Robert Pattinson's interview for the San Francisco Chronicle

Sorry, ladies. In the daylight, Robert Pattinson's skin does not sparkle like diamonds. (Kat: What a relief...) He's not even unusually pale. The closest he gets to his dreamy-vampire persona is when, during the course of conversation, he absently tousles his hair into something like his undead do. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Mr. Hunky Bloodsucker in person is how soft-spoken he is.

That is, until an unwanted visitor appears on the balcony.

"Jesus, I thought that crow was going to come in the room," he says. "That would be a bad omen!"

The large black bird has settled menacingly on the railing, facing outward but occasionally glancing over its shoulder as if to say, "I see you."

Menacing birds

"Weird," Pattinson says, laughing. "I've been having bad experiences with birds. I just got a dog and I was trying to make him pee out on the balcony and there were these enormous seagulls who have absolutely no fear of people. I genuinely thought a seagull was going to grab my dog. Terrifying."

Animals and animus are primary components in Pattinson's new film, the Depression-era romance "Water for Elephants." Pattinson plays Jacob, an erstwhile veterinary student who, after a personal tragedy, essentially runs away with the circus. There he meets performer Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), who is as enchanting as her husband, charming but imbalanced circus owner August (Christoph Waltz), is discomfiting. The web becomes more tangled when August's big new acquisition - a bull elephant - steps into it.

"I don't think there was one thing with the elephants I didn't do," Pattinson says, though not impressed with that fact. "They were pretty nice animals. Everything was pretty easy. The first time I met Tai, she was with, like, five or six other fully grown Indian elephants. They came wandering around, but they would never, ever tread on you. Even their back feet, they're so sensitive to what's going on around them. Gary, their trainer, said, 'Sit,' and all of them sat down, like how a dog sits. I just thought, however this movie comes out, I want to work with this elephant." (Kat: Note to Tai - thank you for winning over Rob so he'd sign on to this movie - another reason to love you, sweet girl.)

Soulful elephant

Even in Pattinson's rapidly growing gallery of lovely leading ladies, Tai ranks up there for beauty and soulfulness of eye. And she was apparently considerably easier a co-star than, say, the horses with which Witherspoon was matched.

"Reese got thrown off once. She got stepped on a bunch of times," Pattinson says. "I saw it happen during scenes, and she didn't say anything, continued on the scene."

He gives a close-mouthed, wide-eyed look of shock, and laughs again. "But yeah, she's pretty tough. (In one scene) the horses were running within a foot of her, and the horses do tread on you; it's nothing like the elephant. And if something goes wrong, they freak out. But she was so easy with them. The horses behaved slightly differently with her than with me. She has a thing. I have an elephant thing, she has a horse thing."

Pattinson is comfortable enough with his animal magnetism to make much of his humor self-deprecating. He acknowledges that having worked with Witherspoon previously - albeit briefly, and for naught, as his scenes were ultimately trimmed from "Vanity Fair" (2005) - was a source of comfort.

" 'Vanity Fair' was my first job and I was completely freaking out about it," he says. "She came to my trailer and said she wanted to run lines or something. She's just really sweet and easygoing. I mean, we didn't hang out or anything, but we sort of felt we knew each other when I met her again."

Odd one out

Still, he was in awe of his co-stars. "When you see Christoph and Reese and they're both Oscar winners and they're big movie stars - also, they have the big parts, they have the kind of loud parts - I'm coming into that thinking, 'I'm kind of the odd one out here, and I'm also in every single scene.' You're a little bit worried.

"She has such an amazing aura on a set. The days she was there were so different from days when she wasn't. She definitely creates a really nice vibe, and everyone's happier when she's around. They're almost depressed when it's just me," he says, laughing.

It was hard to be depressed around Waltz, however.

"He's extremely funny. He had just done that skit on Jimmy Kimmel, 'Der Humpink.' It's one of the funniest skits I've ever seen in my life," he says of meeting Waltz. For the record, "Der Humpink" is an utterly insane sketch one can find online - but afterward one might never be able to look at Col. Hans Landa of "Inglourious Basterds" the same way again ... or feel at ease about his inquiries into life on that French farm. (Kat: Runs off to search youtube....)

"He's very, very good at making anything seem sympathetic. He is kind of, in the book and in the script, just a nutcase. But I think Christoph didn't want to play that straight up," Pattinson says. "But Jacob keeps trying to steal his wife, so where's the happy ending? He's destroyed this hardworking man's business, steals his wife."

British Pattinson confesses a foreigner's fondness for the American 1930s, Depression and all, for how iconically American they seem to him. He referenced Gary Cooper films to help create his "Water for Elephants" character. But it was another American star, playing the older version of Jacob, who connected surprisingly with the young actor.

