinson & Brady Corbet Interview With 'The Sunday Times'

NEW: Robert Pattinson & Brady Corbet Interview With 'The Sunday Times'
UPDATE: Added HQ Pic

Great interview with Rob & Brady. So nice to have a new interview with Rob. I'd love to see/read more press from these two.


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Thanks Imogen

New interview with Robert Pattinson with Filmkrant – Netherlands

Another new interview with Robert Pattinson to promote the release of Life with Filmkrant – Netherlands. 

“I always feel rather uncomfortable”

First Cronenberg, Michôd, Herzog, now Corbijn, very soon Gray, Korine and Denis: they all want Robert Pattinson. Why? What is the appeal of this teen idol?

By Kees Driessen

The penny dropped when I watched Cosmopolis (2012). The first time the film by David Cronenberg was disappointing to me. In ‘Vrij Nederland’ [dutch paper] I called him ‘bloodless – painful role for leading actor Robert Pattinson, who after his global success as a vampire in the insignificant Twilight series likes to sink his teeth into more serious material, but as autistic financial genius … he can hardly show a more emotional range [to the audience].

The second time I watched the movie I saw it. Then I understood that casting Pattinson was a great, even brilliant move. The hollow falsity of Cosmopolis is not only the reflection of the virtual financial system that is criticized in the film, but also of its leading character and, partly, its leading actor.

Robert Pattinson (London, 1986) plays in Cosmopolis a stunningly handsome stockbroker with huge financial success at a much too young an age, looking through the windows of his limousine with a detachment as if they were monitors, and fears that his inner self is rotting away (for which he gets daily anal examinations). You can almost call it typecasting, as a vampire with world fame.

Uncomfortable in his own skin

There are more great arthouse directors. David Michôd cast Pattinson in The Rover (not seen in 2014); just as Cronenberg, again, in Maps to the Stars (2014); Herzog, in a supporting role as T.E. Lawrence’s otherwise failed Queen of the Desert (2015); and soon James Gray in The Lost City of Z, Claire Denis in her yet untitled sci-fi movie and – very exciting – Harmony Korine, alongside James Franco, Idris Elba and Al Pacino in The Trap.

And now starring in Anton Corbijn’s Life, as a beginning photographer Dennis Stock, maker of the most famous photographs of James Dean. Where Cronenberg, as usual, in Cosmopolis magnified Pattinson’s character metaphorical and philosophical, the down to earth Corbijn uses [Rob] more realistic but nevertheless similar: as someone who feels uncomfortable in his skin, is keen to get recognition and feels a substantial distance to the world. “He’s an actor who wants to prove himself as an actor who plays a photographer who wants to prove himself as a photographer. Therefore the casting seemed like a great idea,” says a grinning Corbijn in Berlin.

Shy

Pattinson himself too is grinning a lot in Berlin. Many apologetic smiles too – like his character. Pattinson seems extremely nice, but is at the same time strikingly shy for someone of his fame and notoriety. Embarrassed BY his fame.

If he, as an actor often wanders outside his comfort zone? “I have no comfort zone at all haha! I always feel always rather uncomfortable.” He seems to mean it. “But so is my character.” And they {Rib and his character Dennis Stock] have more similarities. Like Stock Pattinson doesn’t like to be photographed. He really doesn’t. He mentions it three times. He feels like it’s making him ‘smaller’, “as if they are something away from you.”

Pattinson describes his character: “What I find fascinating is that he he couldn’t feel anything, not even love, as if he was handicapped.” And “Because he’s so restrained, he feels separated from the world, he lacks the experience of a normal person. That is quite tragic…” And: “I found it interesting that he finds solace in his art.”

Later, about all the media attention on himself: “Sometimes you feel just very separated from everything. That is a little worrisome..” And about acting: “You give quite a lot of yourself away, if you really connect.”

Uncomfortable

Is Stock is a mirror of self-portrait? The thought arises. If Pattinson, like Dennis Stock and James Dean, is a tortured soul himself, I do not know. But they share at least this: Pattinson feels an uncomfortable proximity to humans and is – something that’s not easy in the world of film or during a group interview – looking for a real connection.

That’s where there’s a blend in his role as Stock, in his roles for Cronenberg, and to some degree even with TE Lawrence and Twilight’s Edward.

When asked, via James Dean, what charisma is a movie star, Pattinson stumbles over his words a minute and then laughs nervously exclaiming: “I have no idea what the f*ck I’m saying haha!”

I want to make an attempt: charisma is the attraction of someone with a seductive look and an unattainable inner self. And that is Robert Pattinson has.

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PRINT: Robert Pattinson Talks Dennis Stock, Dealing With Photographers & More To Salzburger Nachrichten

PRINT: Robert Pattinson Talks Dennis Stock, Dealing With Photographers & More To Salzburger Nachrichten

Another print interview with Rob from the interviews done in Berlin.
Very similar to other interviews we've seen recently but also a little bit different.



Translation (thanks to @inthejungle)

SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN: "Everybody has a James Dean phase."

Do you see parallels between your life and James Dean's life?
A little, but funnily enough I wasn't really interested in James Dean's life, maybe because I experienced something similar.I didn't find my own life very interesting.I was more interested in Dennis Stock from the beginning.

