NEW BTS PIC: Robert Pattinson On The 'Queen of The Desert' Set With Werner Herzog & Michael Jenn

NEW BTS PIC: Robert Pattinson On The 'Queen of The Desert' Set With Werner Herzog & Michael Jenn

The Queen of The Desert Twitter account shared this great new BTS set pic of Robert Pattinson and Michael Jenn taking direction from Werner Herzog.



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"Pattinson Is A Very, Very Smart, Very Well-Educated & Intelligent Young Man" ~ Werner Herzog

"Pattinson Is A Very, Very Smart, Very Well-Educated & Intelligent Young Man" ~ Werner Herzog

With Queen of the Desert having it's American Premiere at the AFI Fest this week The Daily Beast spoke to Werner Herzog where he spoke a bit about the movie and mentioned working with Robert Pattinson. Not surprisingly he had very complimentary things to say about Rob:

"He cast Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence before fully grasping how huge the Twilight franchise was.

“I only realized that wherever I showed up in Morocco there were screeching teenies,” he smiled. “Pattinson is a very, very smart, very well-educated and intelligent young man. When he says things in the film, they’re always credible. You see you don’t just have a pretty face. It was a pleasure to have him around. A good comrade, as well.”"

Read the full interview over at The DailyBeast
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Celebrating 7 Years Of ROBsession

Celebrating 7 Years Of ROBsession



Today we're celebrating 7 years of ROBsessed. They say time flies when you're having fun and that's never more true when you're talking about ROBsessed. 

We want to say a big thank you to YOU, our readers. You make this blog what it is. Thank you so much for coming back multiple times a day to check what Rob is up to, to check what other ROBsessors are up to, and to see what the crazy bloggers posted this time. Without you we would just be 5 lunatics laughing at our inner thoughts. We hope we bring a smile to your faces everyday. This blog is our happy place and we hope it's yours as well.

Thanks to the man himself, Rob. For being the talented, witty, big hearted,  gorgeous guy that he is. And for being the special guy who brought us all together. A lot of great friendships have been formed over the years and it's all because of our mutual love for Rob.

Following Rob the last 7 years and seeing what he has achieved (to date) has been one heck of a ride and makes us even more excited to see what's in store for the next 7 years (and beyond.) 
We'll be here every step of the way and hope you'll be here to join us!

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Ok onto our Birthday Giveaway. Below you'll find all the answers you should have come up with for our 9 questions! Did you get them all right?

Answers:
Part 1: 2008
Who infamously got Rob to talk about his hair on Jay Leno, leading to years of speculation that Rob doesn't wash his hair?
Hedi Klum



Part 2: 2009 
What red carpet film premiere did Rob attend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009?
Inglorious Bastards
 
Part 3: 2010
What was Rob doing in Budapest?
He was filming Bel Ami

Part 4: 2011
How was Rob immortalized in 2011?
Hand and Footprints at Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Part 5: 2012
What did Rob say about ROBsessed?




Part 6: 2013
Name the biggest thing that happened for Rob professionally in 2013? 
Dior

Part 7: 2014
Besides his list of auteur directors Rob grew something else in 2014.
We want to know, what did Rob grow?
A Moustache

Part 8: 2015
What remote island did Rob visit that's rumoured to be sinking?
Maldives

Part 9: Bonus!
Based on domestic release and including film festivals, from 2008 to the end of 2015, name all the characters Rob has played in his films.

Art ~ How To Be
Salvador Dalí ~ LIttle Ashes

Richard ~ The Summer House

Edward Cullen ~ Twilight
Tyler Hawkins ~ Remember Me
Jacob Jankowski ~ Water For Elephants
Georges Duroy ~ Bel Ami

Eric Packer ~ Cosmopolis

Rey ~ The Rover
Jerome Fontana ~ Maps To The Stars
T.E. Lawrence ~ Queen of The Desert

Dennis Stock ~ Life

Charles Marker ~ The Childhood of A Leader

AND The lucky winners ARE.......................

