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Thursday, April 20, 2017
New Nepali Movie KISMAT 2 Uni Aakash Bata उनि आकाशबाट झरेकी अप्सरा Udit Narayan Jha
New Nepali Movie KISMAT 2 Uni Aakash Bata उनि आकाशबाट झरेकी अप्सरा Udit Narayan Jha
Mobile Ringback Tone Codes For This Song
Ncell : 60211919, UTL : 77814330 and Smart : 3020462
The continuation of hit film "Kismat" – Kismat 2 is going to discharge on Dashain celebration. The motion picture delivered by Chhabi Raj Ojha will be discharged on October 7 (Ashoj 21).
The film coordinated by Rishi Lamichane highlights on-screen character Shilpa Pokharel with Kishor Khatiwada and Prithivi raj Prasai. The motion picture was at first booked to discharge on Chaitra 27 with Rekha Thapas motion picture Ram Pyari. Rekha and Chhabi had concurred for particular discharge date.
The first "Kismat" included Rekha Thapa in driving part.
Maker Chhabi Raj Ojhas presentation, on-screen character Shilpa Pokharel has rejected his engagement proposition yet has consented to live respectively with him. In a meeting with a TV program Chhabi and Shilpa have informed that they will live respectively with Rekha Thapas ex.
Chhabi told, "If a young lady like Shilpa will wed me, I would bounce in immediately." accordingly, Shilpa said that she is not prepared to wedded at this point. She told, if Chhabi will hold up she could consider marriage. Meanwhile, she likewise advised that she will live respectively. Taking into account the announcements in the video above, anyone can figure that the relationship has gone far.
While Chhabi has discovered Rekhas clone, Rekha Thapa has additionally discovered Sudarshan Gautam, the handless "Himmatwali" performing artist. In a late meeting Sudarshan has uncovered that he has officially separated his better half of 7/8 years and is accessible to wed.
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New Nepali Movie || KISMAT 2 || Uni Aakash Bata || ??? ??????? ????? ?????? || Udit Narayan Jha
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Chhabi Raj Production Presents
Nepali Movie Kismat 2
Singer: Udit Narayan Jha
Music: Arjun Pokharel
Lyrics: Amrit Regmi
Actors: Shilpa Pokharel, Kishor Khatiwada etc
Producer: Chhabi Raj Ojha
Director: Rishi Lamichhane
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New Movements
New Movements
Today we are going to continue adding more words into our new languege. Our goal is to build control in singular movements and then move them into use - flow work, specificly in our Closed System Flow that will be developing on and on with time, until it will become a monster octopus with many tanticles. Such a flow will enable improvisation on the floor to happen in a beautiful demonstration of freedome of movement, mobility, strength, balance and control over ones body and mind. You can look at it as an advanced form of Yoga, Dance, mobility work, Improvisation, joint preparation, metcon - metabolic conditioning and of course - movement.
Corta Capim Spin
The corta capim spin requires some dynamic (rotational) balance and will be challanging at first.
Start in the squat. Shift the weight towards one foot, transferring into the ball of the foot and letting the knee come lower simultaniously. The other leg, which will become free to move due to the weight shift, will be straightened sideways.
Put your hands on the ground in front of you, between your legs. Start pushing the floor with your hands, rotating your body in its fixed position around the axis foot until you complete a full turn. Shift into the squat again and change sides. Repeat for reps.
The harder variation will be to initiate the push with the hands, and use your hands only to save you in case of loss of balance. Try to do it as late as you can into the movement, until you feel you can complete the full turn with no hands assistance at all.
The hardest variation will be to initiate the movement from the hands and then complete a full turn with no hands touching the floor. Transform into the squat when you finish the full turn and start again to the opposite side. Make sure you do not shortcut here! Complete a full turn and land with the foot on its original spot on the floor.
QDR Circles
The QDR Circles are an advanced movement requiring the control of the Advanced QDR Rotational Push Up.
If you are unable to do it yet, go back to practice the intermidiate and advanced variations of the QDR Rotational Push Ups and come back to this movement once you have done so.
Basicly, from a squat, place you hands in front of you and lower towards the QDR, kick into the low one leg bridge QDR rotational push up position, trying to land as deep as you can into the rotation - almost in the line that originates in between your hands.
