Liam Cunningham (who my fingers automatically call Gallagher *facepalms*) was promoting Game of Thrones on The Late Late Show in Ireland and was asked by host, Ryan Tubridy, about The Childhood of a Leader and working with Robert Pattinson.  He has some wonderful things to say about Rob, like everyone that works with him does.  I also like that he mentions that “the film may not be for everyone it’s very much an arthouse film”.  Bring it on Brady – bring it on.

Thanks to Kate at ROBsessed for taping and for this scan of an extract about Rob from Liam’s interview with The Irish Independent (note: the full article not yet available online, will let you know when it appears)

Me thinks Liam has a bit of a mancrush.

One of the world’s worst kept secrets.  I cannot wait to see Peter’s photos given his philosophy below.  Imagine.  Also good to see him confirm what we all already hoped, and kind of knew, when he spoke to Women’s Wear Daily:

“Recognizable for his purist style, Lindbergh seems to be prospering during the current backlash against excessive airbrushing and Photoshopping. “For me, every picture is a portrait — no matter what I’m doing. From my very old standpoint, I think everything you do should have a meaning,” he says. “The idea [that] it doesn’t is unacceptable to me. A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they’re doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. And by the time they’re done, the models don’t have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring really.”

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Having just shot Robert Pattinson for the new Dior Homme Parfum campaign, Charlize Theron for J’adore Dior and Michelle Williams for Louis Vuitton, Lindbergh said he doesn’t fit the designer mold, “I look more like a plumber, when you see me. Fashion is not my thing.

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“I guess I have this image so that at least the people I photograph look the way they look. I guess that gets me a lot of work at the moment,” Lindbergh says.”

And in case you didn’t read my ramble about Dior in last week’s RPAU Week in Review – I’ve been told there’s no new campaign for Rob and Dior in Australia this year.  *shrugs*  Maybe it hadn’t been formalised yet, or maybe this is a European | US campaign – I guess time will tell if that changes.

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This interview is from the Life Berlinale Press Junket.  You know my wariness of print interviews, but I do love Rob’s new confidence and ambition and you know what he exudes it when you see him at events like Berlinale and the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, so yeah I’m posting this one:

“EN Interview 1 – Ever since the Twilight films turned him into an object of mass attention, Robert Pattinson has tried to find his way clear of fan obsession and make his mark as a serious actor. Films like Cosmopolis and Bel Ami helped distance audiences from his vampire alter ego, and now, in Anton Corbijn’s Life, Pattinson gives what is arguably the best performance of his career. The 28-year-old heartthrob plays Dennis Stock, the photographer whose iconic photos of James Dean during the last months of his life have sustained the actor’s legend even more than his films. [My emaphsis]

“James Dean is very much an iconic figure to me,” Pattinson says. “He represents disaffected youth and alienation in a powerful way that still resonates with us. Those photos of Dean, like the one where he is walking in Times Square, are much more part of our image and impression of him than his films. You can feel his aura and mystique in those photos.“

It was an ironic choice of roles for Pattinson who was able to experience what life is like on the other side of the camera lens: “When you’re on the red carpet, it’s an eerie experience because you don’t see the photographers because you’re blinded by the lights and flashes most of the time! As a photographer, you get to hide behind your camera.“

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From Veronica Mag: (using Google Translate)

 “That Pattinson is so popular and masses of teenage fans who have very far to go for their idol, Koolhoven did not know. “There are people who devote their lives to unraveling what is to be found about him.””

*cough* I don’t know about teenage *cough*.  I think Martin is in for an even bigger surprise when he realises who a majority of Rob’s fans are.

and the video:

“Translation: “Pattinson was a teen-idol. A lot of fans are still very loyal. I didn’t know he was that popular. I knew he was popular, but not that there are people that have more or less devoted their lives to finding every bit of news about him on the internet, so every interview and most probably also this one ‘hello, Pattinson fans’ will be translated and then everybody talks about it. And because I am on Twitter they tag my name so my whole Twitter-feed is full.

 

I can’t help but get a little excited for Rob working with directors he’s always dreamed of working with.  You can just feel his excitement.  This article gives us a little insight into quite a few things.  Read and enjoy.

I don’t know how I’m going to contain my excitement for this film.  I loved spaghetti westerns too – not that I’m expecting this to be a comedy but the Trinity films with Terence Hill & Bud Spencer are some of my favourite classics to come out of the 70s.  Anyway, I digress.  Martin Koolhoven was recently interviewed by Dutch newspaper @nrccultuur and we find out a little bit more about Martin, Rob and Brimstone.  Here are some extracts (sorry I used Google translate):

Ha I think most of us have to put our hands up for this comment below:

“Then last weekend when it was announced that “former” teen idol Robert Pattinson had a role in Brimstone Koolhoven directly received several hundred ‘fairly active’ Twitter followers.”

is actually corrected by Martin Koolhoven

 

About Martin and Brimstone: