GQ Germany (traduzione di KStewandRpatz and ToR):
Back From The Dead
Goodbye vampire. Robert Pattinson starts a new career. With movies in Cannes and as the face of Dior.
French; wherever you go, all you hear is French. That is rare in the “Beverly Hills Hotel” but the whole Dior crew flew in. This noon, everything is about the new star of the Dior Homme campaign, Rober Pattinson. Former Twilight superstar, teen sensation comparable to Justin Bieber, and now on his way to a new life as a grown up actor with successes in Cannes. Pattinson is nervous, not a cool guy. He used to smoke but these days are over. Yet on the sofa next to him, there still are four boxes of cigarettes. He plays with the cig, bounces his hand. Maybe everyone would be nervous if they start their second worldwide career at the age of 27.
Mister Pattinson, you’ve been chewing on this cigarette for a while now. Is is made of chocolate or gum?
That would be really embarrassing. It’s actually an electronic cigarette.
Why don’t you smoke anymore?It had to stop. Just like the time as a Twilight vampire.
Non-smoker and short hair. Aren’t things like that clear indicators for the next career step?My hair probably speaks for itself and I don’t really have to say anything. I wonder why people are so obsessed with my hair. In a TV-show Heidi Klum once even said “Hey Robert, how can you make your hair look good like that?”
Have you ever had bad hair?A tacky ponytail; combed back with vaseline. And tons of parfume on top of that. It was all too much. I’d say at the time I wasn’t a real man.
Well, we can assume you are one now. In the advert for Dior Homme you seem to have some similiarities with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless?I really just wanted to play a guy who has some kind of sensibility but still loves to be free. I think it’s rather embarrassing if men act too manly.
When you were young, as a model, you almost looked like a girl. Didn’t that bother you?No, I was simply young. I did it to meet girls, without thinking of any kind of career. I had a pretty “from-hand-to-mouth” understanding of life; someone takes a picture of me and I get 20 Pounds for it.
After Twilight you were set for life. Did that kind of success make you realize who you really are or who did it make you brood about the principle of the matter?The only thing I know is I will eventually get somewhere. I do something which, until recently, I had no idea I was capable of: to act in front of a camera in such a way that other people believe it.
Your success was beyond any kind of standard, even colleagues like Emma Watson don’t envy you. How did you manage to remain calm?I just worked - all the time. It felt like 24 hours a day. I didn’t have time to freak; work is the best thing to keep you from going crazy. That’s how I was able to ignore the masses in front of my hotel. Bars was a different story. There, there are a lots of guys who just want to punch me in the face.
Just like that?Yeah. Without any kind of reason.
Because they’ve seen your face placated on a bus station?Maybe. That would be enough.
Does someone like you have a five-year plan?Every movie I make should get into Cannes. When I decided to do David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis I suddenly had new possibilities. David helped me to become an actor.
You are 27 years old - in the showbiz that is a dangerous age and outside of it definitely a moment when emotions change completely.Do you want me to tell you whether I'll die this year? I’ve been dead long enough when I was Edward Cullen. Ever since I did the Cronenberg film I have had a different life because at 27 people talk to you like they would to an adult. When I did Twilight they thought I was “just” famous. And no one likes famous people.
What makes you think that?It’s the “Uber-Pattinson-Powerfactor”. Suddenly faces that appear out of nowhere are getting rich and famous. That’s something that makes other people nervous.
All the presents, special treatments was good for your self concious. What is really important to you to feel sure about yourself though?For me it was and still is my family. I even leave them to chose the scripts
You leave your career plans up to your parents and siblings?Yes. I mean, they are in a lot of stress because of me. They never chose to be the family of Twilight Pattinson. And sadly, they also often get visits by the paparazzi.
What would you want to be like? Which actor do you watch closely, when it comes to plans for the future?Joaquin Phoenix. His acting has direct consequences for his life.
In his documentary he mocks himself and Hollywood and he doesn’t want to be an actor anymore.I don’t want to work as an actor all my life either.
Then what? Will you open a business in Silicon Valley and develop apps?I’m waiting for the next surprise. I once decided to quit acting; it was when I did Little Ashes. I played Salvador Dali and had to do a lot of scenes where I was naked, and I also had to masturbate. I mean really. A couple of days later I was given the offer to do Twilight.