From the low one leg bridge position, take the straight leg, bend it and place it behind the bent leg in a cross-step and while making sure the body is lifted a bit higher than the original low bridge position. A side turning of the body needs to happen at the same time.
After cross-step (Look at the side and rear view to better understand that) slide your body from above towards the opposite elbow into a QDR position, while straightening the lower leg and kicking with it out of the position. Come out into a low 4 point stance on hands and feet and enter another QDR to repeat the circle.
Complete the desired number of reps before changing sides.
Take notice of these details:
1. Do not let the body sag into the ground in the low bridge positions - lift your pelvis up and arch your back - to provide room for the cross step to happen.
2. Land softly on the balls of the foot each time before you come to your heels. (if necessary at all)
3. Strong elbow and wrist position should be maintained. No playing around here - keep tension or injury will occur. If you are not able to do so, go work easier variations.
4. The hands do not move during the whole circle exercise - this restriction will create a lot of good adaptations in your body - mobility, stability and strength, because you will have to move your whole body around those two points of contact, in a closed kinetic chain fashion. Moving the hands from their original position will degrade this exercise substantialy.
Sample Workout - Beginner
Warm Up - Mobility
A1. 5 min Joint Mobility
A2. Wrists Routine X 1 set
A3. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
A4. Idos Squat Clinic Routine X 1 set
A5. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Equilibre
B1. Handstand Body Line Wall Drill X 10 sec X 3 sets / 45-60 sec of rest
Floreio
C1. QDR Rotational Push Ups -Beginner variation X 10-14 reps / 3-5 sets / 60 sec of rest
D1. Corta Capim X 14 reps / 3 sets / 60 sec of rest
Conditioning
E1. High Bridge Static Hold 30,25,20 sec
E2. Gatherings Beginner Variations X 12,10,8 reps
Rest 45 sec between E1 and E2, complete 3 sets with the reps/time mentioned above
Prehab
F1. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
F2. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Complete 2 subsequent supersets of F1-F2 no rest
Sample Workout - Intermidiate
Warm Up - Mobility
A1. 5 min Joint Mobility
A2. Wrists Routine X 1 set
A3. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
A4. Idos Squat Clinic Routine X 1 set
A5. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Equilibre
B1. Handstand Body Line Wall Drill X 20-30 sec X 3 sets / 45-60 sec of rest
Floreio
C1. QDR Rotational Push Ups -Beginner variation or QDR Rotational Push Ups -Advanced variation X 10-14 reps / 5 sets / 60 sec of rest
D1. Corta Capim X 14 reps / 3 sets / 60 sec of rest
Conditioning
E1. Rotations into High Bridge X 12,10,8 reps
E2. Gatherings Intermidiate Variations X 12,10,8 reps
Rest 45 sec between E1 and E2, complete 3 sets with the reps mentioned above
Prehab
F1. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
F2. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Complete 2 subsequent supersets of F1-F2 no rest
Sample Workout - Advanced
Warm Up - Mobility
A1. 5 min Joint Mobility
A2. Wrists Routine X 1 set
A3. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
A4. Idos Squat Clinic Routine X 1 set
A5. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Equilibre
B1. Handstand Body Line Wall Drill X 30 sec
B2. Handstand Straighten Into Line X 45 sec total work
Complete 2 cycles of B1-B2, resting 60 sec between exercises
Floreio
C1. QDR Circles X 10 reps per side / 5 sets / 60 sec of rest
D1. Corta Capim X 14 reps / 3 sets / 60 sec of rest
Conditioning
E1. Rotations into High Bridge X 12,10,8 reps
E2. Gatherings Advanced X 12,10,8 reps
Rest 45 sec between E1 and E2, complete 3 sets with the reps mentioned above
Prehab
F1. Shoulder ROM and Stabilization routine X 1 set
F2. Scapula Mobilization Routine X 1 set
Complete 2 subsequent supersets of F1-F2 no rest
Forum action:
1. Go watch the CSF of some good people here, and go post yours! For the ones who post, a special video is comming to your emails till the end of the week. Do it, quickly!
2. Lots of good discussions about physical culture, flow, movement, strength, prehab, rehab, mobility, stretching, improvisation, endurance and more and more. Join us at the forum!
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New Toys
New Toys
A Merritts Lemon bar picture taken w/ my new camera with a MACRO setting! Woot!
