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Avid.com has posted a wonderful video of the editing process of Water for Elephants. We get a tiny glimpse at new footage featuring Rob. If you’re into filmmaking and editing you might find this very interesting to watch.

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Rob spoke to Elle Russia. Here’s the full translation courtesy of @IAmYuliaBelka.

Elle Girl: Hi, Rob! Let’s talk about love.
Robert: Oh, again. (smiling) Ok, you can. What’s interesting about that?

EG: Your character in WFE fell in love from the first sight. Do you believe in love like that?
R: Of course

EG: Did it happen to you?
R: Million times. I actually think that most people fell in love at the moment when they saw their love for the first time.

EG: And how can you tell that you fall in love?
R: I can’t answer that. Really. I don’t know. You have very hard questions.

EG: Robert!
R: How can you describe love? If you love someone then you think that this person is the best in the world, don’t you? But if she doesn’t think that way about herself?? I think, the whole point to make her believe that she’s perfect, the most beautiful.

EG: In the movie your and Reese’s characters has a secret love. About you and your private life?
R: Oh, if it was me, I would do everything to make private life just for 2 people.You know, when I was 12, I asked a girl for a date for the 1st time. The next everybody was like: ‘Are you going out with her?’ And I was like: ‘Oh God’. I never talked to this girl ever.

EG: Is it easier for you now?
R: What private life with all these paparazzi around? They don’t care, they make money. You know, I hate being photographed. Even before all of this [fame] I hated it, even when my mom took pictures of me.

EG: And this man became an actor…
R: On a movie set I have nothing against the cameras. But other places…

EG: And what you’re gonna do to stop that?
R: I’m ready to shoot! *laughs*

EG: Are you tired of fans?
R: No, it’s all good, fans, love, of course, if it’s about me. But I feel like it’s all about character, not real Rob.

EG: But you’re so handsome, It’s pretty much enough to somebody to fall in love…
R: It’s kind of weird. Before Twilight I wasn’t offered the roles of guys like that.

EG: Was it hard to play more ‘human’ part in WFE?
R: No, actually.On the set I was really happy with what’s around me. For example, it was cool that you can sweat and play the role like that. On Twilight it was impossible, if your forehead sweated even a little bit, immediately 5 make-up artists there to fix it. It’s kind of a relief that it wasn’t like that on WFE.

EG: What about wild animals? Was it hard to work with them?
R: No, it was cool! If you’re working with elephant, for instance, and there’s some kind of chest cause the elephant threw it there, you have to react naturally. No one expects the episode to be perfect because animals can’t work with a script, It means that actors also can relax and improvise. And that’s very cool.

EG: Do you have pets at home?
R: Yeah? I have a dog now and very happy about it.

EG: How did you call it?
R: I haven’t decided yet, it’s from the shelter.He’s like, like, he looks like hyena

EG: Did you start to train it?
R: Yes. It’s very clever and obedient.

EG: Feels like you like animals more than humans?
R: I don’t know. I’m just lucky with four-legged friends. On the set I become really close with Tai, the elephant. She definitely has some kind of aura, anyone who was around her felt really peaceful. It’s really cool, to be around such a huge animal, which is so gentle at the same time.

EG: Was the circus that exciting for you when you were a child?
R: Not really. When I was there, I saw really stupid number where the clown died. I thought it was for real until I was like 21. My mom opened my eyes. *laughs*

EG: How you can relax?
R: I can’t wait for the flights. I can sleep there quietly.

EG: And what about your dream day off? What it’s like?
R: I’d probably watch films. Or played a game on my IPhone *laughs*. I can play it 16 hours in a row.

EG: What about sport?
R: On BD I was training really hard because I have shirtless scenes. I had to eat healthy food, go to the gym all the time, ride a bike everywhere and I liked it. When I finished these scenes, I relaxed and I don’t go to the gym at all. I can’t force myself.

EG: Any guilty pleasures?
R: M&M’s pretzels.

Check out this new stills courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com. First, Marlena takes care of Jacob’s wounds after he’s beaten up. Second, Marlena and Jacob with Rosie. This still is so beautiful, it almost looks like a painting:

See more sans Jacob here at BoxOfficeMojo.

