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'How to Be' Exclusive Comcast.com Interview

Exclusive: Pattinson Gets Serious, Tells Us 'How to Be'

You know him as the vampy star of "Twilight," but Robert Pattinson has a few other projects going on that you may not have heard of. One of them is the indie flick "How to Be," available on IFC Direct starting April 29. In the film he plays Art, a guy who doesn’t really fit in (imagine that!) and is looking for his place in the world. Art is stuck in a rut and enlists an elderly self-help guru to guide him down the road of life. Pattinson sat down for an exclusive interview and gave us the inside scoop on singing live in the movie and how he relates to this dysfunctional character.

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Robert Pattinson: The Surrealist Vampire

A HUGE thank you to @Janny73 for translating this article for us :) You rock!

THE SURREALIST VAMPIRE

BORJA BAS – May 1, 2009

Before half humanity offered their veins to him, Robert Pattinson frolicked in Lorca’s arms. It’ not a Gay fantasy, but Little Ashes , the film where the bloodsucker of Twilight personifies a young Dalí. We checked how much fame has changed him.

The mustache is not deceiving: Behind this personification of young Dalí, hides one of the most coveted specimens of today’s film industry. A year before personifying the romantic vampire of Twilight, Robert Pattinson 22, was devoted to the Mediterranean lifestyle in Barcelona. The excuse, the filming of Little Ashes, a recreation of the impossible love lived between the painter and Federico Garcia Lorca which shows us, for example, frolicking butt naked next to his friend and lover underneath the moonlight in the waters of Cadaqués. We caught him just getting off the plane in Vancouver to film New Moon the second part of the saga conceived by Stephanie Meyer.

EP3. What attracted you about Little Ashes?

Robert Pattinson. - That it’s and exceptional tragedy. I doubt that I can ever reach such level of tragedy in my carrier (laughs). I didn’t have any idea of who Dalí, Lorca and Buñuel where, until this film. And the more I found out about them, the more obsessed I became. Specially, with Dalí’s literary compositions. Many people don’t know this, but he was an incredible writer. I found that I had many things in common with him.

EP3. - For example?

R.P. – He had an enormous self-consciousness about him and how people perceived him. And he worked to manipulate this. It’s something I did throughout my childhood and teenage years.

EP3. - Dalí came out to be a vampire also. What have the casting directors seen in you to brand you like this.

R.P.- It’s weird. During a rehearsal of this film, Marina Gatell (who interprets, Magdalena, Lorca’s inseparable friend) told me: “ You Know? You are a vampire” it was so bizarre. And now that I remember it, it’s even more bizarre( laughs).

EP3. - And what do you think now about your first sex scenes in filming being with another guy?

R.P.- The worst part is that they’re not romantic at all, their really traumatic experiences. More than excitement, you feel sorry for both (laughs). It was all so uncomfortable, not only because the first one we did, Javier (Beltrán, who interprets Lorca) and I had just met the day before. But because we filmed with zero intimacy, surrounded by Spanish speaking technicians, a language I didn’t understand, and they where giggling at our expense.

EP3. - Who’s a better kisser, Javier or Kirsten (Stewart, his beloved in Twilight)?

R.P.- Definitively, Javier (laughs).

EP3. - You have said that because of the success of Twilight, it turns out to be difficult for you to carry a normal life. What do you do on your free time?

R.P.- Somehow, work has become my best refuge. Even though it may sound ridiculous, as soon as I get some free time I start reading scripts. I feel somewhat frustrated for not going to college, so I try desperately to self educate. I have brought with me to Vancouver like 100 books, they’re all scattered all over the hotel room.

EP3.- I have a feeling that it will be very hard for you to disassociate from “Edward The Vampire”. What would be the perfect role that would help you do this?

R.P.- Hey, if you hear of one, let me know (laughs). Anything that has nothing to do with blood, I hope.

EP3. - I have read that a masochistic narcissism drives you to read everything that’s published about you. How often do you google your name?

