Showing posts with label Everybody Loves Rob. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everybody Loves Rob. Show all posts

Ben Mendelsohn: "I think he's awesome in this film"; Timothée Chalamet, David Michôd and the cast of The King chat about Robert Pattinson

Ben Mendelsohn: "I think he's awesome in this film"; Timothée Chalamet, David Michôd and the cast of The King chat about Robert Pattinson

Rob talk starts at 2:44



Quick Rob mention at the beginning and then 3:16 is about his french accent. Yaassss, Ben, yaaasssss!



Rob talk at 1:05

VIDEO: Christian Bale has some advice for Robert Pattinson and Matt Damon is clearly a fan!

VIDEO: Christian Bale has some advice for Robert Pattinson and Matt Damon is clearly a fan!

LOVE this!

Danny Boyle on Robert Pattinson: "They should get him to be the next Bond."

Danny Boyle on Robert Pattinson: "They should get him to be the next Bond."

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This is fun chatter. Let's give all the big roles to Rob! I'm on board with this plan.

Danny Boyle, speaking to The Guardian about his upcoming film Yesterday and then addressing his attempt at a Bond film, got a little ROBsessed and correctly shared the following insight:
He insists he has put Bond behind him and no doubt that is true. But every now and then he is reminded of the bruising. Last month he went to see Claire Denis’s High Life and was especially taken by Robert Pattinson’s performance. “And it was so bizarre, because I was sitting there thinking: ‘Oh my God, they should get him to be the next Bond.’” Isn’t Pattinson a bit too young for the role? “No, no,” he scoffs. “He must be in his 30s. How old was Connery? He’s ready now.”
Now, there's no way this could happen. Buuuuuut...didn't we think that with superhero movies? Would you have placed money on a bet that had Rob become the next Batman?? Hope springs eternal!

Source: The Guardian

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson mixing and mingling at 'Hostiles' premiere after party (Dec. 14)

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson mixing and mingling at 'Hostiles' premiere after party (Dec. 14)

This cutie....

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GAH.

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Love him.

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Hostiles director, Scott Cooper, loves him too.

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Robert Pattinson's Good Time receives 6 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival!

Robert Pattinson's Good Time receives 6 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival!

From The Hollywood Reporter:
Cheers ignited as soon as the Safdie brothers and their star arrived for the film's premiere. 
It may be the best reception at Cannes thus far. 
When the Safdie brothers arrived for the premiere of their heist thriller Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson, the night started out with early cheers the minute they stepped up to the Palais. 
Inside the theater, everyone in the orchestra and balcony started screaming once they saw Pattinson on the big screen pulling up to the venue. 
Josh Safdie danced while waiting to get into the Palais, and the film's co-star Buddy Duress threw up his arms to get the crowd going. 
When the competition film finished screening, it received a tremendous applause as soon as the credits came onscreen, and when the lights came up, the crowd went wild. 
Whistles, cheering and yells of "Great job!" and "Bravo!" could be heard, and at the tail end of the film's six-minute standing ovation, a chant carried throughout the orchestra up to the balcony. 
Both filmmaking brothers had tears in their eyes, especially Benny Safdie, who also stars in the pic.
Click HERE to continue reading!





Safdie brothers talk about Robert Pattinson's professionalism, dedication and his transformative work in Good Time

Safdie brothers talk about Robert Pattinson's professionalism, dedication and his transformative work in Good Time

The Safdie brothers continue to bring the funny toilet story to Cannes but in their interview with Screen Daily, they had more to share about Rob and his work ethic. It's not news to us how Rob is about his roles or working with certain directors but it's always great to read these accolades from filmmakers. Rob is such a talent and an asset to the art of film. I'm glad those in the industry continue to recognize that.


Excerpt from Screen DailySafdie brothers: Robert Pattinson in 'Good Time' like De Niro in 'Taxi Driver':

How did you react to being selected for Official Competition?

