French Breaking Dawn Part 2 DVD: What's Included

While we still don't officially know when the Breaking Dawn Part 2 DVD/Blu-ray will be released in the U.S. (rumored date is February 16th), Amazon France has shared the details of their version, which will most likely have the same features. Check out what it comes with, and stay tuned for more info as we get it!

3-Disc DVD / 2-Disc Blu-ray

DVD
- Disc 1
- Longer version of 'Breaking Dawn - Part 1' (7 mins bonus)
- 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2'
- Disc 2
- Commentary with Bill Condon
- Making of (60-90 minutes)
- Featurettes on Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 (5-7 minutes)
- Featurette on the music
- Disc 3
- Vampires and their powers
- Vampires and their stories
- Aro and the Volturi

Blu-ray
- Longer version of 'Breaking Dawn - Part 1' (7 extra minutes)
- 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2'
- Commentary with Bill Condon
- Making of (60-90 minutes)
- Featurettes on Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 (5-7 minutes)
- Featurette on the music
- Vampires and their powers
- Vampires and their stories
- Aro and the Volturi

1 Disc DVD/1 Disc Blu Ray

- DVD
- Commentary with Bill Condon
- Making of (60-90 minutes)
- Featurettes on Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 (5-7 minutes)
- Featurette on the music

- Blu Ray
- Commentary with Bill Condon
- Making of (60-90 minutes)
- Featurettes on Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 (5-7 minutes)
- Featurette on the music
- Picture in Picture Movie Mode

The French DVD and Blu-ray will be released on March 14, 2013.

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Cosmopolis: Rob Sends Greeting In French

This is one of those videos we missed in the craziness of promo time. It's also very cute. (At about 2:10). 

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Rob On Why He'd Have A Boy Instead Of A Girl

Star Club Magazine (France) interviewed Rob, and while some quotes sound familiar there is a lot of new stuff in his answers. Like why a boy may be a better fit when he becomes a dad. Read it now! (translation via) - and check out the scans at LeRPattzClub.

SC: Hello Rob, what did you learn from your experience filming Twilight?
RP: I learned to put things into perspective, that the circus surrounding an actor's life is fleeting. You can be worshipped one day and hated the next. For now, the craze aroundTwilight is still there but I'm not naive, a few months after the last movie is out, people will have moved on. Our replacement is already here. I'm thinking mostly about The Hunger Games actors.

In the end, you're still happy to have played Edward, right?
Rob: Yes, he's an extension of myself, like a good friend. He helped me learn more about myself and I will be eternally grateful. I grew up though and if tomorrow Stephenie Meyer writes a sequel to Twilight, I'd gladly read it. I don't think people would like me reprising the role. I'd be too old to play him again.

What was your life like before your success?
Rob: I had a hard time finding roles. It's simple, for three years I found nothing but small productions that payed around $40 a day. Just between you and me, I was seconds away from giving up so when I was offered the role of Edward I couldn't believe it.

You didn't see yourself in the role of a vampire?
Rob: I didn't have a choice, I was broke! Nobody believed in me except for Catherine Hardwicke (editor's note: the director) who sort of had to force the producer's hands a little. In the end, this role helped me improve my everyday life and my life style. On the other hand, I lost what I cherished the most: my freedom. Some told me that it's the price for success. I'm sorry to disagree but I feel like it's a price too high to pay.

So did you view the end of the filming as freeing? 
Rob: It's strange, I felt like releasing a big 'phew' of relief but at the same time I felt sad. For now, I know that I'm successful. Will it last? I have no idea, but if tomorrow I encounter movie failures, I won't cry about it.

Let's go back to your teenage years. I'd like to know in what kind of state of mind you were the day before the start of a new school year...
Rob: If you're looking for the speech of a the kid who was at the top of the class, you're not gonna get that from me. I wasn't a bad student either. When I was fifteen, I was a boy who was disciplined, who would learn all his lessons and pay attention in class until the day I started reading. I thought I learned more from life by reading than at school. I'm pretty please by the way that I indirectly influenced young people to take pleasure in reading. Indeed Twilight helped a whole generation to love reading about a love story as captivating as it was fascinating.