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New Mini Sock Monkeys
New Mini Sock Monkeys
Look what I started today!
These teeny little guys and gals will be perfect for an Easter basket, or just to celebrate Spring! There will be six, and Im planning to have them done and listed on Etsy this week. If youd like to reserve one, please let me know!Hope youre all having a lovely weekend! :)
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New Rob Interview with Filmkrant Netherlands
New Rob Interview with Filmkrant Netherlands
“I always feel rather uncomfortable”
First Cronenberg, Michôd, Herzog, now Corbijn, very soon Gray, Korine and Denis: they all want Robert Pattinson. Why? What is the appeal of this teen idol?
By Kees Driessen
The penny dropped when I watched Cosmopolis (2012). The first time the film by David Cronenberg was disappointing to me. In ‘Vrij Nederland’ [dutch paper] I called him ‘bloodless – painful role for leading actor Robert Pattinson, who after his global success as a vampire in the insignificant Twilight series likes to sink his teeth into more serious material, but as autistic financial genius … he can hardly show a more emotional range [to the audience].
The second time I watched the movie I saw it. Then I understood that casting Pattinson was a great, even brilliant move. The hollow falsity of Cosmopolis is not only the reflection of the virtual financial system that is criticized in the film, but also of its leading character and, partly, its leading actor.
Robert Pattinson (London, 1986) plays in Cosmopolis a stunningly handsome stockbroker with huge financial success at a much too young an age, looking through the windows of his limousine with a detachment as if they were monitors, and fears that his inner self is rotting away (for which he gets daily anal examinations). You can almost call it typecasting, as a vampire with world fame.
Uncomfortable in his own skin
There are more great arthouse directors. David Michôd cast Pattinson in The Rover (not seen in 2014); just as Cronenberg, again, in Maps to the Stars (2014); Herzog, in a supporting role as T.E. Lawrence’s otherwise failed Queen of the Desert (2015); and soon James Gray in The Lost City of Z, Claire Denis in her yet untitled sci-fi movie and – very exciting – Harmony Korine, alongside James Franco, Idris Elba and Al Pacino in The Trap.
And now starring in Anton Corbijn’s Life, as a beginning photographer Dennis Stock, maker of the most famous photographs of James Dean. Where Cronenberg, as usual, in Cosmopolis magnified Pattinson’s character metaphorical and philosophical, the down to earth Corbijn uses [Rob] more realistic but nevertheless similar: as someone who feels uncomfortable in his skin, is keen to get recognition and feels a substantial distance to the world. “He’s an actor who wants to prove himself as an actor who plays a photographer who wants to prove himself as a photographer. Therefore the casting seemed like a great idea,” says a grinning Corbijn in Berlin.
Shy
Pattinson himself too is grinning a lot in Berlin. Many apologetic smiles too – like his character. Pattinson seems extremely nice, but is at the same time strikingly shy for someone of his fame and notoriety. Embarrassed BY his fame.
If he, as an actor often wanders outside his comfort zone? “I have no comfort zone at all haha! I always feel always rather uncomfortable.” He seems to mean it. “But so is my character.” And they {Rob and his character Dennis Stock] have more similarities. Like Stock Pattinson doesn’t like to be photographed. He really doesn’t. He mentions it three times. He feels like it’s making him ‘smaller’, “as if they are something away from you.”
Pattinson describes his character: “What I find fascinating is that he he couldn’t feel anything, not even love, as if he was handicapped.” And “Because he’s so restrained, he feels separated from the world, he lacks the experience of a normal person. That is quite tragic…” And: “I found it interesting that he finds solace in his art.”
Later, about all the media attention on himself: “Sometimes you feel just very separated from everything. That is a little worrisome..” And about acting: “You give quite a lot of yourself away, if you really
Uncomfortable
Is Stock is a mirror of self-portrait? The thought arises. If Pattinson, like Dennis Stock and James Dean, is a tortured soul himself, I do not know. But they share at least this: Pattinson feels an uncomfortable proximity to humans and is – something that’s not easy in the world of film or during a group interview – looking for a real connection.
That’s where there’s a blend in his role as Stock, in his roles for Cronenberg, and to some degree even with TE Lawrence and Twilight’s Edward.
When asked, via James Dean, what charisma is a movie star, Pattinson stumbles over his words a minute and then laughs nervously exclaiming: “I have no idea what the f*ck I’m saying haha!”