Grand Prize: GOG
GOG wins A Rob film DVD or Bluray of your choice, An unofficial 2016 Rob calendar Novel from the Robert Pattinson Book Club or our ROBsessed Friday book giveaways, A ROBsessed button & A ROBsessed fridge magnet.

Runner Up: Nere Gurutxeta
Nere wins a choice of the calendar or book & A ROBsessed button

5 additional winners: Damla Kiziltoprak, 
Ray Of Sunshine, 
Lisa Vielhauer, 
Елена Багаева, 
Bru

They each get 2 ROBsessed buttons

CONGRATULATIONS!
We will email each of you soon to get your mailing details!

Screening Date & Time For Robert Pattinson's 'Queen of The Desert' At AFI Film Festival

Screening Date & Time For Robert Pattinson's 'Queen of The Desert' At AFI Film Festival

As we told you a few days ago  Robert Pattinson's Queen of The Desert will have a special screening in LA as part of the AFI Film Festival, now we have a time and date.

It screens at the Egyptian Theatre on 11/08/2015 at 8:45 p.m.

Robert Pattinson's 'Queen Of The Desert' Special Screening At The AFI Festival

Robert Pattinson's 'Queen Of The Desert' Special Screening At The AFI Festival 

The American Film Institute announced today that a special screening of Robert Pattinson's Queen of The Desert would be part of the line-up for it's festival which takes place November 5-12.
More details of screening times etc will be available on Wednesday.

AFI FEST has also revealed today its Special Screenings section, which will feature 45 YEARS (DIR Andrew Haigh); ANOMALISA (DIR Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, AFI Class of 2006); CAROL (DIR Todd Haynes); LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT (DIR Rodrigo García); THE LOBSTER (DIR Yorgos Lanthimos); MACBETH (DIR Justin Kurzel); and QUEEN OF THE DESERT (DIR Werner Herzog).

The full festival lineup and schedule will be unveiled on Wednesday, October 21. The 29th edition of AFI FEST will take place November 5–12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood.

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NEW Promo Image For 'Queen Of The Desert' Featuring Robert Pattinson

NEW Promo Image For 'Queen Of The Desert' Featuring Robert Pattinson 

Altas Distribution the US distributors for Queen Of The Desert shared this great new promo pic for the movie featuring Robert Pattinson alongside Nicole Kidman along with a NEW official twitter for the movie.



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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 About James Dean's Positive Influence On Dennis Stock & MORE To Elle (Italy)

PRINT: Robert Pattinson Talks About James Dean's Positive Influence On Dennis Stock & MORE To Elle (Italy)

Elle magazine (Italy) spoke to Rob while on the set of Life. I've used google translated to translate the interview (and I tweeked the bits that sounded a little off) so it does actually read ok, but if a better translation comes out in the meantime I'll update it.

After seeing Life yesterday I love that Rob mentions one of the scenes that I found most poignant in the movie. I thought Rob captured Dennis' awkwardness and insecurities perfectly and I can't wait for the dvd to come out so I can rewatch to my hearts content. I wish a cinema nearer to me was showing it so I could go a few more times but I'm delighted I got the chance to see it on the big screen ;)



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Robert Pattinson is back in cinemas on October 8 with the film Life, by Anton Corbijn dedicated to James Dean, cinema legend who died exactly 60 years ago in a car accident. The actor became famous as a vampire in Twilight, however, did not take the role of the legendary Jimmy (playing him is Dane DeHaan), as widely expected, but that of photographer Dennis Stock, who in 1955 - the year of the stars death - snapped a series of photographs for Life magazine and immortalized James Dean as no one before him had done. Anton Corbijn is dedicating the whole movie to the relationship of trust that exists between the two: to speak in more detail about the film is Robert Pattinson, in this exclusive interview during the filming of the movie.

