Remember yesterday when we posted the press junket photo, now we have the actual interview with Bild (translated with the help of Google):

“Now do not forget to breathe!

Thousands of girls screaming for him outside the Berlinale Palast and imagine sitting in it very close to Robert Pattinson

During his Berlin trips, the Hollywood star took time for an interview. Tired as he was, the dark shadows around his eyes betrayed  him – his busy schedule left him barely a breather. With coffee and chewing gum he kept himself awake.

He has grown a beard, his hair tousled and he wears sneakers, T-shirt and an open shirt: Mr. Sexy down to earth!

Talking quickly about his new film “Life” (opening on October 1st), in which he plays the photographer of iconic star James Dean. I asked whether the role has changed his relationship with photographers? “Today, people want to see a star only in bad light. It was different back then, “says Pattinson.

This is the keyword! Fancy a sample photo? “Yes,” grins the vampire from the “Twilight” movies and snaps with the phone. At the sight of our selfies he surprised himself: “I have to get used to my blonde beard!”

No wonder: For his role as a photographer Dennis Stock, he was completely shaved and hair parted.”

LOVING the mention of Brimstone in this interview. Rob, Guy & Mia – talk about the most amazing cast.

From Reuters:

Robert Pattinson, who is at the Berlin film festival with Anton Corbijn’s ‘Life’ explains why he can’t sit through premiere screenings and talks about his past, his future and his connection to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 9, 2015) (REUTERS) – It was the morning after the night before for British actor Robert Pattinson as he attended a press junket on Tuesday (February 10) after he launched his new movie, Anton Corbijn’s ‘Life’ at the Berlin film festival.

However, unlike the other people on the red carpet, Pattinson didn’t sit through the screening of the film.

“I actually didn’t watch it last night,” he admitted.

“Because after Cannes I literally I got so…I feel like I lost a few years of my life watching a screening, just sitting there with your heart just wrenching inside your chest. I just can’t do it anymore so I’m going to watch it like, probably tomorrow. So yeah, I don’t know what the reaction is. I’m just kind of, in a trance the entire time, but yeah, it seemed like people appreciated it. There was a nice applause and stuff.”

Pattinson first came to public attention playing the ill-fated Cedric Diggory in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ in 2005. However, it was in 2008 that he exploded on the scene playing Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’.

Asked whether he had any idea what the reality of fame was going to be like before ‘Twilight’, he replied:

“I don’t know what I thought it was going to be. I mean, it’s weird, I still feel like I’m doing the same stuff. I mean, I guess up until ‘Twilight’ I was really just auditioning for absolutely everything and just trying to get anything so I guess that’s a sort of different career but I mean, afterwards it’s so rare that I find anything that not only that I like but that I feel like I can add something to or do at all, so it’s really trying to find anything to do.”

“It always surprises me when a script comes and I’m like, “oh!”. I just signed onto this thing ‘Brimstone’ – it’s just a small part in something but I was so surprised that this part that…Like I really, really had an idea of how to do it and I’m always like ‘Oh, where has this idea come from?’ I’m always surprised that I had any idea at all so yeah, it’s kind of a strange career,” he added.

The next big film after Pattinson’s ‘Life’ at the Berlin film festival will be the world premiere of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, starring Jamie Dornan. Strangely, the author of the bestseller is reported to have based the book on the film ‘Twilight’, and therefore cult hero Christian Grey is based on Pattinson’s portrayal of the vampire Edward Cullen.

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“Robert Pattinson is searching for challanges”

The Twilight-movies made him an idol for millions of swarming fans. But in “Life”, which is being shown at the Berlin film festival, Robert Pattinson wants to clarify that he is also an excellent actor.

– I want to do things that challenges me and things I haven’t done before, he says, but adds:

– But if something good comes up which is similar to something I’ve done before I of course accept.

“Life”, directed by Anton Corbijn has a Swedish release date this upcoming fall, is about the friendship between James Dean and photographer Dennis Stock. He’s the one who took the classic images of Dean with a cigarett in his mouth, taking a walk at Times Square in New York. James Dean is portrayed by Dane DeHaan and Pattinson plays Stock.

– Of course I had seen the images he took, but I did not know who he was. Anton gave me a taped interview with him where Stock was extremly rude towards the interviewer. He was obviously carrying a lot of baggage.

For many actors it always feels a little extra nervous to portray a real person (Stock passed away a few years ago). Pattinson says he usually feels that “a role is just a role”.

– But then I met Dennis son and it made me more aware that I needed to be fair to how his father was in real life.

To play a still photographer demanded that the actor had to be able to handle a camera properly. Pattinson practised for months before shooting began.

– As a photographer the camera is supposed to be like a part of his body, he also uses it to hide behind while taking pictures. I practised with the Leica I use in the movie, but it made me nervous. It was terribly expensive.

The role as the vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight”- movies made Robert Pattinson world famous and he has many loyal but sometimes also intrusive fans.

– Although it has become a little bit better in recent years. Or maybe it’s me who has become better at handling it, he says.

He is not easy to recognize, because the role in the recently finished drama “Childhood of a leader” made him grow a full beard. However it wasn’t helpful on a flight recently.

– There was a team with Danish hockey girls, all in their teens. They recognized me immediately, he says smiling adding:

– A whole danish hockey team. Oh My God!