I want to make an attempt: charisma is the attraction of someone with a seductive look and an unattainable inner self. And that is Robert Pattinson has.
Read the original interview (and an interview with Anton Corbijn about LIFE) at the source (in Dutch) HERE | Translation and Via thanks to ToR
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New Prince of English Design
New Prince of English Design
I was so THRILLED to see the cover of the new House & Garden showing the attic bedroom of Ben’s country house.
Ben? Come on!!!! Ben Pentreath, of course!!
Pentreath is the architect and interior designer turned shop owner turned blogger turned darling of English design. He is charmingly British and seems to have quite the Midas Touch. His fans are legion and loyal and he appears to be friendly and fun. I only wish I knew him personally.
After graduating with a degree in architecture and art history, Pentreath worked for the highly regarded British architect Charles Morris. He followed this with a move to New York City, where he did a five year stint with Fairfax & Sammons. Back in London, he teamed up with Prince Charles’ Foundation. Not too shabby!! He opened his shop in 2008 with Kiwi designer Bridie Hall and from then on his popularity has grown and grown and grown.
His shop’s success is due to Londoners who happen upon its Bloomsbury address and to all the world-wide online shoppers. His blog, appropriately titled “Inspiration” helped spread the word of Pentreath & Hall.
The shop. Ben’s chair, Bloomsbury, is a store favorite.
But, Pentreath’s main focus is his Architecture & Interior Design business, where his firm works on both residential and commercial accounts, such as this hotel above.
His interiors are an interesting mix of English Classic design and a youthful turn on midcentury design.
His portfolio is growing quite large, and his social life, which the public follows through his many social media entries, seems very full. Oh, and there is also his best selling book and a new one coming out. Yikes!!!! I’m not sure how he manages it all and seems to do it so beautifully.
Pentreath’s new book – PREORDER by clicking on the picture.
Ben’s 2012 book. Order by clicking on the picture.
And then there are Ben’s clients. The famous set are said to include Sarah Jessica Parker and Liv Tyler, and those are just the ones we know of. His clientele list is closely guarded. The Prince and Princess of Cambridge, or Wills & Kate, are said to be clients.
Apparently Pentreath is head of Wills & Kate’s renovation of their country house Anmer Hall at Sandringham. There have been lots of rumors, and it’s well accepted that Ben does have this job, although he will never confirm nor deny this – on the record.
Pentreath’s been called a younger Nicholas Haslam and Robert Kime. But I don’t agree with either comparison. Neither Haslam nor Kime used mid century designs in their work, a look that Ben obviously fancies.I first noticed Pentreath when I saw his London apartment:
That wall with the antique map in Pentreath’s apartment! So perfect! Besides his apartment in London, Ben and his husband Charlie McCormick have a country house in Dorset which is uber attractive. (Copies of the map of London seen above HERE.)
The house, built in 1820, is a parsonage – once the home for the clergy from the church next door. Ben had known about the house since he was a young boy and when he found it was available for rent – he decided to move in with a 10 year lease. The house needed repairs and Ben has done them, but not going overboard. He is keeping in mind it is a rental.
Pentreath has spent much time developing the landscape and gardens, especially on this side of the house. Here, you can see its two large bay windows that look out onto the church.
Pentreath’s instagram is a personal favorite and is much loved by his many fans. His photos of the Old Parsonage, as his country house is named, are particularly alluring – and I love to watch how he updates the parsonage and all the changes he makes.So, it was especially exciting to see his house on the cover of the new House & Garden and to compare how it looks today with how it once looked when he first moved in. I pulled some of his “Before” pictures of the house to compare it to the way it looks in the magazine.
Entry Hall:
House & Garden: The entry has a stone flag floor which is so typical of English country houses. Ben put in the wallpaper a few years ago. The door with the arched transom leads to the living room.
Here’s a view looking the opposite way into the kitchen. You can see the stairs with its red and white runner here.
Before: And this view – straight from the front door that looks into the dining room. Pentreath took this photo right after he had painted the dining room deep purple and was still hanging paintings.
Today: And finally – the view from the front door looking to the dining room with its now painted blue walls. Wellies and canes stand ready for the many country walks Ben and Charlie take.
