Monday, February 13, 2017
New Rob Interview with The Talks
New Rob Interview with The Talks
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ROBERT PATTINSON: EVERYONE WANTS YOU TO BE SO VANILLA Mr. Pattinson, are you disillusioned with your career?
I think a lot of actors get disillusioned and say, Oh, I thought it was going to be one way, and its something else. I never thought anything was going to be any particular way at all! You know, in the good times and the bad times, theyre all just new experiences. So I cant really be disillusioned with anything because I didnt have any expectations at all.
What about peoples expectations of you?
Ive never really acknowledged peoples expectations of me. A lot of actors sort of fall into the job and feel like theyre going to get found out, like, found out that theyre a fraud or something like that. I think loads of people feel like that. I did a film with Anton Corbijn called LIFE where I played the photographer who shot those famous photos of James Dean and there are a lot of parallels between an acting career and a photography career.
Like what?
Both of them are almost entirely dependent on the material, especially if youre doing stuff like taking photos of famous people and really talented people who are incredibly interesting and charismatic. As an actor, you want to be an artist, but youre so dependent on everybody else! And even if youre great in something, theres only a few actors who the audience acknowledges that they were the reason somethings good. With a photographer, its very difficult to claim stuff, too.
As someone who has been hounded by the paparazzi more than most, was it cathartic to switch roles and play the photographer for once?
It was quite strange walking up to the Chateau Marmont as a paparazzi. It was very weird at the actual place. I dont know if it was cathartic. Maybe it would have been if, because of him being paparazzi, he ends up getting beaten to death
Theyre just people, too.
Well In fact, not at all. Thats probably why my character was so filled with self-loathing, because hes a paparazzi. (Laughs)
When your career started off you had some trouble with photographers yourself.
When Twilight first happened, a lot of the franchise people at the time were under strict control by the studios and stuff, so they did it quite kid-friendly. And I think for the first few months I kept getting photographed, like, being drunk and smoking cigarettes and things. So I think thats kind of why people said it was a bit different. But I think the landscape has changed so much. I remember even people like Colin Farrell and stuff. I guess when he was super wild, that was only seven years ago, eight years ago, but I dont even think youre allowed to be like that anymore.
Why not, what would happen?
If you do that now, you just dont get employed. At all. Everyone wants you to be so vanilla! Its so lame! So, everyones just like secret drug addicts instead. (Laughs)
Did you have interview training once you signed on to do Twilight to keep all of your comments vanilla?
Yeah, Summit put me in media training because I was doing too many stupid interviews. I just wanted to tell jokes and stuff and then they sent an email afterwards saying that I refused to cooperate with the media training! Its my agents favorite email she got because she thought it was so hilarious that I refused to relent to the media training.
Would it be possible for you to still be friends with a journalist?
I think it works until you get to a certain level of fame. Before the first Twilight came out there were a couple of journalists who I got on with. They did good profiles on you and stuff and theyd kind of champion you for a bit. But I think if you do too many interviews, people arent interested in the nuances of what youre saying. Youve just said too much and you end up repeating yourself. The editors are like, Get him to say something that makes him sound like an idiot or get him to say something controversial.
Thats pretty much exactly how it goes for many publications, sadly.
Yeah and I think you cant really be that close with a journalist when you can see them, like, needing you to say something bad for their own jobs. I know actors who have made deals with paparazzi and stuff it always backfires. Always. Because, like, you just shouldnt. As soon as you start throwing shit around, youre going to get covered in shit.
Well, after Twilight ended youve been choosing to work with auteurs like Herzog, Cronenberg, Anton Corbijn, and James Gray on smaller projects where your exposure is a lot different.
The last few years Ive basically done stuff just for the director. After working with Cronenberg on Cosmopolis it just opened stuff up. People approach you in a different way. And now Ive done a few other things and it kind of just works on a roll, being able to work with these auteur-y kind of guys. Its quite nice to do smaller parts, so the film doesnt totally rely on what I do in it. I get to work with who I want to work with and its not my fault if it doesnt make any money!
After working with a few of those directors, has there been a moment where you noticed the difference in how they work?
There was a moment at the end of The Rover. We had just wrapped and David Michôd was standing in the middle of the parking lot we were just shooting in. He looked sort of weird and was watching people packing stuff up. And I was like, You all right? And he said, Yeah, I just think Im only going to have like six more of these days in my life, so I just want to feel it for a second. Its so funny the difference between someone who is doing a job essentially for their next job, or somebody who has written it, produced it.
Someone who is going to devote several years of their life to it when its all said and done.
Yeah, you can feel it. Its much more exhilarating and fun to try to fulfill someones dream. A lot of the time youre working with someone and they dont really know what they want and they dont even necessarily want to do the job theyre doing. So youre just trying to not drown and theyre panicking the whole time. Its horrible. But with people who are confident and believe in their projects, its a completely different experience.
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