Josh Safdie: In Robert Pattinson’s house in LA he has an incredible, expensive toilet. After sitting on it for 20 minutes I said to him ‘that’s the dream’. He says: ‘if we get into Cannes Competition, I will buy you that toilet’. Six hours before the [Cannes] announcement… Rob texts me a picture of the toilet. That’s how I found out!

How did the film come together?

JS: We were dead set on this other film which we’re now doing called Uncut Gems, and [our last film] Heaven Knows What was about to be released. Robert [Pattinson] saw a still for that and something spoke to him about that, the colours, the image itself, he became obsessed with getting in touch with us. Then he saw the trailer and said: ‘now I need to meet with you’. Then he saw the film and said explicitly ‘whatever you’re doing next, I want to be a part of it, even if it means doing the catering’.

He didn’t sit in the diamond district world very well [for Uncut Gems], I was honest with him about that, and there was another world we were mulling, and we said maybe can write something for you in Good Time.

What was it like to work with Robert Pattinson?

Benny Safdie: I have so much respect for how deep he went, the places he went, the people he met, just his level of commitment, 16 hours a day, he was willing to do whatever. It was cold, I was playing the brother in a wheelchair, and we said to him ‘we don’t need you for this shot’, but he would stay and push me around in the cold. He said: “I need that, to take it that far”. He went above and beyond.

JS: We bought Rob to a lot of active jails. He turned up in character in the hope that he inmates wouldn’t recognise him as a movie star. We pushed our start date on purpose in an effort to buy more prep time and I would say there was three to four months of character prep for him, which is a lot for a movie star in his career.

How would you describe his final performance?

JS: I wouldn’t even call it a performance. If you were to show the film to someone who has no idea who Robert Pattinson is, they would just assume that we found this guy. The only performances that I could liken what he did would be to an Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon or Tommy Lee Jones in The Executioner’s Song or Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. I’m mentioning icons of my filmic mind. This is what people will liken this to, it’s a transformation.

Personally for him he wanted to disappear. When he was fully in character, in costume, in make-up and when he knew his voice, he would just take a walk around the neighbourhood, simply because normally he can’t do that. He would walk into a pharmacy and buy a Coca Cola and no-one would say anything to him or look at him, or take a picture of him, and that’s how he knew he had the character down.

Click HERE to continue reading!

Source: Screen Daily

Josh Safdie and Claire Denis share gracious words and funny stories about Robert Pattinson with Les Cahiers du Cinéma (France)

Josh Safdie and Claire Denis share gracious words and funny stories about Robert Pattinson with Les Cahiers du Cinéma (France) 

image hostPAW snatched up a copy of Les Cahiers du Cinéma and posted two great interviews that mentioned Rob. First up is from the upcoming Good Time directors, Josh and Benny Safdie. Josh is speaking in this excerpt and has one of those great Rob tidbits to share (are you googling the toilets?) and then of course has nothing but awesomeness to share about Rob's work ethic.

The second interview is from Claire Denis regarding High Life, one of Rob's films in pre-production. She too has kind words to share but also notes something Josh mentioned - Rob is a go-getter. We pretty much know this already from Rob's admission but I love reading it from these directors he admires. Especially Denis. She doesn't realize he's had her name on his lips for yeeeears. That's one of Rob's bucket list directors and I think it's inspiring he was unwavering in what he desired professionally.

The Safdie Brothers talk about Rob and Good Time (excerpt):
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LCDC: We are one month away from the festival: is the film complete? 
Josh: Almost: Oneohtrix Point Never made the music, and for the end they wanted a song en interaction with the film. We asked Iggy Pop, and he sings an incredible song in the style of Johnny Cash. Do you know how I learned we were in competition? Six months ago I was in Los Angeles at Robert Pattinson's house. He has Japanese toilet that blows hot air. I had never experienced such a thing ... I loved it so much that Robert said to me: if we go in competition, I buy you the same. And we were invited out of competition. Six hours before the press conference, we had a meeting to find out if we were really out of competition, because at the same time we were invited to La Quinzaine, and Rob was trying to contact me over and over again, but i was at this meeting, and suddenly he sent me a text message with a photo of the toilet! Thierry Frémaux had just announced him we were in competition. I was extremely surprised! It was extraordinary. 
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LCDC: This is the first time you work with a star. 
Josh: Pattinson is English, and the actors around him come from the world of the film. He spent five months working on his character. He doesn't have the experience of this life. I wrote him a biography from the day he was born to the first minutes of the film. We wanted to shoot into the streets, but wherever we went, people wanted to take a picture of him. We developed the appearance of his character so that nobody recognizes him. But he is so professional! He is never complaining. It's him who contacted us. He had seen a picture of Mad Love in New York on the Internet, he asked to see the movie, he saw it, and told us: whatever you want me to do, I will do it.
Click HERE to visit PAW and read the entire translation!