Dennis Stock sacrifices the relationship with his family for his career. Do you know that feeling?
Not really. I don't believe Dennis truly sacrificed something, he told himself he did. He never thought about his son only when he used him as an excuse. That's what drew me to the role: here is a person that doesn't love his kid and waits for his life to make sense, but that never happens. He is a tragic figure. In later interviews you can tell he didn't learn a thing. At 80 he still complained about only being famous for the James Dean pictures although those were the ones he made money with.I really don't want to badmouth him, but I met his son Rodney and he says he was a bad father, but what can you do when you don't love your child? Everybody hates you for it, but you still have to live your life.

Is James Dean important to you as a role model?
I think every young actor has a James Dean phase.If you think about it: his movies were made in 1955 and 1956 and he still has such a huge influence. His gestures are a bit over the top, because he was just starting out. There isn't one bad picture of him and not just because he had such a good face, but because he had this intuition about how his face was seen by the camera.

How do you deal with being the object of photographers?
It's difficult. When the first Twilight movie came out I wanted to be seen a certain way. I thought I could control which pictures would be put out there. But that was impossible and I got scared of that loss of control. At the beginning of my career I had some friendships with journalists, we went out together, but I can'tdo something like that anymore. Now everyone tries to get an exclusive detail out of me and the worse the detail, the better.

Your life resembled a soap opera in the past few years. How did you feel about the reports on your life?
I never talked about my private life, but that didn't make a difference and people just made up stuff.I made the decision not getting my picture taken because I thought without new pictures people couldn't write stories, but they just used old pictures. It's gotten better now, I decided not to hide anymore and wear a hat and a scarf. It just drives you crazy.

So the worst is the paparazzi then?
Not only them. I used to get scared when people stared at me. It makes you feel like you are being judged, but I learned one thing: never Google yourself. That can become an obsession. Just imagine there are people talking about you in the next room, of course you are going to listen to it! It's worse on the internet and especially when you live a lonely hotel existence like actors do, you end up sitting in front of the computer to remind yourself who you are.

How do you manage not to loose your mind being alone in a hotel room?
Who says that that didn't happen already?

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INTERVIEW: Die Presse Interview Robert Pattinson (Translated)

 INTERVIEW: Die Presse Interview Robert Pattinson

The new interviews just keep coming. Check out this one from Die Presse




Translation (Thanks to @Inthejungle83)

DIE PRESSE: "I'm not wearing a mask anymore."

Picture of life: In Anton Corbijn's beautiful drama LIFE, Robert Pattinson plays Dennis Stock, the photographer who shot the iconic picture of James Dean on Times Square.

Boy band, TV star of movie vampire, becoming famous as a teenage sex symbol can be a blessing or a curse for a young artist, but there is almost no other way to gain market values this quickly in show business. On the other hand getting rid of the reputation as a teen heartthrob is something many failed spectacularly. Contract to those who failed, Robert Pattinson seems to have been able to move past his history as a pale Twilight vampire in several ambitious movies he showed true acting talent, like in LIFE the fascinating story about the creation of one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century directed by the Dutch photographer, Anton Corbijn.

Are you a James Dean fan?
I was never really interested in him as a person, but as an actor he was huge. He was fearless in his acting and his movements were like ballet. What fascinated me, especially now where I looked at so many pictures of him, is that there is no bad picture of him. But that is not because he looked great, he played with the camera and he did that in a time where one wasn't photographed everywhere.

What about you? Do you like playing with the camera? 
I'm definitely not a natural talent like James Dean (laughs), but I'm getting there. I wasn't able to control it. When the first Twilight movie came out I thought I had some kind of control about the pictures of me that were out there and you could see my panic over loosing that control.

Did you ever have a relationship with a photographer as James Dean had with Dennis Stock? 
Not with photographers, but with journalists. When Twilight came out, there were a couple I got along with great. I remember when the first feature about me came out in a big British magazine, it was cool how that came about. The journalist and me went to a bar and got drunk (laughs) I can't do something like that anymore.

Is that something that annoys you? That you can't just simply go to a bar and see what happens? 
It's slowly getting possible again. When something is as massively hyped as Twilight people don't care for individual nuances or details anymore. Everything you say creates huge reactions, but it has really calmed down a lot.

Do you wear a disguise when you go out? 
No. A few weeks ago I decided I won't need to cover my face with a scarf unless it's cold. So I stopped with that and survived.

Sometimes your life seems like a soap opera. Do you also see it like that yourself? 
Yes, of course. I was always adamant that I won't talk about my private life, but that didn't make any difference (laughs). People would always make stuff up. I became a part of a story that was told by someone else and I could do anything about it.

Dennis Stock sacrificed a lot for his career. Do you sacrifice as well? 
Not really. I don't believe that Dennis sacrificed anything. He just told himself he did. In the end it's just about him and his fear of failing as an artist and so he looks for people he can blame for his failures. He doesn't think about his little son at all, only when he sees him as a burden. He is only focused on himself and waits for things to change and suddenly make sense, but that doesn't happen. He really is a tragic figure. If you look at recent interviews of him, you can see he didn't learn anything. At 80 he still complains of only being known for the James Dean pictures, but they are the only job he ever made money with.

