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Robert Pattinson Interview with The Guardian, UK

Great interview from The Guardian, UK. Take a moment, sit down and take this one in - I always like to hear other peoples initial thoughts about Rob upon meeting him.

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When asked about the pressures of fame, Emma Watson (Hermione in the Harry Potter series) said she was thankful she wasn't Robert Pattinson. "I can't even imagine what that kind of fame must be like," she said. "So many people must wish they were in his position and think he has the best life, but actually there are prices you pay. Don't interpret that from my perspective. It's not so bad for me. I'm not in Rob's position: I don't have people screaming and crying and clawing at me. I'm so grateful for that."

It says something when the star of Harry Potter thinks that you're the one who's too famous. But Pattinson – aka R Patz – seems to have taken it in his stride. He greets the screaming hordes with humour and charm and a willingness to pose for pictures. (Kat ~ One of the many reasons we love him so) There have been no drugs or fights with paparazzi. Even the romance he struck up with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart two years ago has survived breathless coverage in the gossip magazines, a testament to the 25-year-old's sangfroid.

So today ought to be a breeze. He's at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to talk about Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the fourth instalment of the Twilight franchise that has been his life for the past four years. When he shows up, however, he's a mess. (Kat - A hot mess?) His famous hair is ungroomed and his T-shirt has a gaping hole all down one side. It's not even a fashionable tear – the stitching has just gone. (Kat - this is the part when his Mum rolls her eyes while reading this in the paper) He looks as though he's just been mobbed by a gang of rabid Twihards.

Happily, Pattinson doesn't seem to care. In the twilight years of the Twilight juggernaut, his thoughts have turned to what life might be like afterwards. "It's like being compared to people who've been in massive movies who just sort of disappear afterwards, even though they probably had incredibly fulfilling and successful lives," he says, nibbling on a fingernail. "Like Luke Skywalker." He scratches his head. "What the fuck's his name?"

Mark Hamill.

"Yes! People are like: 'Oh, the Mark Hamill curse.' And poor Mark Hamill. Jesus Christ." He tilts back in the chair and laughs, apparently oblivious to the state of his T-shirt. "I mean, I'm sure he did fine."

It's easy to forget that this charming shambles of a man commands at least $12m a movie. The cheekbones are a clue, but his eyes seem further apart than you expect – it's a model's face, more attractive in 2D. (Kat - I would have to disagree, but that's okay, each to their own) And Pattinson doesn't have any swagger or strut about him. As tall as he is, he doesn't impose. His body language is loose, approachable, self-effacing. He's not at the summit admiring the view so much as peering down and hoping he doesn't fall off. "I think of impending doom all the time," he says with a shrug.

This apocalyptic fear stems from the way his career started. One minute he was a complete unknown. And then, out of a clear blue sky, Twilight happened, and he turned into Elvis. Girls on every continent went bananas, as did their mothers. In 2010 Time magazine declared Pattinson one of the World's Most Influential People. And now the end is nigh.

Read the rest after the break...

NEW: Great Robert Pattinson quotes about Maps To The Stars from full production notes and more!

NEW: Great Robert Pattinson quotes about Maps To The Stars from full production notes and more!

We posted the partial production notes earlier but the full notes are now available. Lucky for us because those full notes have new Rob quotes about Maps To The Stars and heart-warming Rob praise! The notes are long and there's a download link after the excerpts with Rob's quotes. We also included jpgs of the PDF in case you want those.

 Excerpt from Maps To The Stars production notes:

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THE LIMO DRIVER 

“Plus we’re both dual - disorder ” 

When Agatha Weiss returns to Los Angeles, she makes an instant connection with the first person she encounters: her limo driver, a would - be screenwriter who chauffeurs the far more successful, and who becomes increasingly entangled in her larger - than - life drama.

