Fan Report: Rob Helps Set 'Vanity Fair' Partner Free

When this cover came out, not everyone loved it like we did. But after you hear the story that comes with it, we think the naysayers may change their mind.

When a fan recently found out that Rob was responsible for freeing his photo shoot partner, she shared all the details.

Well, we all know this picture right? I was visiting Insta-gator in Louisiana last weekend with some fellow twilighters and happened to spot it on the wall. I raced over to it and, although the pic doesn't show it clearly, the paper above the pic says that the alligator, appropriately named, Hollywood, lives at the ranch and that if you ask the tour guide, you can meet him!!!! I immediately went into stealth mode knocking people over trying to find the guide because anything that touched Rob, I MUST TOUCH! Anyway, finally found the guide, who we had nicknamed Marshmallow Man, because he fed the gators marshmallows and because he was hot, and he acted like he didn't know what I was talking about, all braun, no brains, I guess. He told us to go ask the short, red-headed guy. So I did, and do you know what he told me? He said, "Hollywood's not here anymore. Rob paid to have him released back into the wild. It's the only time we've ever done that." Needless to say, tears started to form, not because I didn't get to meet the gator, but because our Rob is that sweet! I cried and love him even more if that's possible! 

There's also a video (via) where Rob is mentioned as the gator rescuer :")

So not only did Bear get a new lease on life when Rob adopted him in Louisiana, a gator also gained his freedom because of him. One of the many reasons we are so proud to be his fans. Way to go Rob!

Reason #1999 Why We Love Instagram: Oldies But Goodies

It seems these days, everyone is not only posting new pictures on Instagram, but old ones that we've never seen before. Deborah Watson was the stylist on Rob's gorgeous Vanity Fair 2009 shoot, and she just shared this gem with this caption:

Oldie but good, #RPatz first time in MTK #myfavevampire#vanityfair

We couldn't agree more!

'Vanity Fair' Brings Us Rob On The Beach

The creative minds of Vanity Fair never cease to amaze. They've reimagined a 1933 pic with the current A-listers, and of course Rob had to be there. Check out the rest of the stills, and see who you can recognize. 

While we're impressed with illustrated Rob's muscles and sexy hair, it's safe to say the real thing is much hotter ;)

New Outtake from Rob's 2011 VF Shoot + Few in Better Quality

New Outtake

These were posted as magazine scans. Now we have them in better quality.

 

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Vanity Fair On Rob: Reluctant Sex Symbol, Quiet Elegance

Hear the fashion editors at Vanity Fair talk about Rob's fashion sense. Only makes us appreciate him more!

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Rob Defends Kristen From Critics, Kristen: "Me & Rob got into a lot of trouble"

Rob and Kristen share a little on their private lives, for the July issue of Vanity Fair:

On getting scolded for off-screen antics with Robert Pattinson:

“Me and Rob got into a lot of trouble. We were getting notes from the studio. They wanted me to smile all the time. They wanted Rob to be not so brooding. We were like, ‘No! You need to brood your a– off.’”

Robert Pattinson on Stewart’s passion for fashion:

“I never saw that coming.”

“The perception of her is that she’s ‘awkward,’” Rob admits. “But it’s funny knowing her. It’s the absolute opposite of what people think. She’s insanely confident.”

On top of battling personal reluctance, Stewart also struggles with the public’s preconceived notions about her personality. “People have decided how they are going to perceive her,” Robert Pattinson tells V.F. of Stewart. “No matter how many times she smiles, they’ll put in the one picture where she’s not smiling.”

Read the rest of the preview from Vanity Fair, and a little more from the actual article below:

There were a few actors still in the running for the part of Edward, and Hardwicke was smart enough to involve Stewart in the final decision-making. "Chemistry reads" are a long-standing ritual for testing whether two actors will work well together on-screen, but it sounds as if Hardwicke was experimenting with explosives the day she had Pattinson, a young British actor then best known for playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire, show up at her house to run through some scenes with Stewart, in the bedroom no less. "Honestly I was nervous," the director remembers. "I saw they were so attracted and Kristen was under-age. I said, 'Rob, we have a law in this country under 18. Don't get in trouble here.' I felt I was in the presence of something strong and powerful." When Pattinson left, Stewart said, "It's him." Hardwicke listened but wanted to make sure that their charisma and visceral connection translated onto film. "Not everybody makes it all the way through the screen to our hearts and souls in the movie theater," the director says, "but these two did. It was electrifying."

As you may know, her offscreen relationship with Pattinson has drawn enormous attention, but she is publicly mum on this one. That the two are a couple is not something they seem to want to hide; it's just that they like their privacy. A friend who knows Stewart very well says, "This is something that she wants to keep for herself."

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Rob On Cosmopolis, Sex Scenes, Having Babies

Vanity Fair Italy has a great new interview with Rob. They shared a preview that you can read below (translation via) - We'll post the rest when it's in. Entire interview below.