And, in the entry hall, to the left of the front door is the powder room – with its encaustic tiled floor. Pentreath hung a collection of prints here – the room is painted Farrow & Ball’s Wet Sand, just like the kitchen (was.)
Living Room:
House & Gardens: The living room. The star of the room is the paint color. Ben says that when he first moved in, he painted all the walls in the house a quiet gray. But eventually he grew bored of this color and in here, the walls are now an English pink, custom made for Ben by Papers and Paint. The color is now in their line and is called Parsonage Pink. At the window are curtains made of ticking fabric.
The yellow sofa is another star of the room – the Katzsic Sofa from Max Rollitt. Covering the ottoman is a needlepoint by Schumacher (which is a personal favorite.) Behind the sofa is a piano. The small black chair is from Pentreath’s shop. The prints on the back wall have changed throughout the years and today there are ferns there. You can really see the beautiful pink color of the walls here.
House & Gardens: this shows the prints have been changed and are now part of a collection of ferns which also hang in his London apartment.
A photo of the piano behind the sofa and a view of the ferns.
Today: the view towards the bay window which overlooks the church. The two bay windows were added some time after the parsonage was first built in 1820.
Before: Before the room was painted pink – it was gray, although in this photo it looks a bit green.
Before: And another very early photo of the gray walls which shows the table behind the sofa and here, Ben had hung a map on the wall, which I love. You can see the rug layered over the seagrass, another very English look. These are Ikat lampshades which he sells in the shop. Today he has marbleized paper shades here, which he also sells.
Before: Another much earlier view of the gray walls – the difference is stunning. The pink walls of today look beyond fabulous and this is from someone who loves gray. Hmmm…
Before: Finally, Ben moved to the Old Parsonage in 2009 – before he was dating Charlie. This photo shows a very, very early version of the living room – without the fabulous mirror on the mantel, the ottoman/coffee table, and the piles of pillows. It’s interesting to see how far the room has come – from a quiet gray space to the warm, cluttered-filled pink living room:
House & Garden: Today! Love!!!
The Front Door and Garden Door:
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
New Springcache Plugin Version
New Springcache Plugin Version
After saying it might take me a while I got stuck in and rewrote the Springcache plugin from scratch. The new version is up now. The plugin now requires Grails 1.2.0-M3 or greater as its reliant on Spring 3.0.
The plugin allows you to declare caching and flushing behaviour on service methods (well, any Spring bean methods, but services are typical) using
@Cacheable and @CacheFlush annotations. This is really useful for service methods that perform long-running or expensive tasks such as retrieving data from web services, network resources, etc. The plugin is less appropriate for service methods that retrieve data using GORM/Hibernate as you could just use the 2nd level cache, although theres nothing stopping you doing so if it makes sense in your domain.The documentation and source code are in the usual places. Heres a quick summary of the changes and new features:
- No longer depends on the (discontinued and non-Spring 3 compatible) spring-modules-cache library.
- No more mapcache, the plugin now uses ehcache by default.
- Only ehcache is supported directly but its really easy to implement an adapter for other caching libraries if you need to.
- Slightly simplified configuration. Some minor tweaks will be needed if youre upgrading from an earlier version of the plugin.
- Bean names are now prefixed with "springcache" so theyre much less likely to clash with other things in your Spring context.
There has been some interest in some new features such as a taglib for caching chunks of views which I may start looking at shortly.
