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Stephenie Meyer talks about Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Breaking Dawn + more

On working with Pattinson and Lautner: “Rob is more like Jacob than Edward. He’s goofy, he’s funny, he doesn’t take much seriously. But he can turn Edward on like that (she snaps her fingers) when he needs to be Edward. Taylor’s who we hang out with most. He’s a lot like fun, happy Jacob.”

About Breaking Dawn

•The much-anticipated wedding of Edward and Bella has not been filmed yet, but Stewart is being fitted for the as-yet-unrevealed bridal gown. “It’s such an interesting mix,” says Meyer. “It has a vintage feel, but at the same time, there’s an edge to it. It’s really beautiful. And then on Kristen — oh, she looks amazing in clothes —and in that dress she’s so lithe and unbelievable.”

Some mysteries remain

One question she won’t answer: whether the werewolf/shape shifter Jacob and Renesmee, the human/vampire hybrid child of Edward and Bella, could ever have children. (Jacob is a teenager, but baby Renesmee is aging at an accelerated rate.) “That is a question I’m reserving the right not to answer, because there is a chance I’ll go back to their story.”

(…)

Some of Breaking Dawn was filmed in Baton Rouge from October to mid-February, and Meyer’s husband, Pancho, now a stay-at-home dad, and their three sons Gabe, 13, Seth, 10, and Eli, 8, moved from Arizona to Baton Rouge to be with her. They then packed up and moved with her to Vancouver. Shooting is expected to wrap up sometime in April.

(…)

Fans, says Meyer, can expect a surprising performance when Stewart transforms from human to vampire. “She’s created a new character. I was really impressed. I’ve only really seen her as (the human) Bella, so to have her step up and change it in the right way — she didn’t have to talk to me. She knew. She knows the character so well now. She has really good instincts, and she looks amazing.”

Meyer says the first Breaking Dawn movie may end “when Bella opens her eyes as a vampire. That’s the way it’s been shot. They can still do it any other way, but I think that’s the general idea. You kind of have to get there in the first film. That way you have all the time in the world to explore being a vampire and those exhilarating first moments.”

On the filming of the birth of Bella and Edward’s baby, Renesmee, which in the novel is frightening and horrific, she says, “I’ve only seen a rough cut and there are pieces missing, but I don’t feel like it’s graphic. You’re not seeing it, but you know what’s happened. It’s emotional. It doesn’t feel horror-ish. There’s blood, probably the most blood we’ve ever seen in the series. But everything’s in flux; we’ll see in the final cut.”

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New interview with Robert Pattinson in Elle Girl Russia – Scans and Translation

   

Translation by IAmYuliaBelka

We actually did an impossible mission – did an interview with our precious Robert Pattinson and didn’t ask him questions about vampires even once. We managed actually talk with him and not ask about blood, afterlife and Kristen Stewart. We’re in shock,

Elle Girl: Hi, Rob! Let’s talk about love.
Robert: Oh, again. (smiling) Ok, you can. What’s interesting about that?

EG: Your character in WFE fell in love from the first sight. Do you believe in love like that?
R: Of course

EG: Did it happen to you?
R: Million times. I actually think that most people fell in love at the moment when they saw their love for the first time.

EG: And how can you tell that you fall in love?
R: I can’t answer that. Really. I don’t know. You have very hard questions.

EG: Robert!
R: How can you describe love? If you love someone then you think that this person is the best in the world, don’t you? But if she doesn’t think that way about herself?? I think, the whole point to make her believe that she’s perfect, the most beautiful.

EG: In the movie your and Reese’s characters has a secret love. About you and your private life?
R: Oh, if it was me, I would do everything to make private life just for 2 people.You know, when I was 12, I asked a girl for a date for the 1st time. The next everybody was like: ‘Are you going out with her?’ And I was like: ‘Oh God’. I never talked to this girl ever.

EG: Is it easier for you now?
R: What private life with all these paparazzi around? They don’t care, they make money. You know, I hate being photographed. Even before all of this [fame] I hated it, even when my mom took pictures of me.

EG: And this man became an actor…
R: On a movie set I have nothing against the cameras. But other places…

EG: And what you’re gonna do to stop that?
R: I’m ready to shoot! *laughs*

EG: Are you tired of fans?
R: No, it’s all good, fans, love, of course, if it’s about me. But I feel like it’s all about character, not real Rob.

EG: But you’re so handsome, It’s pretty much enough to somebody to fall in love…
R: It’s kind of weird. Before Twilight I wasn’t offered the roles of guys like that.

EG: Was it hard to play more ‘human’ part in WFE?
R: No, actually.On the set I was really happy with what’s around me. For example, it was cool that you can sweat and play the role like that. On Twilight it was impossible, if your forehead sweated even a little bit, immediately 5 make-up artists there to fix it. It’s kind of a relief that it wasn’t like that on WFE.