Claire Denis talks Rob and getting High Life going:
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LCDC: What about your science fiction project? 
Claire Denis: It's a SF project, but in my own way, very software (laughs)! (...) I'm strarting the preparation in a few weeks. It's an English-language movie that will be filmed in Germany. (...) It takes place in the space, not on Earth. This is a project I have had in my mind for the last fifteen years. At the time I thought of Vincent Gallo to play the leading role but the producers are often afraid of him. One day Robert Pattinson contacted the person who was doing the English casting. I was intrigued but I tought he was too young. Every time I went to London to meet some actors, he was there. His desire to work with me has never faltered. And now he is a little less young and it's perfect. 
LCDC: He is one of those actors whose we can feel the intelligence when they play. 
Claire Denis: Yes, absolutely. He has a lot of humor too. I tought it was so strange that this young man wanted so much to work with me when he could do whatever he wanted. I was almost embarrassed. But his unwavering envy and our mutual recognition have done their work.
Source: Les Cahiers du Cinéma | Translation and images via: PAW - Good Time; PAW - High Life

Robert Pattinson was missing from Cannes this year and the people have noticed...

Robert Pattinson was missing from Cannes this year and the people have noticed...

David Cronenberg: Do you hear that? The crowd adores you, your majesty.

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Especially the social media crowd.

Screen Daily reported on the social media winners at Cannes this year. But they made one critical observation we all know to be true....

While films garnered some attention online, "that figure was down 29% compared to Cannes 2014, when stars such as Robert Pattinson – a big draw for fans on social media – attended the festival."

Of course the figure was down. CANNES WAS WITHOUT ITS KING!

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Cannes can not flourish as a land without its king!!!!

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Hopefully the situation is remedied. I'm sure the royal court is aware.

Thierry Fremaux: Um, King Robeeeaarrr. May we suggest that you have a Cannes-eligible film ready for next year? Merci beaucoup.

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ALL HAIL THE KING!!! HAIL KING ROBERT!

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Encounters with Robert Pattinson are dangerous affairs. Frantic frenzies and frozen horrors!

Encounters with Robert Pattinson are dangerous affairs. Frantic frenzies and frozen horrors!

I love when non-fandom folks even get discombobulated by Rob's presence. We had the recent encounter from a Defamer writer that was hilarious. Rob gets people so crazed, men even feel compelled to take explicit sneak photos on his phone. WTF lol

These 2 encounters are great reads and will make you smile. Rob causes frenzies and double takes like no other.

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Excerpt from Native NYker's Rants, Thoughts & Merde:

By all accounts, getting the likes of 29-year-old Robert Pattinson to attend your MoMA premiere is a coup! It trumps every other event scheduled on the same evening, at the same time.

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Enter a slew of non-credentialed photogs, who had otherwise committed to the swank UWS Lincoln Center gala, and a race down to the Celeste Bartos theater was called for in the hopes of a chance of catching the Brit’s entrance into the festival favorite Bright Lights, Big City-eque film-noir premiere.

Seriously, this is some dark Trainspotting drug shit…

Lots of heavy breathing for the quick power walk crew!

We heard that all would’ve gone well cept for a small glitch in many missing Pattinson’s arrival – who scurried behind them – for busying themselves with Sevigny who stopped for the outside press line.

Pattinson is exceptionally gifted at shying away from photogs and when in-front of the cameras spends his time fidgeting as if he were experiencing boils.