Translation by CSI Robsten

He likes to think he’s cynical like the character he plays in Cosmopolis, his new movie competing at Cannes, “but actually I’m a naïve person”. He has a clear mind on everything else, though: on his job “I know I’m a privileged person”, on money “it’s better to spend somebody else’s”, and love. Are you listening, Kristen?

Men in suits, bodyguards with their earpieces and mirrored sunglasses. The sky above Manhattan is a grey blanket which, within the two-hour running time of Cosmopolis, will turn more and more black.
Eric Parker, a golden 28-year-old billionaire of the financial world, gets into a limousine, and his driver, a taut-faced who reminds of Russian secret service men, informs him of the traffic jam due to the visit of the President of the United States. But he doesn’t care: he just needs a good haircut now, and the only barber able to please him is on the other side of the town.
That’s how Eric’s trip through New York and among his ghosts starts, while the global capitalism outside is about to be subverted by a people’s revolution and a killer, who somewhere can’t wait to finish him off. The most mind-blowing 24 hours of his life, broken up by women with whom he has casual sex, a doctor who daily appeases his obsession with disease, a cold and distant wife, and protesters who wave rats.
The adaptation to the big screen of Don DeLillo’s most visionary novel – written in 2001 and prophesying the Occupy Wall Street protests and everything we are living, was an impossible mission that only a brave director like David Cronenberg could achieve. And only a brave director like David Cronenberg could think of casting Robert Pattinson as the leading role.
It’s true that Pattinson isn’t only Twilight, the saga that will come to an end on November 14th with Breaking Dawn Part 1. Between an episode and the other, he starred in Remember me, Water For Elephants and Bel Ami. But it’s obvious that a character like this can make the difference for him, between keeping holding onto Edward Cullen’s canines and becoming an A-list actor.
In Cosmopolis, Pattinson still has the pale-white face that made teenagers and women from all over the world fall in love with him, though the romantic look has disappeared. We interviewed Robert over the phone from London where he has gone back in the last days, and he sounds so much different from the vampire that made him famous: a young boy’s voice, many laughs, he greets me warmly as if I were a friend “Hey, how are you?”.
I know his publicist is lying in ambush somewhere near him, ready to drag him away from any question on his love story with Kristen Stewart, the envied Bella who, like in their real life two-year relationship, bewitched him in the story, too. I’d better start with the movie.

- Do you know why Cronenberg chose you?
Honestly, I don’t. I’ve never asked it myself. I’m just happy he did.

- What do you think you have in common with Eric Parker?
What I’m going to say may sound weird to those who have read the book or will see the movie. Actually, I think Eric still has a glimmer of hope, even though you can’t see it from the outside. A bit like me.

- Are you a cynic?
I like to think I am, but actually I’m a naïve person.

- Parker is someone who can gain or lose tons of money within few seconds. I’ll quote one of your recent statement: “I don’t like spending money. If I found a free house it’d be great”. Were you joking?
No, why? I don’t mind spending other people’s money at all.

- Don’ t tell me you’re stingy.
If I want something I’d rather someone bought it for me.

- But you are the second highest-paid English actor after Daniel Radcliffe, what do you do with all that money? Investments or real estate?
First of all, I’m not sure I am the second hishest-paid, even though I have to admit I’d like to. I know nothing about investments. I’d rather keep my money under the mattress.

- Are you generous at least?
I think so.

- With your girlfriend, too?
I hope so. But she should confirm it herself.

- Parker basically lives in his limo. He even has a toilet put in inside. You always travel for work, don’t you feel the need to settle down somewhere?
Travelling from a state to another is one of the things I love the most about my job. I understand the advantage of having a permanent place, but it’d bore me.

- You think you are too young to put down roots?
I think I’m too young to stop for good.

- How do you see yourself in ten years?
I hope I’ll still be able to do a creative job and be happy. They may sound banalities, but I’m being honest. I know I’m a privileged person.

- In Cosmopolis there are explicit sex scenes. Weren’t you embarrassed?
I felt more embarrassed for the actresses. When a man undresses he may feel stupid, but he has fun after all. I think it’s more problematic for women.

-Are you more sweet or passionate in real life?
Passionate, I hope.

- Your costar in Bel Ami, Christina Ricci, said you are a good kisser. What is the best compliment a woman paid you?
The most beautiful thing a woman can tell you is that she loves you.

- So deep down you are a romantic person.
Well, yeah.

- Both your movie and your girlfriend Kristen Stewart’s On The Road are in completion at Cannes. Who deserves to win? Bella or Edward?
The best of course.

- One of your best friend, the British actor Tom Sturridge, is expecting a baby with Sienna Miller. Would you like to become a dad?
Of course. Maybe not right now, but yes obviously.

- Have you and Kristen already made any plan?
Not yet. We haven’t planned anything.

- Do you feel ready to move in with her?
[he hums to hide the embarrassment] I’m ready for everything.

- You are always far from each other for work. Do you believe in long-distance relationships?
I really think so.

I knew his publicist was lying in ambush. He butts in and tells me “You’ve already asked too many personal questions”.

- You have always played dramatic characters. Wouldn’t you like to do something comical?
A lot, but it’s really hard to find good scripts. And most of all, it’s really hard to make people laugh. It’s one of the things that more scares people who do my job.