Can you now take your time to decide on which role you take? Or would that be rather contraproductive, despite your fame?I need a long time. But I must get quicker. Today, business manager decide whether they take you or not, and they don’t wait too long. Also, I’d like to be a little older and more mature for certain roles - because you can really be too young for a film.
Examples?When I did Bel Ami I was way too young for that character. This guys was an alpha-alpha guy, clever yet dull und unethical. Everyone who did him a favor, in most cases that were women, came off rather badly. The character was simply good in being an asshole.
Would you play a better asshole today?I’m absolutely positive!
InStyle Germany (traduzione di @enamoramiento1):
Rob, what's going on?
Robert Pattinson, Twilight star and face of the new Dior Homme campaign, explains why he wears suits only once, what he likes to spend money on and why Bernadette is his true love.
Robert Pattinson, looking suave with short hair and in a black designer suit, is kissing model Camille Rowe with so much passion, you'd think there's something going on between the two of them for real. Maybe this sexy production to introduce him as the new face of Dior Homme is meant as a farewell to his Twilight-love Kristen Stewart: passionate, unconventional, surrounded by half-naked beauties. A clever move from Dior and a change of image for Rob. From teen-idol to man. During the interview at the Beverly Hills Hotel he's still hungover from last night's premiere-party. Dressed in Nike sneakers, Jeans and Acne shirt, with cap and scruff, his electronic cigarette at the ready. But he's hardly ever been in such a good mood. Does he prefer the single-life to togetherness? "There's no good answer to that question" he says. For others, it seems, there are.
As soon as you have left Twilight behind you, you´re having the next generation swoon as a model for Dior Homme. Have you come to terms with your sex-symbol status?(laughs) It was a deliberate move. I'm older now. Until last year, I felt like a child, self-conscious and insecure. Everything seemed to just happen to me, I was simply very lucky. My ego had to catch up with that, too. But now I have a career to plan.
Where are you heading?I'd like to keep making "obscure" movies, but I also have to stay on the radar to finance these indie-projects. Sure, after Twilight I could have just done the next big studio-thing, but I thought that Dior is so classy. I've never really played a truly masculine, erotic character.
You could take a break for a year. Or go back to London.London isn't the same place for me anymore. The last time I really lived there, in my own appartement, was six years ago and meanwhile, almost all my friends have moved to New York and only my family is left.
Dior presents you as a modern James Dean. Do you live like every day was your last?Somehow, yes... If I were to die tomorrow, it would be ok. Cause I didn´t deny myself anything. But I don´t have a very exciting life.
What was the most exciting thing that has happened to you lately?Not putting my seatbelt on while driving!
That only counts if you're still the bad driver you used to claim to be.I'm a much better driver now, not that anxious anymore. Must be because of my new self-esteem. Or because I was stuck in traffic for too long. You just have to be frustrated enough to lose all your fears!
Who keeps you save in your life as a celebrity?I don't have an agent. I can say No on my own. My dogs though, Bear and Bernadette, they've grown into some serious guard dogs. They're chasing away anyone who comes near my house. But I don't own anything of value, you could only steal my couch (laughs)
What is your biggest luxury?Actually, I spend most money on flight tickets. A first class flight from L.A. to London is $20.000. Then, $200 for a pair of jeans seems too much.
But you still like designer suits.Absolutely. I have a strange relationship with my suits; I wear them only once, but I can't seem to part with them. There must be a thousand in storage.
Sounds quite vain.I still prefer drinking beer to working out. But I've come to terms with the fact that my looks are part of my brand. Everything I invest in that brand hopefully leads to another job.
Does that mean that on the red carpet, you're putting as much pressure on yourself as your females colleagues do?I keep having panic-attacks (laughs). Acute anxiety from twisted body perception or maybe I'm just afraid that I've picked the wrong outfit. My stylist, Ryan Hastings, is driving me crazy with his many options.
It seems to work, though, you always and up on the "best dressed"-list.That´s thanks to Ryan, too. Although, that Gucci suit from the last Twilight premiere, I designed that myself. Emerald houndstooth.
Are you wearing strictly Dior now?On my skin, definitely (laughs)
Do you have a sensitive nose?Yes. I can smell when someone feels uncomfortable or is lying. It smells sourly.