The big question! If you were to become a dad tomorrow, would you prefer to have a girl or a boy first?
I think that I'd have a better understanding with a boy. Girls are hard to understand. The instruction manual that comes with them is 800 pages long and written in Chinese! And if you know how to read it, you realise that you're still missing 32 more chapters that are essential and you have to improvise. Whereas with a boy, it's easy. Sports, tv, a video game, a big bowl of ...., some Coke and he's happy *laughs*!

Cosmopolis: New Images With Eric Packer

New behind the scenes still (via)

A fan also shared pictures from her copy of the French Cosmopolis DVD, and it comes with a new promo photo of Eric Packer looking a bit.. off.  Check it out.

Here it is again in HQ

Some caps from the DVD - see the rest.

 

Rob's Interview with Fun Radio - France

or listen at the source and here's are the rest of the interviews you might have missed.

PART 1

And the hot topic of the day is the hero of the Twilight saga. The good looking guy that everyone in Hollywood wants, that every girl want in their bed, let's not kid ourself. It's Robert Pattinson who plays in Cosmopolis, a movie spondered by Fun Radio, that just came out. It's the new movie by David Cronenberg. And we had the chance of meeting Rob at the Cannes Film Festival.

Indeed, you do well by saying that it's a movie by David Cronenberg because it's completely sick, where you can see the actor - revealed by the Twilight saga - almost completely naked which is already a good reason to go see it. This interview was recorded last weekend during the Festival. We asked him if he liked French cinema.

Rob: Definitely, yeah. If I could speak French, I'd live in France.

Ok, very good. But did he ever watch a French movie, I don't know, we could ask him like The Artist for example.

Rob: I haven't seen it and I was sitting next to ...

There we think he might say Jean Dujardin, right?

Rob: Oh no, it's the actress who plays with him. I saw her at the On the Road screening the other day. She was sitting next to me and I was like: 'I know, .. I know you' and I was sitting there the whole time and I couldn't remember her name. At the end I asked them, 'is that the girl from The Artist?' and they were like 'yeah, how did you not know that?' I wanted to say 'sorry' so much afterwards, I was so embarrassed.

Bérénice Béjo.

Yep, nice for her.

It's like the story of her life.

I mean, to stay mute in front of her is normal after The Artist.

Hot Lookin' Rob In A Suit: More From Telerama

Telerama has posted what looks like the picture from Rob's recent magazine cover, but with a different background. Swoon! - if you didn't read that interview it was great. Don't miss it.

A Suave Lookin' Rob On The Cover Of Telerama (France)

Rough translation of Rob's interview 

The interview was done in a private club in Sunset Boulevard.

He hid his intense beauty under a baseball cap, a blonde scruff, a lumberkjack shirt, a white tee and washed out jeans. They had the interview on the terrace where he could light up his cigarettes.

Between light coughs and nervous laughs, he explains that he doesn't feel at home here.

His dream is to work in a black comedy of Todd Solodnz or in dramas for men by James Gray or Jacques Audiard.

"I was scared of being cut off from the art-house cinema that I always felt passionate about. I was scared to never be asked to play in anything interesting, that my life would pass and that someone would ask me one day, 'so apart from Twilight, what did you do?'. In this industry, you're easily typecast"

"I never proved anything, I was never fooled by the hysteria that surrounds me. It's the character that I play, Edward Cullen, the romantic vampire. Besides, before the movie was even made, girls would screams at Stephenie Meyer's public readings."

When he got the script for Cosmopolis: He got the fear of the beginner/novice. "I was so scared I would screw this up that I spent a week trying to find a way to refuse the job. And then I told myself that I shouldn't be so stuck-up. My agent was nervous: 'why would you accept if you don't understand it?'. I confessed my confusion to David and he liked it. I think that might be why he hired me. Most actors would have try to act cooler, try to say something smart but I was completely lost."