Taking the role of Jerome is leading star Robert Pattinson, who wanted to work with Cronenberg again on the heels of taking the lead role in Cosmopolis (coincidentally, Pattinson played a billionaire who is a limo passenger throughout that film.)

 photo tumblr_n41e3sJ1zO1ql8r0ko5_r1_250.gifHe was one of the first cast members to sign on, which Martin Katz says helped buoy the project. “Robert’s enthusiasm for Maps to the Stars is one of the things that really got us underway. Jerome is not a large role but it’s very significant in the story and his joining the cast gave us a terrific amount of momentum,” recalls the producer. “In a sense he is playing Bruce Wagner, who was himself at one time a limo driver and unemployed writer.”

Cronenberg was thrilled to reunite with Pattinson, and in such a different kind of role. “I think Rob was really happy to be part of an ensemble,” he says. “But Jerome is also a critical character, a lovely character and it was a chance for Rob to give a more naturalistic performance. I knew he would be fabulous and he was.”

Pattinson’s experience working on Cosmopolis with Cronenberg was so profound that he agreed to the role of Jerome before reading the script. But when he finally sat down to read it, he recalls, “Within two pages I was thinking wow, this is so unbelievably different and hilarious. I don't even know what people are going to make of this, but it feels dangerous. It’s sort of satirical but it’s also a ghost story and it’s also a kind of thriller. It defies genre.”

He came to see Maps To The Stars as more than just another L.A. story. “It’s really about 10 people who lie to themselves – right up until the end,” he summarizes.

Yet within all that, Pattinson sees Jerome as the most ordinary of the film’s roster of outrageously deluded and desperate characters -- typical of a certain kind of everyday L.A. dreamer, a regular guy with a regular job who nevertheless always believes h e is just one move away from becoming a major actor and writer.

 photo Crazy.gif“Jerome would never accept that he is just a limo driver. I think he feels he’s just waiting for his break,” Pattinson observes. “And yet, he’s seemingly the only one in this story who's not going insane -- or who isn’t a ghost. He's a fairly normal guy, which is slightly odd for me, as well.”

Working with his fellow cast members was another big draw for Pattinson. Of Julianne Moore, he says: “She’s hilarious and also very sane, which is kind of ironic given who Havana Segrand is. And she shifts so subtly into character, you barely notice what she is doing. It’s kind of amazing.”

He worked most closely with Mia Wasikowska as Agatha, who comes to rely on Jerome as her sole friend in the city. “I knew Mia was going to be wonderful in this,” he says. “She’s so lovely that it was horrible for me to watch Agatha be bullied by her entire family.”

 photo Bows.gifFor Cronenberg, the chance to work with cast members like Pattinson and Gadon multiple times is one of the most gratifying aspects of his career. “It's really beautiful for me to see that blossoming and the evolution of actors as I work with them, ” he concludes.

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ROBERT PATTINSON (Jerome Fontana) is best known for his portrayal of the vampire Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga . Most recently, Pattinson appeared on screen in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and will be seen this summer in David Michôd’s The Rover , in which he’s paired with Guy Pearce. He recently wrapped work on Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert opposite Nicole Kidman. Currently, Anton Corbijn is directing Pattinson in Life , a film about th e friendship between Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock, played by Pattinson, and James Dean, played by Dane Dehaan.

Pattinson gained industry notice at 19 years of age when he joined the Harry Potter franchise in Mike Newell‘s Harry Potter and the Go blet of Fire, playing Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts’ official representative in the Triwizard Tournament. Last year, Pattinson starred in Water For Elephants , joining director Francis Lawrence and costars Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in bringing the Ne w York Times bestselling novel to the screen. Prior, he headlined the drama Remember Me , directed by Allen Coulter, appearing opposite Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Emilie De Ravin. Pattinson starred in Bel Ami , a film based on the novel of the same nam e written by Guy de Maupassant in which he played a young journalist in Paris who betters himself through his connections to the city’s most glamorous and influential women, played by Uma Thurman,Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci.