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Robert Pattinson Talks About Shooting In Colombia, The Irish Weather, Being Called R-Patz & MORE In A Great NEW Interview With 'The Irish Times'

Robert Pattinson Talks About Shooting In Colombia, The Irish Weather, Being Called R-Patz & MORE In A Great NEW Interview With 'The Irish Times'

We're being spoiled today. Earlier we had the new interview with NME (click HERE if you missed that ). Now here's another great new interview with The Irish Times.



From The Irish Times:

Once best known as the undead teen Edward in the Twilight series, Robert Pattinson is slowly but surely reinventing himself – from broody cutie-pie to go-to leading man

Stormont may be in crisis and regional unemployment rates do not make for happy reading, but at least Northern Ireland can boast – albeit temporarily – one Robert Pattinson.

Last month, the former Twilight and Harry Potter star delighted two Co Down newlyweds when he agreed to join their wedding hooley. He also hit Cypress Avenue to mark Van Morrison’s 70th birthday, and has been deemed a most excellent sport when it comes to Belfast-based autograph and selfie hunters.

Even by Pattinson’s own account, the sun shines just a little more intently when he graces the northeast: “It’s been sunny every time I’ve been here,” marvels the heavily bearded young actor. “They tell me it rains. But I haven’t seen it.”(Kate: I am saying nothing. We all know Rob's effect on the weather. Rob is welcome to come and stay with me for 6 months ;})

Pattinson has decamped to Ulster with a purpose. Following in the footsteps of Game of Thrones and the incoming Dad’s Army reboot, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z is the latest major production to shoot across various Northern Irish locations, including Methodist College, Strangford Lough and Craigavon House. Not that Pattinson has spent too much time in these stately locations. “I have mainly been on the boat that’s falling apart,” he laughs.

The Lost City of Z charts the exploits of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city. In the subsequent years, as many as 100 explorers and scientists have gone missing while attempting to find evidence of Fawcett’s party.

MORE AFTER THE CUT

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Audio & Translation: Robert Pattinson Talks Selfie Faces & More To Deutschlandfunk

Audio & Translation: Robert Pattinson Talks Selfie Faces & More To Deutschlandfunk

Deutschlandfunk interviewed Robert Pattinson & you can listen the audio HERE. They've dubbed over it ;( but you can hear Rob ever now and then. The translation of it is below, thanks to Nicole.



Translation

Q: Is there also a photo of you which you would call “your Time Square photo?”
Rob: It is weird, because I have so many pictures taken, at premieres and stuff. There are singular photos which people want to have signed, and those are always the same. I can’t understand it, because it’s not my taste. I think, why this picture? I don’t know if there is THE ONE picture… I think I’m the wrong person to judge… And the James Dean picture was like a campaign, the pictures were staged in a certain way. They tried to show the lost soul–should he go back to the family farm or not? They wanted to show the inner conflict of the young farm boy and artist. Pictures of me are like covering every base possible… it’s like he’s a fourteen year old (laughs) or something… it’s kind of diluted a bit.

Q: Isn’t it annoying to be photographed all the time? 
Rob: I’m a lot more comfortable now than before. I don’t really know why. I guess when people have seen you a million times in a certain pose then they look through you. Either you stand there like a Madam Tussaud figure or you look just frightened, all the time. I try to avoid taking photos now.

Q: But sure now you know how to look to get a good photo? 
Rob: When I was younger I suddenly caught myself posing. Then I told myself to stop, it’s embarrassing.

Q: What did you know about James Dean? 
Rob: Like pretty much any actor goes through a period, I was a bit obsessed with him, when I was 16 or 17. Everyone in this age studies his body language, and then in a casting they all do James Dean, that is quite embarrassing. I didn’t read his biography or anything, but I watched a lot of his stuff.

Q: But then Anton Corbijn didn’t ask you to play JD, but Dane deHaan. Were you disappointed then? 
Rob: I mean, he is a very interesting person, it’s an interesting part, but Dennis stuck out to me anyway. The way the James Dean role was written he is very self confident. He knows that he will break through. But I never was one who thinks success is inevitable. When there are problems, I immediately think: ‘you won’t make it.’ Dennis Stock was full of fear, I can relate to that much more than a kind of free-spirited artist.

Q: We don’t know as much about Stock as we know about JD. We see Dennis Stock in a very unsatisfied situation, also in private life. What was the point you wanted to show? 
Rob: He is a quite negative character. He is an asshole. that’s what I loved about it. This is deceptive. Many people who want to be an artist are afraid, and fear holds them back from becoming the artist they want to be. And then they blame their wife and kid, and the city, because they are afraid they aren’t as good an artist as they think. That was Dennis’ personality, and I can relate to this. And then there is James Dean, and Dennis is so jealous. He’s living the life the way he wants to live it and he is fulfilling his potential as an artist. Dennis is like: ‘I don’t understand.’

Q: How do you cope with pressure and expectations for yourself? 
Rob: I go back and forth. People always say: ‘don’t listen to anyone.’ But obviously you have to listen to people. It’s a difficult balance. On the one hand, you are supposed to entertain people, and on the other hand, it can hurt you so much when the audience doesn’t like you. At the same time, you can’t do anything interesting without the fear. It’s a difficult balance.