EG: What about wild animals? Was it hard to work with them?
R: No, it was cool! If you’re working with elephant, for instance, and there’s some kind of chest cause the elephant threw it there, you have to react naturally. No one expects the episode to be perfect because animals can’t work with a script, It means that actors also can relax and improvise. And that’s very cool.

EG: Do you have pets at home?
R: Yeah? I have a dog now and very happy about it.

EG: How did you call it?
R: I haven’t decided yet, it’s from the shelter.He’s like, like, he looks like hyena

EG: Did you start to train it?
R: Yes. It’s very clever and obedient.

EG: Feels like you like animals more than humans?
R: I don’t know. I’m just lucky with four-legged friends. On the set I become really close with Tai, the elephant. She definitely has some kind of aura, anyone who was around her felt really peaceful. It’s really cool, to be around such a huge animal, which is so gentle at the same time.

EG: Was the circus that exciting for you when you were a child?
R: Not really. When I was there, I saw really stupid number where the clown died. I thought it was for real until I was like 21. My mom opened my eyes. *laughs*

EG: How you can relax?
R: I can’t wait for the flights. I can sleep there quietly.

EG: And what about your dream day off? What it’s like?
R: I’d probably watch films. Or played a game on my IPhone *laughs*. I can play it 16 hours in a row.

EG: What about sport?
R: On BD I was training really hard because I have shirtless scenes. I had to eat healthy food, go to the gym all the time, ride a bike everywhere and I liked it. When I finished these scenes, I relaxed and I don’t go to the gym at all. I can’t force myself.

EG: Any guilty pleasures?
R: M&M’s pretzels.

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New Robert Pattinson interview with Total Film – Talks about Bel Ami

Robert Pattinson admits that Bel Ami is still in editing because studio honchos are worried about alienating audiences used to his goody-two-shoes persona in the Twilight franchise.

RPattz plays the titular Bel Ami in an adaptation of Maupassant’s classic novel about a 19th century womanising, social-climbing journalist who sleeps his way round Paris.

Filming in the UK and Budapest opposite leading ladies Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristen Scott Thomas wrapped in spring 2010 and was originally slated for a Christmas release. It currently has no confirmed opening date.

“We were really true to the book and because the guy is basically a shit who wins everything at the end it’s really difficult to market it – especially with me in it,” Pattinson tells TF exclusively.

“Everyone’s worried that everyone’s going to be thinking, ‘Oh I want him to be nice, he’s got to be nice to all the ladies’.”

Bel Ami, though, is an unrepentant cad. “I know,” laughs the Water For Elephants star, “But that was fun!”

For more on Robert Pattinson and Water For Elephants check out the latest issue of Total Film, out 14 April.

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Complete interview and scans with Robert Pattinson in Empire Magazine

     

Transcription thanks to The Irish Twilight Sisters

Monday July 19, 2010. Empire is in LA, on the backlot of 20th Century Fox. Behind the studio’s towering HQ – Better known as die hard’s Nakatomi Plaza – in blazing sunshine. Today, we are lucky enough to witness one of the biggest street scenes filmed here since acres of the company’s real estate were sold off in 1961 to foot the runaway costs of it’s epic Cleopatra.
The cobbled streets are teeming with extras, all dressed in 1930s city mode – frills and brollies for the women, boots and braces for the boys – and there’s a palpable air of excitement. Which is understandable, because, for once in Hollywood, the circus really is coming to town.
At the end of a salvo of jugglers, clowns and acrobats lumblers an elephant, balancing Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon, one of the town’s most bankable actresses, on it’s head. Dressed in a striking ringmaster’s outfit, Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterd’s unforgettable villain, theatrically parades her. And just out of our sightline, in a full chino combo, Robert Pattinson, Twilight icon and global superstar, is bringing up the rear. This, Empire thinks, this is the magic of the movies!

Thursday February 17, 2011. Empire is in Fox’s Little Theatre, a short walk from the street corner where this lavish, no-expense-spared scene was shot. Originally, we were only supposed to see a few scenes from the film in question – Water For Elephants, a glossy adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestseller – but now we’re seeing the whole movie! The film unfolds and Empire breathlessly awaits the scene. OUR SCENE! And waits… and waits… and waits. Then suddenly, after a good 80 minutes at least, it whizzes by. In the middle of a montage. For all of, what, ten seconds.

Friday February 18, 2011. Empire sits in the Four Seasons hotel with Pattinson. He, too, only recently noticed this, while doing some additional voice recording for the movie.

