NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson - "I feel more confident now but want to keep improving and evolving"

NEW INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson - "I feel more confident now but want to keep improving and evolving"

As thoughtful as ever. You'll enjoy this interview with Rob reflecting on his craft, himself, and the film, Life.

Yahoo Singapore, Robert Pattinson, "I had a lack of self belief": EN Interview 1 - Ever since the Twilight films turned him into an object of mass attention, Robert Pattinson has tried to find his way clear of fan obsession and make his mark as a serious actor. Films like Cosmopolis and Bel Ami helped distance audiences from his vampire alter ego, and now, in Anton Corbijn's Life, Pattinson gives what is arguably the best performance of his career. The 28-year-old heartthrob plays Dennis Stock, the photographer whose iconic photos of James Dean during the last months of his life have sustained the actor's legend even more than his films.

"James Dean is very much an iconic figure to me," Pattinson says. "He represents disaffected youth and alienation in a powerful way that still resonates with us. Those photos of Dean, like the one where he is walking in Times Square, are much more part of our image and impression of him than his films. You can feel his aura and mystique in those photos."

It was an ironic choice of roles for Pattinson who was able to experience what life is like on the other side of the camera lens: "When you're on the red carpet, it's an eerie experience because you don't see the photographers because you're blinded by the lights and flashes most of the time! As a photographer, you get to hide behind your camera."

One of the hottest films at the recently concluded Berlin International Film Festival, LIFE explores the parallel lives of James Dean - played by Dane DeHaan - and Dennis Stock (Pattinson) while the latter was on a road trip taking photos of Dean as part of an assignment for Life Magazine, one of the most popular magazines of its era. The photos subsequently became the stuff of legend and posters that young people would put on their walls as a symbol of youthful rebellion and cool.

Pattinson not only understood something of how James Dean must have felt when his career skyrocketed within a very short time in Hollywood, but also how today's stars - Pattinson included - are so overexposed that they lose all mystery.

"People didn't know that much about Dean's private life and those photos that Stock took of him had so much more impact and meaning than anything you could imagine today," Pattinson muses about the work of the photographer who passed away in 2010.

For director Anton Corbijn, the film also has a deeper meaning in that before he became better known as a filmmaker, he achieved considerable fame for his NME photo shoot of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis shortly before he hung himself. Like Stock did with his photos of Dean, The images of Curtis taken by Corbijn have in their own way amplified the legend of the fabled singer and Corbijn subsequently directed the film Control which depicted Curtis's dark and difficult life.

Wearing a fairly lush beard and looking pleasantly disheveled, Robert Pattison was greeted by adoring crowds during his stay at the Berlin festival. He was wearing a grey Armani jacket and jeans for our chat at the five-star Hotel de Rome.

In addition to Life, audiences will see Pattinson play Col. T.E. Lawrence in Queen of the Desert, a film starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Werner Herzog.

THE INTERVIEW
Q: Robert, it must have been inspiring to play an iconic photographer like Dennis Stock?  

PATTINSON: His photos have played a huge part of our collective consciousness of James Dean and the myth that still surrounds him 55 years after his death. Almost everyone has seen some of those photos and so many people including myself have been influenced by our image and perception of Dean and how he represents disaffected youth. Dean is still one of the key figures who represent a kind of defiance and rebellion and someone who felt the confusion of being young and not wanting to conform or stick to the rules. There are very few photographers who have been able to capture that kind of mystique the way Dennis Stock did. 

Q: How did you relate to Dennis Stock and his work as a photographer?  

PATTINSON: What fascinated me was that he was an artist who was struggling with living up to his own expectations of what he should be doing as an artist. He doesn't feel he's accomplishing enough or doing the kind of work he wants to be doing. I've spent a long time dealing with the same kind of issues and trying to attain goals that I've set for myself and wanting to do the best work possible. I'm still very driven to do work that challenges me. 

Q: Did you go through a James Dean phase in your younger days?  

PATTINSON: (Laughs) I think almost every actor has a moment in their live when they are either obsessing over James Dean or trying to imitate some aspect of his personality or his acting style. I was a fan of his even before I wanted to become an actor. We all want to look as cool as he did although it's pretty much impossible! (Laughs) I admire his work greatly although I don't think I'm anything like him and I wouldn't dare to compare myself to him. 

Q: Would you have wanted to play Dean yourself?  

PATTINSON: No! I wouldn't have dared. And I think Dane (DeHaan) does a brilliant job. 

Q: What kind of research did you do to prepare for the film?  

PATTINSON: Anton (Corbijn) showed me a taped interview with Dennis Stock in which he was very rude to the interviewer. He was always a very complex figure and he had a lot of anger inside because he was very ambitious and wanted to make his mark as an artist. He was very jealous of other artists.
I also spent several months learning to use a camera and work with cameras the way a professional photographer would use them. I took a lot of photos and practiced the kind of movements a photographer makes while working. For a photographer, the camera is basically an extension of his body and he hides behind it while he's taking photos. 

Q: Dennis Stock was very conflicted about his work. Were you the same way?  

PATTINSON: I've suffered from a lack of self-belief. You worry that you're just faking it and people will start to see through you. So that fear keeps me going and inspires me to take on as many challenges as I can. I was making things much more difficult for myself by constantly worrying about my work and then I started to realise that I just had to simplify my approach and let my instincts take over. I feel a lot more confident now but I still have enough doubts that make me want to keep improving and evolving as an individual and as an actor. 

Q: This kind of movie addresses the issue of celebrity and how an actor becomes larger than life. You've experienced that with your work as Edward Cullen in the Twilight films. How have you transitioned past that part of your career? 

PATTINSON: It's become a lot easier as the years have gone on. It's not just that it's been a few years since the last Twilight, it's also that I've become a lot better at handling the attention.
One of the interesting things about the film is that it deals with how someone like Stock can block himself and stand in his own way because of his fears and jealousies. He wanted to be seen as an artist in the same way that Dean was and this was a complex issue for him. I've also dealt with my own anxieties in terms of what I wanted to achieve and my own artistic goals. 

Q: How do you feel that process is coming along? 

PATTINSON: I feel like I'm where I want to be. I don't feel frustrated anymore by the legacy of Twilight and the fact that I've been identified with my work in those films. I knew that it was going to take some time before people would be able to see me in a different way and that I would have to play a lot of different roles to shake up people's expectations of me. It's normal because of the massive success of those films. But in the long run I've tried to benefit from the attention I gained and find as many interesting roles as I can. I think people are beginning to see me differently now. 

Q: Has there been any one film in particular that's helped you feel that you're on the right track in terms of your career? 

PATTINSON: I was kind of drifting and unsure of what kinds of films I wanted to do until I did Cosmopolis with David Cronenberg. He offered me the role out of nowhere just a few weeks after I had finished the last Twilight film and suddenly I was thrown into this incredible story and playing a very complicated character. That changed my perspective and I knew that this was the kind of work that I wanted to do. It made a huge difference to me. 

Q: Is it easier being Robert Patttinson now? 

PATTINSON: (Laughs) I don't know... but I'm having a lot more fun now. You need to get past all the things that are holding you back and then everything starts becoming a lot easier in general.

NEW: Robert Pattinson talks about Brimstone, the Harmony Korine Project and MORE

NEW: Robert Pattinson talks about Brimstone, the Harmony Korine Project and MORE

Translation by Eileen (via RobsPromotion and robsfootsteps):
DE VOLKSKRANT interview with Rob at the Berlinale by Floortje Smith, February 12th 2015: EX TEEN IDOL

Actor Robert Pattinson is used to the Red Carpet, where he, thanks to the Twilight series, was often waylaid by teenage girls. Now he plays a Red Carpet photographer in Anton Corbijn’s LIFE.