Cronenberg said that the actor didn't come on set with his hands in his pockets. That he's an assiduous reader, who's been interested in the character of the 'golden boy' for a long while, one who's close to the one he portrays in Cosmopolis. 'Money' by Martin Amis - which describes the giddy heights of easy money and the chic hedonism - is one of his bedtime readings. He finds so many similarities with himself in the empty space of the star system, that he wrote how own version of the novel, in hopes of playing it one day.

"I thought about it for Cosmopolis of course but the characters are too different and Cronenberg prefered that I knew nothing. He wanted me to give in, to say my lines in almost an abstract way, like poetry. It was exciting and a little scary. Today I'm nervous about the idea of having to talk to an audience about a movie that stays dark. But Cronenberg, himself, wanted to have something that escapes him. He would tell me about Fellini and say that a filmmaker that has a goal is dead already. It's so much more interesting than to know right away where an artist is gonna take you. Plus, its' the first time I really like one of the movies I make."

(The article talks about his family, how his sisters dressed him up as a girl, how he did modeling jobs.)

"At the beginning, I was sort of repelled by the vanity of actors. I wanted to write before everything else, but pretty fast I had to find myself. In a humdrum way, acting seemed the best way for me to express what I couldn't say in a different way."

(The article then mentions his role cut in Vanity Fair and Harry Potter. His verve, his arrogance and his disposition didn't offer him many roles. )

"I was at loss, I would do one acting job after the other without any consistency. Thirty euros days job. When I was offered Twilight, I didn't have a choice. It had been three years that my agent in Hollywood would try to find me a job without any luck. Usually, after six months of unsuccessfull search, you're dead in this industry, but she kept believing. I was never fascinated by a role but when I'm chosen I give myself to my character at 150%."

The Twilight saga that was about to eat him whole, will end next Fall.

"I'm curious to reunite with this universe for the last time, to see the effect it will have on me and on the audience. I feel like the frenzy is starting to die down. We step into the era of The Hunger Games, the world wants fresh meat!"

Today Robert Pattinson has five next projects lined up, including one in Iraq. And since he knows that "you only get to have one or two failures before you're forgotten," he speaks about going back to music and writing songs, inspired by Van Morrison's Beside You and Neil Young's Ambulance Blues. He also has in mind the idea of a movie and a TV show, he never gave up on being his own author and to work with determination on the script of an ambitious project - a trilogy of fantasty adventures (and politics), freely adaptated from a successful novel.

"People are listening to me right now so I take advantage of it. I don't think authors last very long in our time and I love this job way too much to let it go away."

Translation of the parts where David Cronenberg mentions Rob

Télérama: How would you present the movie to Rob's fans?
DC: We could tell them that it's story of a vampire on Wall Street. It's almost true, even tho a little deceiving. We can emphazise that Rob is in every scene, that he's sometimes naked and that he has sex with Juliette Binoche. This, the fans won't find in Twilight, it's a more conservative cinema. During the filming of Cosmopolis? Tons of girls were waiting o, set, in the streets, at any hour of the day and night. They had made t-shirts with the strange gun from the movie and the name 'Nancy Babich' that served as code to use the weapon. It was really cute. As were the internet websites about Cosmopolis, that Rob's fans made when the movie got greenlighting.

David talks about a character at the beginning of the movie - a 19 year old businessman - who says his career is over and that he can't face the abstraction of capitalism from today.

Télérama: What about you, can you face it?
DC: I reveal nature in concrete terms. Cinema is not an abstract art. everything should be embodied in characters. Eric Packer, that Rob plays, represents the triumph of capitalism pushed to self-destruction. Many people think today that it's going to eat itself, to explode or to implode. My movie doesn't talk about this, but I can't tell Rob: 'You're the symbol of a self-destruct capitalism.' He can't play it like that. He has to play a character. The cinema is forced to be, in a certain way, extremely realist and I like that.