R.P.- Oh, you’ve seen that on my interview with April’s GQ right? Dude, I was joking, it sounded like I was a total loser and it made me laugh just saying it, so I did.

EP3. - You should know by now, that everything you say is news.

R.P.- Right, but it is so weird to me. And it can be very annoying, because I spend the day apologizing for all this rubbish that I say without even thinking. I have hopes that if I keep contradicting myself all the time, nothing I say will become news anymore (laughs). I’m a blabbermouth, I know…

EP3. - Is there something in particular that you’ve read about yourself, that has bothered you?

R.P.- Ehem (clearing his throat) … A couple of days ago, my Mum sent me an email, she was very worried, it seems, I’ve been hit in the face with some pole, while filming New Moon and I was unconscious…. And I haven’t (at the moment of this interview) even rehearsed for any scene yet; I haven’t even set foot in the set!

EP3. - Well the last thing I’ve heard about you, was that someone on the set, said that you stink, that you smell bad.

R.P.- (I’ve heard that). Yeah, I’ve read it too! Funny thing is that those kinds of rumors always come from “anonymous sources”. But if I just arrived to Vancouver! I must smell horrible, cause the set is 25 Kilometers from the hotel and I haven’t even been outside the room.

EP3. - You have also said that you would rather pass on having a girlfriend on an atmosphere with a reputation of being so polluted. Have you found anyone that has made you change your mind?

R.P.- Oh, no (laughs). I remember when I was filming Harry Potter & The order of the Phoenix, where I hardly have a small part, that everybody was talking about my then girlfriend. It is so stressing for them. You have to become so reserved about it.

EP3. - You really lived a persecution with Camilla Belle (10,000 B.C.) ….

R.P.- Yeah, but it was different with her. She was only a friend. It was funny for us. The thing is: if she’s not your girlfriend, it doesn’t matter; but if she is, it all turns into a nightmare, everyone wants to know what you’re doing.

EP3. - Have you had a stalker?

R.P.- You won’t believe this, but the last time I felt stalked, was when I was shooting Little Ashes, in Barcelona. A girl would wait for me at my doorstep every day. The truth is that she was really nice, completely normal, but it all sounds very weird…I don’t know whatever happened to her. Or maybe I was just nuts and she only existed in my head. (laughs)

EP3. - Let’s say you’ve got 8 weeks of vacation starting today, what would you do?

R.P.- I want to travel! That’s why I always look for work in different countries. I think next year I would like to work in Paris for three months.

EP3. - For what Project?

R.P.- Ahhh, we’ll see if I’m going to be a blabbermouth again….It’s a Bel-Ami adaptation, from Guy de Maupassant. Now that I’ve told you, I can go around telling to everybody. Besides, I’m sick of people saying: “You can only make those Twilight films, you’re nothing more than a fleeting star”. I refuse to accept that! (laughs).

EP3. - Maybe that way you’ll earn to be seated second row at the Oscars, like this year….

R.P.- Oh, man, how embarrassing. I’ve never felt so unworthy of anything in my life. What was I doing there, when I had only made one movie, which would never be nominated in the Academy Awards?

Little Ashes. In Theaters May 8, 2009.

Original article: EL VAMPIRO SURREALISTA

Little Ashes in Wisconsin and Puerto Rico

Sundance Cinemas Madison, Hilldale Mall, 430 N. Midvale Blvd, Madison, WI 53705, 608-316-6900 will show Little Ashes starting on July 10th!!! http://www.sundancecinemas.com/sundance_608.html

We also have a release date for San Juan, Puerto Rico, 07/09/2009! The theater is to be determined :)

After the clips that were released today I don't know about you but I can not wait to see this movie. You know we can make it happen! Keep calling guys :)) YES WE CAN!

