New interview with Rob via The Sydney Morning Herald.
“My main attraction was to play a role close to myself and because I’ve never played a normal guy,” says Pattinson, who was hands-on in the development of the film from beginning to end.
“I tried to make it about the point in your adolescence when you’re so focused on being an individual and you don’t want to accept just being part of the world.”
Despite Pattinson’s best intentions, the romance at the heart of the piece, although pleasing his fan base, hardly offers a departure for the actor.
However, things will be notably different in his next film, Bel Ami, which is being made in London. He plays the social-climbing philanderer Georges Durey of Guy de Maupassant’s 19th-century novel.
“He’s a guy who hates the entire world and just uses women to get money,” Pattinson says of his character, who enjoys romps between the sheets with women played by Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci.
“I thought it was quite a funny little story after doing all these romantic things.”
The hard yards for Pattinson have just begun but rather than believing his own hype, a guilt complex about his good fortune has given him sobriety beyond his years.
“You have to earn your luck,” he says. “I am pretty sure in the next 10 years I’ll be working every single day to kind of make up for this.”
Pattinson stars in the new drama, ‘Remember Me,’ and he says of filming love scenes with “Lost”’s Emilie de Ravin, “It’s always scary, I think much more scary for girls.”
But he says, “Emily’s just like completely comfortable in herself so it makes you feel more comfortable with yourself.”
Of choosing to do the film, he explains, “I read it in the summer after I just shot my first ‘Twilight’ film and [was planning] what to do next. … I read about 50 scripts and this one just stood out. It seemed completely different and I could hear the voice of the character.”
Check out these wonderful outtakes from Another Man magazine and GQ courtesy of PattinsonLife. Click to view them in full size. They’re in mid-quality, but hopefully we can get them in High-res soon.
In an interview with Movies.ie Leonardo Di Caprio talked about his comparisons with Rob.
The tragic role of Jack in Titanic was enough for the young Leonardo DiCaprio’s career to explode. To the point where the 23-year old actor couldn’t step outside his door without the paparazzi photographing his every move. And the world constantly contemplating his next move.
A bit like Robert Pattinson after Twilight broke. Only even more mental.
“I can see it happening with Robert Pattinson, absolutely,” laughs DiCaprio, “and it brings back such happy, and crappy, memories. Your life isn’t your own when that kind of stardom happens, and you have tabloids every day making up stories about you.
“It’s not exactly what an actor dreams of, because your anonymity is gone.”
Suddenly, you’re Elvis, and that means playing someone else for an audience is nigh on impossible. DiCaprio addressed the issue by playing a variation of himself at that time in Woody Allen’s Celebrity, but when he tried to actually act in 1998’s The Man In The Iron Mask and 2000’s The Beach, audiences just wanted more Jack. Or more Romeo.
Read the complete interview at the source.
Treat of the day. A still from Rob’s movie The Haunted Airman in high quality courtesy of PattinsonLife. Click to view in full size.
The latest and final installment of the “Rob Pattinson & Filmmaker Chat” recently went live on iTunes!
>> http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id359811752
In this part of the podcast, Rob and the filmmakers discuss the chemistry between Rob and his costars Emile de Ravin (Ally Craig) and Ruby Jerins
(Rob’s little sister in the film – Caroline Hawkins).
Courtesy of Pattinson Life we have a new translated interview with Rob.
How would you like to be remembered?
(laughs) I don’t know, the only thing I can think about is that I feel bad about my family. I really don’t know how I’d like to be remembered. Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t remembered at all, just forgotten.You said in Cannes that Remember Me is the most personal movie you ever made and that you were playing yourself. Can you talk about that?
I said that before I made the movie. I was working in pre-production and the movie changed a lot. In fact, I was trying to bring the character closer to me, but as filming developed, the it became very different.
Rest of the interview after the jump.
The Gazette interviewed Rob for his movie Remember Me. They talked about his career, the movie, Twilight and his upcoming movie Bel Ami.
On his character Tyler:
To say that Pattinson as Tyler redefines James Dean’s Rebel Without a Cause angst is not an exaggeration, although the actor expresses some reservations about the assessment.
“I think it’s a fairly typical state to be in,” Pattinson notes of his character’s classic rebellious posturing. “And yes, I think there’s that element, but I was also interested in the arrogant things about Tyler.”
“The way Tyler reacted to specific things seemed very relatable to me,” Pattinson admits. “I hadn’t seen a character like it in 100 scripts, so when it came available between filming New Moon and Eclipse, I went for it, because it seemed like a perfect fit.”
On being a producer for the first time:
“I’m kind of embarrassed about the producing thing, because I wasn’t really acting like a proper producer,” he confesses. “I only came on after filming to help make sure the product was the product we all wanted to make at the end.”
On his character in Bel Ami:
“I think there’s a kind of irony in Bel Ami, because a lot of the women are attracted to my character,” Pattinson says, smiling ever so slightly, “and then he kind of screws them over and steals their money, which I think is quite funny compared to my Twilight character.”
Rob taped his appereance when he was in New York last week. It finally aired this morning.
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