Robert Pattinson featured in Vanity Fair (Italy)

Be still my beating heart.

 

 

Thanks Posh.

PS. Will attempt translation when I get a moment.

Updated:  Very very rough translation with the help of Google & Bing.

Luckily, I didn’t listen to you.

His teacher suggested that he do everything except be an actor. Instead, at the age of 31 Robert Pattinson has conquered Hollywood, has millions of fans around the world and earning enough money that he doesn’t know what to do with it. The vampire era is behind him, now he prefers ugly characters and losers as opposed to the good guys destined to save the world.

Take me for a visionary, but I know who Robert Pattinson really is.

I became one of his older fans (if I had children, better still daughters, I would have dragged them to see the series of Twilight), after having met him in person.

It was in 2011 and he was promoting Water for Elephants, essentially his first film ex-vampire film in between a break between Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which would be arriving a few months later, and the second and last part of the saga, coming out the following year.

As often happens when stumbling into something for some important reason, the details fade. So I do not remember a great deal of what I asked him or even his answers, but I was impressed by the feeling he transmitted to me.

To explain it I use a personal episode: At the end of my Ancient Greek exam at university, the professor dismissed the student and said to me, without apparent reason: “You will have a difficult life and be destined to stand on the barricades”.

At the last Cannes Film Festival, Good Time took six minutes of applause. Pattinson and Connie, the classic strays: a loose cannon, inept, covered with acne, too disconnected to be really bad. Many have written comments like “Finally Robert Pattinson has made it.” A pretty bizarre thing, as we’re talking about an actor who, when he was just over twenty, had already earned, his words, so much money he did not know what was going on. With a small part of it, always its words, I buy a home in Los Angeles “the Palace of Versailles

Last February, at the Berlinale, The Lost City of Z was premiered, out of competition, and is coming to us on 22 June. The story and that of the Percy Fawcett explorer in Amazonia with his son in 1925. The protagonist is Charlie Hunnam, and Pattinson – almost unrecognisable behind a horrible beard, most likely wanted by him – is his right arm Henry Costin

It has been written thousands of times that Pattinson has done his best to change course after Twilight. The same, moreover, is said of his ex girlfriend Kristen Stewart. And true for both, with a fundamental difference. He chose to do it, but he tortured himself a little during the escape.

How to say: after unintentionally circumventing the barricade, if it is built a beautiful high, unstable and difficult to climb.

“At school my theatre teacher told me,” do whatever, but not acting”.  he was told repeatedly. With the attitude of one who brings in the doubt that the professor was right. “Since then” he added, I have always felt a loser.”

For years, Pattinson has raised the awareness of being able to achieve almost any role, and he pursues the directors with whom he dreams of working and – while knowing that his name often makes the difference between bringing money together for production or finishing the project in the trash – he is content with minor roles as the driver in Cronenberg’s 2014 Maps to the Stars, or even potentially ridiculous as Lawrence of Arabia in Queen of the Desert by Werner Herzog. His appearance in Kefiah at the Berlin Festival in 2015 was welcomed by a roar of laughter.

Or make it possible to be present and unreachable at the same time. He has succeeded in changing his features in Good Time to the point of being able to turn on the streets of New York without being recognized. And when he’s really lucky, as in The Lost City of Z, he can change face into the Colombian rainforest where, he said with some satisfaction, he worked “covered with fleas and sand all day”

Not to mention that if some paparazzi had wanted to break their balls it would have to put into account at least to catch the tropical fever.

The most commonly called definition of him is oddball & weird. From my encounter, I remember having sensed intelligence and a glance over himself and the world.  Together they explain why Robert Pattinson never snapped up against persecution of the scandalous and even more insidious press of his fans. “I could not go shopping for six years,” he said. And his reaction to racial insults towards his companion, the dancer FKATwigs, with whom he has a rapport since 2014. “I think that depends on the fact that normal people do not write comments on social media”.

And because I prefer to climb the way to a long career, giving it some, and some, to tap a trajectory that would otherwise run too straight.  “The filmmakers are always amazed at the roles I set for myself”, he said, “they take it for granted that I want the part of the kind good person that saves the world”.