Robert Pattinson in HQ is always better

Rob at the Globes for a Good Time not a long time

 

New Rob interview with Henry Arnaud of Swiss magazine “Femina”.

Google Translation | Via Femina

Robert Pattinson can be called the sex symbol of a whole generation of teenagers, and possess a desire for cinema closer to David Cronenberg than to Luc Besson . Without denying his role in the series of films ” Twilight “, the English actor sighs of ease to the idea to start his thirties: “So far, I fought to avoid being seen only as the seducer who played the vampire in the movies. At 31, I think I finally turned this page of youth, although I know I still have everything to prove. “

An astonishing humor in an actor who – in addition to Cronenberg – has already made for James Gray (“The Lost City of Z”) or Werner Herzog (“Queen of the Desert”) and who embodies a little glamorous robber in Good Time 13 September 2017). But the taste for independent productions came to him from afar: “Thanks to my parents, I discovered adolescent artists from all over the world. We had a huge video library, “he says. Thus he notices that which still influences him. “I am fascinated by the director Claire Denis since my youth. I saw a lot of his films on DVD. “White Material”, with Isabelle Huppert is undoubtedly her masterpiece, but I also love one of her very first stagings, “S ‘en fout la mort”, dating from 1990. “A passion which will be the opportunity to show one of the facets of his personality, perseverance. “For years I’ve been fighting to work with Claire Denis and we’re finally touching. We have been discussing for three years “High Life” which is a mysterious and magical script; the action takes place in space, where a father and his daughter fight to survive an experience that surpasses them. “

James, Marlon and Jack

Less confident to answer the next question, Robert Pattinson passes his hand in his thick mop, while smiling: “James Dean, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson: these are the three actors who made me want to learn the cinema … it’s not very original, I know! “He bursts out laughing, now slightly embarrassed:” There are so many guys who say Brando, Dean or Nicholson as an inspiration that I’m a little ashamed of myself. He nevertheless approached the cultist James Dean by shooting in ” Life ” where he played the photographer Dennis Stock, who shot some of the mythical photos of the comedian dead at 24 in 1955. “I would have refused to play James at the screen but be his close, the confidant who immortalized Dean … it was interesting, “he admitted. “I think James did everything to look like Marlon Brando, who was a better actor than he!” He blazed, then cried out: “Well, at the same time, all the young people who want succeed in front of the camera must mention these two names … “

From comedy to horror

But if it were to remain one, it would be Jack Nicholson: “I discovered it in” Flying over a cuckoo’s nest “, at 13 years. His performance so amazed me that I began to dress like him, to take his manners, his expressions . I tried to speak with the same accent as he too, but it was not very successful, “he confesses in a laugh. “I’d love to shoot with him, but no scenario including a role for Jack Nicholson has ever happened to me … yet it’s not for want of talking about this desire as often as possible with agents in Hollywood . I hope that this will happen one day, but more than playing with him, I would like to follow in his footsteps, to have an atypical career, like his own; go from one style of cinema to another without ever letting yourself stick a label. I have a deep respect for people like him who know how to move from drama to comedy, from horror to a romantic role without any doubt about their abilities. “

“I would follow in the footsteps of Jack Nicholson, have an atypical career, like his.”

As for women, Robert Pattinson evokes those who have counted most in his youth, his mother and his two eldest sisters, but he gushes on the subject of his love : “I do not want to talk about my friends heart, it played tricks in the past when a relationship ended. “A modest way to evoke his three-year relationship with the English singer FKA Twigs, who recently distanced himself. “But let’s keep this for another discussion,” the actor exclaims with a last smile.

What it does: The junk food! Soda lightened, fast food … I know my body will tell me stop one day, but I take advantage of it for the moment.

His unexpected gift: I’m great at karaoke ! I am told dark, closed, reserved but nothing better than a karaoke between friends at a party a little watered.

On his shamelist: My sisters dressed me as a girl and called me Claudia. I asked our mother to destroy the photos, but I suspect she kept them.

His last laugh: At the shooting of “Good Time”, I visited a prison incognito but the first detainee crossed me said: “Hey! Everyone knows who you are! “

His buzz: Robert Pattinson bald? Discolored in platinum blonde for the film “Good Time”, it was enough that he mentioned the loss of a part of his hair in the operation so that the buzz goes around the net. “I still have enough hair right now,” he jokes. “But it’s true that the experience was unpleasant.”