Dennis and James. A photographer on the verge of bankruptcy and an artist on the front page. Tell us about the dynamics of their friendship.
The story of the two has a very original dynamic. James Dean is a character so sympathetic and Dennis, however, is not always so. There is a time for me, that sums up their diversity fully. There's this scene where James Dean is playing with his cousin, and Dennis just says, 'I do not know how you can do it.' In essence he is saying 'I do not understand what they're trying.' Dennis had a son, of course, but does not love him and that's just awful. He is perpetually filled with the negativity, so full of anxiety, to the point of being irritating. I can not think that there are such people, you can not believe the fact that they say about not being able to love. It's kind of horrible, but in its being is a tragic character too charming. And as I said the dynamic between them is very interesting.

James Dean is a myth. Have you ever had an influence on your career?
I have long admired his work. I believe that in 16 years a lot of actors have had their 'James Dean' stage and for most of them, the important thing is not to interpret the role but become part of the myth linked to him - and I also experienced one of the two phases. He is certainly still an icon but Dane (DeHaan) would be able to answer that question better than me because he's more tied to James Dean, his figure, the myth.

Would you be interested to play the part of James Dean?
Oh no, absolutely not (laughs) Dane did a great job.

How did it go with Anton Corbijn?
Working with Anton Corbijn has been a great honour and his first film Control (about the life of Ian Curtis, leader of Joy Division), was the reason why I decided just to accept the part. I loved the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed Anton's style and I knew that LIFE would have followed the same path.

With the camera instead?
To practice better, I took some pictures on the set of LIFE and the other films that I was shooting The Queen of the Desert where I play with Nicole Kidman. So for a few months I took a number of wonderful horrifying pictures with a 1953 Leica M1. It was the staff of Dennis, but the same pattern. It should be a model came out some time before that of Stock. It's beautiful, and it works perfectly. I think that will never break. "

Who was Stock?
Dennis was always worried that everything went wrong. He felt haunted by the possibility that the public would not follow him, they were not on his side. But at the same time, I thought he was a completely current. It's the story of someone who is trying to become an artist, and the fear of not being able to achieve his dream is the saddest part of his life and demoralizing. Dennis is the kind of artist who is so fearful of not being at the height of his profession that he would use excuses for anything. When Jimmy sees for the first time, it's fun because it has just that effect is undeniable. Being in contact with someone who is reaching his potential is very good to see. Relating to James Dean and all that was happening to him, also allowed Dennis to believe a little more in himself.


Do you believe, therefore, that James Dean had a positive influence on the photographer?
Absolutely yes. Sometimes you just need a little encouragement and the fact that Jimmy told him 'These are fantastic' while showing him pictures showing him, for him was a huge source of pride. I think at that specific time Dean has shown clearly and paved the way for Stock. Jimmy was regarded as a true artist who has had a profound impact on his life. And so, when Jimmy gave his approval, well, that's all you need sometimes - this is all you need to start believing in yourself. And I think that's what happened. For Dennis, the meeting with Jimmy was fundamental and has changed his life and certainly his work.

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A new print interview with Robert Pattinson via Szene Hamburg

Berlinale is the festival that keeps on giving! Another new print interview with Robert Pattinson, this time from Szene Hamnurg.  It is similar to other interviews you've already seen here but has some new information. Rob talks filming in -40 weather and avoiding frostbite!



SZENE HAMBURG: A talk with Robert Pattinson
During the Berlinale we met the actor, who talked about his new movie LIFE, bad fathers, and photography as art and frost bite on fingers.

What was it like to play a photographer under the direction of a legendary photographer like Anton Corbijn?
(laughs) Luckily I didn’t really see Dennis Stock as a photographer in the beginning. For me he was someone who wanted to be an artist but wasn’t sure if he had what it takes to be an artist. I had the feeling that the camera was a means for him to express himself.

How did you work with the camera? Did you only pose with it or did you really use it?
The great thing was that I got the camera a couple of months before we started shooting. It was loaned to us from the Leica museum and it’s the same camera Dennis Stock used. There aren’t many original old cameras left, but they are great and I used mine extensively.