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New Fan Pictures of Rob and FKA twigs in Leeds November 5th
New Fan Pictures of Rob and FKA twigs in Leeds November 5th
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New Nepali LOk Dohori Song Ramro Lagne Uni Tka Pun Suraj Thapa Aalap Studio
New Nepali LOk Dohori Song Ramro Lagne Uni Tka Pun Suraj Thapa Aalap Studio
Aalap Recording Studio Pvt Ltd Presnets
Suraj Thapas New Nepali Lok Dohori Folk Song
"Ramro Lagne Uni"
Lyrics of This Song
Male : Hey yo manle timilai nai maagne, timilai nai magne
Kati ramri heri rahu jhai laagne
Ramro lagne uni, hey ramro lagne uni
Manko kura uni sanga kahile hola huni
Timilai nai maa
Kati ramri heri rahu jhai laagne
Ramro lagne uni, hey ramro lagne uni
Manko kura uni sanga kahile hola huni
Manko kura uni sanga kahile hola huni
Female : Makeup gari aaki chhu ma ni hai , aaki chhu ma ni hai
Kati herchhau kahile na dekhe jhai
Ramro laagne uni, hey ramro lagne uni
Manko kura uni sanga kahile hola huni
Aaki chhu ma ni hai
Kati herchhau kahile na dekhe jhai
Ramro laagne uni, hey ramro lagne uni
Manko kura uni sanga kahile hola huni
More Details About This Song
Aalap Studio Presents :- Lok Dohori Song
Song:- Ramro Lagne Uni
Vocal:- Suraj Thapa & Tika Pun
Lyrics:- Barsha Lama Purnima Lama
Music:- Manoj BIshwakarma
Arrange:- Rakesh Sony
Audio/video:- Aalap Recording Studio Pvt. Ltd. 014770037
Cinematographer:- Karan Chaisir
Editor:- Ekanta Magar
Artists:-Prakash Saput & Karishma Dhakal
Post Production:- Aalap Recording Studio 9849155097
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
NEW YORK ON SAT
NEW YORK ON SAT
Hey dudes we are playing New York again on Saturday - thanks to everyone for coming to Terminal 5 last night, it was really fun. So anyways, were playing in Brooklyn this saturday at 285 Kent, with JEFF The Brotherhood and IceAge - the invite thing is right HERE. We all hope that Liam Gallagher will have another after party after this show that we can go to. Anyways, hope to see you there. Im sure we will play very late! Also Damian shaved a bear.
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New Rob Interview with The Guardian The Observer
New Rob Interview with The Guardian The Observer
It is one of this summer’s four perfect days, a Friday afternoon to boot, and London’s most smug are bunking off work and descending like fashionable, tanned zombies on Shoreditch House members’ club. Meanwhile in a joyless, north-facing, little-used room called the Library you’ll find Robert Pattinson, the 29-year-old British actor. He’s not tanned; famously, he has the pallor of an eternally youthful bloodsucker. He’s not smug either; in fact it would be hard to find someone less pleased with themselves. And he’s come to Shoreditch House today to work – to do interviews anyway, one of the least enjoyable elements of a job that he’s not convinced he’s especially good at.
Does Pattinson come here often? “Um, yeah, kind of, er. Ish,” he eventually decides on. “I used to go to the gym here until I realised that I didn’t want people to see me going to gym.” He laughs, a posh, unexpected, winning guffaw. “I was so embarrassed,” he continues. “When you’re trying to lift up your 10lb dumbbells… Word spreads.”
Pattinson is monochromatic today: white T-shirt and thin jacket; black jeans, boots and unmarked baseball cap. He has a bushy beard (our pictures were taken before he grew it). It’s the kind the Victorians favoured, with a twiddly moustache, for a part he’s currently shooting. “Oh, this is driving me insane,” he says. “Let me know if I’ve got something hanging off the side. Avocados are especially bad.” Pattinson strokes his chin: “Hmmm, yeah, avocados are not beard-friendly.”
It’s around this point, maybe a couple of minutes in, that I realise I’m going to quite like Pattinson. It is not particularly something he’s said, but his, for want of a better word, vibe. If anyone could be forgiven for being an oddball, it’s him. Any chance Pattinson had of a normal career – a normal life – vanished when he appeared, aged 22, as the vampire Edward Cullen in 2008’s Twilight. Over five films he became very rich, unpleasantly famous and kinkily lusted over. One example: last year in Las Vegas, a woman married a life-size cardboard cutout of Pattinson; on their honeymoon, she carried “him” up to the Hollywood sign.
Such attention, such unsolicited devotion, would be a brain scramble for anyone. But what’s endearing about Pattinson is that it is easy to see the kind of person he was before he became one of the most famous actors in the world. He’s a bit of a goof. He’s prone to gabbling about, say, having a gloop of avocado on his face.
In short, Pattinson doesn’t carry himself like he’s God’s gift. He remains recognisably a 20-something from suburban London whose dad sold vintage cars and whose mum was a model booker.