Can’t figure out why really…

Inside, all the nervous excitement over R-Pats descent into the MoMA space left one Vogue magazine stringer whimpering about how all of the PR had disassembled and failed to bring the highlight of the night to his section for interviews.

“This is insane,” he mused.  “Where are the publicists?” he asked, in a high-pitched voice.

To his defense, we doubt that Pattinson – nor his handler, who busied herself telling folks “that’s enough!” – were made aware that Vogue had sent an overly coiffed figure – seriously, his eyebrows were better tweaked than MoMA pieces – from the marketing dept, to play stringer on the arrivals line in the hopes of a quote.

Click HERE to keep reading the encounter!

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Excerpt from The Kerry Diaries:

After two steps, I worried I had ice cream on my face. I was too lazy to go back into the ice cream shop to go to the bathroom. I figured I’d just ask this guy right in front of me.

“Excuse me, do I have ice cream on my face?”

The guy wearing a baseball hat on backwards and dark sunglasses, paused frozen in his tracks. After a few seconds and a few scans of my face, he came to the conclusion I was genuinely asking about ice cream.

“No, you’re fine!” he replied in a British accent.

And then it was my turn to pause. It was Edward Cullen, a.k.a. Robert Pattinson. Before we parted, he could see I knew who he was. And that I was mortified. Simultaneously, we looked down at my yoga pants. They had a big patch of chocolate ice cream. #Oops

Leave it to me to ask a hot guy if I had egg, I mean ice cream, all over my face. I mean my pants. #BringingSexyBack #LivingTheDream At least if I’m going to embarrass myself, it was with an A-lister!

She shared the picture above on her instagram from the day this happened. Click HERE if you missed those pics. Click HERE to read the entire story!

People magazine kicks off their 12 Dudes of Christmas and guess who the "partridge in a pear tree" is!

People magazine kicks off their 12 Dudes of Christmas and guess who the "partridge in a pear tree" is!

You guys know we're doing our own, annual 12 Days of Robmas but many other people do a countdown too. And yeah, they don't all consist of Rob. FOOLS!

But look who's clearly ROBsessed! People magazine just made Rob the kickoff for their 12 Days of Christmas! That means every day until Christmas, people will be singing....

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Right on, People. Right on.
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ROBsessed Quickie: Sarah Gadon about Robert Pattinson - "He’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart"

ROBsessed Quickie: Sarah Gadon about Robert Pattinson - "He’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart"

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“I love what Rob (Pattinson) did in Cosmopolis…on the outside he’s all ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’, but he’s very smart….I get along really well with all my leading men.

~Sarah Gadon to ASOS

ROBsessed Quickie: John Cusack - "It's wise and speaks highly of Robert Pattinson that he's formed a thing with David"

ROBsessed Quickie: John Cusack - "It's wise and speaks highly of Robert Pattinson that he's formed a thing with David"

Time for a quickie.

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This one brought to you by John Cusack...

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Young stars should seek shelter wherever they can, [Cusack] says. His Maps co-star Robert Pattinson is going about it the right way. The film is Pattinson’s second collaboration with Cronenberg after the Don DeLillo adaptation Cosmopolis, which helped R-Patz break from Twilight. 

“I think it’s very wise – and speaks highly of Robert [Pattinson] that he’s formed a thing with David. He can try to be good and have a space where he’s not just this product that’s going to be followed around by TMZ. That speaks to the healthier instincts of the guy. I don’t know if there’s that space for other people.”

~John Cusack to The Guardian

Robert Pattinson is "finally on my radar and he is flying high with potential"

Robert Pattinson is "finally on my radar and he is flying high with potential"

While we patiently await the start of Idol's Eye and for WorkingRob to transport back to the 70s, this great editorial from MoviePilot put hearts in my eyes. It's a fantastic read. Someone is having their Rob-aha moment and you gotta check it out.