- If you hadn’t become an actor, what would you have been?
As I child I would have answered you a pianist, but I think I would have written. I write a lot, whenever I can.

- Did you meet DeLillo?
I did, in Cannes. It was such a thrill. I read the extraordinary novel that is Cosmopolis while shooting, but I had already read many other books of his.

- Do you read a lot?
Oh yeah.

- What’s your favourite book?
Dubliners by James Joyce.

- What do you think of people from Los Angeles, that is your city now?
I have to admit it took me a lot to like them, but I like it there now, especially because there’s the ocean. But I miss London, and I’m realizing it now that I’m back.

- Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 60 years of reign. As a subject, what do you like about her?
I like her intelligence. She looks like a very smart woman.

- And what about the Middleton sisters, who do you like more?
Who do you Italians like more?

- Probably Kate.
Then I like her more, too.

- Do you think that after Cosmopolis, you’ll be able to finally get rid of Edward Cullen?
I’m okay if people just manage to see this and other movies I’ll make without being influenced by Twilight.

- Johnny Depp, whom Tim Burton wanted for the role of the vampire in Dark Shadows, said he is the Alpha vampire. Do you have any objections?
No. Actually he’s really manly.

- Tell us the truth, do you miss Twilight?
I finished shooting the last scenes a couple of weeks ago, so it’s still too early. Maybe in a few years. Maybe.

Juliette Binoche Calls David Croneberg: Rob's "Midwife"

Okaaay.. that's one analogy we've never heard before. 

Per Vanity Fair:

Let’s talk about your upcoming David Cronenberg–directed film, Cosmopolis, which stars Robert Pattinson. What’s your role?

I’m an art dealer. I only shot two days. The whole film takes place in a car. There are some scenes outside, but mostly it takes place in a limo. Cronenberg placed Robert on one seat, and I was the mover in the scene, so he let me improvise. It was fascinating to see how they would take time to light the car. It was like an art form almost, a painting. His [cinematographer], Peter Suschitzky, is very precise in that way.

Robert was stunned to be taken by Cronenberg, because he didn’t think he could do it. But Cronenberg believed in him. It’s amazing—a director sometimes makes you do bigger things than you imagine. You need to have, like, a midwife to give birth. You need this midwife in order to grow, and imagine these new layers in yourself.

Per Art Info:


I’ve seen a little bit of you in “Cosmopolis.” You’re in the car, wearing a little black dress, making out with Robert Pattinson. Who do you play?
I play an art dealer who’s been a lover of Robert Pattinson’s character for a few years. Throughout the whole film she has this kind of sexual moment that Cronenberg always puts in his films. Then at the end she’s feeling alone and left out. I don’t know how long the scene is – maybe four minutes – but it’s like a lifetime, a relationship kind of starting and ending.

Was it exciting working with Cronenberg?
Yes, though it was only two days shooting. It’s always interesting wondering whether you’re being taken into a film, or whether you’re taking the director into it. When you work with great directors, you never know who starts it. Being stuck in a limo means you have to use your imagination. So Cronenberg played Robert in one spot and after that he let me do what I wanted, and when he was satisfied we stuck with that. He was precise language-wise, but otherwise he let me be, emotionally. It was good.


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Got The Winter Blues? Rob Keeping Us Warm In HQ

This Vanity Fair shoot remains one of our favorites, and now a few pictures are in HQ.  

 

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Sara Gruen Talks 'WFE' & Rob With Vanity Fair (Italy)

Thanks to Robert Pattinson Moms for the scans and translation.

VF Italy: Several humans in his book are not as smart or funny. In particular,she is highly critical of celebrity and the entertainment world. It is not that the contacts he had with the studios for the realization of how the Water for the Elephants have provided the inspiration in some way?

SG: Fortunately, the Hollywood that I knew him is very different from what I describe in books. More than anything I was referring to people like Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton, and the protagonists of reality. Instead Christoph and Reese (Waltz and Witherspoon) outside of work think especially to their families and Robert (Pattinson) I found him pleasant, open-minded ”

VF Italy: As well as he is overwhelmed by the attentions of his fans


SG: True. I was on set two days in the desert, 40 minutes from Los Angeles. It was summer, very hot and there was no way to find shelter in the shade. His fans arrived at 4 am, and even if the security held them off the set, They remained there until 10 pm. Hoping to see him only for a few minutes and from afar.

VF Italy: What did you think that he would be the protagonist (of WFE)


SG: I have never seen the Twilight saga I did not knew exactly what to expect realized how hard he worked and how it was concentrated on the character. Not even my children, being male were particularly impressed by him instead their girlfriends were. I have 4 copies of my book autographed by him but I will not give it to them until they are big enough not to give them to the first girl who requests them.

Vanity Fair: New Hot Outtakes!

Some of these you've seen but are now untagged, others we'd never seen before.. all gorgeous shots of Rob!

Reese On Not Remembering First Film With Rob

Reese talked to She Knows about not remembering working with Rob in Vanity Fair (at about 2:05).

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