Pattinson began his professional career with a role in Uli Edel’s Sword of Xanten, opposite Sam West and Benno Furmann. He also appeared in director Oliver Irving’s How to Be, winner of the Slamdance Film Festival’s Special Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature. Pattinso n played the lead role of Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, directed by Paul Morrison. His television credits include “The Haunted Airman” for the BBC.

As a member of the Barnes Theatre Group, Pattinson played the lead role in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Ot her stage credits include Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” “Tess of the D’Urbevilles” and “Macbeth” at the OSO Arts Centre.

FULL notes and downloads after the cut!

"Sunday Telegraph" Robert Pattinson Interview Transcript

Yesterday we posted the scans of this here.
This is the transcript of the interview.
Oh and Spoiler warning if you haven't seen "Remember Me" yet the ending is given away in this interview!



Fame, as Robert Pattinson is only too ready to admit, is a double-edged sword.

The phenomenally successful teen vampire franchise, Twilight, has sunk its teeth into a hungry fan base and transformed Pattinson from a bumbling Harry Potter supporting cast-member into one of the most desirable men on the planet (or 'the Most Handsome Man in the World’, as he was dubbed by Vanity Fair).

It’s earned him millions, made British-born Pattinson the most sought-after young actor in Hollywood, and furnished him with a superstar girlfriend, his co-star in the vampire films, Kristen Stewart.

But the success of the first two instalments in the franchise – Twilight, which came out in 2008, and New Moon, which was released last November – has engendered its own set of problems, not least on the set of his first post-Twilight movie, Remember Me.

'Honestly,’ begins Pattinson when we meet up in a hotel in London, 'shooting Remember Me was really difficult. The Twilight fans were great – they’d come, watch us shoot and would be quiet when they were asked – but the paparazzi, what a bunch of f---ing animals.’ (Kate: LOL Good description Rob!)

"I couldn't believe someone could be so beautiful." New/Old Robert Pattinson encounter + the rare CleanShaveRob

"I couldn't believe  someone could be so beautiful." New/Old Robert Pattinson encounter + the rare CleanShaveRob

CleanShaveRob....a rare breed.

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This article was so amusing. The writer starts out with some fiction that seems pretty real to me. Rob IS a god sooooo....

From The Age (Au):
Stubble is a crime when a man looks this good clean-shaven, writes Maggie Alderson.

Rob. Pattinson. ROBERT. PATTINSON. Rarely do the heavens bestow such a bone structure on a human. He looks like something Zeus and his daughter Aphrodite dreamt up on a wet afternoon on Olympus.

Aphrodite: ''Daddy, I'm boooooooored.''

Zeus: ''Are you, my little honeybun? Let's play a game.''

He pauses to think, scratching his head with the end of his lightning bolt.

Zeus: ''I know - we'll create a human so beautiful it makes the others go mad.''

Aphrodite: ''Ooh, that would be so fun. Hmm, let me think … Got it! We'll make a young man with such a perfect face all women go soppy and mad with lust and longing when they see him.''

KERPOW! Zeus throws a bolt of lightning down to Earth, which lands in a suburb of south west London. We hear a baby's cry. Cut to poster for Twilight.
 Ah yes...clean-shaven Robward...

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The author continues her campaign for more cleanshavenporn from Rob:
I can also vouchsafe that Rob is even more astonishing in real life. The director of his first film (The Haunted Airman) is one of my friends and I went to see him on set, happening to walk past Rob's trailer when he was coming out of it in his WWII RAF uniform. I nearly fainted. My director pal had told me he'd cast ''a very interesting young actor'' in the lead, but hadn't prepared me for this. I couldn't believe someone could be so beautiful - and I've interviewed a lot of stars and supermodels. But I do wish he would shave more.
I'm adding a quick visual aid of Toby Jugg for us :)

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This picture is a still from his new film Cosmopolis and he's wearing a Gucci suit. Doesn't he look fine? (Tink: I used a different still for this...it's at the top and he looks SO fine.) And the marvelous thing is that since discovering what an immaculately cut suit can do for a chap, Rob pretty much always wears Gucci for public appearances. Now he just needs to catch up his face grooming.