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Excerpt from MoviePilot:
The roles actors take on in franchises tend to transcend the screens that separate them from their audiences. Many teenage movie goers tend to transpose their lives with those of their screen idols. Fantasies are apt to do that. Lately, when fans of characters are satisfied with the actor who is chosen to play their favorite characters, they become mixed with the madness of summer block buster and their own real life summer romances. This mixture of fact with fantasy can become toxic. Edward Cullen has become Pattinson's Frankenstein. 
As autumn approaches, editors of magazines turn down the heat of summer block busters to a simmer. Content and covers are designed to pull readers in from the summer fun of splashing around cinematic lunacy. On slow burn readers and lovers of film go in search of shards truth. Those whose motivations are to discern fact from fantasy, are not apt to go mad over celebrities. If one is a journalist assigned to interview a celebrity, it takes a patience to provide a space where actors can unwind and open up. My eyes and my mind are constantly in search of actors with whom I seem destined to follow (the last time I swore Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and a few others would be my last 'Brat Pac' to follow beyond my wallet's capacity to justify). Recently, while I scanned the magazine racks at the Barnes and Noble in North Little Rock, I noticed Pattinson's half covered mug peering over a panel. He once again came under my radar. Like my recent blog on the actor Idris Elba, my decision to write about Pattinson stems from the fact that he appeared on the covers of a magazine, Not just that but one I trust. In this case, Esquire Magazine. I read the Esquire article and while doing so, I remembered the reviews of THE ROVER that I had seen on youtube.com (Grace Randolph's among them). Her review was condemning. Yet judging from his choice of directors Cronenberg (twice), David Michod (the Aussie director responsible for ANIMAL KINGDOM), Werner Hersog and Anton Corjbin with whom he has chosen to work, Pattinson with no compass to guide him, has chartered a course of escape from being just a pretty boy suitable only for tabloid mania. 
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While I read the magazine article I laughed at some of the revelations Pattinson shared with writer Sanjiv Bhattacharya. He was engaging and amusing. He shared what his life is like: How he has to find out-of-the way places in order to chill. With all the paparazzi and negative press always lurking, Pattinson's understandable uneasiness still seems penetrable. He opens up; if only as long as the allowable time. I am reminded of the fact that sometimes photographers are only given 15 minutes with the President of the United States. Imagine that, you have only 15 minutes to capture something genuine. In the face of power be it movies star, celebrity or politician, you can not 'flub it up'. What would you I or anyone do? Robert Pattinson is no where near the importance attributed to the great leaders of the world. Yet he has his own 'cross of popularity' to bear. How would anyone of us get beyond that and get to something genuine? 
One wonders if the roles Pattinson has played this far have given him enough distance from his own surreal life as a celebrity. In THE ROVER, he is in a post-apocalyptic world. In MAPS TO THE STARS, he exist in the artificial and sometimes ghostly world of Hollywood. He himself seems to carry with him an enigma that he must constantly deny. If you see his shaved head in THE ROVER, you see a man trying to deny the power that Twilight bestowed upon him. Yet that power helps the directors who decide to help him. He helps them. By his own admission, “I don’t promote their films that much”. Yet his presence brings the bucks.....and the ever weary fan base of his brings the tabloids. NOW THATS POWER. 
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Let us hope the the best for Robert Pattinson as he continues to try to awaken from the state of undeadness as Edward Cullen. He is finally on my radar and he is flying high with potential.
Click HERE to read the goodness in its entirety!

ROBsessed Quickie: Julianne Moore talks about Robert Pattinson - "Gorgeous, chatty, fun and smart"

ROBsessed Quickie: Julianne Moore talks about Robert Pattinson - "Gorgeous, chatty, fun and smart"

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“[Co-star Robert Pattinson] is one of those people whose affect is so dissimilar to who he is. He has this gorgeous face and he seems like he’s going to be very remote and very serious. But he’s not. He’s incredibly chatty, fun, and smart.”

