David Cronenberg Talks To The Sunday Times About Calming Down A Nervous Robert Pattinson

David Cronenberg Talks To The Sunday Times About Calming Down A Nervous Robert Pattinson



Cosmopolis is Cronenberg’s most prescient film yet. The mercurial director tells Kevin Maher about capitalism, phone-hacking and calming a manic Robert Pattinson

It’s the early erotic climax of David Cronenberg’s new movie Cosmopolis, and it features teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson playing Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager. Packer is staring deeply into the eyes of his financial director, Jane Melman (Emily Hampshire). The pair banter. They talk about foreign finance ministers. They joke about Melman’s water bottle. They even discuss the ubiquity of sexual impulses.

There’s just one thing awry, however. And it’s the fact that Packer is also on all fours, with his trousers down, in the middle of a protracted and hugely squelchy six-minute prostate examination.

This, of course, is very Cronenberg. For the man who gave us exploding heads in Scanners and sexualised body scars in, well, everything from Rabid to eXistenZ, is famed for both his perverse desire to subvert expectations and for his thundering belief in the tyranny of biology — “We can never escape from the reality of the human body!” is a favourite mantra.

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CTV News Talk To Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg At The Toronto Press Junket

CTV News Talk To Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg At The Toronto Press Junket

Great new interview with Rob and David



"Twilight" star Robert Pattinson may seem like nothing more than a teen heartthrob to his critics. But his detractors may change their minds after watching his risky performance in the new David Cronenberg film, "Cosmopolis."

In Canadian theatres on Friday, Pattinson headlines this masterful and, at times, chilling adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, "Cosmopolis."

True to DeLillo's satirical work, the British actor plays billionaire Eric Packer, a young fund manager who experiences a meltdown one day as he cruises through Manhattan in the back of a stretch limo. As Packer's trip to the hairdresser unfolds, he glides in and out of the lives of strangers, businesses associates and his wife Elise (played by Sarah Gadon).

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*NEW* Pic Of Robert Pattinson At XFM (London)

*NEW* Pic Of Robert Pattinson At XFM (London)

Emmmmmm...........I wanna hold Rob's hand too



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Robert Pattinson is "the perfect choice" for Georges Duroy and he is finally in US theaters this weekend

Robert Pattinson is "the perfect choice" for Georges Duroy and he is finally in US theaters this weekend

UPDATE: Two great reviews came out for the Bel Ami release in the US!

The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed Bel Ami and they gave Rob great compliments!

From this day on, Pattinson cannot be written off as the pale, neurasthenic fellow who would really like to kiss Kristen Stewart in the "Twilight" movies, but he's afraid he'll rip her veins out.
In fact, if "Bel Ami" is any indication, Pattinson should be known as a very good actor.
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What distinguishes Pattinson in the role is the sense he conveys of someone roiling and churning beneath a surface that is almost, but not quite, calm.
At various times in "Bel Ami," Pattinson registers unexpressed terror, shame, rage and scorn, so that it is impossible not to recognize and even start to feel his tension and to understand the life-and-death consequences behind his every interaction. Young Georges (Pattinson) has nothing and yet finds himself traveling in upper-class Parisian circles - with people who have everything, who know his every move in advance and who would be just as happy to see him land back in the gutter. 
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It's a pleasure to watch him onscreen and wait for the explosion.

Salon gave Bel Ami the "Pick of the Week" calling it an "enjoyably soapy 19th-century costume drama". An excerpt from their review:

It’s legitimate to dislike this film, of course; one of the things I appreciated about “Bel Ami,” perhaps perversely, is how forcefully it resists easy enjoyment. But I think “Bel Ami” has been criticized in some quarters for being exactly what it sets out to be, a trashy, high-culture morality tale with an unpleasant hero and a bleak view of human relations. Pattinson plays Georges throughout as an unsophisticated country boy whose desires and appetites are almost animalistic. He can be a friendly, loyal dog or a scheming, hungry wolf, but the world of high-society Paris rapidly educates him about which of those personas is more conducive to advancement.

The time has arrived, USA. Bel Ami is finally showing in theaters. Near you? Well that's a different story but we'll get there in a moment. I'm sure many of you have already seen the film if you live in certain countries and many of you have seen the film on VOD when it was released May 4th in the US. However, we need to give Rob support in the theaters. The release is limited so if the theaters are near you, make an outing of it and enjoy DuRob on the big screen. My viewings will take place Sunday and I can't wait to see him the way I should have always seen him. LARGE!

Click HERE to visit MovieTickets and search for a theater near you. The release is limited so you still might have a hard time finding the film locally. If it is local, GO SUPPORT ROB! Magnolia Pictures has theaters and dates on their site as well but not all theaters.

More Bel Ami goodies after the cut to celebrate the US release!

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NEW: Robert Pattinson on the cover of Day & Night + Rob & David interview with Richard Crouse & MORE!

NEW: Robert Pattinson on the cover of Day & Night + Rob & David interview with Richard Crouse & MORE!