How did the first woman in your life smell?My girlfriend when I was twelve? Like soap and laundry detergent. That was strange. I think it´s ok to be a little dirty...
Interview Germany (traduzione di @KStewandRPatz):
Rob: I hope it doesn’t bother you that I smoke?
Interviewer: What do you smoke?My e-cigs. I’ve been trying to quit for quite some time now but this one here is pretty unique: each cigarette can be smoked for as long as it would take you to finish to packs of cigs. And, um, if it stops glowing, you just throw it away. Just like with real cigarettes. I like that. Do you want one?
Sure.And?
I like everything that smokes.These are extremely strong. I constantly drive to 7-Eleven and get new ones. You can even smoke these things on the airplane. Oh God, I sound like a salesman for e-cigs.
When you should be doing some promo for Dior. How does it feel to be the new face of Dior Homme?Actually, I never wanted to do advertisements.
…and then one morning you ran out of perfume?I don’t use perfume!
Are you allowed to say that?When I was 13 or 14 I always used perfume, but today, not anymore. At the time I probably thought it would give me some kind of adult touch. So it was important, until the first stubble appeared.
The director Romain Gavras just said you would have crashed the BMW while shooting.what? We agreed he wouldn’t say anything! And I didn’t even total the car..
What happened?I was supposed to drive along a six meter long (ca. 19,5 feet) stripe of sand 100km/h (ca. 60 mp/h) while at the same time, the waves came in, and I just slipped. After that the car, the models, and I drowned in mud full of algae.
Did you confess that to your dad?Because of the models? No, why?
I thought you father dealt with oldtimers.Oh, shit, that’s right. I had hoped the BMW wouldn’t be considered old. By the way, after the first Twilight movie, I drove the same model in black. The car didn’t cost more than 1000 bucks - it didn’t make it very long but it’s considered a classic today. Thank God, dad is retired by now.
The scene where it looks like you and the model would smoke pot, that wasn’t the one you were shooting just before that one, was it?No, I didn’t. (laughs)
Did Roman Gavras had to do a lot of editing until the pictures fit with the public image of Dior?Well, the joint wasn’t real.
The girl was, however.Maybe there will be a director’s cut one day, one in which the audience is allowed to see her breasts. Oh, no, I take that back - what a horrible comment to make.
After all, the audience loves to see you a lot more than the naked girl.Pff.
Ever since you played the young Salvador Dali in Little Ashes you are constantly seen naked in front of the camera. Is that something that is unproblematic for you?I’m English! No! Although, by now, it’s okay, at least if I feel like I worked out enough. But even then it’s more difficult for me than others on set. Just imagine meeting Juliette Binoche for the first time and ten minutes later you’re supposed to shot a sex scene with her. That’s brutal. With the Dali production in Spain it was really bad, almost embarrassing: we hung out at a swimming pool and were supposed to loosen up a little. I clang to the edge of the pool and before I was even able to turn around the Spanish guy was already naked. He happily swam over to me and I had no idea what to do. I felt like Mr. Bean. However, that was the first sex scene I had ever done. And it was with a man.
Does that make a difference?Looking back, I can actually say no. You don’t really kiss, actually you only make sure that is looks good, you know, whether the angle is right, and if you look good doing it.
Really?Well, at least it feels different than a normal kiss.
Only a few people are being filmed while kissing.Right, I forgot. (laughs)
Back to your part-time job: do you feel like an Homme or would Dior Boy have worked better for you?Well, during the shoot Romain always yelled “More Homme!” and “Robert, be an Homme!”
Your predecessor was Jude Law. It seems like the French consider the English more Homme than their fellow countrymen.Funny, right? Us Brits are especially manly, educated, eloquent, and good looking.
And you have a lot more hair than Jude Law.How mean!
During your time in Hogwards it was probably always “That boy a year above Harry Potter is going to be the new Jude Law.”Yes, that is what was written in the newspapers. But today, there are dozens of young guys who are celebrated as the new Robert Pattinson.
Two weeks ago, some photos appeared where they simply put your head on Jude Law’s head from the photos of his campaign.That’s crazy. (laughs)
Have you ever met Jude Law?Unfortunately not. But I’m sure that he probably laughs about stunts like that. We’re English. We have a good sense of humor. It’s what’s protecting us from all the craziness that happens.