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Rob's 'Breaking Dawn' Interview With M6 (France)

Screencaps

 

Rob arriving

Full interview in HQ or below

Transcript (partial)

Xavier : Wow. Before talking about the movie, what do you think of all this ? Is it always like this?
Rob: Not particularly, only at these events. I have the most ridiculous facial expressions when I go out. I’ve seen this clip a few times; I look like I have a problem.

Xavier: Is it like this in every country of the world when you’re promoting?
Rob: Kind of, yeah. This is the fourth movie now and nothing has changed. Everybody is still screaming?

Xavier: A lot of your whereabouts are comment on, on twitter? Your life looks like an internet reality tv show. Are you okay with this, or not?
Rob: it’s an unintentional reaction but yeah. I’ve become better at hiding over the last few years. 

At the beginning I was overwhelmed by everything. I think I was trying to hard to deal with all this.
I’m starting of fit in, I don’t live in a town, it’s much simpler.

Xavier: You’re living like a vampire, in hiding?
Rob: Not exactly, I mean I live in California so there’s not too many shadow there.

Xavier: Let’s talk about the movie. You’ve been playing the role of Edward Cullen for three years now.
Edward is a nice vampire; he doesn’t kill humans and falls in love with Bella, a young normal girl, played by Kristen Stewart. For the past three movies, let’s juts say that those two have been chasing after other, right? And now, they’re finally getting married, sleep together and make a baby. We can say that Edward is pretty slow at doing things but when he does it, he goes all out!
Rob: yeah, he’s very slow moving. It’s funny, there’s like, the first series which is all about a kind of fear of having sex, scared of something happening. But when it finally happens, they create a demon baby. It’s kind of hilarious, especially since it doesn’t stop teenagers from waiting to have sex.

Xavier: The wedding scene, did it make you want to get married?
Rob: I don’t know, I guess so. I’ve always been … I’ve always like weddings. I haven’t been to many weddings My older friends are starting to get married. It’s scary in some ways but I mean you can still get a divorce.

Xavier: But if you have kids, you can’t get divorced. I mean, you can’t divorce your kids.
Rob: No you can’t, but you can have a lot of them so you can at least get a good one.

Xavier: Do you want kids then?
Rob: Definitely, I wanna have kids.

Xavier: In the movie, there’s this incredible scene where you perform a c-section with your teeth, don’t you?
Rob: Oooooh nothing came through my ear piece.

Xavier: You’re doing it with your teeth.
Rob: Oh yeah, definitely.

Xavier: In French we call that a ‘cesarienne’.
Rob: Yeah, I do it with my mouth. I mean that was one of the most fun things I’ve ever had to do in those movies. I mean it was a ridiculous scene, in the end we were crying laughing. But it’s scary in the movie, it’s very disturbing.

Xavier: What’s really strange is that despite being married, Edward always looks reclusive and misunderstood. Is he like you?
Rob: I guess he looks a little bit like me, I mean I look like a husband that’s been married for 40 years.

Xavier: What do you have that is vampire like in real life?
Rob: Nothing. I mean, I guess.. Cause I’m not really playing a vampire. I’ve always been told that I was playing a vampire but I‘ve always felt like playing a young person with a lot of problems. That’s how I always interpreted it. So I guess a lot of those, a lot of those translated into real life. But being actual vampire like, like wanting to kill people. No.

Xavier: So it’s the cinema that makes you appear as a vampire?
Rob: Hum, I hope so. It’s a very complicated industry. So however long … I love it when I’m still getting jobs. It’s completely unexpected after Twilight is not done.

Xavier: After four years of Twilight, you have to stop pretending to be 17. Is it scary?
Rob: I think it gets, It’s more scary when I have to still be 17 when I’ll be 26 next year. You see yourself in the movies and you’re like, you have wrinkles. I don’t know how much longer I could play 17. I could still play 17 when I was 21 but I’m coming at the age when I definitely can’t play it anymore. It’s definitely the end of my youth.