What did you photograph?
I started doing the Werner Herzog film 'Queen of the Desert' right after that and I couldn’t stop taking pictures of the location. I took hundreds of pics of the sets and Marrakesh. I didn’t really do it seriously or because of the movie, but more because it was fun. I figured I could ask Anton how to use the Leica correctly later, but he couldn’t really help me with that (laughs)

But he did show you some tricks, didn’t he? I mean he has to be the best teacher for that.
That’s what I thought, that he would show me how to hold the camera and move it, but Anton told me that I needed to understand the camera myself. Eventually I understood him because he is a different photographer than Dennis Stock was. Anton loves photography, he likes moving on the sidelines and observe everything as oppose to Dennis Stock, who acted more like a painter. Stock wasn’t only focused on his counterpart but also on himself and he was looking for validation. He didn’t really enjoy his role as a photographer because he wanted to be more extravagant.

Is that the reason you were interested in the role?
To be honest the first thing that interested me was that he was a bad father. Usually at my age there aren’t many father roles to play and in this one the father doesn’t love his kid and doesn’t understand why. There is this beautiful scene where James Dean is playing with his nephew and Stock is watching them and wracking his brains how Dean can be so natural and loving with a child. That broke my heart. Another thing is, that everybody thinks that someone like that is an asshole and I thought it was exciting to present him more likable despite of that. Contrary to that Dennis Stock’s pictures are full of feeling.
You can really see that, in his own way, he really loved James Dean. He couldn’t really tell him that but it seems like Stock put a crown on James with the pictures. At the same time bitterness and jealousy also shine through those pictures and one could also see the influence James had on him. I love Stock’s pictures from that era, the jazz musicians whose pictures showed how much he admired them. I think photography was a way for him to show his love for others.

Did the role change your view of photographers that follow you all the time?
Not really. Even if a photographer wanted to be paparazzi back then, it wouldn’t have been easy without a lot of knowledge and skills, especially trying to use the flash (laughs) Apart from that people like Dennis Stock had a different aspiration to photography. They were searching for a new imagery and they wanted to present people in a different light. They want them to vibrate and discover new sides of them and the reader’s wanted that as well. Today one doesn’t really need to do a lot to push the release and paparazzi are kind of trying to humiliate people. It’s as if they don’t really like what they are doing themselves and so they look for the bad things in others. I don’t really understand it and it’s annoying.

Is that really Anton Corbijn standing on the red carpet playing a photographer in the movie?
Yes, that’s him and he used more takes for his scene than any other in the movie (laughs) He would say ‘Oh I didn’t do that right’ and we shot until 10 am. It was crazy.

Is James Dean still important for young actors today? Is he still a role model?
I still remember when I was 16 and he was one of my idols. Everyone knows the picture on Times Square and he was the ideal model of understatement. When I started acting I was very timid and I didn’t want to overact. I wanted my acting to be more like his: calm and full of feelings that he was able to internalize.

Was there a James Dean scene for you in the movie?
Yes, especially where the staying calm is concerned (laughs) we shot the scenes on Dean’s farm in Toronto and it was -40 degrees and I really couldn’t understand how one can shoot outside in that cold. The camera froze to my fingers and I had to stand in front of a heater to get it off my fingers. We were really close to getting frostbite and I started to get annoyed, but then I was over that and I got really calm.



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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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NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks To The Observer Magazine About Fame, Life, Internet Trolls & MORE

NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson Talks To The Observer Magazine About Fame, Life, Internet Trolls & MORE  

Another great new interview along with some fantastic quotes from Anton Corbijn about Rob.



