Here it is...your moment of Robert Pattinson

Here it is...your moment of Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson Graces The Cover Of NME (Out Tomorrow)

Robert Pattinson Graces The Cover Of NME (Out Tomorrow)

UPDATED with another preview of the interview (scroll down)

Folks in the UK will be able to pick up NME magazine tomorrow with Rob on the cover. It also features a new interview with hi.

You can find out more about where you can pick up the free mag HERE,  HERE & HERE. Or grab the digital version HERE



Check out an excerpt via The Mirror:

Robert Pattinson has said starring in the Twilight franchise meant he couldn't step foot in a supermarket for SIX years.

The actor, whose fame skyrocketed after landing the role of vampire Edward Cullen in the movie adaptation of the popular books, revealed he'd have people following him around 24/7.

"I had people sitting outside my house every single day, and it drove me crazy," Robert, who also recently admitted he finds it hard to stay in shape these days, told NME magazine.

"I didn't go into a supermarket for about six years. But now I can go in and chat to the guy who's working there about his kids, or where he's going on holiday, and not be thinking, 'Is he gonna sell me out?'

He added: "I just don't have to think about that stuff anymore."

Pattinson, who looks as handsome as ever on the cover of the magazine, reckons the most embarrassing photo anyone could ever take of him would be "in a bookshop and everyone can see what book you're buying".

He also has mixed feelings about certain award show ceremonies, saying: "I was watching the MTV VMAs the other day and thinking how bizarre it was that I ever did that s**t.

"I remember doing those awards and saying the dumbest stuff. And I was hungover for most of it."

Googling himself is not something he does often, but he admits to doing it every now and then.

"I go through periods where I don't do it at all and feel glorious! Then I'll fall back into this pit," he says.

"It really does affect you, and it all comes from some moron sitting on a comment board. It's always that person who's needling away at you, who you either want to destroy, or convince them to love you."

UPDATE
From NME.com:

Robert Pattinson labels people who leave abusive messages online as "demons who live in basements" in his NME cover feature.

FKA Twigs responded to racist abuse on Twitter last September, following news romantically linking her to the Twilight actor.

Speaking to NME for the cover feature of this week's all-new free magazine, distributed in more than 500 locations on Friday, September 25, Pattinson is asked what he thinks about the comments – specifically those aimed at his girlfriend.

"I was talking to my dad about this and I bet him that if he looked up Nelson Mandela's funeral on YouTube, the first comment would be a racist one," Pattinson says. "And it was, with like a million upvotes."

"What I don’t get is why. I think it’s because most normal people are not commenters – I’ve never met anyone who’s left a comment on anything," he adds. "It’s just demons who live in basements. You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it’s all in your head.”

That said, Pattinson admits that he does Google himself, not out of vanity, but out of a “weird compulsion” to “reinforce my negative opinion of myself."

Thanks Flavia

PRINT: Robert Pattinson On Being A Style Icon & Understanding Why Anton Corbijn Chose Him For The Role Of Dennis Stock

PRINT: Robert Pattinson On Being A Style Icon & Understanding Why Anton Corbijn Chose Him For The Role Of Dennis Stock

Another new interview with Rob. It's a translated one again, this time with German site Knack.
  


Translation (Thanks to In the footsteps of Rob)

Robert Pattinson: “I don’t look anything like James Dean.”

Also teen-idols grow up and in case of Robert Pattinson they even become an actor. Rob about his new movie LIFE, a biographical drama by Anton Corbijn, about the relationship between photographer Dennis Stock and film legend James Dean.

Pattinson: “I understood immediately why Anton wanted me to play Dennis Stock and not James Dean”, explains Pattinson about the surprising, but clever choice. “People would have immediately drawn a comparison between us. But I don’t look anything like Dean, not when it comes to looks and not as an actor. I also didn’t die at 24 years old. The only thing we have in common is that we are both famous. Dean owes his fame to people who looked up to him and asked him for advice about life, through his movies, the photos by Dennis Stock, his personality and mystery. I owe my fame to people who were fans of the Twilight books and thanks to the fact that they accepted me as the face of one of their favorite characters.”