Xavier: It’s the end of your youth. Did this movie help you grow?
Rob: Yeah, definitely. In a strange way, I mean I’d love to have been able to do, to experience more things without being observed so much. But I’ve done things hardly anybody people my age have done so…It’s been an incredible life so far.

Xavier: Last question; is it true that you like Michel Houellebecq?
Rob: Yeah, definitely. I was supposed to meet up with him the last time I was in Paris and then I couldn’t do it but yeah, he’s one of my favorite writers.

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Let The Breaking Dawn Promotion Begin: First Stop, Paris!

Today we got word that Rob will be flying to Paris at the end of October to promote Breaking Dawn with Ashley, ahead of the film's premiere there (translated from official press release):

"For the release of Breaking Dawn Part 1, Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene will be in Paris on October 23rd and 24th, to promote the movie.
While we wait for the USA worldwide premiere in November, SND (French distributors of the movies), decided to organise a big event to suprise French fans.

Sunday, October 23rd, around 500 fans will have the chance to meet Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene and ask them the questions of their choice. This meet and greet will be free and will take place at Gaumont Capucines.
We will send more details on this event next week, as well as how to get tickets."


We can't wait!

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Edward & Bella (Newish) Still in French Magazine

The water still (in the corner right) was leaked a few months ago, and immediately pulled by several sites after they were contacted by Summit. Now it's back in Dream Up magazine. In case you hadn't seen it.

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Preview Of Rob's Interview With Premiere (France)

Rough translation by Eurofabulous. The issue hits French stands on Wednesday. We'll update the post when the entire interview is in. (Read entire interview).

The actor talks behind the scenes of the fourth movie, a movie which is going to be as crazy as its filming. It was an intense experience that changed the star. As Breaking Dawn part 1 comes out in a little less than two months, Robert Pattinson, in a long interview with Premiere Magazine, goes back to the filming of the fourth film of the Twilight saga.

What could only have been an unusual shooting (green screen, honeymoon scene in Brazil, fans going crazy…), turned out to be an intense experience. Indeed, Twilight part 4 took a serious turn and doesn’t hesitate in dealing with sex and blood. You read it right. What some would take for a corny teenage movie, became ‘a weird drama that ventures sometimes towards the horror', confides Pattinson to Premiere before warning ‘the audience is going to get their money’s worth.’

In this interview, he admits being surprised everyday by the turn of events, shooting took. One that lasted eight months but the end product is going to be worth it. ‘No movie this size dares taking those kind of risks', says the actor who jokes about becoming an expert in ‘oral Caesarean’ (those who read the book will understand) and why he felt like the guinea pig of a weird experiment. Something David Cronenberg didn’t disapprove of.

The 25 years old gets loose and shares multiples anecdotes and secrets, as if the way shooting turn and the near end of the Twilight saga freed him. Rob talks about the most improbable scenes, the last day of filming and Kristen Stewart. The actress who was too interviewed by our magazine. She also confirms the feeling of eeriness on set. ‘I sometimes felt like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.'

In this interview Pattinson also breaks the bland image, the movies seem to have stuck on him. He still causes crowds to show up everywhere he goes. (He talks about a little misadventure in Brazil that could have made a movie on its own.) But he did put some distance between him and the hysteria of fans and doesn’t want to be trapped anymore in a phenomenon that escapes him. Thus, when he recalls the filming of Breaking Dawn, he doesn’t spare the Twihards that will most likely be outraged by the liberties the movie took from Stephenie Meyer’s book. Liberties, that Bill Condon, at the helm of this movie, granted himself. Something that his predecessors never dared doing. ‘Too bad' for the fans, says Rob. They’ll have to follow anyway.The movie seems so crazy he asked often the crew ‘Are you sure we’re filming Twilight? Isn’t it supposed to be harmless and PG-13?'