One of the first things that director, Anton Corbijn, did after he had cast Robert Pattinson was to put a camera in his hands. In the role of Dennis Stock, photographer of the international photo press bureau Magnum, the camera, he thought, had to become a part of his body. He had another reason: Pattinson had to feel how it is to be behind the camera instead of being in front of it.

The role that Pattinson plays in the new movie of Anton Corbijn, that got a special Gala Screening at Berlin, feels a bit like the world is upside-down. In the movie the world star and teen idol stands in between the photographers at the Red Carpet where in real life the 28 year old actor is waylaid by photographers.

Life is about the complicated relationship between the relatively unknown David Stock and the Hollywood star James Dean. Stock did an iconic photo shoot with Dean in 1955. He is the man behind the world famous picture of James Dean on Times Square in which he walks straight at the camera huddled in a dark coat, cigarette in his mouth. Stock met Dean (played by Dane DeHaan) just before his big break. A photo shoot could help both of their careers, he reasoned.

Pattinson felt an immediate connection with Stock. ‘A tragical figure really’, he says in a hotel room in Berlin. Would it have not been more logical for Anton Corbijn to have him cast as James Dean? If someone knows how it feels to be famous from one day to another it’s him. Because of his role as Edward Cullen in the fantasy film series Twilight his life changed into a chaos of screaming teenage girls and paparazzi.

“Still it cannot be compared”, emphasizes the actor. “People look at James Dean as if he is some kind of spiritual leader: tell us how we should live. They never saw me like that.”

Life is set in the weeks before the premiere of James Dean’s debut movie ‘East of Eden’ (1955). Everybody predicted that he would become world famous. The actor realizes that ‘everything around it’ is just as important as acting and that the studio has him in its claws. It suffocates him. That is something Pattinson doesn’t recognize: “We had no idea that Twilight would become so successful. Only the week before its release we saw a growing interest on the internet.” When the craziness exploded Pattinson found it all very surrealistic. “I had no expectations of what would happen, so I didn’t get disillusioned as Dean did. I see it as a door that opened, I didn’t know what was on the other side, but I was curious and took a look. Later I realized that “oh, this is not going away”. The door closed behind me.

Now three years after the release of the last movie the craziness is diminishing. In the movies he is now, he plays small roles, like the role of T.E. Lawrence of Arabia in ‘Queen of the Desert’ by Werner Herzog or the limo driver in Cronenberg’s ‘Maps to the Stars’. According to Anton Corbijn this is where the connection with his role as Stock is. Because Pattinson became popular at such a young age, he now wants to prove himself, says Anton Corbijn. That he plays a photographer who wants to prove himself is an interesting parallel.

In his career Pattinson makes wayward choices that turn out well. If everything goes well with the financing, he will be seen in movies of cult-director Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Trash Humpers) and James Gray (We Own the Night, The Immigrant). Pattinson is a huge huge fan of their work. “They were the first directors I personally approached when I noticed that the scripts I wanted to do where not offered to me, so I decided to contact the directors I admire myself.”

This week the news has been released that Robert Pattinson will be in the western-thriller Brimstone by the Dutch director Martin Koolhoven. "The story is fantastic; I have an idea how I want to do it. It's a dangerous role, but I can't say much about it. And the cameraman is the same one as in in 'Rundkop' and I think that movie is fantastic."

In the meantime Koolhoven is getting crazy of the messages he gets on Twitter from Pattinson fans worldwide. It is hard to imagine all these teenage girls watching a Harmony Korine movie. Pattinson: “I do not know very well what my fans like. I remember that I had to film a scene (????) with Don DeLillo (the 78 year old author) and he was ambushed by 15 year old girls that wanted him to sign their books. Great. If even only one of them read the book, I have the feeling I did some good.

EIGHT DAYS ON A CAMEL
During the Film Festival in Berlin Robert Pattinson can also be seen as T.E. Lawrence in Werner Herzog’s ‘Queen of the Desert’. A small, but challenging role: with the same role in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ the actor Peter o’ Toole wrote movie history. During the press screening there were laughs when he first appeared on the screen with the famous keffiyeh on his head. "Eight days on a camel that is about the only thing I remember. If the role would have been bigger, I would not have done it. Werner Herzog made T.E. Lawrence into a funny person. Also I do not look like the real T.E. Lawrence at all."

IMPORTANT NOTE: When in a personal mail Floortje Smith (reporter) is asked about some details, she replies: “He is very cute and nice. Good in Life as well. I’m very curious of what he is going to do next.” She listened to the interview tape again and said: “He said that you never know with small movies you can only be sure when you are on set, but he really really wants to do these movies.” About the Korine project: “That is apparently happening too, but I mean… people… different cast and the budget suddenly changes and all that stuff. But I love the movie. It is great and my part that is completely insane as well.”

Source: DE VOLKSKRANT Via

Production Notes For Robert Pattinson's 'Life'

Production Notes For Robert Pattinson's 'Life'

With the Berlin Film Festival about to start the Production Notes for Life have been released.
They're an interesting read and include some great quotes from Rob and also some very complimentary quotes about Rob from his co-stars, director and more.
Grab a cuppa and make yourself comfy! 



Telefilm Canada, Film4, Screen Australia, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Present

LIFE

In association with FilmNation Entertainment, Corner Piece Capital, Entertainment One, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Cross City Sales

A See-Saw Films, First Generation Films, Barry Films Production

A Film by Anton Corbijn

ROBERT PATTINSON

DANE DEHAAN

JOEL EDGERTON

ALESSANDRA MASTRONARDI

STELLA SCHNABEL

and BEN KINGSLEY

Directed by ANTON CORBIJN

Screenplay by LUKE DAVIES

Produced by IAIN CANNING EMILE SHERMAN CHRISTINA PIOVESAN

Produced by BENITO MUELLER WOLFGANG MUELLER

Line Producer STEVE WAKEFIELD

Executive Producers TESSA ROSS MARK SLONE MICHEL MERKT

Executive Producers MARK ROBERTS SHELDON RABINOWITZ ROSS JACOBSON

Director of Photography CHARLOTTE BRUUS CHRISTENSEN

Production Designer ANASTASIA MASARO

Editor NICK FENTON

Music by OWEN PALLETT

Hair Designer VINCENT SULLIVAN

Make-up Designer DONALD MOWAT

Costume Designer GERSHA PHILLIPS

Casting by LAURA ROSENTHAL

Canadian Casting by JOHN BUCHAN C.S.A. and JASON KNIGHT C.S.A.5

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ROBsessed Giveaway: Have a DANGEROUS ALLIANCE for Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Have a DANGEROUS ALLIANCE for Fiction Friday!

Happy Friday and we're going to welcome back an author we featured last year around this time, Kyra Davis! We even got a chance to interview her before and you know we asked her about how hot she thought Rob was.



Lookin' pretty hot there, Rob! Her answer is ROBsessed approved. ;)
The interview occurred when we held a giveaway for Kyra's novel, JUST ONE NIGHT, as well as the first novel in her Pure Sin trilogy, DECEPTIVE INNOCENCE. The second book from the trilogy came out at the end of last year (Dec. 30, 2014) and we have 2 copies to giveaway! Click HERE to spark your memory for the synopsis of the first novel and here's the synopsis for the second novel, DANGEROUS ALLIANCE:

The beautiful, angry Bell has revenge in her heart and Lander Gable in her sights. She's seduced her way into his arms with the intent to destroy his wealthy family. But now that she's there, lust and passion have begun squeezing out that desire for vengeance. It's a dangerous game Bell is playing, and sex, mystery and lies are the most intriguing game pieces of all.  

