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“I’m Not James Dean”
At age 25, the world’s most famous vampire is moving away from the Twilight zone to reach for new horizons. In Water for Elephants he plays an elephant handler caught up in a tumultuous love story. An idol with less sharp teeth but wide ideas confides his thoughts to us in Hollywood.
It’s a rather moony soul who welcomes us in his suite at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. A long spindly figure with a pale complexion and melancholy blue eyes, running his right hand through his tousled hair to tame it, Robert Pattinson seems caught up in some silent reverie that we pull him out of with our questions. Polite and British to the very tips of his artfully unlaced Dr. Martens, he comes back down to his life on earth.
A life chronicled in minute detail in the tabloids: a kiss given to Kristen Stewart on the set of Breaking Dawn in Rio de Janeiro, a birthday party at a friend's house, arriving at Vancouver Airport, getting a dog and setting Twitter buzzing... With his entire life chronicled in real time, you'd almost forget he’s an actor.
But at age 25, the vampire dandy is trying to stretch his wings. He’s getting ready to film Cosmopolis with David Cronenberg, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s cult novel. And we’ll see him on the screen in May in Water for Elephants, starring with Reese Witherspoon and the unsettling Christoph Waltz (brought into the limelight by Quentin Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds), in the role of an animal handler who’s madly in love with a beautiful married woman. An encounter with an enigmatic icon, an old-school yet very “now” young man, a rebel and a conformist, a handsome aristocratic punk for budding* young girls. (*TN: word play on Proust’s novel)
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