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Robert Pattinson Featured On The Cover of 'Les Inrockuptibles' & FULL Translation

Robert Pattinson Featured On The Cover of 'Les Inrockuptibles' & FULL Translation
UPDATE: Added scans from the mag after the cut. Will update with a translation of the interview as soon as one is available
UPDATE 2: Full Translation added after the cut

Rob is featured on the cover of 'Les Inrockuptibles'. There's a small preview of the interview featured in the magazine below. We'll pop up the full thing as soon as it's available ;)





Magazine Scans & FULL Translation After The Cut

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WATCH: Robert Pattinson & Nicole Kidman In A New Clip From 'Queen Of The Desert'

WATCH: Robert Pattinson & Nicole Kidman In A New Clip From 'Queen Of The Desert'

I can't wait to see this without the dubbing! Rob should never be dubbed over.

SCANS & TRANSLATION: Robert Pattinson In 'In Style' Magazine Germany

 UPDATE: Added scans from the magazine below (Thanks to Nicole)
 UPDATE 2:  Full Translation added, after the cut (Thanks to @WelkeLaura)
Robert Pattinson is on the cover of the German In Style magazine's Autumn issue.  It looks like there will be an interview and hopefully some more great photos of Rob.



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Gorgeous NEW BTS Pic Of Robert Pattinson In Uniform On The Set Of 'Queen Of The Desert'

Gorgeous NEW BTS Pic Of Robert Pattinson In Uniform On The Set Of 'Queen Of The Desert'

What is it about a man in uniform and especially THIS man in uniform!? Check out this great new pic of Rob with Director Werner Herzog and co-star Christopher Fulford.

I enlarged it for a better look (until we get it in a bigger size:))



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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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NEW PIC: Robert Pattinson Behind The Scenes On 'Queen of The Desert'

NEW PIC: Robert Pattinson Behind The Scenes On 'Queen of The Desert'



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Robert Pattinson playing in the dirt! New HQ Still from Queen of the Desert

New HQ still from Queen of the Desert, so many stills! 

Who wants to play in the dirt with Rob?



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READ: Robert Pattinson Interviews Jamie Bell For 'Interview' Magazine

READ: Robert Pattinson Interviews Jamie Bell For 'Interview' Magazine

The August issue of Interview Magazine (with Justin Beiber on the cover) features an interview that Rob did with Jamie Bell.
If you want to order it online Newsstand will have it in stock from July 28th HERE or keep an eye out for it in Newsagents!
Until then have a read of the interview below ;)

From Interview Magazine:

When, at only 13, Jamie Bell leapt into the collective consciousness with his debut role in 2000's Billy Elliot, the young dancer from Northeast England had no idea what was to come. In the 15 years since, Bell has both grown up and quietly amassed a very mature body of work, partnering with some of the most inventive directors in the biz, from Steven Spielberg (The Adventures of Tintin, 2011) to Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers, 2006), and Peter Jackson (King Kong, 2005) to Cary Joji Fukunaga (Jane Eyre, 2011), among others.

Of late, Bell has gone bigger and bolder, playing a sooty rebel in Bong Joon-ho's 2013 postapocalyptic train thriller Snowpiercer and, that same year, doing dark comedy as a coke-y cop in Filth, adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel. Last year, Lars von Trier enlisted the actor to explore his dominant side as a sadist-for-hire opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg in Nymphomaniac: Volume II; and Bell has also dabbled in the prestige TV drama, with AMC's Revolutionary War espionage thriller Turn: Washington's Spies, which recently wrapped its second season.

This month, Bell, 29, is going full superhero, as the massive rock warrior Ben Grimm, a.k.a. Thing, in Josh Trank's update of Fantastic Four, with Miles Teller, Kate Mara, and Michael B. Jordan. But as he tells his buddy and fellow English expat, Robert Pattinson, connecting the dots in Bell's wide-strewn Hollywood career hasn't always been so clear.

JAMIE BELL: How's it going, mate?

ROBERT PATTINSON: I'm all right. I spent the day prepping for this interview.

BELL: I expect fucking Charlie Rose. [both laugh]

PATTINSON: Let's not talk about any of your work. Let's only talk about your personal life. Your crack usage. Who are you fucking? Okay? What's your earliest memory?