UPDATE: Since this was a mini Cosmopolis cluster of news, I'm adding new footage of Rob inside the theater of his Cosmopolis premiere at Cannes and David mentioning Rob in a new interview. Videos at the bottom.

A new promotional still from Cosmopolis features Rob on the cover of Day & Night magazine!



This is the audio of Rob and David's interview with Richard Crouse. Rob is great. I love him in this setting. It sounds like the interview took place on June 5th, the day after the press conference. He's very thoughtful with his answers and it's over 10 min long. There is a spoiler around the 8:50-9:10 area. Skip that and Rob picks back up talking after 9:30 when the question finished.

Highlights:

• Rob talking about journalists asking if his roles reflect his real self and not relating to that question
• Rob talks about people's fascination with fame
• Rob says he thinks the limos aren't that present in NYC anymore
• Rob likes the poetry of the script and says a great anecdote about his friend who wrote a script. This led to him saying how much he loves the language of Cosmopolis. "Whenever I see clips of it, I want to say the lines again." This really hit me because after seeing the film, I haven't been able to stop saying the lines the way these characters spoke them.

Quick glimpse of Rob in the theater at Cannes. You can also see Kristen and Tom.





Thank you Sky for the heads up! xx

Great interview with Robert Pattinson on the George Stroumboulopoulos Show

Great interview with Robert Pattinson on the George Stroumboulopoulos Show

UPDATE: The entire show is now up in great quality!

This show was so good!



Fantastic behind-the-scene image of Rob while on the Cosmopolis set.





Previous clips and the live tweets after the cut!

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Cosmopolis Promo Roundup: New Robert Pattinson photos and interview - "Sometimes craziness is a good thing"

Cosmopolis Promo Roundup: New Robert Pattinson photos and interview - "Sometimes craziness is a good thing"

Rob is on George Stroumboulopoulos this evening and the show tweeted a teaser picture to get us excited. As if we aren't excited already for anything with Rob but this picture is too cute.



An article came out from Cannes with new quotes from Rob. They crack me up because I have a really bad cough. It's lingering from a cold I had weeks ago and now I think if I was in a movie with Rob, he'd beat me down. Eek!

From Toronto.com:

CANNES, FRANCE—Robert Pattinson swears he can tell how people are enjoying his movies by how many coughs he hears from the audience. He employed this unique gauge at the May 25 Cannes Film Festival world premiere of Cosmopolis, his new movie directed by David Cronenberg.

“I watched it at the screening last night, but I wasn’t even watching,” Pattinson, 26, tells a roundtable of journalists. “I was just listening for every cough: Please don’t cough! Please don’t cough!” (Tink: See! Rob would not be ok with me in his screening.)


He seems awfully nervous for one so successful. He’s the lead star of the Twilight franchise, playing moody vampire Edward Cullen, a role that has made him famous and rich. Pattinson also had a small role in another big film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He’s neither new at this game nor naïve. Could he really suffer from self-doubt?

“Oh, completely,” he says, sucking on a lollipop for sustenance. (Tink: Jesus...)

“I want that the whole time. Even for this screening. I was pissed off about everything, completely worried, incredibly stressful thing. But my manager was like, ‘You’re not happy at all?’ No, no, people are all coughing! They’re coughing because they’re bored!


“It’s f---ing crazy. Coughing! It’s all I can think about. But I like that. You’ve got to burn. As soon as you start thinking you’re good, you’re s--t. So yeah, it’s an annoying way to live, but yeah.” (Tink: note to self - drink Robitussin in the theater if Rob is there.)

He’s equally candid about his doubts whether to accept the lead role of Eric Packer, the 28-year-old billionaire in Cosmopolis who goes off the reservation for a day-long Manhattan odyssey in a white stretch limo.

“It seems complicated on the page (Don DeLillo’s book and Cronenberg’s screenplay), and I thought making the decision whether to do it or not seemed like the only difficult part of it.

“Could I actually do it? I didn’t know. David offered it to me and I didn’t know. I know it’s really good, and it’s Cronenberg, so it’s really cool. But on the other side, you’re in every scene, so if you f--- it up, you f--- up the whole movie.” (Tink: He so didn't f--- it up.)


So here Pattinson is at the Cannes Film Festival, holding court with ink-stained wretches, and actually seeming to enjoy himself while doing so. Maybe it’s because no one is coughing. It helps that his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, his vampire love on-screen and real one off-screen, was also in Cannes, presenting her own new film, On the Road. The two walked the red carpet together. Pattinson hasn’t always been this wound up. He got that way after Twilight launched millions of teen sighs — and shivers.

“Yeah, because no one cared before (Twilight). It’s easier now to sell things to people, but afterwards, it’s weird. If everyone thinks something is good, you’re the one who thinks it’s s--t. If everyone is saying it’s bad, you’re like, ‘That’s the only time you think it’s good. You’re the only one that thinks it.’”

These feelings were intensified for him at Cannes, because Cosmopolis was competing for the Palme d’Or, the fest’s top prize (it didn’t win).