In Book One, Deceptive Innocence, Bell's mother dies in prison while serving time for a murder she didn't commit and Bell has been focused on one thing: revenge. She knows her mother was set up by the Gables, a powerful family who was either protecting themselves or a business interest from criminal charges. Now she's determined to take them down - from the inside. And the best way to get to them is through their youngest son, Lander.  

Dangerous Alliance continues where Book One left off. Bell has learned that Lander is a man with secrets of his own, through, and that he's not a particularly big fan of his Gable family. Still, will he be an ally, or just her secret lover. 

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FanFic Friday

I'm in ficbo. And when I'm in ficbo, I reread my all time favorites. I'm also in need of more Vampward. So that means I reread a fic I think I read every season. I'm certain I've mentioned it before but it just has everything I love in an Edward and Bella and then some. So I'm rereading Bronze while I search for something else to match my mood. Some fics you wish the characters just never end. Speaking of which...
Deep In The Heart Of Me is the WIP that owns. It's weird....the longer it gets, the more I feel like it's going to end and I get twitchy but it doesn't seem like it's ending soon and I'm happy about that because I don't EVER want to have Tonio leave! *cries* Clearly the story has me discombobulated. I know I'm not alone. Fingers crossed for an update soon! Counselor seems to always catch these shoutouts so maybe she'll have mercy on this needy reader and give us an inbox alert we're all ready for. *refreshes inbox all day, every day*

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New/Old Photos: Robert Pattinson in Maps To The Stars and during The Rover LA press junket

New/Old Photos: Robert Pattinson in Maps To The Stars and during The Rover LA press junket



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I finally got to see Maps To The Stars last week during it's award qualifying run - which proved to be successful since Julianne Moore scored the Golden Globe nomination they were seeking.

I loved it. It was an enjoyable satire on the absurdities in Hollywood. Extra'd out in some cases...or maybe not. ;)
I'm not a fan of Rob being in small supporting roles. It's torture. He was great as Jerome and I wished we had more scenes with him. But alas, it was not Jerome's story and it's up to Rob what roles he takes. My role is to buy tickets and see the movies. I'll gladly support the film in February when it's officially released as well. But the struggle is real with these mini roles.

Here are some cute shots that make you smile from PromoRob during The Rover LA press junket

 

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James Marsh Chats About 'Hold On To Me' & How He Was Excited To Work With Robert Pattinson

James Marsh Chats About 'Hold On To Me' & How He Was Excited To Work With Robert Pattinson



So Tink went to a screening of 'The Theory of Everything' last night (which in case you didn't know is directed by James Marsh).
There was a Q&A afterwards and after introducing herself as a fan blogger for Hold On To Me she got to have a little informal chat with him about the movie.

Here's what went down (in her words):

"I got a chance to speak to James Marsh tonight about Hold On To Me. I went to a screening for The Theory of Everything and I spoke to him after his Q&A finished. I shared my disappointment that the film was stalled and he felt the same. It was great to talk to him and see him light up about the story. He said he was so excited to have Rob and Carey on board and because they're all British, they were going to have such fun with the dark humor of the story and this subversive look at American culture. He also said they had Adam Driver for the other role - the main guy with Carey's character.

Unfortunately what happened is the typical story with indies. Money. It couldn't be secured and JM was very bummed about this because he loves the story so much and was baffled they couldn't secure financing in time when he had Carey and Rob locked in for a period. TPTB balked at Adam Driver but JM and I both exchanged a look at that, saying and where is he now (Star Wars, Emmy nominee, etc). So basically the convo was both us going ugh and that sucks and this would have been amazing...in so many words. More eloquent but sometimes a good UUUUGH gets the point across. While I didn't have a large attachment to the film since Rob's role was pertinent but small, I was personally bummed the film didn't get off the ground after seeing how enthused JM was for the project and for the actors. And my high regard for him coming on the heels of watching a wonderful film and hearing a diverse and intelligent discussion afterwards. I'm disappointed Rob didn't get a chance to work with JM since we know he wanted to and it's clear why. The way JM was talking - it sounded like he's keeping hope alive for the story because he loved the script so much but I was left with the impression the cast would be different.

I hope Rob gets to work with JM like he wanted to. Maybe it'll be a different project at a different time. If it's meant to be for Rob, it will be."

So there you have it. I think we all pretty much knew at this stage that it wasn't happening since there hasn't been any movement or news about it in a while. It's a pity, but what will be will be. We know that there are great things ahead for Rob and we're so excited to follow him on his journey every step of the way.

ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win AFTER in a worldwide giveaway for our Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win AFTER in a worldwide giveaway for our Fiction Friday!

It's another fun romp in the fiction world. This time with a British fellow. We're certainly not opposed to British fellows, are we now.



AFTER by Anna Todd was once fan fiction, racking up a billion readers online. That's crazy successful! This is the published novel of her story and the kind folks at Simon & Schuster provided us with a couple books to giveaway to our readers. The book is the first in a series, just released in October. The following books release this month (AFTER WE COLLIDED), December (AFTER WE FELL) and around Valentine's Day next year (AFTER EVER AFTER). But we have to start at the beginning with AFTER...

Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. 

With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to. But he’s also rude—to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does—until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss, it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. 

He’ll call her beautiful, then insist he isn’t the one for her and disappear without a word. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper. Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin’s prejudice about nice girls like her? Unless . . . could this be love?

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ROBsessed Giveaway: We talk to Christina Lauren about SWEET FILTHY BOY, DIRTY ROWDY THING and of course Robert Pattinson for Fiction Friday

ROBsessed Giveaway: We talk to Christina Lauren about SWEET FILTHY BOY, DIRTY ROWDY THING and of course Robert Pattinson for Fiction Friday

It's our last giveaway for the one-two punch of SWEET FILTHY BOY and DIRTY ROWDY THING!

Last week, we revealed some fun info from Christina Lauren about Finn and Harlow's look and the rest of our interview with the ladies is here!

Q: Fan casting is fun. Who have you fan casted for Harlow and Finn? Or who have you seen others suggest? 

Christina Lauren: Ooh this is a good one but our answer is going to be a cop out—but wait! With good reason! See, it’s really hard to find an actress who fits Harlow. Harlow is half Spanish, half Irish-European mutt, so she has darker hair and skin but light brown eyes. In our mind her face is very Emma-Stone, but she’s more golden, darker-eyed. Finn is similarly tricky for us to cast. But since it’s a Rob site, we can totally confide here that if Rob put on about 30 pounds of muscle, he could rock the role.

Q: What's something you loved from SFB that DRT doesn't have and vice versa, something you love in DRT that SFB doesn't have? 

Christina Lauren: In Sweet Filthy Boy, we had an entirely new city and culture to explore—Paris—because Mia follows Ansel back to France. It was amazing to write because it totally transported us, and there is an atmosphere to the book because of it that feels . . . different than our other books, for a lack of a better word.
Dirty Rowdy Thing takes place in San Diego and, for a very small portion, on Vancouver Island in Canada. One thing we have in DRT that we adore is the tender family dynamics, and close bonds between Harlow and her family. There was one sweet scene between Mia and her mother in SFB, but for the most part, the family was absent. In DRT, family is very much a central focus, and maybe for that reason the words just flew from our brains while we were drafting. 