When it comes to that you reached a complete new level in the last twelve months.In the last twelve months? (laughs) It was hysterical, yes, but that’s actually what is was always like, during all the Twilight years. Suddenly everywhere I went people thought they already knew me. They look at a photo of me and think they have a special relationship, a friendship, an affair with me - someone they haven’t met their whole life. That’s crazy. And in some moments really scary and creepy. But I try to laugh it off. Only if you’re able to laugh about stuff is it that you can digest things. Maybe this whole celebrity thing, this hysteria that can hardly get any bigger than it already is, will be over real soon. At least that’s what I hope will happen.
When and more importantly why should that happen?Oh, maybe in ten or twenty years; once the economic crisis is over and people are able to focus on themselves and their consumption - and not clutter the internet out of boredom the whole day and write complete nonsense about others.
Are you talking about yourself or the general need for fans to get close to famous people?In general. The internet changed a lot. If you google something long enough you will soon know everything there is to know about me: what I eat, what my poop looks like, with whom I’m sleeping, what my dick looks like, even what I look like when I masturbate…
Really?Well, that might be a little exaggerated. But my hand-job face is recorded for eternity.
Ever since you played the young Dali.Right.
Can one not simply pretend to do it?Try it. I can tell you right now, no chance. It just doesn’t work. So I rubbed one out in front of the camera.
Because you hoped no one would ever see the film?Something like that, yes. After the end of the shooting I thought for a couple of days that this would be the end of my - at the time really short - acting career. But then I got the phone call that said “You got the role.” And then Twilight started.
And after the first part of Twilight the sell???Haha.
Mr. Pattinson, you grew up in Barnes, in the south west of London. What was your childhood like?Pretty normal. I have always been an average guy who constantly made sure not to be the center of attention. A little bit shy and unsure. That’s why I decided to sign up for the theater group, even though I had already played at a theater before I did that.
Your father repaired expensive cars. Your mother worked in a modeling agency. You yourself modeled during high school.I’m proud to say to have had the most pathetic modeling career in the world.
For that you’re doing a pretty good job with Dior.In the beginning it was okay. I was tall and looked like a girl. It worked because this androgynous look was in at the time. But then I got older and more masculine - and just like that no one booked me anymore.
Your female class mates were probably impressed by your modeling, weren’t they?No, not really. I tried to keep my part-time job a secret. I guess I have always been a private person. There was actually only one incident that everyone at school knew about: I modeled for this teen magazine, Bliss, and they had the Bliss Boys. In every issue the girls were able to vote their guys in or out. I was pretty good and was voted in for a year or so - which was probably because I called and voted for myself. Per issue you were given 150 Pounds (laughs). If I think about it now, that was by far my most successful model job. I only ever went to the casting to see female models. But I never dared talking to them.
But in school you haven’t been shy enough to not put red roses in lockers at Valentine’s Day.How do you know that?
From the young girl with the locker.Wow. Did she also tell you that the thing with the rose didn’t work? It was Valentine’s Day, we were 13 or so, anyway, I put the rose in her locker and - my best friend said he did it. A week later he was dating her. As I already said, I wasn’t very lucky at the time.
Says the vampire for whose roses millions of girls are waiting for.That sounds easier than it is.
Were you sad on the last day of shooting Twilight? After all, Edward was with you for years.There have been so many last days of shooting. One of them was in the Caribbean, on Saint Thomas, that was fantastic. Most of the time we shot during bad weather. But there the sun was shining, we were at the beach and made out in the sea the whole time.
Sounds good.The actual last day of filming had been in Canada. And that was the whole opposite of that day [in the Caribbean]: all we did for two weeks was shooting scenes in which we were naked; so that [last] night it was freezing cold and horrible. The whole crew just wanted to go. Just like me. I didn’t even say goodbye to all the guys but just took off.
In an interview you once said “Most people only take but give nothing in return.” The simple question is: what is it that Robert Pattinson has to give? The more interesting question, however, would be: what was it that you have taken lately?If you say “take” I immediately think of stealing.
Interesting.I always steal the pens in the hotel rooms. Look: my backpack is full of it.
You live in way too many hotels.Sad but true.