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'Water For Elephants' DVD French TV Spot

Nothing better than hearing Jacob and Marlena's romance described in the language of love..

The DVD/Blu-ray will be released in France on September 7th.

Thanks to LeRPattzClub :)

New 'Breaking Dawn' Poster Shows Up In France

The poster is free, with the purchase of the latest issue of Dream Up magazine. Lucky fans! 

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As Robsessed pointed out, the still was taken from the honeymoon scene in Rio.
Why don't we just watch it again ;)

Rob's Favorite Quotes, Albums, Childhood Dish

Lexpressfr just posted the interview they did with Rob recently. Once again, he lets fans learn more about a side of him we rarely get to hear about. Thanks to Sonia for translating.

Young English actor, star of the Twilight movies, he's the hero of Water For Elephants for now, while we wait for his part in Cosmopolis, the new Cronenberg...


If you were a place… If you were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

A cartoonist… Ralph Steadman, illustrator of the hilarious texts of Gonzo Highway from Hunter S. Thompson. His simple but disturbed stroke never leaves me indifferent. The other reason is, perhaps, that I can draw almost like him!

A childhood dish… Boiled eggs with salt on the side and toast at your fingertips. Inevitably, this makes me feel like a Saturday, when my mother was making this for me. I’m a bit nostalgic of this time.

An animal… An elephant. It is an smart and calming animal. They have an incredibly dexterity. I learned a lot from her while working on the film. I would also add the giraffe, since I had the opportunity to play with a baby giraffe barely bigger than me. Their black tongue surprised.

An era… I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

An album… It is difficult to choose one. I give you my top 5: Night Train by Oscar Peterson, One Love by Bob Marley & The Wailers, Moondance, Van Morrison, Abbey Road, Beatles, and Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the Wu-Tang Clan. They all talk to me in their own way.

An artist… The cannonman at the circus. I like the risk. I love having the feeling of flying. Being a beard lady, I would not mind either. To avoid having to shave!

A book… Money, Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I’d love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

An essential garment… Without hesitation, the underwear: it’s really the only piece you need! That and sunglasses, which are an accessory that I love! At home, I am constantly in that outfit.

A quote… “Mistakes are the doors of discovery”, by James Joyce. A smiliar one: “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improving give everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?

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Rob Opens Up About Who He Admires, Says He's No Sex Symbol

In an new interview with French magazine Le Figaro, Rob shares his thoughts on Bel Ami, Water for Elephants, and his fans.

Check out the rest of the scans & read the interview below.


“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)

Madame Figaro. - You shoot a lot. In addition to the last two films in the Twilight series, we'll see you in June in Bel Ami, from Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, and soon in Water for Elephants, from Francis Lawrence. What attracted you to the role of Jacob Jankowski, a circus animal trainer?


Robert Pattinson: First, the book by young writer Sara Gruen, a tremendous success in the United States. The action takes place in the 1920s, in a traveling circus. With this role, suddenly I had the opportunity to leave behind the fantasized modern world of Twilight and live among animals, and touch concrete things.

You seem drawn to a romantic past...

- Yes, I love the history of America, it’s one of the things that really interests me. When I read the script, I was hooked immediately. It seemed obvious, and easy. Jacob is a tormented and mysterious soul. He lost his parents, he doesn’t want people digging around in his past. So if he joins this traveling circus, it’s to prove himself as a veterinarian. He doesn’t know he’s going to experience a violent and forbidden love there as well.

Your (acting) profile is taking shape: a lonely, misunderstood and very attractive man. All your characters have that in common.

- That's true. It’s as if Edward, the hero of Twilight, was the guiding thread running through all these roles. Jacob sees things in black and white. And Edward is always making distinctions between good and evil. My characters are Manichaean, in a way. That's why I try to give them inner depth.

So how did you work in Bel Ami? Georges Duroy, the novel’s hero, is older than you.