"The first thing Hal Holbrook said to me was" - Pattison takes on a pretty good Hal Holbrook croak - " 'You look exactly like me!' He came in a couple of days to watch the way I walk and stuff. 'You walk exactly the same as me. And you look like me and you sound like me.' I was looking at the pictures of him when he was younger, and he really does ... we're really similar body shapes. It's really odd. I wouldn't mind ending up like Hal Holbrook."

Water for Elephants (R) opens Friday at Bay Area theaters.

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Robert Pattinson Shares the HQ Love Twice in One Day

Robert Pattinson's so good to us! Sharing the beautiful blue love of the Water for Elephants press conference twice in the same day.

The profile shot always stuns me into silence... like this one below...



... erm, Rob... the intense stare isn't helping.



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Reese Witherspoon Gives Advice To Robert Pattinson Fans

In case any Robert Pattinson fans are drreaming of "Having a moment with him" (as if we'd be thinking about things like that) Reese Witherspoon has some advice.







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Jacqueline West Compares Robert Pattinson To Brad Pitt

Ok can someone tell me how I can become a costume designer because Jacqueline West has one of the best jobs in the world. Not only has she worked with Robert Pattinson on "Water for Elephants" she also worked with Brad Pitt. Read what she has to say about them both below.



There’s no denying that Robert Pattinson is hot, but does he have what it takes to be the next Brad Pitt? "Water for Elephants" costume designer, Jacqueline West, who worked with Brad on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," seems to think so.

"I think Brad would think so too," Jacqueline told us.

Jacqueline, who designed all of Rob's 1930s looks in "WFE" (including his new favorite pair of underpants!) said that similar to Brad, designing for Rob was a treat. (Kate: Bet she thought all her Christmasses came at once)

"He's kind of perfect," she said. (Kate: I won't argue with you there) "He's easy, like Brad in that way. (Kate: Easy on the eye) You can't put anything on them that they don't look good in." Ahh the advantages of being ridiculously good looking.

That's not where the similarities end though. Jacqueline added that the two guys have a lot more in common than their looks.

"Both of them are so nice to work with. They're both really lovely people and nice to everyone, respectful of everyone's work and collaborative and genuine," she said (as if we needed more reasons to love them). "There's something very down to earth about both of them. Brad, because he's from the Midwest, I think, and Rob, because he came from theater."

Jacqueline, who has met both Brad and Rob’s families (seriously, how can we get that job?),(Kate: Hey that's my line!) said that their upbringing is definitely to credit for their all-around awesomeness.

"I met both their families and they're both lovely and well brought up," she said.

And there’s more. Jacqueline also noticed a common thread in the way both actors work.

"They're similar in the way they approach characters and a part and how they're so respectful about their craft."

Okay, we're pretty much sold. RPattz could very well be the next BP, now all that's left is for the two of them is to star in a movie together, possibly opposite their other halves (a.k.a. Kristen Stewart and Angelina Jolie) both brunettes who they met on set (see what we did there?).

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More Gorgeous HQ Robert Pattinson Pics From The "Water For Elephants" Press Conference

More gorgeous HQ's of Robert Pattinson from the "Water For Elephants" Press Conference.

He pulls so many different faces it's adorable.





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An Exclusive "Water For Elephants" Clip Will Be Online Before Sunday's Red Carpet

An exclusive clip from the upcoming Reese Witherspoon-Robert Pattinson film will be available online before the red carpet begins Sunday.

20th Century Fox has teamed up with the makers of mobile app Color for Sunday's premiere of Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson's film Water for Elephants.

The photos and videos taken using the Color app by attendees at the New York premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre will be instantly shared to those in the immediate vicinity in a Water for Elephants premiere group (or "conversation"), which acts like an automatic feed.

Fox will also have one of the film's producers and some of the talent taking videos and pictures using the app as they make their way down the carpet.

Color, which launched in late March, is a free application for iPhone (and coming to Android and Windows 7) devices that allows people within 150 feet to capture and have real-time access to photos, videos and text. In one day, it was the second most popular social media application behind Facebook.

"With such a big following of Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, people will be camping out just to get to the front of the barricades," Color co-founder Peter Pham tells THR, who likened the app to a "visual Twitter.” "It'll give you a really good sense of what it's like from the fan's perspective. It's not the high-def professional cameraman taking the photos perched in a specific spot."

While Color is exclusive to mobile devices, aggregated content from the premiere will be made available online for the first time at www.color.com/waterforelephants to further engagement. The website will launch with a never-before-seen clip from the film at 1 p.m. PT on Sunday.

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*NEW* Robert Pattinson Interview with Film Ink Magazine (Australia) - Scan

New Interview with Robert Pattinson In this scan of the Australian magazine "Film Ink".

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