~Julianne Moore to W Magazine

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VIDEO: Julianne Moore is TOO CUTE with her Robert Pattinson moment in eTalk Maps To The Stars segment + winning sexhair analysis

VIDEO: Julianne Moore is TOO CUTE with her Robert Pattinson moment in eTalk Maps To The Stars segment + winning sexhair analysis

This is so cute! The actually Rob portions of him talking, we've seen in THIS post but I like the compilation of everyone on the red carpet. And Julianne Moore's part is PRICELESS.

Plus A+ to eTalk for the sexhair analysis. A+++++++++++++++++++


#TIFF14 Video report about the premiere MTTS... by Roboshayka_Forever

If the video doesn't work for you click HERE to watch

Thanks Cali!

Robert Pattinson makes Maps To The Stars co-star giddy - "I say my daughter loves him, but really it’s me." + MORE

Robert Pattinson makes Maps To The Stars co-star giddy - "I say my daughter loves him, but really it’s me." + MORE

Here are some fun write ups about Rob during his big MTTS day at TIFF. Olivia William's comments are THE BEST.

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NOW Toronto - NIGHT 6: ROBERT PATTINSON MAKES EVERYONE GIDDY...:
Without supernova hunks Brad Pitt and George Clooney in town this fest, the likes of Robert Pattinson and Channing Tatum have gotten the most screaming fangirls and all-around buzz.

Pattinson was spotted all over the city last night. He kicked off the evening with an intimate pre-premiere party for Maps to the Stars at the Trump Hotel hosted by luxury watch makers Jaeger-LeCoultre. He was joined by David Cronenberg and co-stars Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska, Sarah Gadon and Olivia Williams.

Moore astonished yet again in a draped floor-length black gown while the cast’s men all donned black suits. Williams rocked a little red cocktail dress and an avant-garde haircut that looked straight out of a sci-fi film.

Even Williams couldn’t help but get a little giddy around Pattinson. “Every time I see him, I act like a fucking idiot,” she laughed. “I say my daughter loves him, but really it’s me.”

The cast sipped champagne and nibbled on luxe hors d'oeuvres like lobster risotto before being whisked away in black cars via the Trump’s underground entrance to make their red carpet media rounds.

The cast reconvened after the premiere at C Lounge for the film’s after party. While David Cronenberg and his daughter Caitlin mingled on the club’s outdoor patio, the other bigwigs like Pattinson and Cusak hid away in private cabanas doggedly guarded by security guards.
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Laura Likey:
Today was a super busy day for the cast of Maps to the Stars. A live streamed press conference at the crack of dawn, a long ass press junket, minimal coffee breaks, and a gigantic international movie premiere. All those screaming fans and press praising your every word. And the clothes! No sleep, I bet, but probably still an ok day.

Robert Pattinson (holy fjaa3909afjl9#*@(ldkaj!!!!), John Cusack (tongue roll), Julianne Moore, Sarah Gadon, Olivia Williams, Evan Bird, and David Cronenberg were all on hand to debut the film.

John, Julianne and Sarah dabbled with the signing and selfies. Rob? He brought it. He strolled all the way to one end of the fan zone and worked his way all the way down to the other end. Haven’t seen a celeb do that yet during the festival at Roy Thompson Hall. I bet his bodyguard, Dean, had a small myocardial infarction during it. You know what I’m talking about if you’re a diehard Rob fan.

So many happy faces at this premiere. Edward Cullen was in fine form. Just look at the pic of him and John below. I totally wet my panties taking it. Completely! You are now, aren’t you!?!! God, I love this time of year.

Click HERE to check out her pics

E! had some great quotes from Julianne about Rob too in their piece about Rob praising Lizzy's X-Factor success:

Meanwhile, Pattinson is also getting plenty of praise of his own for his hot new role in Map to the Stars.

The satiric Hollywood drama features Pattinson as a limo driver and aspiring actor who hooks up with an actress (Julianne Moore) in the back of his town car.

"He is the loveliest guy. I have to say he completely surprised me," Moore gushed to E! News about her handsome co-star. "He's really funny and chatty and easy and nice."

She added, "We had a great time. It was hot back there, in more ways than one." Oh dang!

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WELP. Yeah...