For Dean fame was a heavy load to carry. How do you handle it?
Pattinson: “It’s easier for me now than in the beginning. When I had my breakthrough with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (in which Pattinson had the supporting role of Cedric Diggory) I was recognized in the street and people asked for an autograph, but during Twilight it became a madhouse. I couldn’t leave the house without having screaming fans or paparazzi following me. For two years I had an enormous problem with this and I was regularly in a slump. There were moments that I felt lost, disconnected from everything and everyone. Because I missed the ordinary everyday things. Walking in the park, having a drink with friends, but after seven years in LA I got used to my new life. I feel comfortable. I also notice that the worst part is over. Recently I went out with friends in London and that was fine. People let me be. A full beard and wearing a dirty sweater always help (laughs).”

And that for a style-icon and the poster boy of Dior.
Pattinson: (laughs) “Me a style-icon? I think it’s funny that people even dare associate me with fashion. I’m absolutely no fashionista. I always wear the same jacket and tee shirts. Sometimes for weeks on end. And because I moved frequently the last few years, there are hardly any clothes in my closet. Which is really weird. I stole almost every piece of clothing that I ever got for a premiere. Just don’t ask me where I left all those things.”

Back to LIFE: Dennis Stock died in 2010, but if you wanted advice about photography of course you could always turn to Anton Corbijn.
Pattinson: “That is right. Apart from director Anton is also a photographer who has photographed many famous people and given them their public image. Think about Joy Division or Depeche Mode. Immediately you think about Anton’s iconic photos as soon as you mention those names. Anton knows perfectly what kind of impact an image can have and how revealing or manipulative it can be. The first thing Anton did was to push a camera in my hands and encouraged me to make a reportage. That’s how I discovered that there are many similarities between acting and photography. Dennis was a shy guy who feared that he would never become as good as he hoped he would be. That insecurity hindered his potentials for a long time. But eventually he got to know Dean and he understood that he was dependent on the material and the people in front of his lens. The same applies to acting if you want to make it your profession. You can only be good when the script is good, when the director is good and you know where you want to go.

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Audio & Translation: Robert Pattinson Talks Selfie Faces & More To Deutschlandfunk

Audio & Translation: Robert Pattinson Talks Selfie Faces & More To Deutschlandfunk

Deutschlandfunk interviewed Robert Pattinson & you can listen the audio HERE. They've dubbed over it ;( but you can hear Rob ever now and then. The translation of it is below, thanks to Nicole.



Translation

Q: Is there also a photo of you which you would call “your Time Square photo?”
Rob: It is weird, because I have so many pictures taken, at premieres and stuff. There are singular photos which people want to have signed, and those are always the same. I can’t understand it, because it’s not my taste. I think, why this picture? I don’t know if there is THE ONE picture… I think I’m the wrong person to judge… And the James Dean picture was like a campaign, the pictures were staged in a certain way. They tried to show the lost soul–should he go back to the family farm or not? They wanted to show the inner conflict of the young farm boy and artist. Pictures of me are like covering every base possible… it’s like he’s a fourteen year old (laughs) or something… it’s kind of diluted a bit.

Q: Isn’t it annoying to be photographed all the time? 
Rob: I’m a lot more comfortable now than before. I don’t really know why. I guess when people have seen you a million times in a certain pose then they look through you. Either you stand there like a Madam Tussaud figure or you look just frightened, all the time. I try to avoid taking photos now.

Q: But sure now you know how to look to get a good photo? 
Rob: When I was younger I suddenly caught myself posing. Then I told myself to stop, it’s embarrassing.

Q: What did you know about James Dean? 
Rob: Like pretty much any actor goes through a period, I was a bit obsessed with him, when I was 16 or 17. Everyone in this age studies his body language, and then in a casting they all do James Dean, that is quite embarrassing. I didn’t read his biography or anything, but I watched a lot of his stuff.