Q: Harlow is super fun and saucy. When you developed these characters, what did you like about Finn that made him the match for Harlow? 

Christina Lauren: We’ve heard from a bunch of folks already that Harlow is hands-down their favorite of our characters to date, and this makes us giddy. Her flaws are right at the surface (i.e. she’s meddling and loyal to a fault—that combination gets her in trouble) but there are many things about her that women can relate to now, or remember from their early twenties. She’s smart, but underemployed. She’s watching people around her figure out what they want to do and for her it isn’t yet the most important thing. Most of all, she’s genuinely young. We don’t mean in years, we mean in experience, and when you’re at that point in your life, just because that may be true doesn’t mean you recognize it. Readers can go on this journey of discovery with her, and it’s why Finn really was perfect for her, because he’s older and although he’s had fewer options in his own life, he’s wise enough to be patient with her youthful stumbles.
They also have a bit of a Chloe-Bennett dynamic, too, in that Finn wouldn’t do well with a woman who didn’t stand up to him. And Harlow would never settle for anything less than equal partners. 

Q: I saw what's up next for you guys with the series (Dark Wild Night) and the return to the BB series...which will loop in a Wild Seasons character...it's the literary Marvel Model. Do you have a grand plan that goes 15 years down the road or does the world expand naturally from story to story? 

Christina Lauren: We just finished writing BEAUTIFUL SECRET, which is the fourth full-length Beautiful novel, and where that series crosses over with the Wild Seasons series. We love writing the group dynamics, especially when all of the guys are together. It does get harder as the ensemble grows, simply because you have more people to juggle (but that’s also sort of the fun part because it becomes a little like writing fanfiction for yourself).
In any case, we do have a grand plan, but it’s more like a 5-year model rather than 15. After Beautiful Beloved (e-short, Feb 2015) and Beautiful Secret (April 2015), there are still two more Wild Seasons out after DRT (Dark Wild Night is September of 2015, and Wicked Sexy Liar is February of 2016). We have our next series already outlined, and we know how it will dovetail with our previous work. We can’t wait to talk about it! 

Q: Last but not least, how up to date are you on your Rob news? You still get the weekly ROBsessed memos that he's hot as fire right? 

Christina Lauren: Ha! Well we still follow a lot of Rob accounts so we’re up to date on all the latest. He’s a pretty dude, there is no way around it. At the end of the day, coming from the Twilight fandom we can both say we just want Robert Thomas to be happy. Whatever makes him happy makes us happy. :)

So much fun on the horizon for the characters of Christina Lauren. :)

DIRTY ROWDY THING synopsis:

Despite their rowdy hookups, Harlow and Finn don’t even like each other...which would explain why their marriage lasted only twelve hours. He needs to be in charge and takes whatever he wants. She lives by the Want-something-done? Do-it-yourself mantra. Maybe she’s too similar to the rugged fisherman—or just what he needs. 

SWEET FILTHY BOY synopsis:

One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him. 

But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just…play. 

When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.

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ROBsessed Giveaway: Second chance to have a SWEET FILTHY BOY and a DIRTY ROWDY THING for our Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Second chance to have a SWEET FILTHY BOY and a DIRTY ROWDY THING for our Fiction Friday!

It's time for week 2 of our double hitter - SWEET FILTHY BOY and DIRTY ROWDY THING!

I got a chance to finish DIRTY ROWDY THING last weekend and my oh my. I think the title fits juuuuuust right. Finn is definitely a dirty, rowdy thing and matches up perfectly with the sassy Harlow. I had fun reading the story and catching up with the characters we first met in SWEET FILTHY BOY. Naturally, Rob plays all leading men that I read. What.

But I did get a chance to talk to Christina Lauren about who they could fan cast as Finn and Harlow and I LOVE IT.

Q: Fan casting is fun. Who have you fan casted for Harlow and Finn? Or who have you seen others suggest? 

Christina Lauren: Ooh this is a good one but our answer is going to be a cop out—but wait! With good reason! See, it’s really hard to find an actress who fits Harlow. Harlow is half Spanish, half Irish-European mutt, so she has darker hair and skin but light brown eyes. In our mind her face is very Emma-Stone, but she’s more golden, darker-eyed. Finn is similarly tricky for us to cast. But since it’s a Rob site, we can totally confide here that if Rob put on about 30 pounds of muscle, he could rock the role.

Emma is already awesome to me and I totally dig her as Harlow! And Rob, always Rob for any and everything.



I know I picked a picture of Emma covering half her face but there's something about her look that is so Harlow. Playful, flirty and pretty. I tried to darken her eyes and golden her complexion to get in sync with Christina Lauren's description. And the Rob selection. Come on. This look wins all day every day and I definitely see dirty, rowdy Finn all over him.

Contest is the same as last week so let's do this! Synopsis and guidelines...

DIRTY ROWDY THING synopsis:

Despite their rowdy hookups, Harlow and Finn don’t even like each other...which would explain why their marriage lasted only twelve hours. He needs to be in charge and takes whatever he wants. She lives by the Want-something-done? Do-it-yourself mantra. Maybe she’s too similar to the rugged fisherman—or just what he needs. 

SWEET FILTHY BOY synopsis:

One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him. 

But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just…play. 

When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.

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Robert Pattinson talks Idol's Eye as an ensemble film, being objective about his work, loving stars, not loving guns and MORE

Robert Pattinson talks Idol's Eye as an ensemble film, being objective about his work, loving stars, not loving guns and MORE



PromoRob is relaxing at the moment so how great is it that a hidden gem of an interview popped up!

Thanks to our reader, Cali, this interview from CannesRob emerged and after a quick check on the blog, we hadn't posted it!



Don't cry, dry your eyes. We're posting it now and it's classic Rob which means it's awesome. It's all perfect timing to read something new for The Rover, Maps to the Stars and more since:

1. The Rover is out on US Bluray/DVD this Tuesday 
2. Maps To The Stars in out in UK theaters this Friday
3. Idol's Eye starts filming in October
4. We love Rob and soak up all his interviews whenever they hit us

Yahoo Singapore: It’s late afternoon in Cannes, and heartthrob, Robert Pattinson, 28, appears to be having a good time at the world’s most glamorous film festival promoting the Rover, starring alongside Guy Pearce, 46. He will also star opposite Julianne Moore, 53, in Maps to the Stars, both slated for release this summer.

His hair is short, he has a little facial stubble and he’s wearing a turquoise jacket, black shirt and dark jeans and sneakers.

Pattinson is of course best known for his role as Edward, a vampire who falls in love with a human, Bella, played by on again off again girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, 24, in The Twilight Saga.

Since then, Pattinson has taken on more serious roles such as Remember Me (2010) and Water for Elephants (2011) in which he starred alongside Reese Witherspoon.

Famous for his good looks, Pattinson is often seen topping the ‘hottest’ lists in many publications such as People (2008 and 2009) and Glamour UK, yet he remains humble. He is also the face of Dior Homme, which he took on after Jude Law.

THE INTERVIEW:

Q: Are you a fan of the Mad Max films?

PATTINSON: I have actually never seen them. I have been asked so many times this morning and I have never seen it. (laughter) I guess I have got to see it now.

Q: This whole genre, is it familiar to you?

PATTINSON: Yeah, but I think this one is kind of different. I mean, it’s not like everyone has gone crazy, and they are cannibals. There feels something more real about it, and also I think the world where the movie is set, it’s not that the entire world is like that, they are just in the middle of nowhere. The country has just become very unstable and anything could collapse at any second. It’s sort of like the new society is trying to be born again.