One day you say, fuck it. The next: please love me! And without this pressure it would be boring. I don’t have a solution. Every time I take a new job I go crazy, everything in me breaks down, I get depressed and think I’m the worst actor ever. My dad says then, ‘I like you this way, it means you will be doing a good job’. But I can’t find the idea romantic that you have to pay with pain. I don’t understand it, it’s so weird. Because once you are working it’s fine, it’s fun. But the weeks before are awful.

Q: Maybe you don’t see it in your hotel room, but the fans are standing early in the morning at the red carpet to see you in the evening. I see similarities to James Dean, the hype, the screaming since Twilight- can you compare it? 
Rob: I see a difference. Twilight was one of the first movies where the distribution company saw the potential of the internet fanbase. They let them create the hype.

With James Dean it was that people wanted him to be their leader. That is the difference. In Twilight, the audience wanted to find themselves. Fans felt like a part of it. The James Dean fame - and that’s why the pressure was so much higher for him - people were looking at him for answers: ‘Where are you taking us, tell us how to live!’ Well, no one has asked me how to live at all!

Q: When did you realize what had happened to you? Twilight was just a movie but has caused such a hysteria…. 
Rob: I feel I was in sort of shock for four years. In the last two years I started to realize things slowed down a little bit. And I understood who I am and what I want. When I had signed for the Twilight sequels I knew it would take ten years until the next chapter of my life could start. And it feels exactly like that. It’s seven years now, things calmed down. I can go to the supermarket now. It’s amazing, the glorious experiences like going to McDonalds! (laughing)

Q: Maybe one day you’ll go to the supermarket and no one recognize you. Would you miss it? 
Rob: No. I never really found that much… I mean, it’s nice when people come to premieres, and if suddenly no one came, I’d wonder. I like my job and want people to see the movies. but the hysteria doesn’t fulfill me, on the contrary, it makes me nervous, I don’t need it. The only scary thing is when you get to a point where people still recognize you, but they just don’t care. (laughs) That’s the worst.

Q: Do you photograph yourself? I don’t mean selfies, I mean real photos. 
Rob: I don’t have a selfie face. There are some people who can take selfies, and they look really good, and then there are people with asymmetric faces, and depending on the side the picture is taken, they look like an idiot. That’s what I have. If not for this, maybe I’d be on Instagram and Twitter and stuff with my photos all the time. But because I don’t have a selfie face, it’s just, it’s not – I can’t be a part of it. (laughs)

We HAVE to disagree about the selfie face ;)

Little White Lies with Robert Pattinson on the cover have posted a review of Life online

Little White Lies posted their online review of Robert Pattinson's Life

Life is the story of two men pursuing their individual artistic callings against the grain of industry norms. Both Dennis Stock and James Dean died as glittering names in photojournalism and acting. But in 1955, when this film is set, neither was established.

“What do you see in him?” asks Dennis’ agent (Joel Edgerton). This drama takes place during the run-up to the premiere of East of Eden, the film that would make Dean a major-league movie star. Warner Brothers are hemming over casting him in Rebel Without a Cause, fearing that his quirks and honesty make him unsuitable for the studio’s star template treatment.

“It’s an awkwardness, it’s something pure,” is what Dennis (Robert Pattinson) sees in Jimmy (Dane DeHaan). He is dying to get away from the red-carpet beat. In Dean, is the potential material for promotion to his desired field of serious, cultural photography. So begins the slippery business of pinning down the evasive but disarming boy from Marion, Indiana. Languid, conga-playing farmboy Jimmy, wants a friend, not a photographer. He’ll invite Dennis out for jazz and Benzedrine, dismissing the matter of professional engagements.

Corbijn uses their motivations – as well as their clashes – to convey the dance that takes place in media-talent relationships. Sometimes the film jitterbugs into exploitation, at others it waltzes into harmony. Dennis has a growing impatience to go with his approaching deadline. Jimmy is annoying, intentionally and unintentionally. DeHaan ratchets up Dean’s rhythmic speech, evoking a self-conscious performance-poet tasked with a Ginsberg reading. His cherubic face is worlds away from the big handsome mug of history. Studied mannerisms morph beautifully into sincerity but the affectations jar.

Dennis is his opposite. He is curt and minimal, essaying a very controlled, clock-watching professional. Pattinson’s performance is as crisp as the white shirt and black suits his character always wears, camouflage for problems that add depth to the film as they settle into shape.

In his 2007 debut, Control, Corbijn plumbed his roots as a photographer to create a decadent monochrome. In Life, composed frames show a tactile recreation of ’50s America. Vintage motors, hand-painted shop signs and theatres proudly announcing ‘CINEMASCOPE’ are evocative but not ostentatiously so. The air carries a seasonal coldness that lends images a frosty elegance. Many scenes feature men barking into old ebony phone receivers.