Q: But then Anton Corbijn didn’t ask you to play JD, but Dane deHaan. Were you disappointed then? 
Rob: I mean, he is a very interesting person, it’s an interesting part, but Dennis stuck out to me anyway. The way the James Dean role was written he is very self confident. He knows that he will break through. But I never was one who thinks success is inevitable. When there are problems, I immediately think: ‘you won’t make it.’ Dennis Stock was full of fear, I can relate to that much more than a kind of free-spirited artist.

Q: We don’t know as much about Stock as we know about JD. We see Dennis Stock in a very unsatisfied situation, also in private life. What was the point you wanted to show? 
Rob: He is a quite negative character. He is an asshole. that’s what I loved about it. This is deceptive. Many people who want to be an artist are afraid, and fear holds them back from becoming the artist they want to be. And then they blame their wife and kid, and the city, because they are afraid they aren’t as good an artist as they think. That was Dennis’ personality, and I can relate to this. And then there is James Dean, and Dennis is so jealous. He’s living the life the way he wants to live it and he is fulfilling his potential as an artist. Dennis is like: ‘I don’t understand.’

Q: How do you cope with pressure and expectations for yourself? 
Rob: I go back and forth. People always say: ‘don’t listen to anyone.’ But obviously you have to listen to people. It’s a difficult balance. On the one hand, you are supposed to entertain people, and on the other hand, it can hurt you so much when the audience doesn’t like you. At the same time, you can’t do anything interesting without the fear. It’s a difficult balance.

One day you say, fuck it. The next: please love me! And without this pressure it would be boring. I don’t have a solution. Every time I take a new job I go crazy, everything in me breaks down, I get depressed and think I’m the worst actor ever. My dad says then, ‘I like you this way, it means you will be doing a good job’. But I can’t find the idea romantic that you have to pay with pain. I don’t understand it, it’s so weird. Because once you are working it’s fine, it’s fun. But the weeks before are awful.

Q: Maybe you don’t see it in your hotel room, but the fans are standing early in the morning at the red carpet to see you in the evening. I see similarities to James Dean, the hype, the screaming since Twilight- can you compare it? 
Rob: I see a difference. Twilight was one of the first movies where the distribution company saw the potential of the internet fanbase. They let them create the hype.

With James Dean it was that people wanted him to be their leader. That is the difference. In Twilight, the audience wanted to find themselves. Fans felt like a part of it. The James Dean fame - and that’s why the pressure was so much higher for him - people were looking at him for answers: ‘Where are you taking us, tell us how to live!’ Well, no one has asked me how to live at all!

Q: When did you realize what had happened to you? Twilight was just a movie but has caused such a hysteria…. 
Rob: I feel I was in sort of shock for four years. In the last two years I started to realize things slowed down a little bit. And I understood who I am and what I want. When I had signed for the Twilight sequels I knew it would take ten years until the next chapter of my life could start. And it feels exactly like that. It’s seven years now, things calmed down. I can go to the supermarket now. It’s amazing, the glorious experiences like going to McDonalds! (laughing)

Q: Maybe one day you’ll go to the supermarket and no one recognize you. Would you miss it? 
Rob: No. I never really found that much… I mean, it’s nice when people come to premieres, and if suddenly no one came, I’d wonder. I like my job and want people to see the movies. but the hysteria doesn’t fulfill me, on the contrary, it makes me nervous, I don’t need it. The only scary thing is when you get to a point where people still recognize you, but they just don’t care. (laughs) That’s the worst.

Q: Do you photograph yourself? I don’t mean selfies, I mean real photos. 
Rob: I don’t have a selfie face. There are some people who can take selfies, and they look really good, and then there are people with asymmetric faces, and depending on the side the picture is taken, they look like an idiot. That’s what I have. If not for this, maybe I’d be on Instagram and Twitter and stuff with my photos all the time. But because I don’t have a selfie face, it’s just, it’s not – I can’t be a part of it. (laughs)

We HAVE to disagree about the selfie face ;)

Little White Lies with Robert Pattinson on the cover have posted a review of Life online

Little White Lies posted their online review of Robert Pattinson's Life

Life is the story of two men pursuing their individual artistic callings against the grain of industry norms. Both Dennis Stock and James Dean died as glittering names in photojournalism and acting. But in 1955, when this film is set, neither was established.