Here’s the complete segment of Water for Elephants on Entertainment Tonight. It features new interviews with Rob and Reese, as well as new behind the scenes footage.

Here are some HQ screencaps that I took from the TV last night. Enjoy!

Bel Ami was filmed in early 2010 and was expected to be released around Christmas, however it hasn’t been released and has no release date in sight, much to the fans’ disappointment. Rob recently mentioned in an interview that the movie was not ready and was still being edited, and re-edited and edited again. People didn’t understand why. Turns out that, according to Total Film, the producers of the movie are afraid of marketing a movie where Robert Pattinson stars as a villain. Bel Ami tells the story of a young journalist who is promiscuous and is a social climber. He uses women to get ahead and breaks their hearts with no mercy. The movie is sensual and controversial and it was one of the reasons why Rob wanted to do it in the first place – he wanted to play a character different than anything else he’s ever done (especially Edward Cullen). In the novel he does what he wants and gets away with everything. He’s no hero and he gets no punishment for his actions. In all the film adaptions ever made, they change the ending and several points in the story so that the bad guy gets what he deserves. This new adaptation was supposed to be the one that stayed faithful to the story of Georges Duroy. Not anymore. It looks like all the editing going on with Bel Ami is to tone down Rob’s character and make a less scandalous movie for the sake of his fandom and the target audience.

“We were really true to the book and because the guy is basically a shit who wins everything at the end it’s really difficult to market it – especially with me in it,” Pattinson tells TF exclusively.

“Everyone’s worried that everyone’s going to be thinking, ‘Oh I want him to be nice, he’s got to be nice to all the ladies’.”

Bel Ami, though, is an unrepentant cad. “I know,” laughs the Water For Elephants star, “But that was fun!”

Toning Bel Ami down would be a huge mistake! Fans are dying to see Rob playing a completely different character than what we’re used to seeing. Fans really want to see Rob in this sexy, evil role as well, and enjoy a new side of him as a villain. More importantly, fans want to support a movie that Rob was drawn to do, as it was intended to be seen originally. We’ll support whatever he does, and it’s the 21st century, people can handle controversial movies. Back when all film adaptations had the ending changed (some of them even killing the character, like in the 1935 Mexican adaptation) it was because audiences were too sensitive and would’ve been shocked to death to see such a villain strut around unharmed after hurting so many people. Times have changed and people will love seeing Rob as a naughty boy.

Vanity Fair Italy interviewed Rob recently. We showed you a preview and now we have the whole interview courtesy of @CSI_Robsten. I’ve said this before, but the best Rob interviews are always foreign. For some reason it feels like Rob is more comfortable with the foreign press and he gives the best quotes. This interview is not exception.

Here are some highlights.

On his new dog.
“I don’t know how I’ll handle it, but if you have to travel around the world, it’s good to have a mate. I took him from the animal shelter: I laugh if I think that he went from a shelter to a suit of the Four Season Hotel.”

On Water For Elephants being a romantic movie.
“What appealed to me was the historical period, the Great Depression and the circus. It’s so intriguing. Chlidren don’t dream of running away with a film crew, but with the circus. It still happens today, I guess. At least they did in the 30’s, when there was no tv and no cinema down the street. Besides I liked that it was also about animals and and human-animal relationship (he stops and bursts out laughing). I know, it sounds weird this way. In the beginning, you may think “oh there comes the guy, he’s going to meet the girl and it’ll be love at first sight. Then they’re going to run away together”. But it’s not like this. It’s a more complex story. Jacob falls in love with Marlena, but doesn’t try to bring her with him. She first kisses him and then rejects him, but indeed he accepts her choice. She will always be an extraordinary woman to him, no matter what. Jacob just wants to give and doesn’t ask for anything in return. That’s the best kind of relationship.”

On ever having a relationship with a married woman and cheating.
“Life is not black and white. There are married couples that never see each other. Is that marriage? But there’s a thing I’ve never got, that is why do people cheat? I can understand the impulse, but not how you can keep two relationship going at the same time for long. This usually happens to people with children, but I can’t really get why a non-commitment guy would choose to date four girls at the same time either. It must be hell, especially for men. I think it’s more complicated for men, because somehow they have to “provide for” their women. I’m not talking about money support, but about enthusiasm: they have to cultivate the relationship. Doing it with more women at the same time would be very hard, a real work.”