What makes this picture so striking is that it combines his new suit style with the clean-shaven face demanded by the character he plays in the film. The only other time I've seen him like that is the prom scene in Twilight.

What? Hello? Sorry, just had to pick myself up off the floor here.

So, knowing what he looks like without it, it's such a waste of that improbably perfect jawline to besmatter it with scruffy stubble, the way he does. I can only think it's his way of coping with his shocking beauty.

From my brief experience of him (and that wasn't the only time I met him, oh joy), I can report that he's very nice and very shy. It must have been bewildering to have suddenly become such a focus of obsession. So I reckon the face fur is a small barrier between him and the all-staring world, when he's on the promotional roll and can't go the sunnies/baseball cap celebrity hideout shell.

So other men, please take note. There are some blokes - Tom Ford springs to mind - who can work the almost-beard, but most chaps (and I hope my husband is reading this) just end up looking a bit dirty.

I can see that shaving every day is a bore, but if Rob Pattinson looks a bit rough stubbled up, can you really afford to go there?
The lady loves her some smooth skin. While it's not often, Rob has given the trusty razor a workout and freed his jaw for all to drool over. I collected some samples over the years. They may not be the cleanest shave because let's face it - ChiaRob gets a five o'clock shadow at noon. He's a MAN! But these are some of the cleanest we've seen from a man who can rock anything from baby face to mountain man and the scrufftee and stubble in between.

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I wish I was the light that gets to kiss this face...

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Or a water bottle. I could be the water bottle. *entering the DR*

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MORE CleanShaveRob (or close) after the cut!

Robert Pattinson Denies Robsten Rumors, Talks About His Dog (RIP)



I am posting all info from different outlets here. So this will be an epic post. Most of it is repetitive but I'll post anyways. Turns out Patty, his dog passed away last Christmas :( RIP Patty...

These are just parts from the interview, wait till the whole thing comes out and always remember quotes in articles never really reflect what the person meant when he said those words... ;)

From GossipCop about the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart relationship denial:

Since those interviews were conducted, it has been reported that Pattinson and Stewart were seen at several concerts together, sharing meals, and otherwise appearing close.

According to a rep for Vanity Fair, shortly before the interview was turned in, Peretz contacted reps for both actors and Summit Entertainment to again confirm or deny a possible relationship, and suddenly this time they would not offer a comment.

So while the article’s text says Pattinson tells Peretz rumors of a love affair were false and supplies the aforementioned quotes, it’s important to note that those statements are months old and may not reflect current circumstances.

From MTV.com:

Robert Pattinson hasn't left the spotlight since he was cast as Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" flicks. And the rumor that doesn't seem to want to die is the one that has him paired with Kristen Stewart. Pattinson insists he's not dating his co-star, but that doesn't mean people won't keep trying to hook them up.

"It doesn't make any difference what you say [to the tabloids]," he says in the December issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands November 4 in New York and Los Angeles. "I've literally been across the country [from Kristen], and it's like, 'Oh, they were on secret dates!' It's like, 'Where? I can't get out of my hotel room!' "

Stewart also laughs off the rumors in the issue, adding, "It's so retarded. We're characters in this comic book."

Pattinson continued that he and Stewart are "good friends." "I think she's the best young actress around," he said. "She's influenced how I've done all the 'Twilight' stuff. It's quite nice to have someone who is genuinely indifferent to the whole spectacle of everything."

He went on to talk about his fame and how being in the "Twilight" franchise is sometimes overwhelming, making his life completely different than it was before he signed on. Before "Twilight," he admits, he had spent his time "getting drunk for a year." "I was going to all these auditions and telling everyone how I got fired [from a play in London's West End] because I stood up for my principles, and making up all this bullsh--," he said. "I kind of went nuts for a while." He added that he would play his guitar in bars because "no one gave a sh--when you got up onstage."