Rob on Set 04/30/2009

I wasn't gonna post these but they are all over the place and I thought I'll post it with the whole story. Here is a stalker story for you:

My daughter and I went there about 8:00 pm and left around 10:00pm...too many screens to really see anything and too many people.

We came back at 3:00 am...few left and we saw some filming...it was Robert, Kristen and Anna.

More left...we were down to 6...they finished, they drove off without waving...but we then caught up with them at the trailers...

We saw "schmuck", talked to him. Kristen came out into her car to leave...two girls try to chase her with their car-but was stopped by schmuck. (Gozde: Umm, that is all kinds of crazy, you do know that right? Chase her with their car?!? And you call the guard a schmuck? I think they were lucky the "schmuck" didn't get them arrested)

We 6 stayed. We waited for Rob to come out. He gets into car, we say hi and ask if he would take pictures. He comes over and takes pictures and autographs for us. It was too bad the fences were there, could not get a hug. We are soooooo happy anyways. I have attached a couple of pictures, but have cut us out of it. You can post these.

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Robert Pattinson: I'm always in work mode

Here are some parts from The San Francisco Chronicle interview:

"It's strange because it already feels much more of a slick machine," Pattinson says of the film, which is being directed by Chris Weitz. "The first one we had such a young cast. Everybody was friends. It was fun. There was nothing like what it is now. Now there are people waiting outside the hotels all the time. We have security. It's crazy."

And Pattinson hasn't even started yet. He's been in Vancouver for three weeks pacing up and down his hotel room while the shoot has been under way because "I like to get some kind of momentum going in my own process, so when I actually turn up on the set I should know vaguely what I'm talking about." (Gozde: Yeah, that's always a good idea)

Pattinson, whose almost ethereal beauty has been a key part of "Twilight's" success, is nothing if not self-deprecating. He delivers his thoughts in a stuttering, half-finished manner distantly related to another British heartthrob, Hugh Grant. He also seems to share Grant's well-known discomfort with attention. In fact, the only respite from all the screaming women recently has been movie sets.

"I feel like most of the time for the past few months I'm pretty much working every time I get out of the house, working or not, so I might as well be working," he says. "I'm always in work mode. Just in case someone comes up to you, you've got to have your game face on."(Gozde: Altogether now: Awwwww!)

Probably none of this will change with the release of his newest film, Paul Morrison's "Little Ashes" - if for no other reason than few of his fans will see it. Shot before "Twilight" made Pattinson a tousle-haired poster boy, the film, set primarily in the 1920s, is about the relationship between Spanish poet-playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and Surrealist gadfly Salvador Dali (Pattinson). What begins as a mutual admiration society of up-and-coming artists becomes much, much more. Speculation has it that Lorca and Dali were, or almost became, lovers. The film goes there, to a degree that made Pattinson very uncomfortable until he actually saw it.

"I guess I was expecting things to be more graphic," Pattinson says. "There's so much shame involved, and the thing I was really worried about was trying to show the madness of it."

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Which is another way of saying that Pattinson is unconcerned about being locked into author Stephenie Meyer's franchise in the same way that the Harry Potter cast has been in theirs. It won't last that long.

Then it will be interesting to see in which direction Pattinson decides to go. No doubt his fans would prefer him to continue looking good, but he appears to have other ideas. He talks about one part he's considering in which he speaks a foreign language he doesn't know and another in which he plays "an incredibly abusive, terrifying character." He certainly seems to like playing characters who are tormented, or at least struggling with who they are.

"I try to choose things which are something that I'm going through in my life," he says. "Jobs that will help me realize or add something about myself. I don't really think about it in terms of a career."

You can read the whole thing here


Thanks to RPO :)

Ashley Greene Does Rumor Control

Ashley does rumor control and talks about crazy fans.


Seriously people, chasing Rob? What do you think is gonna happen when you "catch" him? He is suddenly gonna realize you are not actually a totally delusional crazy person and fall in love with you?

RUN BABY RUN!

Thanks to Jen from The Twilight Times for the link :))