“Normally you wait for reviews or whatever, but when you’re presenting it to a (potentially) hostile audience, it’s crazy. Not knowing the whole time whether or not people will boo . . . and you have to sit there. I was talking to David before the screening, asking him, ‘Instead of an ovation, could they do a 20-minute booing thing?’” (Tink: Forever cute. Forever paranoid.)

Cronenberg calmed him down. But the director obviously picked the right man to play Eric Packer, who doesn’t seem to know how to relax. He’s constantly in full fidget, even while sitting stock still in his limo. Pattinson realizes this, and it’s why he liked the role.

“There’s a constant energy there. You want chaos to happen. He doesn’t know the answers. It’s like a really young adolescent thing: There has to be something else! The longer you hold on to that, it gets crazier and crazier. Sometimes craziness is a good thing.” (Tink: Sometimes...*side-eyes some crazy people*)


Except when people are coughing.

The next thing we have is 4 older stills now in HQ! This pleases me because just look at him...



*gibberish*

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These were in MQ before and now they're in HQ. Yay us :))







Our last Cosmopolis roundup tidbit is an interview with Rob from the Portugal press junket.



We don't have video but click HERE to watch. Rob's interview isn't dubbed and it's around 16:00 and 17:20. David Cronenberg's interview is in between the two Rob parts. Rob talks about liking the curiosity of David watching what Rob was doing and more. The overall Portugal coverage for Cosmopolis begins around 8:20

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David Cronenberg, Paul Giamatti & Sarah Gadon Talk About Robert Pattinson On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

David Cronenberg, Paul Giamatti & Sarah Gadon Talk About Robert Pattinson On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

More clips from Strombo which airs tonight in Canada.
This looks SO good! I can't wait to see it.
And i'm starting up a Paypal account to buy the footage that's "available for a price" from David!



Paul talks about stuff he penciled out on the original "Cosmopolis" script (not really) and how Rob made him feel at ease when he arrived on set.



Sarah Gadon says she gives her castmates dvd's (how sweet is that?) and talks about the film she gave to Rob

Because We Can Never Get Enough Of Robert Pattinson In A Tux .........

Because We Can Never Get Enough Of Robert Pattinson In A Tux .........
We have more from the "Cosmopolis" AfterParty in Cannes

Why So Handsome Rob?



Two Rob's and Dean's are always better than One



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Robert Pattinson talks about censorship in the film industry and the "very dark, funny" 'Map to the Stars'

Robert Pattinson talks about censorship in the film industry and the "very dark, funny" 'Map to the Stars'

A couple of blurbs from Rob that have come out from Cosmopolis promo.



From Film News (UK):

Robert Pattinson is shocked by how censored show business remains. The actor stars in director David Cronenberg’s upcoming move Cosmopolis. In this film Robert’s character is involved in a threesome and shoots himself in the hand with a gun. Robert believes that the movie ratings system is inherently flawed in the age of the internet.

“You’re immediately at the highest rating with things to do with sex. But you can have violence. It’s like, ‘What?!’ It’s completely crazy,” he told British newspaper The Sun. “I don’t think there’s anything in Cosmopolis that’s particularly... there’s nothing bad. I don’t think there’s anything that would have shocked me when I was 13. Especially when every single kid nowadays probably watches hardcore pornography on the internet. It’s no worse – in fact, it’s a lot better.”

Robert isn’t nervous about how audiences will receive the potentially incendiary scenes in Cosmopolis.

“I’m not worried about the violence or the sex or anything like that,” he said. “Transformers is more violent than Cosmopolis.”

From Entertainment Weekly:

It appears that Pattinson and Cronenberg are hoping to pair up once more following their upcoming Cosmopolis. Pattinson confirmed to EW that he’s attached to the director’s long-gestating Maps to the Stars — although he’s not sure when they would begin production. “I don’t know if I’m doing it next,” he says. Cronenberg has stated that he hopes to cast frequent collaborator Viggo Mortensen as well.

The film would be based on a script by novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, who has also written an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, As She Climbed Across the Table, for Cronenberg. “It’s about child stars,” says Pattinson of Wagner’s script. “It’s very funny. It’s very, very dark.”

Cosmopolis, which is based on a 2003 Don DeLillo novel, debuted two weeks ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

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The Bromance continues! David Cronenberg misses Robert Pattinson and shares insightful information about Cosmopolis

The Bromance continues! David Cronenberg misses Robert Pattinson and shares insightful information about Cosmopolis



This audio interview on CBC Radio was great. The interviewer started to grate on my nerves but David, of course, made sure Rob was respected. He loves him so. :')

I worked on a semi-transcript (not entirely verbatim) for CosmopolisFilm because the video can't be embedded on that blog but I'll include it here in case some of you aren't able to listen to the audio right now. The interview is on autorun so it's after the cut.

Interview and summary after the cut!

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Robert Pattinson Talks About Furious Critics To ET In Cannes

Robert Pattinson Talks About Furious Critics To ET In Cannes

He's so funny in this when he gets the giggles over the critics
We've heard most of this interview already but some of the answers are longer.



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