*NEW* Robert Pattinson Talks To Libération (Interview/Article Translation)
BIG thanks to our reader Over The Rainbow for translating this for us
Everywhere in the street, Robert Pattinson sees himself on posters, magazine covers and says to himself ‟It's not me”. "I don't recognize the face or the hair, nothing. It's like those people who can leave their body." Yet, perched on the terrace of a grand hotel in the morning sun, the hero of David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis almost looks like his image. Quieter and softer perhaps, and certainly more cheerful. He laughs all the time, with a contagious cheerfulness nothing can disarm.
(Kate: We know that laugh and smile SO well!)Subtle. The perennial question about celebrity, for example. The hero of Twilight, who caused a riot during his previous visit to Cannes (the security guards had to carry him to rescue him from 700 rabid fans), begins with a serious response. "The most frustrating thing is to know that it's not me they love or hate. To serve as a support to a feeling which has nothing to do with who I am." He reflects. "The paparazzi, you get used to them. But it's still weird to see these guys who made the decision to be assholes for life. I want to ask: "Why did you choose this profession? Everybody hates you!" "He starts laughing and cannot stop. "It's like people who give parking tickets. You watch them, they look all happy! Hmm, cool, I'm going to ruin someone's day!"
In Cosmopolis, he is Eric Packer, a gifted golden boy locked in his limo. The hero of a saga for adolescents in a Cronenberg on the fall of capitalism? This was the pitch for weeks, the idea being to puzzle over the fact that Robert Pattinson might be interesting. As if winning a contract worth several million dollars, when unemployed for three years - his case when he signed for Twilight - was the act of a dimwit. Yes, Robert Pattinson is intelligent, cultivated, subtle. Inescapably, he has also a strong, disturbing beauty, an assembly of imperfect elements (long flat nose,forward chin, bushy eyebrows). His blue eyes are piercing. But it's not because he seduces, rather because he probes.
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