Q: Is the collapse of society a familiar fear to you that you can relate to?

PATTINSON: Not really. I think the world is quite resilient, but I don’t know I think it would be a bit of fun. But I am a bit of a nihilist. (laughter)

Q: Was it fun on the set with Guy Pearce? Was he intimidating?

PATTINSON: No, and he’s also really strong as well. So when you are being thrown around, it actually hurts quite a lot. (laughter) And he was really in it the whole time because he’s really not like that.

Q: So he’s a good actor like you. Is this something that’s really important to you when you work?

PATTINSON: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I think, I always hear some actors saying they didn’t read reviews or care about it, and I just think they are making it up. (laughs) Everybody cares about it; whether people think it’s good.

Q: What was the most difficult thing for you to create this character, to make him special in a way?

PATTINSON: I mean a lot of it was just there in the script at the beginning and I just really connected to it. I mean the most difficult thing was getting the job. But I think once I was doing it, it was quite fun. It was an exciting part to play and David Michôd kind of let me sort of run with any idea as well.

Q: And the accent thing, was that your idea?

PATTINSON: He was supposed to be from the South, but literally only said he was from somewhere in the South, so I don’t know, that was the kind of voice I heard in my head when I was reading the script.

Q: And you said it was more difficult to get the job.

PATTINSON: I mean, I just hate auditioning and I am really, really bad at it. I get so nervous and mess it up for myself and so I have basically tried to avoid doing auditions at all costs. I read the script and I was like, I really, really, really have got to get this part. It’s weird though, preparing for a part that you are already cast and just actually doing it for real and just kind of hoping that your anxiety doesn’t get the better of you in the room.

Q: And you got a phone call? What happened?

PATTINSON: I got a second audition afterwards and then they told me at the end of it, and it was a kind of amazing feeling.

Q: And so was it the first time you went to Australia shooting?

PATTINSON: I have been to Sydney just a couple of times to work, but yeah, in that area definitely.

Q: Are you done with the blockbuster thing or are you possibly returning to that at some point in your career?

PATTINSON: Yeah, it’s waiting for the right director. Nothing has come up and I mean, that’s not saying I don’t want to do it, but blockbusters, big movies just take a really long time to shoot as well. So I think you have to really, really, really want to do it. There’s a lot of pressure and you just don’t get that many interesting parts in big movies, especially for young guys. It’s just the same thing every time.

Q: Lots of comic book adaptations. Is there some character that you would say, yeah, I would do it?

PATTINSON: Yeah maybe, I was never really that into comic books when I was a kid and stuff so I don’t really have that connection. You also have to work out like tons, (laughter) in potentially a movie you might not like. It’s just a big hassle. (laughs)

Q: Maps to the Stars was excellent. So when you first read the script, what did you make of it?

PATTINSON: I thought it was hilarious and I liked some of the lines (laughter) I am excited about seeing it with an audience. But that’s Cronenberg; he’s quite into being subversive and quite combative and stuff. It’s kind of amazing that he’s still doing that, he’s 72.

Q: Have you seen people who actually almost act like that?

PATTINSON: A lot of the young kids in it, I have seen a lot of them. I think they are the most honest. And Havana, there are lots of actresses who kind of go a little bit crazy. But the kids, that’s like quite a mainstream thing, this kind of hatred. There’s a lot of negative energy, I don’t know why, it’s just really odd.

Q: You played music on Twilight – will you release a record one day?

PATTINSON: I want to make one, I just don’t really know about releasing one. (laughs) I don’t know, I can’t really deal with criticism very well and I have already got criticism coming from one angle (laughs) and I don’t feel the need to get it from somewhere else.

Q: What would it sound like? What music would you make?

PATTINSON: I don’t know yet. I mean I always used to record kind of singer-songwriters stuff and I don’t really want to do that. I was trying to figure out something else, but yeah, I don’t know yet. Trying to figure out my new sound. (Tink: Rob will be old and gray still telling us he's working on recording an album and he's trying to figure it out. OLD AND GRAY.)


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ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win BETWEEN OCTOBERS for our Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win BETWEEN OCTOBERS for our Fiction Friday!

It might be September but we have BETWEEN OCTOBERS to giveaway to you guys this week! This is a worldwide and US giveaway for a novel reviewers are saying is "absolutely intriguing", "a deeply emotional journey" and "you had me at page one". That sounds pretty fantastic but you know what got my attention? When the author, A. R. Rivera told me she's a fan of ROBsessed and Rob even inspired one of her characters, Rhys Matthews!



More of Rhy in a moment but who is A. R. Rivera? She currently resides with her fantastic husband and four talented sons in sunny California. She spends most of her time writing, home schooling, making up characters, blogging, and hauling around musical instruments for her sons rock band. Rivera's debut novel, BETWEEN OCTOBERS, was published this summer and in case you aren't familiar with the story, here's a synopsis:

Happy endings have always eluded Grace Zuniga. Now, she is in real trouble, hoping and praying that will change. When she wakes up in a dark, confined space with no memory of how she got there, the fear is nearly crippling. There are only two thoughts keeping her from losing her head. First, her children need her to survive. Though Grace is not sure she can, she's determined to try. Second, figuring out who took her and how she ended up, pregnant, alone, and at the mercy of a person who will do anything to keep her from escaping. Stumbling through her bleak circumstances, Graces mind wanders over the last life-changing year, from one October to the next, and relives the most precious moments and circumstances that led to her kidnapping. The previous October, as Grace stepped inside an elevator and into the life of enigmatic Rhys Matthews, it all began. But Grace must ask herself, "where will it end?"

And I haven't forgotten that awesome tidbit I mentioned earlier - the character Rhys Matthews was inspired by Rob! Here's what A.R. had to say about Rhys and Rob:

Rhys Matthews, also known as Evan, is a fictional character from my book, Between Octobers. He is Graces’ love interest–handsome, funny, charming, and an all-around nice guy. His career–the mania that surrounds him–is inspired by that of Robert Pattinson. He also happens to be British, with great hair and a few dark secrets. He is poised to steal Graces’ heart.

If we've got Rob on the mind while reading this story, I suspect he'll easily steal our hearts too.


Click HERE to visit her website and read a snippet from an unpublished manuscript all about a moment in the life of Rhys Matthews!

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ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win CHAYSING DREAMS for our Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Enter to win CHAYSING DREAMS for our Fiction Friday!

Did all the UK/Ireland ROBsessors get to see The Rover today?
Are you seeing every showing, all this weekend???



Good. I know that answer is yes. If ROBsession was easy, everyone would do it. ;)



Our giveaway for this week is a two-parter. A long time reader and Rob fan, Jalpa Williby, has written two novels, CHAYSING DREAMS and CHAYSING MEMORIES. Jalpa has a great bio and it makes you smile to see she chased HER dreams and succeeded in reaching them:

Jalpa Williby immigrated to the United States at the age of eight. Faced with many obstacles in the “new country”, including learning English, Williby pushed herself to overcome all of the challenges. A voracious reader, Williby’s adolescence was marked by a promising academic career. After graduating with a Bachelors of Science from the University of Illinois, Williby went on to earn Masters in Physical Therapy from Northwestern University. Her passion for helping her patients led her to a specialty in neuroscience, focusing on children and adults with neurological impairments. Juggling her time as a wife, a mother, and working full-time, her love for books never subsided.  