Despite thinking that he looks like "a cartoon character," he said he went into the "Twilight" audition "a little more brazen than I would have been in a normal audition." "I was still in the mode thinking, I've got to make this really, really serious. This is not just a sexy thing. ... I was slamming my head against the wall and kind of going nuts," he said. "I remember calling my parents and saying, 'That's it. I'm not doing this anymore.' And then hearing, 'OK, fine,' which was not the answer I wanted to hear at all."

Pattinson wasn't the only one doubting he could tackle the role. The studio also wasn't sure he was right for the part, according to "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke. " 'Catherine, do you think you can make this guy look good?' " Hardwicke recalled being asked. "So I said, 'Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get his hair back to a different color, do a different style. He would work with a trainer from now on. My cinematographer is great with lighting. He will study the cheekbones, and I promise you, we'll make the guy look good.' "

Now, of course, instead of concentrating on how to make it, Pattinson is trying to keep fame from becoming too much for him to handle. "I'm trying not to drown," he said. "I guess I'm not the type of guy cut out to do a franchise. I'm not much of a crowd person."



More from E! and the Huffington Post after the cut...

Daily News Round Up

OK Magazine "broke" the news that Rob would not be on Saturday Night Live (SNL) this season. Well, if we are breaking news about what Rob WON'T be doing this year we have a lot of material to report, don't we? :)

Then we have the "report" that according to Edi and Rachelle Rob will appear in the beginning of New Moon till the birthday, then surface in Bella's imagination, warning her not to do stupid stuff and will be back in Italy. Oh my God! Breaking news indeed! I believe I HAVE heard that somewhere...Maybe the New Moon BOOK? :)

And finally a real piece of news. The Haunted Airman and Twilight are being released in the UK tomorrow (well almost today with the time difference) and here is another yummy albeit creepy picture from the Haunted Airman and 2 steamy scenes from Twilight :)


Thanks to Kath, Kirby, Jen and everyone else that sent me the info :)

What if Robert Pattinson Would Fall in Love with You?

A huge thanks to Darja for the scans and translation. If you have magazines in your own language and would like to share them with us, we'd love it! Just send the scans and the translations to our TIP LINE :)

Glamour Germany asked their readers what they'd do if Robert Pattinson was to fall in love with them. 39% thought it would be so romantic while 42% said he didn't shower enough to be their lover. Well, even though I think 61% of Glamour readers are out of their friggin' minds this poll also means less competition for us ROBsessors :)





Glamour - Germany, August 2010


What if....

Robert Pattinson would fall in love with you?

42% I would be flattered, but I would brush him off, he doesn't wash often enough

19% I would inform the media and sell my story to the best offer

39% So romantic! I would keep out love private!

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Glamour Hotlist

34 people, books, movies, trends you talk about right now

27 - Eclipse: What else can we say, movie tickets are selling selling... until the last vampire opponent gives in

33 - Wings instead of sharp teeth: vampires are all the rage at the moment, but angels are getting more and more popular

Stop - Slovenia, 7. July 2010



Vampire In The Circus

Robert Pattinson gained hearts of many screaming teenage admirers as a romantic vampire in Twilight saga. Now he wants to prove himself as different: since may he is shooting Water For Elephants based upon the novel of Sara Gruen, together with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz.

Lady - Slovenia, 7. July 2010



The most beautiful vampire in the world

Robert Pattinson, pages 20 - 21, "I always wanted to be like Jack Nicholson. I've seen him in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest when I was 13 and started to dress and talk like him."

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1.He was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Daniel Radcliffe
2. With Kristen Stewart in a scene from last year's New Moon
3. He moved away from mystic heroes with a role in Remember Me, he finally got a chance to show his true feelings
4. Messy hair, blue eyes and 185 cm make the actor one of the most beautiful in the world
5. His fans are not only teens but their mothers as well
6. With Kristen, they are like one entity, in love and happy.
7. His wax statues in Madame Tussuad's in NYC and London are among the most popular, fans like to touch his face
8. Popularity of his vampire beauty requires him to leave his hand-print everywhere he goes,
also in Planet Hollywood in L.A.