- It had me hesitating, then I just threw myself into it, because Maupassant is my favorite French writer. Bel Ami is a timeless classic. We had lots of fun with Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci, my screen partners. I focused my acting on the character’s great freedom of action. Bel Ami is an animal. He’s my first character who’s completely cynical yet ironically quite honest. But he’s destructive. He plays a game where no one respects the rules, where everyone has love affairs, where high society puts on a big fake show, where pretending is the most important thing. He doesn’t give a damn, he does whatever he pleases, and that’s exactly what appeals to women.

A bit like you, in short...

Oh no! I'm not a Don Juan at all. All these fans taking pictures of me, these blogs, this buzz... I don’t get it, but it’s actually pretty cool. Honestly, I have no sex appeal. All you have to do is walk around Los Angeles, London or Paris, and you’ll find tons of guys like me. I’m no James Dean.

But you’ve got a rebel side, a dark side. Who are your models, your favorite movie actors?

- From James Dean, who only made three movies, I like Giant with Elizabeth Taylor. But for me, the great icon of the sixties is Marlon Brando, with that inner rage, that duality of masculinity and hidden tenderness. I'm also a fan of gangster movies with James Cagney and Paul Newman, especially Cool Hand Luke. As for actresses, I love Isabelle Huppert and actresses from the golden age of Hollywood, like the smoldering Ava Gardner, and Katharine Hepburn, so classy and rough and funny. Kristen Stewart, whose acting I really admire, has bit of Hepburn in her.

Details On French 'Water For Elephants' Premiere!

Thanks to the lovely Le Monde de Francesca, we now know the alleged location and time for the Water for Elephants premiere in Paris, April 28th.. and it looks like the cast will be in attendance!

More on Fnac.com.

Rob Talks Bonding With 'WFE' Set Animals

Dark Magazine (France) has a new interview with Rob, where he shares lots of cool details of working on the Water for Elephants set. Plus read on to find out who he was reportedly up against for the role of Jacob!

Translation and scans thanks to LeRPattzClub.



Robert Pattinson: “I feel better working with animals than with people"

When you are a young actor, handsome and you are so famous thanks to Twilight, you might be trapped forever in this outbreaking role. But Robert’s talent is linked to his ability to keep on working on sets and playing characters completely different from Edward Cullen. After the drama Remember Me, it’s in another love story we can see him with Academy Awards winners Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) and Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds). For Dark Magazine, he talks about his unusual experience while playing Jacob, a young man who must drop his veterinary studies after a family tragedy, and he decides to change his way of life joining a circus. He will fall for a young woman, Marlena, and more surprisingly for an elephant: Rosie. This story is set in the 1930s in America.. In theaters on May 4th.

Hi Robert, can you talk about Jacob, Who is he? How will he join a circus?

Jacob is a veterinary student in Cornell University he’s about to take his final exam when his parents die in a car accident. His whole world collapses in a few months. He jumps on board an old train to start from scratch and try to find a job somewhere, then he discovers it’s a circus train. He sees Marlena the very first day and these are the 2 main reasons he wants to stay and be part of this circus life. He gradually manages to accept his new life and falls for Marlena. And he also manages to blow everything out ! (laughs).

How would you describe him?

Jacob doesn’t know anything about the circus. At the beginning, he is self conscious, he knows how idealistic he is. But he soon realizes this universe, that he discovers in the middle of a huge economical crisis, seems to destroy the slighest spark of hope within himself. He also gets acquainted with August, a very violent man. Actually, Jacob goes through several trials of life, he faces a lot of difficulties throughout the story, and in the end, he realizes that he kept his idealistism, no matter what. I think this is what moves Marlena and encourages her to follow him. August is such a practical man . He thinks he must appear as a cold and harsh man to the others otherwise his world will collapse. But Jacob sees things quite differently. His way of life is so far from August’s.

Did you easily manage to connect to your character ?