“I was like ‘Oh,’” he says, his shoulders falling for comic effect. He sighs, in a small voice, “I really liked that scene…”

By rights, Pattinson shouldn’t even be here. He, more then anyone, knows the dangers of the editing process, having been snipped completely from his very first movie (more on that later). But instead, thanks to a guilty conscience, a tax bill and a book he’d never heard of, the Barnes-born actor is, at just 24, one of the biggest deals on the planet. The way he tells it, he just muddled his way through. He even says he came to star in Water For Elephants, his biggest gamble yet, by chance.

Although he plays a character named Jacob, this period epic couldn’t be further removed from the Twilight films that made him a most unlikely pin-up. As the undead Edward Cullen, Pattinson set teen pulses racing, but here, as a young veterinarian tossed out of medical school after the death of his parents, he plays a much more orthodox Hollywood heartthrob. Joining the Benzini Brothers’ circus, led by the mercurial August Rosenbluth (Waltz), Jacob begins to see the harsh realities of life on the road in Depression-era America – all the while getting closer to the ringmaster’s beautiful wife, horse rider and acrobat Marlena (Witherspoon), who’s dominated by August with a whip hand.

For any other actor, such a role would be part of a distinct gameplan, a decision to ratchet things up a notch, embrace the limelight, go Hollywood. Pattinson, though, claims this was not the case. “It’s actually a cheaper film that ant of the Twilight movies,” he says softly, “so it wasn’t that massive a budget, it just looks like it was. But it seems so big, it does seem like a step, or something. It’s weird, though. When I first read the script – because I didn’t have that many lines – I just thought, ‘Oh, okay, I get it: I’m in the eyes of the audience. It’s going to be a big spectacle movie that isn’t solely resting on my shoulders…’” He laughs. “So I was very relaxed about it, going in.”

So he didn’t realise he’d be carrying the whole movie?!

“I only realised about halfway through,” he grins. “I was working every single day. Reese was hardly ever in, and Christoph only came in sporadically *. I was like, ‘how did this happen?!’”

*Attention, Hollywood! Tongue-in-cheek British humour alert number one! In fairness to Waltz and witherspoon, Pattinson is talking subjectively about their respective shooting schedules within a main shoot that lasted from May 20 to August 4, 2010.

How indeed? At a time when most stars his age have become insufferable, Pattinson is friendly, likable and genuinely humble. The reddish hair is noticeably Edward’s – he has flown straight from the set of Breaking Dawn in Baton Rouge – but the clothes are nondescript, perhaps for security reasons rather than fashion (Of the fan hysteria that follows him, he says this, somewhat cryptically: “I know what situations will provoke it now, so I just avoid doing those things.”)

But this is an actor who isn’t about to let his ego run riot just yet. The last time Pattinson worked with Witherspoon, on Mira Nair’s 2004 adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, he told everyone who’d listen about his Hollywood break – and then ended up on the cutting-room floor. Even though he was playing the star’s son.

“I had no idea,” he laughs. “I went to a screening and it was very embarrassing, because my best friend played the son of the other main couple, and his scene was still in. His was almost adjacent to mine. So I was looking at his scene, thinking ‘Hmm, pretty good,’ waiting for mine.” But it wasn’t there. In it’s place, there was “a big, happy wedding”. In India. “Which wasn’t in the book.” he notes, deadpan (he has a lovely, dry sense of humour).

Did they ever say why?

“I think because it was the last scene, and they thought it was too depressing,” he shrugs. “But it was quite funny, really. I ended up getting Harry Potter because the casting director felt so guilty that she forgot to tell me. I think I was the first person seen for it. Nowadays, I’m working all the time. But before that… I mean, in my career before Twilight, whatever job I got, that was the job I did. I never turned down a thing. They weren’t even lead parts. Anything. Just random little things. And I liked doing it, on that level. I survived off the money for Harry Potter for, like, three years. I spent three years getting drunk **. And just when I was about to go broke, I got Twilight.”

**Tongue-in-cheek British humour alert number two! This is A Joke.

Pattinson admits that, had it not been for the indie drama Little Ashes, in which he played surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, we might even have lost him to music. “All my friends were doing music and just starting to get contracts,” he recalls. “We were all playing in the same little group of people. So I was going to start doing that, and then I got offered Little ashes, out of the blue. At first, I thought it was just gonna be two months’ vacation in Spain, but it ended up being really, really hard. It was the first job I’d really researched, and I’d only just started to find some satisfaction in acting.”

And after that? “Well, then I got Twilight,” he grins. “I finished Little Ashes and went to LA because I really, really needed money! I had this big tax bill, and I was completely broke. But it had given me a different perspective. I talked to people in auditions differently, whereas before I just went in going, ‘Yeah, I don’t really know what I’m doing,’ and I didn’t really care.”