BELL: That's a good question. I don't have one. My memory is fucking vague from when I was a kid. I remember having a Batmobile. It was a replica from the Tim Burton movies, and it fired these yellow missiles. I remember there wasn't a lot of sun in northeastern England. So there was one day in history when apparently it was sunny, and my mom was outside on a deck chair or something like that. I remember firing the missile and it hitting her foot. That's as early as I can remember. I don't even know how old I was. After that, it was basically the ballet barre; everything else, I'm wearing tights. I remember playing around my grandma's house. My sister was always in dancing class and stuff, so I was dropped off with my grandma a lot, picking vegetables. My grandfather makes wine, so I tasted his wine occasionally when no one was looking.

PATTINSON: Were you performing? Were you a drama kid?

BELL: Once I started dancing, when I was 6, all that stuff opened itself up to me, I guess. I did take part in a lot of school plays. I did local pantomimes in Billingham and in Middlesbrough. To me, it was amazing. After that, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. There's a song in Pinocchio [1940], "An Actor's Life for Me." I had no idea what the song meant; I just remember the melody of the song and thinking, "Oh, that's a fucking cool song. I don't know what an actor is." Then I figured out what an actor was. I was like, "Oh, wait! You get to be somebody else all the time." That was intriguing. But, yeah, I was a theater brat as a kid. I knew all the words to Les Mis and all that shit.

PATTINSON: Did Billy Elliot feel like a big movie when you were making it?

BELL: It did for me, because it was my first one. I had no reference. It was the circus that comes to town, a hundred crew members standing in the street, looking at you to do something. But I think for everyone else, for the producers and stuff, it was kind of a mini-movie that they didn't expect to do very much. Now that I think back on it, that was a really small movie—small crew, very contained. So what happened after was just crazy. It changed everything.

PATTINSON: When did you move to America?

BELL: I first started coming here around 17, 18. I made Billy Elliot, and then I had to finish school, and then everything was moving along so quickly that by the time I came back, everyone had completely forgotten what I'd done or who I was. Obviously, I'd changed as well. I wasn't 13 years old anymore. I was this adolescent, spotty kid, sitting in exec's offices. It was like, "Who the fuck is this kid?" [laughs] "Why is he in my office?"

PATTINSON: You were a child actor then, but you seemed to have an incredibly specific idea of what parts you wanted to do. Looking at the chronology of your movies afterwards, they're all very interesting parts. They're movies that I would be choosing to watch now, like Dear Wendy [2005]. What was your thought process in choosing parts after Billy Elliot?

BELL: I didn't have any thought process. I just had people, representation-wise, who just had better taste than I did. [laughs] I've had the same manager going on 16 years now. I've had the same agent going on 15 years. They've always had good taste, slightly left field, less mainstream, really into filmmakers, specifically. I was a kid. I didn't really know who Thomas Vinterberg was. I didn't know who Lars von Trier was. I didn't know anything about the Dogma 95 movement. All these new people that I'd been introduced to really opened up a wider version of what cinema was and is. In my mid- to late teens, while finishing school, I started watching all these movies and going, "Oh, wow." I got heavy into Terrence Malick and directors that moved a little slower and concentrated on different things. I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting. It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

PATTINSON: Do you see your body of work assembling itself when you look back at the movies you've done?

BELL: Not really. Someone described my movie career like a pinball machine. [both laugh] They were like, "Oh, you did Tintin. What do you do after that? You went for Nymphomaniac. That makes sense! You did work in an adaptation of an Irvine Welsh novel, fucking girls and doing blow." Trying to find continuity in it is tricky. Another actor pointed this out to me on a movie a few years ago. He said, "You're always playing orphans. I don't think I've ever seen you play a character where you have both of your parents." It's kind of true. I always read scripts, and it's like, "A character looks at a picture of his dead mom." I'm like, "Oh, dead mother—there you go!" I'm always kind of surprised that I managed to keep working as much as I have. But it's weird. It's an odd collection of work, isn't it?