VIDEO: David Michôd talks at length about The Rover and Robert Pattinson: "Everything that Rob does is hilarious"

VIDEO: David Michôd talks at length about The Rover and Robert Pattinson: "Everything that Rob does is hilarious"

Now that most of us have seen The Rover, we can really enjoy some of these longer interviews and promo materials.

This was conducted during LA promo and David talks in depth about The Rover and working with Guy and Rob. Give yourself a half hour to watch David talk about the film and more. He jokes about Rob in the beginning and goes in detail with thoughtful compliments about half way through ("I immediately liked him." "Not just affable but available guy, obviously intelligent.")

David Michôd talks about Robert Pattinson: "He was intelligent. He’s quite beautiful, but strange and very open."

David Michôd talks about Robert Pattinson: "He was intelligent. He’s quite beautiful, but strange and very open."

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This is a great and lengthy interview with David Michôd from The Vent. We've posted the excerpt about Rob but check out the whole read too.
Q: How did you choose Robert Pattinson? 
A: I had met him before I even knew that The Rover was going to be my next movie, just as one of the billions of meetings that you do in Hollywood when your movie gets some attention. I really liked him. I didn’t know anything about him; I hadn’t seen the Twilight films, and I still haven’t seen them, but I just liked him. He was intelligent. I loved his physicality, I loved his face – his very unusual face. He’s quite beautiful, but strange and very open. When I knew that The Rover was going to be the next movie and I started testing for it, Rob was at the top of my list for people I wanted to see. He came in and demonstrated to me immediately that he was a really interesting actor. He came in with a really beautiful fully considered version of the character, because it’s a character that could be played in a lot of ways – it could be caricature, or it could be played as severely mentally disabled – and his test was just beautiful. He was hungry for it, as well, which was important to me. I knew that we were going to be spending a couple of months out in really quite testing conditions. 
Q: How difficult was it? 
A: It was really tough. It was really hot and very remote. No-one’s phone worked. We were just filthy all the time. But we were all together all the time – the entire crew, we’d work all day and then we’d go and stay at the same pretty shabby accommodation every night, and we’d just be together. We’d get drunk and sing songs. 
Q: How did Robert find that? 
A: Great, you know. I remember having one experience in one of the first towns we shot in. We’d finished shooting for the day; we would all gather at one of seven pubs in this town – it’s a town of like 300 people, but there’s seven pubs –and I remember one night I was walking across the street to the pub and I could see Rob walking down the street from the room that he was staying in towards the pub, walking down the street by himself, and as we got closer, he says to me, ‘I can’t begin to tell you how magical this experience is for me. I’m just walking down the street by myself.’
Wonderful remarks! Love how directors speak about Rob. Click HERE to read the interview in its entirety.

Thank you Nancy for the tip!

David Michôd talks Robert Pattinson: "He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available"

David Michôd talks Robert Pattinson: "He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available"

What a great read. GREAT read. Directors continue to have amazing things to say about Rob. His talent, his intelligence, his work ethic, his character....they are always praised above and beyond the typical praise.

David Michôd spoke to Twitch about The Rover and this is the excerpt about Rob.

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Twitch Film:

TWITCH: In contrast, there is Pattinson's character, who I think is extraordinary in this film. Can you talk about bringing him into the role? How did you work with him on attenuating his performance, making sure it didn't get too broad?

MICHÔD: In a way, the answer to both questions is that Robert came in and tested for me and his tests were just extraordinary.

I, like everyone else, didn't know what he was capable of. Certainly his previous work didn't give you a clear indicator.

I met him before I even knew I was going to make The Rover, and there was something about him that I really liked. He's obviously intelligent and really wonderfully emotionally available.

When [Pattinson] came in to audition for me, he came in with a really beautifully defined and sophisticated reading of the character that seemed from the outset to avoid all of those possible moments of caricature that that character could so easily slip into.

How did Pattinson get hooked into the project?

I had a meeting with him maybe a year before I made the movie and it became immediately apparent to me in that meeting that he not only loved Animal Kingdom but had seen all of the shorts that I had made with my friends. He had beyond that a really eclectic, sophisticated interest in cinema. He was actively looking for interesting things to do and actively looking to meet interesting filmmakers.