Summary of the article:

British star Robert Pattinson is the biggest movie star due to the popularity of his vampire role in the Twilight saga. Euphoria around him can be only compared to the one that happened around Leonardo Di Caprio around Titanic success. There are 25 security guards on the set of his movies, and when fans got to him, they offer him their necks or even vials of their own blood.

Obsession isn't limited to teens only, middle aged women established Twilight Moms and claim Robert improved their sex life, he makes them feel 8, 14 and 31 years at the same time.
There are six unauthorized books published about him and a documentary Robsessed.
He doesn't like that much attention, fans are all right, but paparazzi are awful.
He was first noticed in the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry potter movie, after that he got a role in theatre play The Woman Before, but he did something really strange rehearsing the role, director didn't like it and he lost the role right before the opening night.
He wanted to quit acting, made some films (How To Be, The Haunted Airman, Little Ashes), tried to enter the music world, but wasn't very successful.
His life changed after he landed the role in Twilight. He was suddenly a star and one of the most sought after actors of Hollywood.

We are waiting for his movie Remember Me to hit theatres this year (Darja: no, it already premiered !!! some of us are waiting for DVD release).

He recently finished Bel Ami. "The cast was amazing. Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman and I've slept with all of them," Robert bragged. (Darja: really, when did he say that ???? really Gozde: Way to spice up the article :) They are talking about him sleeping with them for the movie but it wouldn't be a sensational quote if they included that little bit :))

Now he's making Water For Elephants with Reece Witherspoon and Christophe Waltz, later this year he will be shooting fourth, last part of vampire saga, Breaking Dawn. After that there is a western Unbound Captives, and he chose it because his father is obsessed with the genre.
Robert didn't change much since his Harry potter days, he is still shy. He started acting to meet more girls.
He wanted to be professional musician and his dream was to play a piano in a bar in South of France.
He's so obsessed with Van Morrison he wish he can play him in a movie.
He lives between London and L.A, supports football club Arsenal, his family is mom Clare, dad Richard, sisters Elizabeth and Victoria...
The only thing he is not willing to talk about is his love life. His romance with costar Kristen Stewart interests journalists the most, but all he's willing to say is: "Kristen is amazing, I wanted to work with her since I met her for the fist time. We liked each other immediately."
They fell in love during the shooting of Twilight. She had a boyfriend at the time. but Robert was persistent. "I asked her out many times before she said yes," he admitted in a moment of weakness. Later he stopped talking about it. They were secretive about their relationship during New Moon and Eclipse. He was seen in public with many beauties like Camilla Belle and Anne Schoenberger (Darja: really, Anne again Gozde: It's never gonna end :) The girl had the publicity of her lifetime with that rumor) and ex-girlfriend Nina Schubert, but it was all just to divert attention away from Kristen. The latest news is they're looking for a house in Los Angeles where they will live together


Plus - Slovenia, 2. July 2010

1.) Twilightmania - from the scientists' and psychologists' point of view

2.)Movie crumbs: Robert Pattinson wants to act in theatre and be considered a serious actor

3.) Gossip: Eclipse premiere



Robert Pattinson: "I don’t quite know why I got so lucky but yeah, it’s just ridiculous and I’m pretty happy. Yeah, definitely pretty happy."

Robert Pattinson: "I don’t quite know why I got so lucky but yeah, it’s just ridiculous and I’m pretty happy. Yeah, definitely pretty happy."

Another great read! Rob seems quite open even without sharing beyond his comfort zone.

imgboxThe Telegraph Robert Pattinson interview: "I don't need therapy"

He has millions of female fans, he lives in Los Angeles and paparazzi dog his footsteps wherever he goes; yet it would be difficult to find a young man less interested in embracing his stardom than Robert Pattinson. The 28-year-old actor refuses to go the Hollywood route of big houses, wardrobes full of designer clothes and roles that utilise his boyish good looks.