Some of her favorite books have been the Twilight Series, The Hunger Games Series, and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Never the one to shy away from any challenges, Williby’s most recent endeavor is to conquer the literary world. Williby’s debut novel, Chaysing Dreams, has been successful and has received multiple five star reviews from Readers’ Favorite, earning the five star seal. Chaysing Dreams also is a finalist for Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards in three different categories. Williby recently released the highly anticipated sequel, Chaysing Memories, which received multiple five star reviews from Readers’ Favorite. The sequel also is a finalist for Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards in two different categories. With both novels being Amazon best sellers, Williby is now feverishly working on the final installment of the Chaysing Trilogy.

For the giveaway this week, we have CHAYSING DREAMS, print and PDF versions, for 2 winners.
Synopsis:

LIFE... SECRECY, DECEIT, DANGER... NO, NO! RUN, ESCAPE! As long as Tess can remember, she has always had the same nightmares, where the girl is running for her life with an unknown force chasing her. Each time, right before the girl is caught, Tess awakens, shaken with fear and confusion. Who is the girl? What do these dreams mean? Getting through the growing pains of high school with her best friends Jack and Kylie, and then being accepted into her dream college, Tess is excited to start her life of independence. There, she meets the mysterious trainer and mentor, Chris, and she instantly feels a strong connection with him. Unfortunately, he wants nothing to do with her. Although Chris continues to give her the cold shoulder, his overprotectiveness and the occasional slips of sensitivity confuse her. The more Tess tries to connect the missing pieces of her life, the more obscure her past and future appear. To make matters worse, she realizes she has fallen hard for a man who may be her worst enemy. She is unexpectedly exposed to a world of deceit and danger, causing her to be running for her life. Can Tess escape and save not only herself, but also her loved ones? Or, will she be caught, leaving her no choice but to face her worst nightmare? Chaysing Dreams is the ultimate love story, full of suspense, friendship, betrayal, tragedy, and sacrifice. In this epic tale, you will laugh and cry with Tess - a story full of twists and turns, keeping you guessing until the end.

Next week, we'll share an interview with Jalpa about her stories, some teasers and giveaway CHAYSING MEMORIES!

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Robert Pattinson talks about picking strange roles, proactive fans and more in 3 interviews

Robert Pattinson talks about picking strange roles, proactive fans and more in 3 interviews

Here's some weekend reading to dissect. 2 interviews were conducted during Cannes and the final one is a translation but reads well. Enjoy some ClassicRob!



The Sunday Times - From Beauty To Beast: The best thing about Robert Pattinson is how weird he is. If he weren’t acting, he’d be the one in the office grinning with half a mouth and going out of his way to avoid the water cooler. He’s friendly, but weird — with a laugh like Butt-head if he’d gone to a nice independent school in Barnes. We met in May at the Cannes film festival, once he’d finished his cigarette under a sky barely holding its rain. To call his clothes “grunge” would be a disservice to the thought that goes into grunge. It’s just messy: lumberjack shirt, T-shirt, trainers, white jeans. “I’m so hung-over,” he moans, as I turn the tape on. “I feel absolutely disgusting.”

The room is packed with soggy hacks. They sit in clusters, for 15 minutes of R-Patz, for a quote about Twilight to spread over the internet. The vampire saga is over, but remains undead. From 2008 to 2012, those five films, based on Stephenie Meyer's novels, made £2 billion worldwide and fostered a fan base still fervently in love with their leading man. To many, he will always be Edward, the immortal who cared and fell in love with Bella (Kristen Stewart). They added to the mystique by becoming an off-screen couple, too. Throw in his key role in Harry Potter and it’s unsurprising that the pallid hunk has spent much of his life in the headlines. It’s been an odd coming-of-age for the youngest of three, who grew up in a polite London suburb and, as I find out, doesn’t really like big films.

What he does like is his latest role, in The Rover, an indie thriller from the ­director David Michôd, who hasn’t even seen Twilight. This pleases Pattinson, who talks avidly about the film even though he went to a party last night and “forgot” he had to work. There are few more normal 28-year-old multi­millionaires. We talk about a recent interview for Dior in which he spoke, foolishly, about French girls because, “I was being asked ‘What’s your favourite part of scent?’” He shakes his head at the inanity of the question. “I also told someone I use moisturiser, and then saw it written down — I’ve spent all this time ­trying to get credibility and there’s a fucking headline about moisturiser!’”

The thing is, he’s mortified. All he wants, and needs, now is credibility. He’s loaded: five Twilights and some fashion contracts have sorted that. So, over the past few years, since David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis in 2012, he has been seeking weird, dirty roles. He’s the only actor to have had sex in a limo — on screen — twice this decade. In The Rover, he defecates in a dusty shrub. I put a quote from Catherine Hardwicke, who shot the first Twilight, to him. “Rob’s obviously ridiculously photogenic, but he’s also so talented. I see him creating stylised, odd, wild characters.” He squirms at the first part, but loves the second.

“I’m picking things so strange, they can’t be judged in normal terms,” he says. His brain is creaking; his voice, soft and tired. “If anything’s relatable in a mass way, I don’t know if I can do it. That’s just not how I relate to anything. If there are certain character beats, I’m not going to be able to achieve them. So I like making it my own game. You can invent a new set of ­emotions that don’t even really make sense to you.”

In The Rover he plays Rey, a bloodied drifter in a future Australia, ravaged ­lawless by some unspecified crash. He may be a ­soldier and, as Pattinson puts it, is “handicapped”. The actor is excellent, bringing the baggage of his better-known work to a sombre, serious film — Sad Max, if you like — that pits him against Guy Pearce’s angry Eric. The pretty one sings along to a song that goes: “Don’t hate me ’cause I’m beautiful.” Rey’s teeth are awful: ­pyramid-sharp and crooked. They remind Pattinson of “the kids at school who didn’t brush their teeth” — the “weirdos”, he smirks. “Always the ones who played too many video games.”

This is what’s fun about Pattinson — or, at least, his hung-over version. There’s no filter. Most big shots would hold back from a slur about people who play video games, as most of them watch their movies, too. But he doesn’t. I suggest that the mentally and physically crooked Rey is his Miley Cyrus moment, a public ruining of something innocent. “It’s like doing Miley Cyrus,” he repeats, grunt-giggling, but I don’t think he ever thought of ­himself as pure. He certainly doesn’t care. He doesn’t even have a publicist. I could have asked who he’s dating, but any answer about that from a globetrotting young heart-throb in May, for a piece in August, felt hopeless. On the way out to Cannes, I read up on his love life. There were rumours about the model Imogen Kerr, and Katy Perry, and Katy Perry’s stylist.

I ask what he thinks he will be rem­embered for, how Google will autofill his name in the future. Stewart — his Twilight co-star, about whom he recently said, “Shit happens” — will always be there. So will Twilight. What else? “Gay?” he laughs. But it’s not really up to you, I add. Yours is an image controlled by manic fans, ones who retweet any news about any role hundreds of times a minute. “They’re very pro­active,” he nods. “Good publicists. But I don’t like referring to them as ‘fans’. I think it’s gross when people are, like, ‘I love my fans!’ You don’t even know them.” He continues, saying he thinks that’s probably dubious as he’s “quite insecure”, before booming, theatrically: “ ‘How can you ever love me? You don’t!’ ” I have no idea how much of this conver­sation he will remember.

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NEW PHOTOSHOOT & INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson In Esquire UK Magazine

UPDATE: Added Larger/Better Quality versions some of the pics & new pic on the subscriber issue of Esquire Below
NEW PHOTOSHOOT & INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson In Esquire UK Magazine

We told you at the end of May that Rob had done a photoshoot for Esquire Magazine. And we even got a sneak peek.
And now we have the photoshoot and a brilliant interview !