PATTINSON: I don't know if I would say the orphan thing, but if I was to describe your spirit animal, it would be a very excitable lamb. [both laugh] Or a little baby goat. You're furiously beaten by the farmer, but just keep running back. To segue to Fantastic Four, the great thing about Thing is that you don't have to remember your character name or the name of the movie.

BELL: That's true. But, you know, he does have a name, Rob. His name is Ben Grimm. The other benefit is that you won't see my face at all.

PATTINSON: I won't see you?

BELL: Oh, no, you will. He's a human being before he turns into Thing. But there is certainly something about the anonymity of the character that is kind of intriguing. I like that. I think your anonymity has been somewhat jeopardized. [both laugh]

PATTINSON: But for any sequels, we're never going to see your face ever again?

BELL: There is potential. There's stuff in the comic books where Miles Teller's character, Reed Richards, develops technology where he can be changed back. My question, to filmmakers and to audiences around the world, is would they want that? It's unlikely. But it's possible.

PATTINSON: Do you even turn up on set? Is it totally animated?

BELL: Oh, no, I have to do it on set. We use performance capture, which is the same technology that Andy Serkis was a pioneer in the use of to create characters like Gollum, or Caesar from the Planet of the Apes movies or King Kong. I've worked with Andy a bunch since we did Tintin together, so I've seen how he's really harnessed this technology and used it to his advantage to create these lasting characters. I mean, I would consider Gollum to be a piece of cinematic history in popular culture, the same way Star Wars characters are. After my experience of seeing him work on Tintin and King Kong, I really saw how he could immerse himself in these characters. I was really excited by the idea of using the same technology and coming up with a character that could have a lasting impression, that an audience could connect with. I also think the idea of me playing that role, a six-foot-eight rock creature, was kind of bizarre. As you know, I'm a five-foot-seven, rather squat Englishman. All of that combined was kind of interesting.

PATTINSON: Do you have a job that you've been most proud of?

BELL: No. I don't really enjoy watching any of my work at all. It's useful, because you get to see what mistakes you think you made and what choices didn't quite work out the way you wanted them to. But at the same time, it's such an excruciating experience because it's final. You can't do anything about it. So the process of rewatching it becomes so pointless. To get me to sit down in a screening, you almost have to nail me to the fucking floor. I just never want to watch anything. I'm proud that I'm still working. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

PATTINSON: What job was the most satisfying to make?

BELL: I enjoyed my time when I worked with David Gordon Green [on Undertow, 2004]. It was satisfying because his approach to directing and with actors was so different from what I had been used to. The process of doing it was fun and experimental. And it was the first time I was playing an American. I had to do an accent to embody a character from the South. That was fun. That did feel fulfilling and satisfying. But, you know, that was fucking over ten years ago.

PATTINSON: And since then, zilch.

BELL: [laughs] I always enjoy myself! I work really fucking hard. Whenever I'm there on set, I always really try my best. I always put everything into it. I really enjoy the process. It's just that when it comes out, I'm always like, "Oh, God." I get so skeptical all of a sudden.

PATTINSON: What's the best piece of advice anyone's ever given you?

BELL: Probably always be yourself. I am quite unashamedly Jamie all the time. I think that definitely helped even in terms of sanity—not in terms of career, just in terms of keeping your head, especially when you start so young. I get asked a lot in interviews, you know, "How come you're not, like—"

PATTINSON: Crazy?

BELL: "In rehab or anything?" I probably should be. The pitfalls of child actors ... It was drilled into me when I was a kid: "You have to be you, and you must be the best version of yourself." I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

PATTINSON: Why do you think you're not crazy? [both laugh] I mean, you are a little. It's a strange trait for actors not to have, but most of them don't have a lot of humility. I find that you're one of the most humble people I've ever met. It's unusual.

BELL: I don't know. I think my demons are my demons, and we all have them, and we work on them. But, I'm always impressed with people. I'm always impressed that other people are not as crazy as I would expect them to be, or more grounded, or more human than I anticipated. I'm constantly surprised by people. When you see people who could so easily be a dick or full of themselves or not giving of their time or their attention or whatever, I'm always reminded to be humble and have humility. Because it's a great trait. It reminds me that I need to do the same.

