Director Oliver Irving, who worked with Robert Pattinson on the movie How To Be, says he had to DOWN PLAY Rob’s good looks for the film with “the most awkward haircut” and highwater trousers because Rob was too damn attractive.
Even his MUSICAL GENIUS was cut short. Irving says, “A lot of the time he would turn out to have a really good technique and we told him he needed to play it more simply.”
Check out the music video for ‘Chokin’ On the Dust‘ for How to Be!!
Robert Pattinson chats about How to Be at the Austin Film Festival. I love the bit in the beginning where he almost spits out his soda!!
Moviefone just put up Part 2 of their interview with Rob! He talks about Little Ashes, Memoirs, King Leon, and more!
1. How was filming ‘Little Ashes,’ which is such a small production, compared to doing the ‘Twilight’ movies?
I kind of like small productions ’cause there’s not so much waiting around. And it’s strange, there are little things on ‘Little Ashes,’ like we didn’t have stand-ins, so we’d just kind of sit or stand around the set, which I initially found kind of bizarre but after a while it’s great, because you can just kind of stay in character the whole time. And also you can be much more a part of the set up of the shot, so I kind of liked that. I don’t know, it was, I would say, a very different energy. [But] there’s not a huge amount of difference, really. You’re just inside your head anyway most of the time, so you don’t really notice stuff.
2. I read that you were really nervous about filming the nude scenes and the explicit scenes, how did you prepare yourself for those?
[Laughs] I had so many ridiculous answers just come into my head [more laughs]. I had a penis implant! I don’t know, I just kind of, it’s funny because Spanish people are so … have no problem with nudity at all, I mean at all, and English people obviously do have, like, the most enormous problem with it. It’s like little things, like when I saw my father getting changed for swimming I got, like, traumatized by it … I don’t really know what I did, I just kind of freaked out a bit. [Laughs]
3. So was that the most difficult thing about filming this movie?
No, I mean, a lot of it was quite hard. I guess in a lot of ways, the more I read about Dali the more I kind of liked him, and liked what he tried to make himself stand for. I guess the hardest thing was that I didn’t want to disrespect his memory, especially when I met a lot of people who he knew and stuff. People were very, very fond of him, so that was probably the hardest thing. [Laughs] I didn’t want to mess it up!
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Too cute … again!
Before Robert Pattinson was the leading man for the ‘Twilight’ film series and a teen heartthrob, he was just a little British boy on a bike.
Life & Style magazine has released photos of the vampire hunk long before the fame and notoriety kicked in.
Robert Pattinson chats with Scott HuverFandango from Fandango about his role in Little Ashes, New Moon, and more.
Rob paints a portrait of how he climbed into Dalí’s surreality, bares a bit of fang on fame, stays in the shadows during frenzied fan encounters and even offers a nibble of New Moon scoop.
Fandango: There was the showy, intentionally bizarre public Dalí and then there is his art, which should be taken very seriously. Have you thought about that as it applies to your own work?
Pattinson: Yeah. He had a fanatical control over how he was perceived. But now it’s really out of control – out of your control. Your public image just seems to be in the hands of faceless strangers. You see these stories come up all the time and you’re like, “Jesus. How do you know…?”
Fandango: Is it harder playing a real person, as opposed to playing the fictional Edward Cullen who had his story laid out in black and white?
Pattinson: I think in a lot of ways it’s kind of the same. You’re still playing fiction even though you’re playing a real character. It’s the same kind of approximation of somebody. The only thing that you can take from the book is the general outline, the mood changes, the emotional changes and development. I’m not playing it exactly as it is in the book.
Yes, according to E! news, in a recent interview, the 22 year old actor says that he almost quit acting to persue his music career right before his big break in Twilight. As many Twilight fans would agree with me; thank goodness he didn’t.
Random little thought:
How does he bend his fingers like that? OUCH!(photo above)