What do your friends from London say about R-Patz, the nickname the yellow press gave you?Fortunately they ignore it. Just like Twilight. But regarding R-Patz: I’d like to strangle the guy who came up with it!
Do you know who the father of the fighting name R-Patz is?No. Well, actually I do. Some fat celebrity blogger… let’s just leave it at that.
Do you believe that, what is being reported about your relationship with Kristen Stewart would have been just as hysterical if there had been no Twilight romance?It’s impossible to give a smart answer to that. One thing can’t be separated from the other.
Very diplomatic.Well, what am I supposed to say?
Thanks to social networks and the Twilight hysteria you have more fans than Justin Bieber, more than any other popstar of our time.The real odd thing about this Twilight target group is that they aren’t really teenagers. Most of them are older. Twilight has its own parallel world, its own fan culture that has been forming on the net since day one. And in an intense way that has never existed before. Sometimes I ask myself what these masses of people do the whole day. They sit in front of their computers and comment on anything having even remotely to do with Twilight. Day and Night. So actually really exciting - at least up to point when I became part of that phenomenon.
How do you deal with that?You learn to adapt. And you learn to live our life a different way. What’s really crass, however, is if 75% of the Internet pack think your absolute shit. (laughs)
Do you ever think of escaping?Who doesn’t? The real nuisance are not some fans but the paparazzi - those on the other hand you can find stupid; even though I understand them, too: a single photo of me, taken at morning of any day pays the monthly rent for the paparazzo. For them all the pathetic waiting is really worth it.
Did you know what you got yourself involved in with Twilight?Not in the slightest. But now that it’s all over I feel a lot more grown up.
Rumor has it that you took a valium right before the casting for Twilight, the role that changed your life. Can you remember that?Yup, and the pill really worked it’s magic - if only that one time. After I knew I got the role I thought Valium would be my thing, like the magic drug that gets me through all these horrible castings.
And?At the next casting I almost fell asleep. Thank God I only had to do castings twice since Twilight.
One being with Werner Herzog with whom you’ll be doing your next film.I didn’t have to read for Werner, I was just lucky.
For Werner Herzog you play H. P. Lovecraft. You’ll be shooting in Morocco.Right.
Isn’t the desert sun deadly for vampires?Very funny. By the way I think the smell of blood is disgusting.
Right after the last part of Twilight you shot Cosmopolis with David Cronenberg. You play an investment banker…The timing was just amazing. David sent me the script, I was thrilled, I accepted the role right away - and then, while shooting, the global Occupy movement started. And please, believe me: I can more than understand why people went out on the streets! Did you know that even in L.A. there was any Occupy movement?
NoThere really was.
Did you demonstrate?That would be ridiculous. What was I supposed to say that wouldn’t have sounded dishonest? But I actually know some well-known actors who went there. I thought that was simply pathetic.
Why?Because the lovely colleagues just got into their Audis or BMW’s for which they didn’t pay a single dime, drove downtown, parked their car a block away, and pretended to have come by train. I also don’t understand what they actually wanted to do there. I said to them: “You simply ruin this protest of real demonstrators. No matter how much you can sympathize with them: it’s not your fight. You are not wanted there.”
Do you like living in L.A.?Well, at least it’s a very comfortable way of living. The sun is shining almost every morning - and if I don’t want to be bothered I simply put on a sweater, wear a base cap and glasses, get in my car and drive off. That’s one of my ways of getting out and letting go.
The bars in this city already close by 2am - not really ideal for a man who wants to drown his heart break in alcohol.You have no idea how drunk you can get till 2am!
What’s the best thing about L.A.?The roasted onions on and In-N-Out cheeseburger. That’s the real odor of L.A. That’s what I miss the most when I’m gone!
Do you feel lonely when the cameras are off and you close the doors behind you?Not just then.
People say, you have only hired a press agent since your break-up with Kristen Stewart because you didn’t see a sense in paying someone to do just that before then.I’m cheap. And I still have no press agent. Why should I?
And with whom do you talk about things, especially with regards to how to handle the paparazzi?With my family. And my agent.
On whose couch you used to like to sleep.I wouldn’t say like. I lived on this couch for three years. My agent worked while I was hanging around her apartment and played Playstation. A wonderful time - until one morning I got the call about Twilight… Do you want another e-cig? You know, just take a few with you!
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