Rob’s going to work more in the next 4 years is music to my ears!  This interview was clearly done during Berlinale and I have to agree with Rob re how much the movie industry has changed and the ‘star system’ isn’t there.  Funny though, I think it has more to do with this generations online downloading rather than going to the cinema than it has to do with the actual stars imo.  From Unicum (Google translate):

UNICUM: So far you were from photographers themselves hunted, now you play in “Life” the photojournalist on Star game. How did you like the page change?
Robert Pattinson:  had my figure of Dennis Stock nothing left for paparazzi photographers, he saw no art in this type of images. For me, in this film about a person who will do their best to work as an artist can. That his medium, photography is, plays no decisive role.

How are you fared with the Selfie Floods to your best “Twilight” times?
That was really quite a stress. However, it very much depends on the mood. When you’re in a good mood, do not mind a the constant photographing. In a bad mood, it may be reversed to hell. Really crazy it is, if one imagines that at times, they would be photographed – even though no one ever takes pictures.Fortunately it has gotten a bit quieter become to me! (Laughs).

Might have something to do with your beard, you’re wearing … currently
with the beard I’ll actually hardly recognized. What, however, does not always work. On my flight to Berlin, the Danish hockey team on board, all girl was under 18 – and I was among them.

Can you at the pub actually undisturbed for a beer?
Yes, and I’m still relatively cautious in such matters. Who wants to be photographed, when he is drunk?Overall, I started but definitely so, a more normal life to live as before.

 

I love Rob’s advice at the end.  Also Rob I was once told – “without fear you don’t grow or change”

BERLINER MORGENPOST: Are you afraid of photographers, Mr. Pattinson?

A young man that seems a bit disheartened, that is the first impression one gets during this interview with Robert Pattinson. There is no reason for the 29 year old to feel like that though, because after the massive success of the Twilight series he managed to establish himself as a serious actor. In Life he is seen as the photographer who shot the legendary pictures of James Dean.

Are you a good photographer?
Halfway decent, although I just had started it during this movie. I got the same camera that Dennis Stock had. The quality of my pictures does depend on the place and light. When I was shooting Queen of the Desert with Werner Herzog in Morocco, I got great pictures very easily, but when I returned to London my pictures came out very dark.

Usually you are the one that is photographed all the time. How well do you deal with that?
I’m struggling with it at the moment. When the first Twilight movie came out, I dealt with it very offensively-minded. That means I was out to present myself in a certain way and as long as you can control that it is good. But it became too much and it slipped out of my control. I had the feeling something was taken from me with the constant photographs and I got scared and closed myself off. At the moment I’m in the ‘please don’t take pictures’ phase.

What do you do when you go out and photographers are waiting for you?
I get scared.

Seriously?
No. I understand that I couldn’t let it make me go crazy. I’m tired of putting on a disguise or wear a hat.

Another really great interview with Rob PLUS we have these 2 gorgeous pics by Austin Hargrave in this glorious HQ size.

It is one of this summer’s four perfect days, a Friday afternoon to boot, and London’s most smug are bunking off work and descending like fashionable, tanned zombies on Shoreditch House members’ club. Meanwhile in a joyless, north-facing, little-used room called the Library you’ll find Robert Pattinson, the 29-year-old British actor. He’s not tanned; famously, he has the pallor of an eternally youthful bloodsucker. He’s not smug either; in fact it would be hard to find someone less pleased with themselves. And he’s come to Shoreditch House today to work – to do interviews anyway, one of the least enjoyable elements of a job that he’s not convinced he’s especially good at.

Does Pattinson come here often? “Um, yeah, kind of, er. Ish,” he eventually decides on. “I used to go to the gym here until I realised that I didn’t want people to see me going to gym.” He laughs, a posh, unexpected, winning guffaw. “I was so embarrassed,” he continues. “When you’re trying to lift up your 10lb dumbbells… Word spreads.”

Pattinson is monochromatic today: white T-shirt and thin jacket; black jeans, boots and unmarked baseball cap. He has a bushy beard (our pictures were taken before he grew it). It’s the kind the Victorians favoured, with a twiddly moustache, for a part he’s currently shooting. “Oh, this is driving me insane,” he says. “Let me know if I’ve got something hanging off the side. Avocados are especially bad.” Pattinson strokes his chin: “Hmmm, yeah, avocados are not beard-friendly.”

It’s around this point, maybe a couple of minutes in, that I realise I’m going to quite like Pattinson. It is not particularly something he’s said, but his, for want of a better word, vibe. If anyone could be forgiven for being an oddball, it’s him. Any chance Pattinson had of a normal career – a normal life – vanished when he appeared, aged 22, as the vampire Edward Cullen in 2008’s Twilight. Over five films he became very rich, unpleasantly famous and kinkily lusted over. One example: last year in Las Vegas, a woman married a life-size cardboard cutout of Pattinson; on their honeymoon, she carried “him” up to the Hollywood sign.