The social backdrop is just as carefully wrought. In another film, Ben Kingsley’s fuming studio head, Jack Warner, would be The Other Man to Jimmy Dean and the tussle would be of maverick versus the studio, Saving Mr Banks flavour. Instead, Kingsley ball-busts just enough to give Jimmyʼs non-conformity gravitas, but the viewfinder is trained on the man behind the camera, Dennis Stock. As Life proceeds, Pattinson steps up, allowing more of his character’s insides to come out. The pace picks up and by the third act it’s a compelling dramatisation of an artistically and morally fascinating alliance.

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NEW Robert Pattinson Interview With 'The Times' (UK)

 NEW Robert Pattinson Interview With 'The Times' (UK)

It's a great read, grab a cuppa, get comfortable & enjoy.



Thanks Imogen for the scans and Nancy for the heads up

NEW Interview: Robert Pattinson's Advice To Young Actors Starting Out ~ " Take Good Care Of Your Mental Health"

NEW Interview: Robert Pattinson's Advice To Young Actors Starting Out ~ "Take Good Care Of Your Mental Health"

Another new interview with Rob. This time it's from Teleschau (Germany). It's similar to what we've heard before but some new parts as well. Enjoy!



Translation (Thanks to @Inthejungle83 )
 
Although the Twilight movies, that made him into a superstar, ended a while ago, the Londoner, Robert Pattinson is still one of the hottest British exports in Hollywood. In a smart move he, who played the vampire Edward, also did more sophisticated movies like Remember Me & Water For Elephants. Now in Anton Corbijn's LIFE he plays one of the lead roles. The movie tells the story of the relationship between James Dean and Dennis Stock. At the end of those intense days were the legendary LIFE pictures that contributed to James Dean's status of an icon. In the interview Robert Pattinson reflects on photographers and how he deals with the hype around him, with a strong cup of coffee filled with huge amounts of honey...

A strange mix you are drinking there....
I really like it! The spoon has to stand upright in the cup, then it's just right. Until earlier I thought drinking coffee with honey is healthier and then someone told me that honey is as harmful as white sugar and you also kill bees with it. Now I have a guilty conscience. Cheers!

You are often photographed by other people in your private life. Did you switch sides for your role in LIFE?
Dennis Stock hated being called a paparazzi. For him what he did was art and he worked very hard for it to be seen as art. For me he was a man that wanted to break through with his art and that art was photography. It was only during the shoot that I realized this was a movie about a photographer for Anton Corbijn, because he is a photographer himself.

Today it would be impossible to just walk up to a movie star like Stock did and ask him if he wants to be photographed...
Nobody asks you anymore, people just pull out their phones. In all seriousness though: back then you had to be a total pro in order to get good pictures and then you had to work to get them printed and distributed. The general atmosphere was very different back then: the people worshiped film stars and wanted to celebrate them. They loved looking at nice pictures in magazines. Today there is such an over-saturation of pictures and because of that the pictures have to become more and more extreme in order for people to look at them. A beautiful picture of a celebrity doesn't do it anymore, one has at least look drunk in it.

How do you deal with that?
It's still stressful for me, but it also depends on the overall mood. If you are in a good mood you don't really mind, but if you are in a bad mood it affects you more than it should. You run the risk of circling around yourself. You start to think, "How will I look in the next picture?", even when no one is taking a picture. It drives you crazy sometimes. Fortunately it has gotten a lot calmer for me.

That might be because of your beard...
Definitely (laughs) as a disguise it works well. I sat next to a hockey team on a flight, the beard didn't work so well then...

In the movie the Warner Studios try to create a certain image for James Dean. How about you?
It's still like that with the big movies.That's why I'm doing smaller productions, because it's a lot less pressure on the director and everyone who works on the movie. Everybody can be themselves and don't have to change. The hierarchy is rather straight and you can be sure that the final movie is the exact vision of the director.

Do you need to work or do you have enough money to retire?
Definitely not enough. But you don't become an actor to get rich.

Why else?
Hmmm I'm not so sure about that myself (laughs). During the Twilight movies I was doing other movies in between, because every time a new Twilight movie came out, it was like someone pushed the reset button. If you get famous as quickly as I did, your personal growth stops suddenly.I stopped growing at 22 back then and I was in shock for four years. It's different now. My personal and professional development path is slowly emerging. That makes me happy.

Would you wish your career start on younger colleagues?
Yes of course, it was amazing, but a little demanding psychologically. It only becomes clear much later though.My advice would probably be: take good care of your mental health.

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NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks About Working On Smaller Film Roles, Refusing To Do Media Training & MORE

NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks About Working On Smaller Film Roles, Refusing To Do Media Training & MORE

I'm so greedy, I want to hear the FULL audio from this interview. For now I'll just have to put up with reading it (and letting the little soundbite we have play on loop).

New this week, actor Robert Pattinson: "Everyone wants you to be so vanilla. It's so lame." Listen here or read the full story on our site. #RobertPattinson #Film #Actor #Vanilla

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Mr. Pattinson, are you disillusioned with your career?

I think a lot of actors get disillusioned and say, “Oh, I thought it was going to be one way, and it’s something else.” I never thought anything was going to be any particular way at all! You know, in the good times and the bad times, they’re all just new experiences. So I can’t really be disillusioned with anything because I didn’t have any expectations at all.