If you want to order a copy online head over HERE to Newsstand to get your hands on a copy.



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Oh My Gosh. Did you survive those?
Blanche is on standby in case you need her.



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AFTER THE CUT

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REVIEWS: "Robert Pattinson is phenomenal; an artist surrendering himself to his craft; Pearce and Pattinson work magic together"

REVIEWS: "Robert Pattinson is phenomenal; an artist surrendering himself to his craft; Pearce and Pattinson work magic together"

Ahhhhhh....loooooove this time. All the praise. The eyes opened wide by the talented Robert Pattinson. This is our latest batch for the nationwide release for The Rover, as well as the Canadian release. Click HERE to purchase stateside and HERE for Canada. If you plan to see the film multiple times, don't forget to save your ticket stubs and click HERE to enter a great giveaway!

If you missed our earlier posts of reviews...

• "A tremendous performance from Robert Pattinson" in The Rover; "Superb, outstanding, revelation"
• "Robert Pattinson, who is almost unrecognizable, finally realising his potential with a superb performance"
• "Robert Pattinson at his dramatic best"
• Quentin Tarantino: A mesmerizing, visionary achievement.
• "The Rough Hardness Of Guy Pearce Goes Perfectly With The Lost Innocence Brought Out By Robert Pattinson"
• "Robert Pattinson is stunning."
• Track all reviews for The Rover on ROBsessed HERE

Rope Of Silicon (Grade A):

Pearce is largely quiet and reflective, never giving anyone the upper hand while Pattinson delivers the performance of his career. Slow-witted, but far from dumb, Rey is a product of his environment and doesn't really know any better than what he's seen around him and clearly what he's seen is death without remorse. The fact he clearly feels remorse, at times, is just enough of a character detail to pull you in further, just as it does Eric, a man who seems he has nothing left to lose.
If you're a fan of cinema, you have to see this movie. Sit with it, don't rush it, let it slowly wrap you up and tear you apart before blowing you away in the end.

LA Times:

Set in an economically impoverished future, "The Rover" stars Guy Pearce in a performance of pure controlled ferocity. He plays a man on an implacable, obsessive stop-at-nothing quest to recover his stolen car, with an unrecognizable Robert Pattinson equally strong as a weaker man who gets pulled along in his wake. Tense and remorseless and shot in 100-degrees-plus heat, this is a film that chills the blood as well as the soul.

Campus Circle (grade A):

The real standout, however, is Pattinson, who is given an extremely difficult role as a slow-minded fellow abandoned by his only family and is now in the hands of a near-psychopath. Pattinson elevates his character to something complex and unexpected, and with The Rover, he proves the Twilight Saga was a mere stepping-stone to a much larger and grander platform. I, personally, am thankful to Michôd for giving him that opportunity.

The Movie Blog:

The most impressive thing about The Rover was Robert Pattinson’s unrecognizable performance! With a combination of rustic grit and method acting, Pattinson transforms into Rey, a lost and broken man burdened by the harsh society. It demands serious consideration for awards while showcasing Pattinson’s ability to instill trust into filmmakers that isn’t just the pretty boy from Twilight. This man can act. His performance here is what he was trying to do in Cosmopolis, which didn’t quite work for me. When I described A24 as a “Millennial Miramax,” which takes edgy risks with younger actors, Robert Pattinson in The Rover is a textbook example of flawless execution of the theory.

Schmoes Know:

It’s not the easiest watch in the world…but it’s worth it for the revelatory performance of Pattinson...this role proves Pattinson has serious acting chops. He’s mesmerizing...

Paste Magazine:

Finding human interest in an impeccably made film wouldn’t be possible without performances as deeply felt and genuinely surprising as what Pearce and Pattinson deliver. They turn out to be the sort of startlingly awesome pairing that makes you immediately want to add their names to the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 meme. (All HBO would need is to add a top-notch actress to the mix, and they’d have the trio they’re looking for.)
The real shocker for most will be Pattinson, best known for the Twilight films but recently making a concerted effort to broaden his creative respectability by teaming with the likes of David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas. Cronenberg showcased some of Pattinson’s potential as the cold-blooded money man in Cosmopolis, but Michod allows him to go to another level here. It’s a showy performance but one with enough nuance and vulnerability to demand attention for the right reasons.
More importantly, Pearce and Pattinson work magic together. Their characters couldn’t be more opposite—one a man of few words and another who talks just to talk … the grizzled veteran and the youthful innocent. Watching them slowly find common ground is a genuine delight in a film that otherwise remains purposefully punishing.

Chase Whale/Film Threat:

As this misguided cretin, Pattinson shines. If you’ve ever doubted him as a real actor, you can stop here. He proves he’s the real deal; when the role calls for it, he can project any raw emotion needed.

CityPaper:

It’s Pearce’s show, but Pattinson does remarkable work here, shooing away the last cloying vapors of his Twilight-fueled teen-idol aura with Rey’s mushmouth babble and almost canine simplicity.

Awards Circuit: 

Pattinson’s thick, authentic-sounding Southern accent (though it’s unclear why a Southern boy and his brother would find themselves all the way out in Australia) combined with his innocence and optimism help carve out one of the most respectful and honest depictions of the mentally disabled on screen. Rey isn’t some walking stereotype written to gain its actor some Oscar traction – he has a layered, definable identity that immediately draws our sympathies, and yet Michôd doesn’t sugarcoat the malevolence that can quickly rise to the surface when Rey feels threatened.

Quickflix (4 stars):

[Rob] does great work as Rey, the dim-witted sibling of the dude (Scoot McNairy) who made off with Eric's car in the first place. Left to die with a bullet wound from an unexplained prior skirmish, Eric helps Rey to heal so that he may then put a gun in his face and insist he take him to his brother. The flick then evolves into a twisted surrogate father-son tale, with Pearce's rover taking Pattinson's injured bird under his wing and instructing him on how to execute indiscriminately. But Rey finds it harder to shed his humanity than Eric seems to have done.

Reeling Reviews (both giving a Grade B+):

Pattinson, sporting a deep southern drawl, really inhabits his character and garners sympathy as a man left behind by his brother, Henry (Scoot McNairy).
Pattinson is terrific as Rey, a none too bright, twitchy character whom the star inhabits with no actorly tics. He's in pain, but hopeful, and as he's never known another life, takes things as they come. When he finally opens up in a slow, halting speech, we can see the deep thought required to communicate, but his captor counters Rey's goodness with cynical instruction. Still Rey persists (there is a phenomenal scene where Rey, alone in the truck, sings along to Keri Hilson's 'Pretty Girl Rock' with such solemnity it's moving) and Eric doesn't quite know what to make of it.

Slate:

The Rover hinges on Guy’s connection to Rey, the wounded, simple-minded brother of one of the thieves, whom Guy forces to lead him to his car. Rey is played by Robert Pattinson, and I’m happy to say I can’t imagine a more audience-unfriendly left turn Twilight’s icy dreamboat could have taken. His performance—teeth yellowed, eyes darting, speech filled with tics—is mannered but thoughtful. The two make an odd pair—they have some real #truedetectiveseason2 moments driving across the outback, Rey chattering away, Guy silently glaring—but the movie movingly explores the kind of stunted connection that can grow in arid soil.

Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Pearce and Mr. Pattinson are superb in their roles.

Film Racket:

Eric is no hero. In short order, he steals and commits cold-blooded murder. Michod feints here and there with the possibility that Eric could in fact be more of a monster than the men he’s after. Some of the first words we hear are one of them shouting, “We’ve killed people!” Eric feels no such compunction, and soon has Rey—played by Pattinson with a deftly twitchy kind of gracefulness that plays neatly against Pearce’s raw red ferocity—descending to his level.