PATTINSON: The lost humble orphan lamb: Jamie Bell.

ROBERT PATTINSON IS A BRITISH ACTOR WHO WILL NEXT BE SEEN IN WERNER HERZOG'S QUEEN OF THE DESERT AND ANTON CORBIJN'S LIFE.

MOVIE NEWS NEW ROLE: Robert Pattinson to Star in 'Good Time' Directed By The Safdie Brothers

MOVIE NEWS NEW ROLE: Robert Pattinson to Star in 'Good Time' Directed By The Safdie Brothers
Fantastic news today, The Hollywood Reporter announced an exciting new role for Rob. He'll be starring in Good Time directed by Josh and Benny Safdie. In a recent Reddit Q&A (HERE) the directors have spoken about shooting this fall .

Check out all the details below and also what The Film Stage & The Playlist are saying



From The Hollywood Reporter:

Robert Pattinson will star in neo-grindhouse caper Good Time, which will be directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.

The indie film centers on a bankrobber's flailing efforts to evade the dragnet closing in on him. Pattinson will star as Connie.

Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein wrote the script for the film, which will be produced by Sebastian Bear-MCclard of Elara Pictures.

The Safdie brothers, who recently signed with WME, are indie filmmakers whose most recent project, Heaven Knows What, is currently in theaters. The critically acclaimed film following a young heroin addict (Arielle Holmes) who finds love in the streets of New York was released by Radius-TWC. It previously won the C.I.C.A.E Award at the Venice Film Festival and also played at the Toronto Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

The directing team's previous indie projects include Daddy Longlegs, which played at both the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; the doc Lenny Cook, which followed a star high school basketball player and played at Tribeca and Venice before airing on Showtime in February 2014; and their debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, which premiered at SXSW in 2008 and also played at the Cannes sidebar Directors' Fortnight before airing on IFC.

Since starring in the vampire franchise phenomenon known as Twilight, Pattinson has focused his efforts on interesting indie roles. He's worked with esteemed directors including David Michod (The Rover), David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars) and Werner Herzog (Queen of the Desert). His upcoming films include The Childhood of a Leader and The Lost City of Z with Sienna Miller and Charlie Hunnam. He's repped by WME and 3 Arts.

The directors also shared their excitement on twitter :



From The Film Stage

Few actors coming off the global recognition and financial clout provided by a record-breaking franchise have been able to do so with as much discernment as Robert Pattinson. Films from David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, Anton Corbijn, and David Michôd are under his belt — and James Gray and Harmony Korine collaborations in the works — and we now have another to add to the forthcoming slate.

THR reports that the actor will lead Good Time, the next picture from Josh and Benny Safdie, who are coming off one of the year’s best films, Heaven Knows What. Described as an “indie neo-grindhouse caper,” it follows a “bankrobber’s flailing efforts to evade the dragnet closing in on him.” Although no additional details are made available yet, we assume Pattinson’s character, Connie, is the bank robber.

It’s scripted by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, and they’ve previously noted there are plans to shoot this fall, presumably after work on James Gray’s Lost City of Z wraps up. 

From The Playlist

Robert Pattinson is yet again signed up to work with auteur talent, and I have to say, the prospect of this one sounds pretty great.

Filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie made waves with their addiction drama "Heaven Knows What" and it has attracted the right attention, with Pattinson signing up for their next film, "Good Time." Described as a "neo-grindhouse" flick (I'm already halfway sold on that alone), the actor will play Connie, a bank robber to tries to escape as a dragnet beings to draw closer and closer. That premise sounds perfectly like the stuff of B-movies and I'm intrigued to see how the Safdies tackle that kind of material.

No word on when it might shoot, but presumably it'll have to wait until Pattinson has wrapped James Gray's "Lost City Of Z" which starts shooting later this year.

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