What about people’s expectations of you?

I’ve never really acknowledged people’s expectations of me. A lot of actors sort of fall into the job and feel like they’re going to get “found out,” like, found out that they’re a fraud or something like that. I think loads of people feel like that. I did a film with Anton Corbijn called LIFE where I played the photographer who shot those famous photos of James Dean and there are a lot of parallels between an acting career and a photography career.

Like what?

Both of them are almost entirely dependent on the material, especially if you’re doing stuff like taking photos of famous people and really talented people who are incredibly interesting and charismatic. As an actor, you want to be an artist, but you’re so dependent on everybody else! And even if you’re great in something, there’s only a few actors who the audience acknowledges that they were the reason something’s good. With a photographer, it’s very difficult to claim stuff, too.

As someone who has been hounded by the paparazzi more than most, was it cathartic to switch roles and play the photographer for once?

It was quite strange walking up to the Chateau Marmont as a paparazzi. It was very weird at the actual place. I don’t know if it was cathartic. Maybe it would have been if, because of him being paparazzi, he ends up getting beaten to death…

They’re just people, too.

Well… In fact, not at all. That’s probably why my character was so filled with self-loathing, because he’s a paparazzi. (Laughs)

When your career started off you had some trouble with photographers yourself.

When Twilight first happened, a lot of the franchise people at the time were under strict control by the studios and stuff, so they did it quite “kid-friendly.” And I think for the first few months I kept getting photographed, like, being drunk and smoking cigarettes and things. So I think that’s kind of why people said it was a bit different. But I think the landscape has changed so much. I remember even people like Colin Farrell and stuff. I guess when he was super wild, that was only seven years ago, eight years ago, but I don’t even think you’re allowed to be like that anymore.

Why not, what would happen?

If you do that now, you just don’t get employed. At all. Everyone wants you to be so vanilla! It’s so lame! So, everyone’s just like secret drug addicts instead. (Laughs)

Did you have interview training once you signed on to do Twilight to keep all of your comments vanilla?

Yeah, Summit put me in media training because I was doing too many stupid interviews. I just wanted to tell jokes and stuff and then they sent an email afterwards saying that I refused to cooperate with the media training! It’s my agent’s favorite email she got because she thought it was so hilarious that I refused to relent to the media training.

Would it be possible for you to still be friends with a journalist?

I think it works until you get to a certain level of fame. Before the first Twilight came out there were a couple of journalists who I got on with. They did good profiles on you and stuff and they’d kind of champion you for a bit. But I think if you do too many interviews, people aren’t interested in the nuances of what you’re saying. You’ve just said too much and you end up repeating yourself. The editors are like, “Get him to say something that makes him sound like an idiot or get him to say something controversial.”

That’s pretty much exactly how it goes for many publications, sadly.

Yeah and I think you can’t really be that close with a journalist when you can see them, like, needing you to say something bad for their own jobs. I know actors who have made deals with paparazzi and stuff – it always backfires. Always. Because, like, you just shouldn’t. As soon as you start throwing shit around, you’re going to get covered in shit.

Well, after Twilight ended you’ve been choosing to work with auteurs like Herzog, Cronenberg, Anton Corbijn, and James Gray on smaller projects where your exposure is a lot different.

The last few years I’ve basically done stuff just for the director. After working with Cronenberg on Cosmopolis it just opened stuff up. People approach you in a different way. And now I’ve done a few other things and it kind of just works on a roll, being able to work with these auteur-y kind of guys. It’s quite nice to do smaller parts, so the film doesn’t totally rely on what I do in it. I get to work with who I want to work with and it’s not my fault if it doesn’t make any money!

After working with a few of those directors, has there been a moment where you noticed the difference in how they work?

There was a moment at the end of The Rover. We had just wrapped and David Michôd was standing in the middle of the parking lot we were just shooting in. He looked sort of weird and was watching people packing stuff up. And I was like, “You all right?” And he said, “Yeah, I just think I’m only going to have like six more of these days in my life, so I just want to feel it for a second.” It’s so funny the difference between someone who is doing a job essentially for their next job, or somebody who has written it, produced it.

Someone who is going to devote several years of their life to it when it’s all said and done.

Yeah, you can feel it. It’s much more exhilarating and fun to try to fulfill someone’s dream. A lot of the time you’re working with someone and they don’t really know what they want and they don’t even necessarily want to do the job they’re doing. So you’re just trying to not drown and they’re panicking the whole time. It’s horrible. But with people who are confident and believe in their projects, it’s a completely different experience.

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PRINT: Robert Pattinson On 'Life', How Things Have Calmed Down & Working More In The Next 4 Years

PRINT: Robert Pattinson On 'Life', How Things Have Calmed Down & Working More In The Next 4 Years

This interview with Unicum sounds very similar to the Morgenpost interview we posted a few days ago but the last few questions are different. It looks like they had a roundtable (possibly at Berlinale).



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PRINT: Robert Pattinson Talks To Morgenpost (Germany) + Full Translation

Another new Rob interview this time with the German Morgenpost. We're being spoiled with all the new interview. Keep 'em coming I say.



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Thanks Nancy for the heads up.