The most interesting thing about Pattinson these days is the career he’s curating. To oversimplify it, pretty much any director would want Pattinson in their film: he has a name that gets a project green-lit and a fanbase that means people are sure to see it. Yet he has chosen to use this power in an unconventional way. Sometimes he actively seeks out filmmakers who he admires: “There’s not a lot of them, and I like quite specific stuff.” He doesn’t demand the biggest role or for his name to be in the largest type on the film poster – though that’s usually what happens anyway. He’s worked with cult auteur David Cronenberg twice (Cosmopolis and Maps to the Stars) and with Werner Herzog, as TE Lawrence in the forthcoming Gertrude Bell biopic, Queen of the Desert, alongside Nicole Kidman and James Franco. He’s just signed up to play an astronaut in Zadie Smith’s first screenplay.
And this month Pattinson stars in Anton Corbijn’s Life, a warm, perceptive film about James Dean. But Pattinson isn’t playing Dean; he is Dennis Stock, a Magnum photographer who befriended the actor in 1955 and took the iconic shot of him walking in Times Square, smoking, huddled against the rain. Pattinson insists he didn’t, even for one second, consider lobbying for the role of Dean, a role taken by Dane Dehaan.
“I wouldn’t even know where to begin,” says Pattinson. “I guess the only reason anyone would think that is from Twilight, because people always said about ‘brooding’. I’m not entirely sure what brooding is, other than a chicken sitting on her eggs. So I’m not entirely sure why that’s considered an attractive trait.”
There are, however, intriguing parallels to be drawn between Dean and Pattinson, two of the defining stars of their eras, or at least an examination of how the nature of celebrity has changed in the 60 years between their respective peaks. In Life, Dean is caught on the cusp of fame, shortly before the release of his debut film, East of Eden (in the ensuing eight months he would shoot two more films, including Rebel Without a Cause, before dying in a car crash aged 24). The studio, Warner Bros, puts him forward for interviews and Dean mucks them up, partly through inexperience, partly through sabotage.
Pattinson certainly knows how that feels. “When the first Twilight came out, I’d definitely say dumb stuff just so I wouldn’t sound cookie-cutter or part of the machine,” he recalls. For the most part this was pretty tame, such as admitting he took a Xanax before his final audition to calm his nerves or saying that he had been drunk for a year before he landed the part, living in a “cool little ex-crack den” with his best friend, the actor Tom Sturridge. “It’s not very difficult to shock people when you can literally just swear,” Pattinson says, laughing again. “You talk about being hungover and you just see the publicity department waving their arms going: ‘Shut up! Shut up!’”
In other ways, though, Life makes it clear how much the interaction between celebrities and the media has changed. Stock, at Dean’s encouragement, follows the actor home to Indiana, to the farm where he grew up with his uncle and aunt in a Quaker household. The intimacy of their exchanges – and the photographs that relationship produced – would be unimaginable in the present day.
Pattinson concedes as much. “The idea of taking a photographer back to my family’s house… it’s just insane!” he says. “It’s not really even to do with the photographs – it might be nice to have a really good photographer do it, but it’s bringing your family into the public domain and then having to have them deal with this horrible cacophony of demons who live on the internet. That’s really ruined a lot of things, internet trolls, because no one wants to put themselves out there. Even if you can ignore it, and I don’t think anyone can really ignore it.”
There’s not anger in Pattinson’s voice, just acceptance of the uncomfortable Faustian pact he’s made for success in his chosen field. “With my sisters” – Victoria and Lizzy, both older; Lizzy, a singer, appeared on last year’s X Factor, reaching the stage where hopefuls audition at the judges’ houses – “you just bring people into something they have not asked to be part of,” he continues. “It’s impossible for you to stop it afterwards. All you can say is: ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry for bringing this darkness into your life. And also you don’t get anything out of it either.’ It’s just nothing but bad, yeah.”
Plenty of people in entertainment and outside it really want to be famous. Pattinson, meanwhile, more than any public figure I’ve encountered, appears to be desperate to be less well-known than he is. The point where celebrity was useful to him is long distant. He already has more money than he knows how to spend. In Los Angeles he bought a house – “like Versailles,” he’s described it – but moved out after the paparazzi set up camp outside. He owns 17 guitars, but that’s as far as extravagances go.
“Fame is just in the way for Rob,” says Anton Corbijn, who has considerable experience of working with superstars, first as a portrait photographer and more recently as a film director. “We were shooting in a really cold winter in Toronto and there were days where it was definitely -22C and still there would be some paparazzo photographer hanging in a tree somewhere for a whole day. Even in extreme circumstances, in the middle of nowhere, he gets followed. That must be tiresome.”
