Cosmopolis Promo Roundup: New Robert Pattinson photos and interview - "Sometimes craziness is a good thing"
Rob is on George Stroumboulopoulos this evening and the show
tweeted a teaser picture to get us excited. As if we aren't excited already for anything with Rob but this picture is too cute.
An article came out from Cannes with new quotes from Rob. They crack me up because I have a really bad cough. It's lingering from a cold I had weeks ago and now I think if I was in a movie with Rob, he'd beat me down. Eek!
From
Toronto.com:
CANNES, FRANCE—Robert Pattinson swears he can tell how people are
enjoying his movies by how many coughs he hears from the audience. He employed this unique gauge at the May 25 Cannes Film Festival world premiere of Cosmopolis, his new movie directed by David Cronenberg.
“I watched it at the screening last night, but I wasn’t even watching,” Pattinson, 26, tells a roundtable of journalists. “I was just listening for every cough: Please don’t cough! Please don’t cough!” (Tink: See! Rob would not be ok with me in his screening.)
He seems awfully nervous for one so successful. He’s the lead star of the Twilight
franchise, playing moody vampire Edward Cullen, a role that has made
him famous and rich. Pattinson also had a small role in another big
film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He’s neither new at this game nor naïve. Could he really suffer from self-doubt?
“Oh, completely,” he says, sucking on a lollipop for sustenance. (Tink: Jesus...)
“I want that the whole time. Even for
this screening. I was pissed off about everything, completely worried,
incredibly stressful thing. But my manager was like, ‘You’re not happy
at all?’ No, no, people are all coughing! They’re coughing because
they’re bored!
“It’s f---ing crazy. Coughing! It’s all I can think about. But I like that. You’ve got to burn. As soon as you start thinking you’re good, you’re s--t. So yeah, it’s an annoying way to live, but yeah.” (Tink: note to self - drink Robitussin in the theater if Rob is there.)
He’s equally candid about his doubts whether to accept the lead role of Eric Packer, the 28-year-old billionaire in Cosmopolis who goes off the reservation for a day-long Manhattan odyssey in a white stretch limo.
“It seems complicated on the page
(Don DeLillo’s book and Cronenberg’s screenplay), and I thought making
the decision whether to do it or not seemed like the only difficult part
of it.
“Could I actually do it? I didn’t
know. David offered it to me and I didn’t know. I know it’s really good,
and it’s Cronenberg, so it’s really cool. But on the other side, you’re
in every scene, so if you f--- it up, you f--- up the whole movie.” (Tink: He so didn't f--- it up.)
So here Pattinson is at the Cannes
Film Festival, holding court with ink-stained wretches, and actually
seeming to enjoy himself while doing so. Maybe it’s because no one is
coughing. It helps that his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, his vampire love on-screen and real one off-screen, was also in Cannes, presenting her own new film, On the Road. The two walked the red carpet together. Pattinson hasn’t always been this wound up. He got that way after Twilight launched millions of teen sighs — and shivers.
“Yeah, because no one cared before (Twilight).
It’s easier now to sell things to people, but afterwards, it’s weird.
If everyone thinks something is good, you’re the one who thinks it’s
s--t. If everyone is saying it’s bad, you’re like, ‘That’s the only time
you think it’s good. You’re the only one that thinks it.’”
These feelings were intensified for him at Cannes, because Cosmopolis was competing for the Palme d’Or, the fest’s top prize (it didn’t win).
“Normally you wait for reviews or
whatever, but when you’re presenting it to a (potentially) hostile
audience, it’s crazy. Not knowing the whole time whether or not people
will boo . . . and you have to sit there. I was talking to David before
the screening, asking him, ‘Instead of an ovation, could they do a
20-minute booing thing?’” (Tink: Forever cute. Forever paranoid.)
Cronenberg calmed him down. But the
director obviously picked the right man to play Eric Packer, who doesn’t
seem to know how to relax. He’s constantly in full fidget, even while
sitting stock still in his limo. Pattinson realizes this, and it’s why he liked the role.
“There’s a constant energy there. You
want chaos to happen. He doesn’t know the answers. It’s like a really
young adolescent thing: There has to be something else! The longer you hold on to that, it gets crazier and crazier. Sometimes craziness is a good thing.” (Tink: Sometimes...*side-eyes some crazy people*)
Except when people are coughing.
The next thing we have is 4 older stills now in HQ! This pleases me because just look at him...
*gibberish*
Click for HQ
These were in MQ before and now they're in HQ. Yay us :))
Our last Cosmopolis roundup tidbit is an interview with Rob from the Portugal press junket.
We don't have video but click
HERE to watch. Rob's interview isn't dubbed and it's around 16:00 and 17:20. David Cronenberg's interview is in between the two Rob parts. Rob talks about liking the curiosity of David watching what Rob was doing and more. The overall Portugal coverage for Cosmopolis begins around 8:20
Stills:
eOne | Portugal: via
SpunkRansom | Photocall:
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