Robert Pattinson Talks about his career with David Ehrlich from IndieWire

David Ehrlich from IndieWire sat down and spoke with Rob about High Life, Rob’s career in indie films and taking risks. Here’s an extract below but you should read the full interview at IndieWire:

The fact is that Pattinson has spent virtually every cent of his capital pursuing smaller movies that could only be made with a star of his caliber. “The first movie I did after ‘Twilight’ finished was ‘Cosmopolis,’” Pattinson said, “and from that point on every single thing I did was stuff I really wanted to do. None of them were stepping stones to anything. I think for me the main thing is being okay with doing little parts in things — it really, really, really frees you up to do stuff.” Stuff like “The Childhood of a Leader,” “The Lost City of Z,” and the Zellner brothers’ “Damsel,” a zany Western that violently underlines the courage of Pattinson’s conviction. “There just aren’t enough lead parts out there if you only want to do interesting things.”

At this point, it’s starting to feel like he wouldn’t know how to do anything else. But he refuses to pat himself on the back for taking the road less traveled. “I never saw it as supporting the community, but it’s just impossible to get people to see little movies,” he said. “And if no one does them, and everyone just tries to get on the bandwagon to try and chase the cash all the time, then no one will make any of those little movies.” Minutes after being so deferential and self-deprecating about his process, Pattinson was suddenly confident about his path. “Everyone’s supposed to be an activist or whatever as an actor at the moment, but [this] is the world that I like. I didn’t become an actor to be a politician or whatever. I became an actor to do interesting movies — that’s the thing I care about. If my career becomes making arthouse movies for one patron, that’s cool with me.”