FULL TRANSLATION Of Robert Pattinson's NEW Interview With Elle Magazine (France)

FULL TRANSLATION  Of Robert Pattinson's NEW Interview With Elle Magazine (France)



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New Robert Pattinson interview now translated

The new Robert Pattinson interview with Jolie magazine has been translated.  We posted the quotes here but the full interview has now been translated. 

 

Bye-bye, vampire! The Briton has an appetite for new roles. But do not worry: he is as sexy as ever Curly hair, bedroom eyes and a couple of three-day stubble on his face - as shown in the photo on the right, that’s how you know Robert Pattinson. But to the interview in Berlin, he appears with a handsome hipster beard. An attempt to escape the Twilight fans undetected? No, laughs the 29-year-old, the beard is for his new movie The Childhood of a Leader. And says: -We are just through with the shooting, but maybe I leave the beard for a while. Somehow I like it…. This days , however, Robert is on the screen as clean-shaven as in his best vampire days to see. And that even twice: on the side of Nicole Kidman in Werner Herzog’s desert epos queen of the desert and as a photographer of James Dean in Life.

Jolie: Your new films have nothing to do with the Twilight- romances, with which you got famous. How difficult was it to leave the old Edward behind him?

Robert Pattinson: Very difficult. But So I’ve expected it. My agent had then warned me that it would certainly take a decade until I could take the next step in my career. And I’m afraid he was right. Now seven years have passed, and I realize now that my life is slowly changing a bit. This frustrating feeling of having somehow lost control and just trying to stay afloat in the hustle and bustle, is thankfully gone. And not for nothing I look now for completely different films.

Has it been no fun at all to be a teen idol?

Yes, of course. That was all incredibly exciting. most amazing was the year between the end of filming and the theatrical release of the first Twilight film. I was able to enjoy photo shoots and travel because no one knew me then . And when it really started , even that was not only exhausting. Suddenly I came in clubs where the doorman had sent me away half a year ago . Also, I was luckily already 21, so not so young that the excitement would have derail me. And I could even drink alcohol in the US!

How did you manage it, not to loose the ground?

I’ve always had the feeling of having to prove myself as an actor, as a star, as a human being. This might have kept me more on the ground. Although I have often wished I had a bigger ego - then I might have been able to enjoy the bustle a bit more.

Do you have a lack of self-confidence?

Well, someone who voluntarily stands in front of a camera needs to have a bit self-confidence. Nevertheless, I am also shy. And a little control freak. Not the best combination for an actor, because the control has indeed the director …

Since the beginning of the year you’re engaged with your girlfriend FKA twigs. Can you also imagine to become a father?

In any case, although I still do not know when. Therefore, I was so attracted by the role in LIFE. At my age, you do not get so many chances to play a father - and certainly not one who leaves his family in the lurch. Personally I imagine it different, of course.

Could it be difficult for a child to grow up with such a famous father?

I don’t think so .. Sure I will have a child who is totally cool and confident. He or she will probably look at me every day and think to yourself: Actually Why is this guy such a funny, quirky oddball?

 

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"I'm Sure I'll Have A Child That's Totally Cool & Confident" ~ Robert Pattinson talks About Having Children, Playing A Father & More

"I'm Sure I'll Have A Child That's Totally Cool & Confident" ~ Robert Pattinson talks About Having Children, Playing A Father & More 

UPDATE: Scans of the full interview added below

Some great new quotes here from Rob, where he talks about being an actor, what his kids might be like and playing the part of a father in Life.
These look like snippets from what I'm hoping is a much longer interview with German magazine Jolie. We'll pop up the full interview when it surfaces.

Hearing Rob talking about being a father and seeing him play one on screen turns me into the biggest puddle. He'll make such a great Dad someday.





From TV3 Xpose:

Robert Pattinson wishes he had a bigger ego.

The star rose to fame playing Edward Cullen in the vampire franchise Twilight, which landed him countless teen fans and a high-profile relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart.

His shy nature often made it hard for him to cope with the attention, making him wish for a bolder personality.

"I've always had the feeling I need to prove myself: as an actor, a star, a person," he admitted to German magazine Jolie. "That might be how I've managed to keep my feet on the ground. Although I've often wished I had a bigger ego - maybe it would have helped me cope with all the things around me."

Among the things he's had to deal with was his very public breakup form Kristen, when it emerged she'd cheated on him with married director Rupert Sanders in 2012. Now he's happily engaged to FKA Twigs can even imagine starting a family with the singer.

But will his children find it hard to grow up in the spotlight?

"I don't think so. I'm sure I'll have a child that's totally cool and confident," he grinned. "He or she will probably look at me every day and think to themselves: 'Why is this guy such a weird, crotchety man?'"

Robert, 29, had the chance to try his hand at fatherhood in Life, even if his character is a questionable example. It's a drama about a photographer for Life magazine, who's asked to shoot pictures of James Dean.

"At my age you don't often get the chance to play a father," he explained. "Especially not one who leaves his family in the lurch."

UPDATE: Scans of the full interview thanks the Nicole2dogs. We'll add the translation as soon as it's available ;)

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson Being Interviewed By 'Scoop By Raya' At The 'Life' Press Junket

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson Being Interviewed By 'Scoop By Raya' At The 'Life' Press Junket

It looks like this interview with Rob has aired so hopefully we'll have video of it for you soon. Until then check out these cute pics.