Would Pattinson want to be less recognisable, then? “I don’t even think I am that famous anymore,” he says unconvincingly. “I just moved back to London and the thing that always drove me crazy in LA was photographers. You don’t even really care about having your photograph taken, but it’s the following, the trailing, knowing that you can’t escape it. But I moved back to London and it just doesn’t happen ever.”
Really? “Uh huh. Unless you’re at the Chiltern Firehouse or somewhere. That’s it. The infrastructure doesn’t exist here. And celebrity press – they are interested in different things in England. Which is wonderful!”
He might be giving us too much credit there. Pattinson’s relationships are a staple of gossip columns, especially since he split with Kristen Stewart, his Twilight co-star, in 2012. He is currently stepping out with, and almost certainly engaged to, the singer FKA Twigs – hence the return to London – but he’s learned enough to keep it on the down-low. When I raise the subject today, he replies, good-naturedly: “Oh yeah, that. I’ve just found if you never talk about stuff it’s better. But thank you.”
Pattinson’s personal experience, of enduring Twilight and coming out the other side, does seem to have left a residual interest in the smaller cogs in the machinery of Hollywood. In last year’s Maps to the Stars he played an aspiring actor and writer who is really a chauffeur and has an unlikely hook-up with a neurotic big-time actress played by Julianne Moore. In Life his character Dennis Stock witnesses up close what the movie industry is starting to do to James Dean. The lesson, in both cases, appears to be that it’s not easy to remain sane in this business.
Pattinson, though, sees it differently: it’s not that movie stars are weird; everyone is weird. “I think people are pretty extreme,” he says. “If you look at anyone’s behaviour, you meet a lot of nutcases. I can hang out with my family and it’s like a mental asylum.” He’s laughing hard now. “They’ll be like: ‘Oh, why are you saying this about us?’”
Acting, Pattinson insists, remains a learning process; he never studied it and he became Edward Cullen when he still thought he wanted to be a musician rather than an actor. This leads to a bizarrely self-deprecating estimation of his talents. Pattinson rarely watches his own performances – he has still never seen the final Twilight movie – but he does assiduously seek out negative comments on the internet. “I do read reviews to a fault, and it’s an awful thing to do,” he admits. “It’s an addiction. And you only read the bad ones, too, just to foster hatred, self-hatred, self-loathing. Yeah, weird habit.”
“I don’t know if it’s insecurity, but he’s far more gifted than he gives himself credit for,” says Corbijn. “Obviously success came relatively easy to Rob with the Twilight series, and ever since then he’s taken on left-of-centre roles to prove – I guess to himself – that he is an actor and not just a famous actor. That’s really courageous of him, but he underestimates his own quality. He’s nervous. I think he beats himself up a lot – unnecessarily so, in my eyes.”
Corbijn describes “an inner turmoil” he sees in Pattinson. Does Pattinson recognise that in himself? “Err, ha ha, yeah, sort of,” he replies. “Sometimes. I think everyone does, really, but I definitely feel like I need to prove something, and I’m not entirely sure what it is. So that’s probably what my turmoil is.”
Pattinson goes silent for a few seconds. “Confusion!” he eventually exclaims. “I’m definitely very confused. I spent basically my whole 20s having no idea what was going on. And I do feel now that I’m gaining a little bit of perspective.”
The analysis session is almost over. Pattinson walks over to an upright piano by the window and idly plays a few notes. He started taking lessons again recently for the first time since he was a teenager; he thought he would be more enthusiastic this time, but practice is still a drudge. He closes the lid and finishes a thought from a couple of minutes before.
“In a lot of ways, I’m quite proud that I’m still getting jobs,” Pattinson says. “To go from starting a job by accident when you’re 16 and maintaining it somehow and learning how to do it on the job as well. Because of falling into a job, you always feel like you’re a fraud, that you’re going to be thrown out at any second. So yeah, the main thing I do hope is to gradually get rid of that and really be doing what you want to be doing without feeling like you’re faking it. Does that make sense?”
With his intriguing, ambitious post-Twilight career, it is making less and less sense, but it says a lot about Pattinson that he still thinks it.
Life is out on 25 September
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New Fan Pictures of Rob at Arsenal and Sunderland Game in London December 5th
New Fan Pictures of Rob at Arsenal and Sunderland Game in London December 5th
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