Robert Pattinson may have wanted to be an actor without being a celebrity. But then he turned his fame into its own kind of performance. “I can’t believe this is still going,” he said in an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine. https://t.co/vvTtIFf4Oe pic.twitter.com/qapbbM7Kkn
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7 December 2024
Thanks to @love_cinema we have four more great photos from this shoot
5 December 2024
Sweet baby jesus – it really is Christmas. Amazing shots by Collier Schorr. Full interview by Nick Haramis coming soon. below (see screenshots at end of post). For now here’s an extract and photos of Rob in the pottery class he describes thanks to his IG account (see below):
“IT WAS ROBERT Pattinson’s idea to take a pottery class. Since becoming a father this past March, the 38-year-old English actor has been searching for what he calls “healthy” hobbies. He’s considered bonsai (“they just start rotting”), trapeze (“can’t do that in public”), tennis (“not enough spatial awareness”) and dance (“my spinal cord freezes”). Two decades into his film career, he seems restless for new ways to express himself that don’t require a crew of hundreds or any of the baggage that comes with being one of the world’s most famous men. In recent years, he invented the recipe for a bastardized arancini-like dish called piccolini cuscino, or “little pillow” (“I got quite deep into it with a frozen-food manufacturer”); a nine-foot-long sofa with armrests as wide as the seat (“It weighs a ton — that’s probably one of the reasons it’s difficult to sell”); and pants with vertical pockets (“Why do they always have to be sticking out like weird little ears?”). He’s also been designing a straight-back chair with a slit running down the center of the cushion that “opens up for you like you’re in a kind of cocoon,” he says. To illustrate the idea, he built a maquette with a Fleshlight sex toy and an empty toilet paper roll.
On a gray August afternoon, I meet the actor at his friend’s house in De Beauvoir Town, a leafy neighborhood in northeast London where he and his fiancée, the English actress and musician Suki Waterhouse, have been staying with their baby girl while visiting from Los Angeles, and walk to a ceramics studio about a mile down the road. In a week, Waterhouse, 32, will open for Taylor Swift at Wembley Stadium, playing songs from her newly released second album, “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.” By then, Pattinson will be in Canada shooting a movie with Jennifer Lawrence, but first he wanted to rerecord a voice-over for his next feature, “Mickey 17,” a dystopian satire by Bong Joon Ho, the Oscar-winning South Korean director of “Parasite” (2019). For now, though, Pattinson is hunched over a worktable, hand-sculpting a mug with a distinctly phallic handle. “It’s a giant carrot,” he clarifies — a gift for his hosts. They must really like carrots, I offer, but the joke doesn’t land. “I just think it’d be quite satisfying to have a cup this large,” he says. As I begin to wonder if I’ve offended him, he leans back to appraise his work. “It’s got a bit of a curve in it,” he says with a smirk. Intentionally making a clay penis in front of a journalist isn’t just a choice; it’s a challenge. “I’d love to see how you’re going to use this,” he tells me.:
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