Yes. Honestly , I feel better working with animals than with people. I found out that all the animals had a weakness. You just need some peppermint to be loved by elephants. I realized you can do whatever you want with giraffes whenever you have apple juice on your hands. Even the animal trainers were astonished . There was a 6 month-old girafe on set and they couldn’t make her do what they want . I came to see her covered with apple juice and she followed me anywhere. Everybody was like “How did you do it ? Why does she do as you say ?”.


Did you read Sara Gruen’s novel, “Water for Elephants?"

I hadn’t read it before I got the role, but once I started, I couldn’t stop. I read it on the plane while I was going for some reshoots for Twilight and the man next to me that day was also reading it. On my flight back, my neighbour was also reading it! It was really weird. I know the book was a best seller in the USA but I think it’s also a successful book in foreign countries. I feel it’s like the Twilight books. When we started shooting the first film, more and more people discovered this book, sales started to boost and the novel immediately became popular. A few people had heard of “Water for Elephants” before and suddenly, by word of mouth, everybody had read the book.

This part is so different from the one you have in Twilight. Was it an interesting and exciting experience?

It was awesome. It was great to work with such great actors. I didn’t really know what to expect when I signed for the film. Then, I met Tai the elephant and it was so incredible that I absolutely wanted to do it! (laughs). From the very first day, it was an amazing experience. Everybody seemed to be deeply involved in that project, everybody on set was convinced that this film was gonna be extraordinary.

So how was it working with Tai, did you fall in love?

Almost! (laughs). I was so sad when I had to leave her at the end of the shooting. She had such an extraordinary charisma. It’s weird – It must be the same with any other elephants since they are so huge. You feel untroubled when you are next to them . I would easily sit all day long next to Tai. And it’s what I did the very first days. I always sat next to her and I stayed there all day long. There’s no way she tramples on you or hurts you because she always knows exactly where you are. Those animals have amazing personalities – at least, she has. She’s lovely.
Set secretsIf the novel wasn’t well known in France, the Hollywood top actors of the new generation fought for Jacob’s part : Channing Tatum (GI Joe, Cher John), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Andrew Garfield (The social network, Spiderman) auditioned but it was Robert Pattinson who was cast . Resse Witherspoon and Robert had already played together in Vanity Fair. In Water for Elephants they are secret lovers and in Vanity Far, Reese was Robert’s mother !

Rob Talks Working With Reese & More In New Interview

Series Fan magazine interviewed Rob in LA a few weeks ago, and they have now posted their story. In it, Rob shares details about working with Reese and more from the Water for Elephants set. Read it over at Thinking of Rob who did the translation.

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Rob, James Dean, And The Path To Becoming A Legend

Over the weekend ELLE France posted a piece on Rob, and his life compared to that of James Dean.

Thanks to Lucile for the translation :)

The one, James, is the symbol of the teens of the 50s, him who is 24 years old and who seems ten more in his man's suit there. We are in 1955: in five months, he died. We know everything of this photo: the friendship which united him to the photographer (Dennis Stock), of the place (New York), the fatigue of James this day. James may be immortalized by his friend, what is shown is the total solitude (loneliness) which already announces the eternity. Then, we don't know nothing about the life of the actor. His homosexuality is carefully hidden. And James Dean, who would like to speak about it, has been forbidden to talk about it. It would be the end of his career. Perhaps also the end of his legend. The other one, Robert, is so famous that he couldn’t walk incognito in Times Square. This time is over. There, hunted by a paparazzi, he is 24 years old too and almost the same face as James Dean. He also has to keep his sexual life private, even if it's only to keep silent about the fact that he has a girlfriend, so not to discourage his fans. He is the idol of the ill-being of the teenagers. But, in spite of the isolation due to his stunning fame, he is still connected with others, his mobile phone by his ear. Instead of giving the impression of becoming a legend, he clings on to the reality that still remains.

Between these two photos, some pathos left the stars. But also a certain lyric which made them incomparable..

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Rob On The Cover Of 'One' Magazine (France)

And check out the poster that comes with.. you remember..

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