Hello Mr Sexy Boots



And lucky Raya got a hug!



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VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Talks About Dennis Stock, His Career & More In A NEW Interview With Einsplus

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Talks About Dennis Stock, His Career & More In A NEW Interview With Einsplus

Ooooh 6 mins of Rob, just what I need!


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NEW Interview: Robert Pattinson Talks New Projects, Fifty Shades Of Grey & More

NEW Interview: Robert Pattinson Talks New Projects, Fifty Shades Of Grey & More

This is a great interview with Rob(& no translating required!) He talks about future projects (Brimstone), mentions Fifty shades of Grey and beng more productive. Grab a cuppa and have a read!

Robert Pattinson, who is at the Berlin film festival with Anton Corbijn’s ‘Life’ explains why he can’t sit through premiere screenings and talks about his past, his future and his connection to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 9, 2015) (REUTERS) – It was the morning after the night before for British actor Robert Pattinson as he attended a press junket on Tuesday (February 10) after he launched his new movie, Anton Corbijn’s ‘Life’ at the Berlin film festival.

However, unlike the other people on the red carpet, Pattinson didn’t sit through the screening of the film.

“I actually didn’t watch it last night,” he admitted.

“Because after Cannes I literally I got so…I feel like I lost a few years of my life watching a screening, just sitting there with your heart just wrenching inside your chest. I just can’t do it anymore so I’m going to watch it like, probably tomorrow. So yeah, I don’t know what the reaction is. I’m just kind of, in a trance the entire time, but yeah, it seemed like people appreciated it. There was a nice applause and stuff.”

Pattinson first came to public attention playing the ill-fated Cedric Diggory in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ in 2005. However, it was in 2008 that he exploded on the scene playing Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’.

Asked whether he had any idea what the reality of fame was going to be like before ‘Twilight’, he replied:

“I don’t know what I thought it was going to be. I mean, it’s weird, I still feel like I’m doing the same stuff. I mean, I guess up until ‘Twilight’ I was really just auditioning for absolutely everything and just trying to get anything so I guess that’s a sort of different career but I mean, afterwards it’s so rare that I find anything that not only that I like but that I feel like I can add something to or do at all, so it’s really trying to find anything to do.”

“It always surprises me when a script comes and I’m like, “oh!”. I just signed onto this thing ‘Brimstone’ – it’s just a small part in something but I was so surprised that this part that…Like I really, really had an idea of how to do it and I’m always like ‘Oh, where has this idea come from?’ I’m always surprised that I had any idea at all so yeah, it’s kind of a strange career,” he added.

The next big film after Pattinson’s ‘Life’ at the Berlin film festival will be the world premiere of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, starring Jamie Dornan. Strangely, the author of the bestseller is reported to have based the book on the film ‘Twilight’, and therefore cult hero Christian Grey is based on Pattinson’s portrayal of the vampire Edward Cullen.

“It’s kind of weird and also I know Jamie really, I’ve known Jamie for about ten years, as well, so… I mean, I think… I haven’t actually read the book but like, I think it must be very, very different. I don’t see how it can work if it’s not different. It’s amazing, it’s that fan base. She…They’ve…There’s some kind of profound connection that a bunch of people have to it and I’ve never figured out, you know, quite what it is. But you can see this, even at the premiere last night this woman that has been coming for years to premieres and stuff. It’s just very strange,” Pattinson said.

Pattinson has been a regular at European film festivals over the past few years, choosing roles which are far removed from Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’. However, while the ‘Twilight’ fan base is still there and in Berlin girls camped out from early in the morning of the premiere to try and meet their idol, Pattinson said it has “calmed down”.

“I used to be, I used to just let it really, really get to me and I’ve kind of become a lot more calm recently. Also, I’ve spent more time in London and it’s completely different in London. It’s like, if someone asks for a photo in London and you say ‘no’, it’s not like…. A lot of the time, in L.A. especially, people are like ‘Why?’, you know, like: ‘Really? You want me to explain why? I’ll just do a photo, then.’ In London, people don’t really so it’s kind of different but yeah, it definitely has calmed down,” he said.

Although he didn’t want to comment on where he would be in ten years time, he did admit:

“[I]n the next few years I know just after last year like two of my movies kind of, one fell apart and the other one got pushed to this year and I ended up like, kind of just waiting for a job for ages and I was just like, ‘okay, I need to be, I’m never having a year like that again. I’m going to be a lot more prolific in my productivity rate’. Cause I think it’s suddenly getting up to 30 as well and you’re just like ‘argh! I need to do loads of stuff!’ So I’m definitely going to be much more productive.”

‘Life’ was screening at the Berlin film festival as part of the Berlinale Special selection.

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VIDEO: NEW 'Life' Press Junket Interview With Robert Pattinson At The Berlin Film Festival

VIDEO: NEW 'Life' Press Junket Interview With Robert Pattinson At The Berlin Film Festival

Another new interview from the Life Press Junket in Berlin. Loving all the new interviews. Keep 'em coming.