He has even rejected the idea of taking the near-obligatory therapy route followed by nearly every self-absorbed star in Hollywood, although he jokes: “I would love to go into therapy but it makes me too anxious.”

Then, more seriously, he adds: “I’ve been talking to a lot of people about it and I don’t know. I kind of like my anxiety in a funny sort of way and I like my peaks and troughs. Luckily depression never lasts long with me.”

We are talking in a Beverly Hills hotel suite about his new film The Rover, set in a post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, in which he is totally unrecognisable as Ray, a twitchy, dirt-caked, slow-witted lost soul with rotting teeth. He joins forces with Eric (Guy Pearce), a man of few words who is on the trail of a gang of thieves who stole his only possession, his car. Ray is a role as far removed from the handsome Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies as Pattinson could get – which suits him fine.

For three years, Pattinson lived virtually non-stop with the adventures of the brooding vampire and his romance with the mortal schoolgirl Bella, played by Kristen Stewart. It was the role that, whether he likes it or not, made him one of the hottest and most in-demand young actors in the world. He caused an army of female fans to leave their families and homes to follow him to wherever he was filming.

“I had a bit of a struggle at first because my life really contracted and I couldn’t do a lot of the stuff I used to be able to do," he admits. "But once I got through that a year or two ago I just accepted my life is something else and now I can’t really remember what it was like before, So it’s much easier to deal with.

“It seems much longer ago than two years since the last Twilight came out and I think as you get older you get a bit more confident with every movie you do, so it’s been a gradual graduation to this.”


Pattinson's "graduation" has included a romantic melodrama (Remember Me), a period circus piece (Water for Elephants), a tale of the French nobility (Bel Ami) and playing an introspective Wall Street tycoon (Cosmopolis). He will soon be seen as T.E. Lawrence in the yet-to-be-released Nicole Kidman film Queen of the Desert and he is a wannabe actor and writer in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars which, like The Rover, was well-received at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

“I’m curious to know whether people who liked the Twilight movies will come and see things like The Rover,” he says. “Hopefully they’ll enjoy it. I try to do ambitious projects but I don’t know if people are going to like them. You just try and do things which are challenging and hopefully people will appreciate that.”

Although his name is regularly linked with big studio projects such as Star Wars and superhero movies (recent rumours had him cast as a young Han Solo in a Star Wars spin-off), he denies he has ever been offered them and is wary about becoming involved in another franchise. “They don’t come into my orbit and I don’t really see myself in a lot of mainstream parts,” he says. “I’ve never been part of the group that gets these roles.”

He particularly enjoyed working on the low-budget apocalyptic thriller The Rover because it was filmed entirely on location in the scorching heat of the Australian outback, where he existed on a diet of “white bread and barbecue sauce”, and where there were no fans or photographers to pester him. “I just loved it because not only was there no one trying to find you, there’s no one there at all. I wasn’t worrying about anyone trying to sneak up on me or anything so I found it incredibly peaceful and relaxing.”

To land the role he had to go through an arduous four-hour audition for writer-director David Michod, whose previous film was the well-reviewed Animal Kingdom. “For the first 45 minutes I had to deal with my own neuroses before I’d do any kind of acting and I think David recognised this and when I let myself calm down I was fine.”

Michod recalls: “We would do a take and Robert would go, ‘Oh I was so terrible.’ But he wasn’t terrible, he’s just very English and very self-deprecating. I knew within five minutes of our four hour audition I’d found the actor to play Ray.”

Pattinson’s global travels keep him away from his home in London, which he isn’t too sorry about. “I spent two months in England last year which is the longest I’ve spent there in six years, which was nice, but I always go back to England at Christmas time and get so depressed that I’m glad to get back to Los Angeles," he says. "I’ve really grown to like L.A and I guess it’s my home at the moment.”