Pattinson looks back on those days with amusement rather than embarrassment. “I really enjoyed everything,” he says. “When you’re starting out, you don’t really know how to…” He changes tack, turning a negative into a positive. “I mean, you’ve gotta learn how to do things. Every job i did, especially before Twilight, I’d be all out in it – and having no idea which kind of direction to go in! I really wanted to see where my line was. I didn’t know what I was doing at all.”

He didn’t train as an actor, so how did he learn? Was it a question of listening to the director? He smiles. “I’ve only just started accepting what directors tell me to do! I used to think that, say, where I had to do a big emotional scene, because of everything I’d read about actors when I was younger, I’d have to do it for real. So I’d be hyping myself up for three days beforehand. Like, I did this Viking movie (released theatrically in the UK as Sword Of Xanten) when I was 17, and there was all this fighting stuff. I had to kill this guy who killed my brother.” he laughs. “I sat there going crazy for the entire day. It actually got to the point where I had the sword in my hand, about to whip it out and kill the guy, and the director came over and said ‘Listen, you can’t do it. You’ve got the red mist…’ I was like, “WHAAAAT?’

“It’s funny, that,” he muses. “You don’t understand when you first start doing it, how to get to certain places. Because you don’t want to feel like you’re faking it. But then you find out later that the best people, most of the time, are faking it. And that’s when they do their best work.”

After Twilight, the rest is history. And even that, he says, was sort of a fluke: when he landed the part, he genuinely had no idea how life-changing it would be. “No-one believes me about this. You couldn’t buy the books in England. And I only knew one person who’d read then, who was my mum’s friend’s daughter, who lived in New York. It just seemed like it was one of those ‘young adult’ class reader things. I had no idea what it was about. So I went over there and I didn’t know what to make of it at all. But I’d seen Into The Wild, and I thought Kristen (Stewart) was really good in it. They said, ‘Oh, that’s the girl playing Bella.’ And I was like ‘Shit, she’s actually good!’ So I did a reading with her, and she was really impressive.”

“I didn’t really know how to play it,” he continues, “because I thought it was kind of a teen thing – which it did end up being – but I thought at the time, with Catherine Hardwicke and Kristen, it was going to be an indie movie. It seemed really interesting; a teen vampire movie that was going to be like Thirteen (Hardwicke’s debut movie) and really serious. I had no idea it was going to be this big thing that you’d get on Burger King hats.”

Empire takes it that this has actually happened? “Yes,” he grins. “I think you can even get an Edward burger! But it doesn’t really make an enormous amount of difference. Everyone always thinks, ‘Oh, well, you can do anything you want now.’ but there’s nothing out there. There’s hardly anything. Also, you’ve got to fit into the part. I mean, it’s not like I’m going to play the Queen!”

After the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2, Pattinson says there’ll definitely be no more Edward Cullen. his next film, sensual period thriller Bel Ami, recently wrapped, and then he starts work on Cronenberg’s new thriller, Cosmopolis. You’d think he might be blasé about that, but no. “I’m just astonished that I’ve been cast,” he marvels. “I’d read the script before and thought, ‘Wow, this is insane. But insane and difficult.’ And then, out of nowhere, my agent said, “Do you want to do it?’”

Is this something of a dream come true, then? “I never thought about working with Cronenberg,” he reflects, “but I’ve always loved his movies. It just never came into my head that there would be an opportunity. Y’know, there are so few auteur’s left. The one thing that pisses me off about working in films is when you start a project and then, suddenly, two days before you start, there’s a massive rewrite to make an R-rated movie into something that’s PG-13, and it’s a totally different story. As soon as that line’s been crossed, you know you’re not making a movie anymore. You’re making a…a… fridge magnet. It’s nothing.

“But with people like Cronenberg you know that, no matter what, there will be a movie at the end, and it will be solid and self-contained, and it’s not made for any other reason than it being a movie. and however ridiculous it is, that’s so hard to find! There’s a few people like this. Like Jaques Audiard, who made A Prophet. He’s never made a film that isn’t entirely his own.”

This informed, intelligent and incisive side of Robert Pattinson might come as a surprise to those expecting an airhead, boy-model bimbo. So Empire puts him on the spot somewhat and asks what he would say to people who have a precognition about him from Twilight, and wanted to know why they should go to see Water For Elephants.

“I don’t know,” he says, suddenly a little shyer. “Hopefully they’ll think it’s a good movie. I don’t know what it says about me… But I have a feeling that a lot of people will like it. I don’t think a lot of movies coming out are anything like it, and when I was working on the film it didn’t feel like anything else that was being made. So hopefully it will… it will… satiate something in people.”

And it’s better that having a rapping career, which Empire believes very almost happened…?

He nods. “It’s definitely better than that.”

Water For Elephants is out on May 5 and will be reviewed in the next issue.

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