 

The October issue of Cosmopolitan (Germany) has this great new interview with Rob.   Love the photo with the journo above and I love Rob’s idea of the best thing about celebrity.  Funny I was having that conversation just the other day whilst standing in an airport queue about how good it would be to be able to bypass it.

“Honestly Robert Pattinson, do fame and success drive you crazy sometimes?

Robert Pattinson ate a ‘curry wurst’ for lunch. That is the first thing he tells me after our ‘hello’ during our interview in Berlin. He pronounces it adorably ‘Denglish Corrywuscht’. “I had French fries with it, but only five”, he tells me grinning. “I’m trying to eat more healthy.” He doesn’t need it though: slightly tanned, the biggest thing about him is his beard, which, like his messy gelled hair, is very groomed. Ever since he played vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, he is the most sought after blood sucker in the world. The tabloids like to describe him as shy, but here he is smiling non stop, like a rascal planning his next prank. Maybe he is happy that the ‘blockbuster’ times are over. Ever since the fifth and last Twilight movie came out three years ago he wasn’t part of huge commercial Hollywood productions. Independent movies are now his thing. Like the ingenious biopic Life in which he plays the photographer Dennis Stock. He took pictures of James Dean for the US magazine Life in 1955, shortly before Dean died and made him immortal with his pictures. Fame and immortality are not strange concepts for Robert Pattinson, right?

Mr. Pattinson when was the first time you felt you were famous?
That was six months before the second Twilight movie came out. A PR guy invites me to a hip party in a club in LA. I forgot the name of the guy standing at the door waiting to be let in. The doorman just looked at me and said: “It’s okay, you can go in.” I was like “what?” Until then I never got into the clubs that easily. Shortly after that came the hot dog incident.

Tell me about that.
Well, I was eating a hot dog and dropped mustard on my shirt. Usually that would have made me uncomfortable, but everyone around me said “hey, that’s totally okay”, it was like I did something amazing . That’s when I knew: I can do whatever I want.

Being famous can be confusing then?
Yes, but only in one aspect: I don’t like to draw attention to myself, but I can’t walk around without being recognized. If people would say a quick “hello”, it would be fine, but every second person wants to do a selfie. That means I always have to be in a good mood.

Is there a question apart from the picture question, you can’t hear anymore?
“I know you will hate it, but………. ”

Who says something like that?
Everyone. Especially back then. During Twilight a lot of people were pulling me about and telling me who I am. I didn’t know who I was myself and honestly I still don’t know who I am. But I wanted to have the chance to find that out by myself.

That cover is just gorgeous, not to mention we have the glorious pic of Rob as Dennis Stock in larger size *claps hands* We will update with the translation once it’s available Translation added below!

Some really great quotes here, not all 100% new I don’t think, but a good read all the same.  From The Sydney Morning Herald:

When the actor James Dean died in a car crash in 1955, the second and defining film in his short career – Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause – had just come out. Dean was 24.

East of Eden had put him on the map earlier that year; Giant was in the works. In retrospect, three films doesn’t seem much of a basis for what Dean was about to become: the embodiment of a generation’s bohemian disaffection with their parents’ post-war world. Fact was, however, they didn’t come any cooler than Jimmy Dean. They still don’t.

You can see that in the clutch of photographs taken of Dean for Life magazine by ambitious young Magnum newcomer Dennis Stock.

It was Stock who took the photograph that would grace millions of teenage bedroom walls in the decades to come, a photograph familiar even to people who don’t know who Dean was: Dean with his collar turned up against the wind in wintry Times Square.

It is that photograph that forms a kind of backdrop for Anton Corbijn’s new film Life, which traces the brief relationship between Stock and his equally ambitious subject.

Any actor would show due trepidation before agreeing to play James Dean, not just because of his hallowed status but because it would be so easy to slip unawares into mumbling, fidgeting parody.

Dane DeHaan, who is most familiar as Green Goblin in the recent Spider-Man films, kept saying no.

“I didn’t really think I could do it. Then I had a meeting with Ian Canning, the producer, and he explained to me how for him it wasn’t simply a movie about James Dean, it was a movie about how a normal person could be turned into an idol. Which I think is a really interesting topic.”

DeHaan felt some kinship with Dean, whom he describes as “a really bull-headed, uncompromising artist, pretty mistrusting of the world around him.”

From the start, as Corbijn shows, Dean was at loggerheads with the studio heads; Ben Kingsley does a spectacular turn as studio mogul Jack Warner, telling Dean exactly how much of a rebel he wants him to be.

“I know what that’s like, although I have a different take on it,” DeHaan says. “I don’t let it get to me as much as he does. When I made this film, it was right before the press tour for Spider-Man. There was this looming sense of what was going to happen, in the same way as before East of Eden came out.”

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