Had he done any of his Cronenberg work when you first started working together?

Yes, I had seen Cosmopolis. I had even had a phone conversation with Cronenberg to see what working with Rob was like generally. [With] Cosmopolis, that is another character that is quite brooding and still in a way that's not similar to the stuff he does in Twilight. It didn't give me a clear indication that he could do the 180 degree shift that I was going to ask him to do on The Rover.

I always needed to see an audition. He was willing to do it because he knew that he wanted to play the character and that he needed to work hard to get it.

I love that whole notion of you as a director in Australia just calling up Cronenberg and asking him for advice. Is that a common thing? I picture some secret handshake between directors where you exchange private numbers.

I think in the world of filmmakers and generally those kinds of phone calls are reasonably easy to facilitate because they're reasonably important. I didn't want to ask David whether or not Rob was a good actor. I felt that I had seen that in the tests and long auditions that he had done for me. What I wanted to know was what he was like as a human being on set because those things can be important. David shared his experience which turned out to be much the same as mine, that he was delightful and hard-working.

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Guy Pearce talks about Robert Pattinson: "This guy is going to have just the most incredible career"

Guy Pearce talks about Robert Pattinson: "This guy is going to have just the most incredible career"

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Excerpt from Den of Geek:

Were you guys uncomfortable during the shoot and did you want to be, to help get into the spirit of the film?

Well, there is a certain level of uncomfortability that's necessary obviously because you're out there in the heat and it's dusty, but I find it awe inspiring as well because that landscape is incredible. You feel like you're just away from everything. You're away from all the noise of the city and all those things that you sort of live your life by these days, iPads and iPhones and all the i's, you know, all that stuff slowly didn't work the further north we got. The phones didn't work and then we sort of lost Internet connection. So it's sort of tough but it's equally kind of inspiring because you're aware of it being put down on film and it being part of this film that you're making. Every kind of difficult and fascinating location we got to, you would just think, "Oh wow, this is going to be incredible on film." We had pretty hot weather but we had breaks in the weather too occasionally, like it would rain and cool down for a bit so we kind of felt like we were okay. I mean it was pretty brutal and pretty hot a lot of the time, and I know it was hot for Rob because he wasn't so used to it. I've done a couple of films in the desert now. I love it out there.

How was it working with Rob? His fame maybe has overshadowed his talent to some degree.

Well, I mean, that performance that you see him deliver in the film -- I detected that on the first or second day or whenever I went to set and watched him work, I was like, "Wow this is going to be great." I mean, Rob is a pretty quietly spoken guy. I think it is difficult for him dealing with all of the publicity that he gets and all that sort of stuff and so he just sort of wants to get out of the way and not get hassled. You don't get too much of a sense of who he is and then he starts performing and you just think, "Wow, this kid's incredible." And you think about the popularity that he has and how amazing he looks, and you couple that with that talent and you think, "Wow, this guy is going to have just the most incredible career." He has an amazing career already, but for him to now be able to just string together one more interesting role after another I think will be fantastic.

He was great to work with. He was so relieved to be out there and not be hassled by paparazzi and press and fans and stuff that he had a really great time. We didn't really know each other very well, in fact we didn't know each other at all and just slowly got to know each other through the course of the film, which was good because we're not meant to know each other at the beginning anyway. We all just sort of slipped into it kind of nicely. There was a nice respect for David and for the movie he was making and for each other, and the characters we were playing. I think what was interesting was once I started to realize what that dynamic between us was going to be -- I got it on the page on an intellectual level, but once I started to see what Rob was doing and how needy and vulnerable the character was, then I really knew what was going to work as far as what I offered up and what I delivered with him. It's always interesting when you are reading relationships in a script, the transition between that and the actual doing of it, once you start meeting actors. Something can go wrong and another actor would be horrible or they could think you're horrible and you just think this is going to be really difficult. But then other times you just go wow, this whole thing is opening up now. Now I get it so it's interesting.
 
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