His current home is other people’s houses. “I had this great house which I bought four or five years ago," he says. "It was incredible, absolutely completely crazy. It was like Versailles, with an incredible garden, but I just stayed in one room. I sold it because I suddenly realised I’m not quite old enough to be dealing with plumbing and stuff. So I spent about six months borrowing peoples’ houses, which was nice. Now I’m renting a place which is much smaller.”

Pattinson laughs easily and often and is much more relaxed and at ease than in the early days when he resembled a startled deer caught in the headlights. Despite the massive changes in his life in a relatively short time, he has kept his feet firmly on the ground. Although he appears in advertisements for Christian Dior, he is certainly no fashion plate; he lost nearly all his clothes following a recent house move and hasn't bothered to replace them. “I’ve started wearing the same thing pretty much every day like a uniform,” he says. “I haven’t taken this jacket off for weeks,” indicating the black, slightly moth-eaten jacket he is wearing that nevertheless looks good on him.

“It’s ridiculous. I don’t understand how I don’t have any clothes. I’ve basically stolen every item of clothing that anyone’s ever given me for a premiere but in my closet there are literally about three things. I’m sure there’s some kind of random storage box full of them somewhere.”


Working for Dior, he says with a chuckle, is “the most ridiculous job in the world. I have to do barely anything and I just occasionally have to go to some Dior parties, which is great.”

Pattinson was born in Barnes, West London, and joined the local theatre club as a teenager. He was spotted by a casting agent and made his screen debut in 2004 in a German television production; he was then bizarrely cast as Reese Witherspoon’s son in Vanity Fair, although his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.

He achieved some recognition for his role as the brave but doomed Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and he had a brief flashback cameo in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He had been torn between an acting career and going to university but the Harry Potter roles convinced him to stick with acting. He played a shell-shocked Second World War airman in a BBC Four production, The Haunted Airman, but then spent the best part of the next two years unemployed. His agent persuaded him to try his luck in Los Angeles so, armed with little but an English accent and a sense of humour, he did.

He was not sure whether he wanted the Twilight role when he was first offered it after auditioning by performing a love scene with the already-cast Kristen Stewart; she persuaded the director, Catherine Hardwicke, that he was the actor to play the troubled vampire Edward Cullen. “I’d read the book and couldn’t really picture myself in the role of this handsome, perfect guy,” he says. “I didn’t know how big it was going to be."

He was romantically involved with his co-star Stewart for three years but the romance ended when she reportedly had an affair with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. He is currently dating model Imogen Kerr although he politely declines to talk about his romantic life.

Reviewing how he arrived at where he is in life he uses a word which features frequently in his vocabulary – “ridiculous".

"I’m extremely lucky which always makes me a little nervous,” he says. “I don’t quite know why I got so lucky but yeah, it’s just ridiculous and I’m pretty happy. Yeah, definitely pretty happy.”

ROBsessed Birthday Giveaway Week: Day 7 Caption Robert Pattinson!

ROBsessed Birthday Giveaway Week: Day 7 Caption Robert Pattinson!

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The winner will win a choice of $30-$40 package:

1. Special Edititon Robert Pattinson 2011 Calendar

2. A Robert Pattinson movie: Dark Kingdom ; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Widescreen Edition) (Harry Potter 4) ; The Haunted Airman ; How to Be ; Little Ashes ; Remember Me ; Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition) ; The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition) ; Bad Mother's Handbook ; Love & Distrust

3. A book Robert Pattinson was spotted reading:
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories ; Doomed Love (Penguin Great Loves) ; Nine Stories ; Kill Your Friends: A Novel (P.S.) ; Independent People ; 2666: A Novel ; My Friend the Mercenary ; Tom Waits - Anthology (Music Sales America) ; Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire

4. A book one of his movies was based on:
Twilight (The Twilight Saga) ; New Moon (The Twilight Saga) ; Eclipse (The Twilight Saga) ; Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga) ; The Bad Mother's Handbook: A Novel ; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) ; Water for Elephants: A Novel ; Bel Ami (Vintage Classics)

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