On being a one woman kind of guy and his parents relationship being an example.
“I’m not the casual-affair kind of guy. If I choose to be with someone it’s because I really want it. When I have a relationship, I’m 100% into it. If I felt like seeing more women at once then I wouldn’t go around saying “this is my girlfriend”. My mother was 17 and my father was 25 when they met, they’re still together and look very happy. I’ve grown up believing that you can stay with the same person throughout your life.

On the sex scenes in Breaking Dawn, Bel Ami and Cosmopolis.
“It wasn’t that difficult in Bel Ami, since we were dressed most of the time. Twilight worried me a lot instead: there are high expectations and everybody is talking about it. So I went to the gym every day for a month. It was the first time I was in shape in all my life. Yes, but anyway I could’t have done it for longer. Oh, you forgot Cosmopolis. That’s plenty of sex scenes. In one of them a girl shoots me with an electic gun, it’s crazy!”

Does he still think he has nothing in common with Edward Cullen?

Tonight there will be a new segment of Water for Elephants on Entertainment Tonight. Don’t miss it! Check out the teaser above.

We have more quotes from Rob’s interview with Empire magazine, now in stands. In the interview he discusses Water for Elephants, Twilight and his next big movie Cosmopolis.

Here are some highlights.

On starring in Water for Elephants.
For any other actor, such a role would be part of a distinct gameplan, a decision to ratchet things up a notch, embrace the limelight, go Hollywood. Pattinson, though, claims this was not the case. “It’s actually a cheaper film that ant of the Twilight movies,” he says softly, “so it wasn’t that massive a budget, it just looks like it was. But it seems so big, it does seem like a step, or something. It’s weird, though. When I first read the script – because I didn’t have that many lines – I just thought, ‘Oh, okay, I get it: I’m in the eyes of the audience. It’s going to be a big spectacle movie that isn’t solely resting on my shoulders…’” He laughs. “So I was very relaxed about it, going in.”

He didn’t realise he’d be carrying the whole movie!
“I only realised about halfway through,” he grins. “I was working every single day. Reese was hardly ever in, and Christoph only came in sporadically *. I was like, ‘how did this happen?!’”

On getting his big break when he was about to go broke.
“But it was quite funny, really. I ended up getting Harry Potter because the casting director felt so guilty that she forgot to tell me. I think I was the first person seen for it. Nowadays, I’m working all the time. But before that… I mean, in my career before Twilight, whatever job I got, that was the job I did. I never turned down a thing. They weren’t even lead parts. Anything. Just random little things. And I liked doing it, on that level. I survived off the money for Harry Potter for, like, three years. I spent three years getting drunk **. And just when I was about to go broke, I got Twilight.”

On almost choosing music over movies.
“All my friends were doing music and just starting to get contracts,” he recalls. “We were all playing in the same little group of people. So I was going to start doing that, and then I got offered Little ashes, out of the blue. At first, I thought it was just gonna be two months’ vacation in Spain, but it ended up being really, really hard. It was the first job I’d really researched, and I’d only just started to find some satisfaction in acting.”

And after that? “Well, then I got Twilight,” he grins. “I finished Little Ashes and went to LA because I really, really needed money! I had this big tax bill, and I was completely broke. But it had given me a different perspective. I talked to people in auditions differently, whereas before I just went in going, ‘Yeah, I don’t really know what I’m doing,’ and I didn’t really care.”

On auditioning for Twilight.
“No-one believes me about this. You couldn’t buy the books in England. And I only knew one person who’d read then, who was my mum’s friend’s daughter, who lived in New York. It just seemed like it was one of those ‘young adult’ class reader things. I had no idea what it was about. So I went over there and I didn’t know what to make of it at all. But I’d seen Into The Wild, and I thought Kristen (Stewart) was really good in it. They said, ‘Oh, that’s the girl playing Bella.’ And I was like ‘Shit, she’s actually good!’ So I did a reading with her, and she was really impressive.”

Full transcription and scans at IrishTwiSisters.