Rolling Stone/Peter Travers (3/4 stars):

All you really need to know is that The Rover is a modern Western that explodes the terms good and evil; that its desolation is brilliantly rendered by Michôd and cinematographer Natasha Braier; that Pearce and Pattinson are a blazing pair of opposites. Pattinson, free of the Twilight trap, shows real acting chops, especially in a moving final scene. In revealing two men trying to get in touch with the shreds of their shared humanity, Michôd offers a startling vision. You’ll be hooked.

Austin 360 (4 out of 5 stars):

For the first time in his career, Pattinson gives a performance that goes well beyond the dreamboat image he has cultivated in the “Twilight” saga. His Rey is full of vulnerability and naivete — a sharp contrast to the steely ferocity of Pearce’s Eric, who greets everyone on the road with a cut-to-the-chase statement: “I’m looking for my car.”

Austin Chronicle:

Pattinson duly rids himself of the mindless heartthrob status accorded him by the Twilight trilogy, and here fully demonstrates his acting chops

Silver Screen Riot (grade A-):

In it, Robert Pattinson's star shines bright, offering the best performance of the year so far and one certainly worth of chatter come Oscar season. It's magical enough that Michôd has culled a truly jaw-dropping performance from the oft reviled Twilight icon (who was also strong in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis) but his minimalist take on what remains after society crumbles is a rawhide-tough slice of devastation pie...Like Rey, The Rover is simple without being simplistic, wandering without being directionless, and solitary without being one-note. And maybe most importantly, it's a signal that Pattinson may yet be a star, but in an entirely different way than we first imagined.

JoBlo (8 out of 10):

Robert Pattinson as the neglected Ray is probably easier to like. Simpleminded to the point of being dangerous, Pattinson is really surprising in a role far removed from anything he’s ever done. Often criticized for his vacuous stare, this actually fits Ray to a tee, and he’s incredibly effective in a part that will likely shock his die-hard TWILIGHT-fans, but delight those of us who’ve been wondering if he’d ever get a part that demonstrated some real chops. This is that part.

San Diego City Beat:

Pearce's performance hinges almost entirely on the way his eyes communicate intent, while Pattinson's gutsy turn forces us to see beyond his character's bumbling façade.

News Press:

His stubble, dirty yellow teeth and injuries muting his physical beauty, Pattinson delivers a performance that, despite the character’s own limitations, becomes more interesting as the film moves along

WA Today:

His performance – swinging wildly between childlike naivete and extreme cunning – does fascinate.

Larsen on Film:

Pattinson impressively captures the confusion and fear of not being able to process things as quickly as those around you – which becomes especially problematic when everything around you is a matter of life and death. His mind can’t always shift into survival mode. “Why are you telling me this?” Eric asks him after Rey shares a random story. He replies, “I just remembered it, and it interested me.” But there’s no need for such things in this dismal time and place.

NewCity:

The robustly twitchy Pattinson and Pearce make combustible alliance in search of Rey’s brother. At moments, under burnished yet offhanded light, “The Rover” is literary machismo of a high order. And at others? We’re watching Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Mad Max.” (This is not a bad thing.) Michôd and cinematographer Natasha Braier (“Chinese Puzzle,” “The Milk of Sorrow”) emphasize masculine determination and ineffectuality by fixing repeatedly on the roll of men’s shoulders, face turned to the horizon, spiritual burden expressed in a hitch of step and pitch of the male frame.

One Guy's Opinion: 

The true revelation in the cast is Pattinson, who sheds the pretty-boy image he’s pretty much coasted on until now to give a performance of considerable depth, eliciting sympathy for his childish demeanor while at the same time persuading that when he does take action, he has the cunning to do so. The film proves that he’s a real actor rather than a mere face.

MovieWeb:

Guy Pearce continues to be one of my favorite actors. His depth and range as an actor is tremendous. He and Robert Pattinson are excellent here.

TampaBay:

Pattinson plays it impressively slow-witted and Southern-accented as Rey, a fourth member of the robbery team left for dead by his accomplices, including his brother Henry (Scoot McNairy).

Mercury News:

As he keeps apace of Pearce's immersive acting style, it's clear that Pattinson is capable of much more than what was asked of him in the "Twilight" series. He downplays his pretty-boy image and takes command of the role with the authority of a stage veteran. His Rey is a vulnerable boy-man in a world where innocence will get squashed like a bug.

Mercury:

And Pattinson is a treat to watch as well, his gormless Ray simultaneously threatening and pathetic, a sad tangle of low self-esteem and bitterness.

Slate (3 out of 4 stars):

Pearce was born for this stuff, but Pattinson—grunting slack-jawed to the point of needing subtitles, another layer of obfuscation Michod casts over the film—is sublime. The startling chasm between his characters in The Rover and Cosmopolis suggests a range that'll be properly acknowledged only when Pattinson is older, less appreciated as a heartthrob than for his skill as a seasoned vet.

Las Vegas Informer:

Pattinson doesn’t bother with words to express himself. His character’s emotions just bleed through his body without the need for words. Just the way early man must have begun before he found the use of language for deception...Michôd wrote the character of Eric for Pearce and Pattinson won the role of Reynolds after auditioning! It is a perfect role for Pearce and a brave one for Pattinson – he’s in a different league now.

The Australian:

Though he has relatively little dialogue, Pattinson successfully extends his range as a teen heart-throb with his down and dirty portrayal of a feeble-minded crim, while the always reliable Pearce is everything that could be required from his enigmatic protagonist.

AV Club (B grade):

Credit the leads. Pearce, who looks more grizzled than ever, undercuts his stoic-badass routine with slivers of Leonard Shelby melancholy. And a grimed-up Pattinson gives the type of entertainingly twitchy performance that may yet rescue him from the straitjacket of his tween appeal. But then, the real star of this Down Under downer is probably the gorgeously unforgiving setting. Every cliché shines a little brighter in the glow of a setting Outback sun.

The Dissolve:

Coming off his turn in Cosmopolis, Pattinson heads in the opposite direction of that cerebral character. He plays Rey as a pliant boy used to doing what he’s told. He’s what passes for innocent in The Rover, a kid who never had a chance and who’s only known the world as a cruel, desolate place. Late in the film, he sits alone in a car listening to Keri Hilson’s “Pretty Girl Rock,” and Pattinson makes it seem like he’s receiving a transmission from a kinder, funkier world he’ll never get to visit.

"I was very impressed with Mr. Pattinson in The Rover...Pattinson in The Rover reminded me of Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys...What I saw last night was an artist surrendering himself to his craft...(GREAT mention of meeting Rob at The Rover LA premiere after party, 3:06) I told Rob he really impressed and it was an eye opening performance."



"I fucking loved it. I really enjoyed the performances. Pattinson is phenomenal. He is a revelation. I didn't know he was this good...He deserves an Oscar. At least a nomination."



Click HERE for a video review, both Australian critics giving The Rover 4 stars:

DAVID: Margaret, what did you think of THE ROVER?
MARGARET: I think it is spare-genre filmmaking. It is really, really well done. I think Robert Pattinson, that role could have gone so easily awry and I think he handles it fabulously. Guy Pearce is just wonderfully solid as Eric. I think one of the great things about this film is the soundscape on it with music by Antony Partos and Sam Petty contributing, as well, to the sound design.
DAVID: Yes, it’s very, very good. Yes.