“What do you see in him?” asks Dennis’ agent (Joel Edgerton). This drama takes place during the run-up to the premiere of East of Eden, the film that would make Dean a major-league movie star. Warner Brothers are hemming over casting him in Rebel Without a Cause, fearing that his quirks and honesty make him unsuitable for the studio’s star template treatment.

“It’s an awkwardness, it’s something pure,” is what Dennis (Robert Pattinson) sees in Jimmy (Dane DeHaan). He is dying to get away from the red-carpet beat. In Dean, is the potential material for promotion to his desired field of serious, cultural photography. So begins the slippery business of pinning down the evasive but disarming boy from Marion, Indiana. Languid, conga-playing farmboy Jimmy, wants a friend, not a photographer. He’ll invite Dennis out for jazz and Benzedrine, dismissing the matter of professional engagements.

Corbijn uses their motivations – as well as their clashes – to convey the dance that takes place in media-talent relationships. Sometimes the film jitterbugs into exploitation, at others it waltzes into harmony. Dennis has a growing impatience to go with his approaching deadline. Jimmy is annoying, intentionally and unintentionally. DeHaan ratchets up Dean’s rhythmic speech, evoking a self-conscious performance-poet tasked with a Ginsberg reading. His cherubic face is worlds away from the big handsome mug of history. Studied mannerisms morph beautifully into sincerity but the affectations jar.

Dennis is his opposite. He is curt and minimal, essaying a very controlled, clock-watching professional. Pattinson’s performance is as crisp as the white shirt and black suits his character always wears, camouflage for problems that add depth to the film as they settle into shape.

In his 2007 debut, Control, Corbijn plumbed his roots as a photographer to create a decadent monochrome. In Life, composed frames show a tactile recreation of ’50s America. Vintage motors, hand-painted shop signs and theatres proudly announcing ‘CINEMASCOPE’ are evocative but not ostentatiously so. The air carries a seasonal coldness that lends images a frosty elegance. Many scenes feature men barking into old ebony phone receivers.

The social backdrop is just as carefully wrought. In another film, Ben Kingsley’s fuming studio head, Jack Warner, would be The Other Man to Jimmy Dean and the tussle would be of maverick versus the studio, Saving Mr Banks flavour. Instead, Kingsley ball-busts just enough to give Jimmyʼs non-conformity gravitas, but the viewfinder is trained on the man behind the camera, Dennis Stock. As Life proceeds, Pattinson steps up, allowing more of his character’s insides to come out. The pace picks up and by the third act it’s a compelling dramatisation of an artistically and morally fascinating alliance.

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David Gilligan photography shares an Old photo of Robert Pattinson from 'How to Be' (Now Larger)

David Gilligan photography shares an /Old photo of Robert Pattinson from 'How to Be' on Instagram (Now Larger)

We've seen the colour version of this pic before but this version is larger and bigger is always better, right?



The caption reads:
davidgilliganphotography I discovered this photo of Rob whilst trawling through my archives. It was a shot we made together on set during the filming of #HowToBe back in 2007.
The image was never published so #tbt is the perfect opportunity to finally make it public.
Thanks Rob! Let's work together again soon!
#robertpattinson #rpattz #canon #davidgilliganphotography #picoftheday #howtobemovie

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New picture of Robert Pattinson from The Childhood of a Leader

New picture of Robert Pattinson from The Childhood of a Leader. Rob's costar Michael Epp has shared a behind the scenes picture of Rob in character as Charles.



#TBT Despite the high quality of this pic while shooting "Childhood of a leader, Robert Pattinson still looks good, Tom Sweet is still a genius and I am still tall. #Venicefilmfestival"

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