His news: “I would like to collaborate with Maïwenn. I saw his film, “My King,” in Canne s in 2016 and I fell in love with his director. It’s one of my favorite feature films of the last twelve months. ” In “Good Time”, in the cinema on September 13, 2017, he is unrecognizable in the role of a junkie who tries to release his brother after a turning that went wrong. Noted in Cannes, the film is seen by US critics as one in which Robert Pattinson has the most interesting role.

Robert Pattinson helps to develop Connie Nikas character for Good Time

The Safdie Bros talked to Vanyaland about Robert’s involvement in the formation of Connie’s character, to their research methods and more.  Here’s the extract relating to Robert, but click on the link to read the full interview:

So how exactly did this come about?

Josh Safdie: It came about from Rob Pattinson basically seeing a still of Heaven Knows What on Indiewire, and [when I was checking] my email at South-By-Southwest, and receiving a super-cryptic kind of weirdly obsessive email from this guy named Rob Pattinson, who I — I never saw Twilight, but I’d seen The Rover and Cosmopolis at that point, and I knew he was involved with this musician whose work I really dug, and I realized that this guy was interested in cool things. His drive is not a commercial one. So I was like, “Okay, what does this guy want?” And basically, he wasn’t right for the project that we were looking to make, and I said to him, “Hey, I’ve got this deep well of interest and inspiration, and I want to make a thriller with you.” A crime thriller. So that’s where it started, with him. And Buddy Duress, too, to some degree.

Oh yeah, he’s fucking awesome in it.

Josh Safdie: Yeah, he’s amazing.

So you started with this spark, and then you went into the writing. Was he involved much in the initial writing process?

Josh Safdie: So, in order to write the genre elements of this thrilling narrative stuff, because this was by far the most plotty narrative movie that we’ve ever done, and we were excited about that, but we really needed to know who Connie was. So I wrote a very extensive character background that started when his character was born and ended when he enters the movie. And he was involved with that, not necessarily writing or bringing specific things [to the background], but he’d question these landmarks in his life in a very particular way that would force me to go even deeper into that digression, and then weirdly, it’d become really helpful when we’d get to the fork in the road of the movie and we’d need to know exactly what this guy would do or say because we’d developed exactly who he was. So he was very involved within the development aspect. When he was on Lost City of Z, we’d talk a lot, and I would send him script pages occasionally and then I sent him a first draft, and then I was like “hold on, I’m going to send you a new draft,” and basically change the entire movie, and then I’d send him another draft three weeks later. So, he was involved way more than he is in other stuff, because most of the time people just treat him like a name to get some cash. Not speaking [badly] of all the movies [he’s been in], but he was surprised to see how involved he was.

Benny Safdie: But also he gave us the time to develop his character [independently]. He came to New York and we did camera tests and character history-building, between him and I for the brother. We wrote letters — Josh had him write a letter to me from jail, and then I would respond in kind as Nick. And so, just having this ability to build this character kind of from the ground up really allowed it just to be real. You feel all that texture in everything, in the sense that when he enters the movie, he’s not entering as Rob Pattinson, he’s entering as Connie Nikas. And that’s something special.

Robert Pattinson Interviewed by Michelle Miller for CBS News “Sunday Morning” 

 

Looks like there will be a new interview of Robert on CBS News’ “Sunday Morning”.  Stay tuned.

Yes that’s #RobertPattinson talking about his @GoodTime with me! Tune n2 @cbssundaymorning for all the juicy details in the coming weeks!

A post shared by Michelle Miller (@michellemiller29) on Jul 26, 2017 at 9:45am PDT

Thanks Posh.

July Winner for 12 Months of Robert

Good Time Cannes Photocall Robert is our winner with 14 votes. Wish I could say I was surprised. Good Time Cannes Red Carpet came second with 8 votes with Good Time Dior trailing with 7. Looks like July 2018 is definitely going to be a Good Time month. If you can’t remember the pic choices – check out Suze’s post.

I’ve updated the 12 Months Of Rob page and Suze will share her August choices shortly. Remember it’s your favourite choices each month that Jules uses to create her calendar for RPAU. Thanks to those who are voting.

Robert Pattinson Having Dinner with Bret Easton Ellis

  

Bret Easton Ellis had dinner with Robert and shared this great pic – I love Rob’s smirk.  Dear Bret please work with Robert in your remake of American Psycho.  Love me.

Dinner with someone who knows better

A post shared by Bret Easton Ellis (@breteastonellis) on Jun 25, 2017 at 9:54pm PDT

Thanks Sue.