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PS. I’m guessing this is the hockey team Rob’s referring to. Haha his cheeky look

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From NWZ Online:

“Imitation of James Dean

Robert Pattinson is present at this year´s Berlinale with not one, but two movies. In one of them he plays the photographer of James Dean. In our interview the former vampire-star tells how he used to perceive the Hollywood legend.

Berlin. At the luxurious Hotel de Rome in the heart of Berlin, hidden away in a parlor behind the lobby, Robert Pattinson gives interviews for his Berlinale-movie “Life” on Monday. Full beard, tousled hair, on the table in front of him a bottle of Coke. Before we get started on the first question, the 28 year-old quickly pops a stick of gum into his mouth.

In Anton Corbijn`s “Life” Pattinson plays the young photographer Dennis Stock, who discovered James Dean before he had his big break-through in Hollywood. Stock snapped the famous picture of James Dean walking down rainy Times Square in New York with a cigarette between his lips and a popped-up collar. In this interview with German press agency dpa Pattinson talks about his own James Dean-phase and his heartthrob-image.

Q: James Dean is one oft the big icons of our time. What is your image of him?
RP: I think every actor at some point goes through a James Dean-obsession. When I was 16, 17 years old you were practically always imitating James Dean, no matter what the role was… I think James Dean liked people looking at him. But there are other actors who don´t exactly know why they became actors (laughs). I think I´m rather one of those.

Q: What did you do when you imitated Dean?
RP: It´s mostly about body language. For example, something like this (he props his elbow on his thigh and briefly rests his head on his hand). Whoever saw me pretending to be James Dean probably wondered what I was doing!

Q: Since the end of the Twilight Saga you´ve worked with directors like David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog and now Anton Corbijn. Do you think of Twilight as a door-opener for new projects or is it more like a curse because it gave you the image of a heartthrob?
RP: It really only ever brought good things for me. Everybody has to deal with something. There´s something positive about people accusing you of being type-cast; it helps you to try and be casted for different things. It energizes you, in a way. It´s fun to refute such an image.”

Translation thanks to @enamoramiento1

Life promo begins *claps hands* A great print interview with Rob.

I’m exactly where I wanted to be.

Even after two Cronenberg-movies many still doubt the acting skills of Twilight-star Robert Pattinson. On Monday he presents his latest movie “Life” at Berlinale – together with director Anton Corbijn. In this interview the former vampire-star explains how he connected with the movie and why he feels his career is in a good place.

Q: Mr. Pattinson, is James Dean still an icon to your generation?

RP: Definitely. Especially when I was young. I knew James Dean before I even knew I wanted to act. I had read many of his interviews. He was style-defining and has an influence on every actor, simply through his physicality. Anyone who´s leaning forward, trying to look cool, is copying James Dean, really (laughs)

Q: You playing a photographer has a certain irony since in real life you often clashed with photographers who sometimes made your life hell. What was it like, playing a photographer?

RP: They’re still doing it. But to be honest, I had a very preconceived notion of photographers. Just like Anton Corbijn. Our ideas couldn’t have been more different. For Anton, the whole movie is about the nature of the photographer. I didn’t see Dennis Stock as a photographer, but someone, who under all circumstances wanted to be an artist. He saw an artist in James Dean just like he saw himself as an artist. To me the movie is about those petty jealousies: why is Dean perceived an artist and not me. That´s what I liked about it.

Q: As an actor, you offer up a lot of yourself and at the same time hand over responsibility to the director. How do you handle the fact that you can influence the final product only indirectly?

RP: It’s always a bit of a gamble, but also a matter of trust. I had talked to Anton Corbijn for an hour a year before we started shooting. I had only skimmed the script half an hour before our meeting, I wanted to impress him. He could have told me anything. Just when we started shooting I got a feel for the story.

Q: What did you like about the movie?

RP: The movie has a strange tone, it’s about so many universal things, but also very personal. For instance, it focuses on the situation where as an artist, your standing in your own way, blocking yourself and do not exploit your full potential. That´s something I can relate to.

Q: Do you stand in your own way often?

RP: Many actors often get the feeling that they´re just faking things and are afraid that some day someone realizes that they can´t act at all. That fear keeps me from many things that I actually want to do. And Dennis Stock, too, instead of believing in himself, comes up with one excuse after another as to why he´s not the right guy for the job. I could identify with that.

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Remember we posted here that Guy talked about jamming with Rob on the set of The Rover.  Now about to embark on a tour with Powderfinger’s Darren Middleton, Guy’s doing a bit of press and promo.  According to The Weekly Review:

“Pearce found film shoots the perfect place to write songs: “No dogs to walk, no family to visit”. But it was always done somewhat in secret. Which begs the question; who else is in this secret songwriter society? Who is the best actor slash songwriter too self-conscious to “come out”? “Rob Pattinson,” Pearce says, naming the Twilight megastar he recently acted alongside in The Rover.

“He’s got an amazing voice and his songs are really contemporary.”

The rationale that, like Pattinson’s songwriting, his was a hidden passion and the concealment was for the best, became a story he told himself and others.”

I’ve said this before surely SOMEONE has footage of this *looksatDavid*.  If you want to check out the rest of the article, hear Guy’s new song and get tickets for his show, click on link above.

Via ROBsessed