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New *CANNES 2014 PORTRAIT* of Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd...

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[PRESS SCAN] A nous Paris (France) - 2 Jui 2014

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Robert Pattinson sort des "Twilight"On le pensait coincé à jamais dans son rôle de vampire à sang froid pour adolescentes à sang chaud. Revoici Robert Pattinson méconnaissable en chauffeur rêvant de paillettes hollywoodiennes dans Maps to the Stars, de David Cronenberg, et en bandit demeuré dans The Rover, de David Michôd. Deux films présentés au dernier Festival de Cannes, où nous en avons pincé pour Pattinson. 

Comment ça va ? Les nuits sont courtes à Cannes...Oh mon dieu ! C'est terrible. J'avais un peu oublié que je devais travailler aujourd'hui. 

Les deux films que vous présentez ici abordent deux univers différents. Lequel est le moins humain : Hollywood dans Maps to the Stars ou l'apocalypse dans The Rover ?Je ne sais pas, c'est presque équivalent. Le Hollywood dépeint dans Maps to the Stars est un peu exagéré. C'est un endroit difficile mais il suffit juste de tomber sur les bonnes personnes. C'est un peu pareil dans le désert (rires). 

Et où est-ce le plus compliqué de tourner ? À Hollywood ou dans le désert australien?À Hollywood ! Définitivement ! Parce qu'à chaque fois que vous tournez en extérieur, il y a 50 paparazzis. Dès que je me déplace, des dizaines de voitures sortent littéralement de nulle part pour me suivre. C'est très ennuyeux. Mais dans le désert, je n'avais pas ce problème. Il n'y avait personne. C'est plus facile pour travailler et se concentrer. 

Dans The Rover, vous jouez le frère d'un gangster un peu déficient mental. C'était difficile à faire pour vous ?Non. C'est venu comme ça, naturellement (rires). Finalement c'était l'un des rôles les plus faciles à jouer pour moi, parce qu'il n'y avait aucune limite. Je pouvais partir dans toutes les directions possibles. C'est vraiment un rôle très libre. 

Comment vous êtes-vous préparé ?Littéralement, j'ai essayé de jouer un animal, un de ces chiens de junkies qui se font chasser à longueur de journée, mais qui finissent toujours par revenir. Ils tentent désespérément d'attirer l'attention. J'essayais de penser à ça en jouant. 

Dans The Rover, vous avez une sale coupe de cheveux et les dents abîmées. C'était une façon pour vous de casser votre image de sex-symbol pour adolescentes ?Non, mais lorsque vous n'avez plus à vous soucier de votre apparence, que vous ne vous demandez plus : "De quoi j'ai l'air, là ?", que votre ego n'est pas flatté par le rôle, ça rend le boulot plus facile. 

C'est un travail de longue haleine de devenir un acteur de films d'auteur et de sortir de cette image qui vous colle à la peau depuis Twilight ?Ça a pris un peu de temps. Ce sont des rencontres que j'ai faites il y a plusieurs années et qui portent leurs fruits aujourd'hui. Mais c'est réellement Cosmopolis de Cronenberg qui a tout changé. 

Vous avez peur que l'économie de nos pays s'effondre comme c'est le cas dans The Rover ?Je ne sais pas, ça peut arriver oui, mais j'ai plutôt foi en l'humanité. Dans le film, il y a aussi cette forme d'espoir. Ce n'est pas comme si le monde était envahi de zombies. Les hommes tentent de renaître, de se reconstruire. Mais ça reste fragile. Un crack économique est si vite arrivé, d'ailleurs ça s'est déjà produit dans d'autres pays. Mais je ne pense pas que le monde puisse s'effondrer entièrement. 

Que pensez-vous de la politique ?J'ai du mal à prendre la politique très au sérieux. Peut-être que je ne m'y connais pas assez. Lorsque je vois que cinq ou six grosses compagnies contrôlent le monde à elles toutes seules, je me dis que voter devient une plaisanterie. Mais je crois aux individus, aux grandes causes, aux sentiments, et à la justice... 

En projetParmi vos films à venir, il y a Queen of the Desert, de Werner Herzog, sur la vie de la voyageuse Gertrude Bell...
J'y joue un tout petit rôle, celui de Lawrence d'Arabie jeune. Lui et Gertrude Belle, jouée par Nicole Kidman, ont été les meilleurs amis du monde pendant près de cinq ans. 

Où en êtes-vous de Life d'Anton Corbijn, le film sur Dennis Stock ?Le tournage est terminé. C'est l'histoire de James Dean juste avant qu'il ne devienne célèbre. Le photographe Dennis Stock a immortalisé ce trajet incroyable qui l'a vu devenir la star que l'ont connait. 

Ce n'est pas vous qui jouez James Dean ?Non, c'est Dane DeHaan. Mais c'est amusant, parce qu'il y a des similitudes avec mon propre parcours, dans le fait que tout cela se soit passé en deux mois, entre le moment où il n'était rien et cet incroyable succès qui lui est tombé dessus. La photo célèbre où on le voit fumer une cigarette dans Time Square, c'était juste la veille de l'avant-première d'À l'Est d'Eden. Et je me trouvais exactement au même endroit la veille de l'avant-première de Twilight. 

Après Kristen Stewart dans Sils Maria, vous allez également tourner pour Olivier Assayas ?Oui, en novembre, ça va s'appeler Idol's Eye. C'est l'histoire vraie d'une bande de voleurs qui braquent une boutique de prêteur sur gages et qui se rendent compte que le lieu et tenu par la mafia. Ça se passe à la fin des années 70, et le scénario est incroyable. 

Son Festival de Cannes"La première fois que je suis venu, c'était il y a deux ans avec Cosmopolis et je voulais absolument tout faire. Cannes est l'un des endroits les plus excitants au monde pour montrer des films. Même pendant la projection, il se dégage une si bonne énergie... J'aime aussi la presse ici, elle est tellement différente que dans le reste du monde. Les gens me parlent de mes films, tandis qu'ailleurs, les journalistes me demandent : "Alors, quel est votre plat préféré ?" À chaque fois ! Ici, il y a des gens qui aiment le cinéma. Mais je pense que c'est aussi lié à la France. Les gens aiment le cinéma en France".

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New *INTERVIEW* of Robert Pattinson with "Le Figaro" (France)...

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from Le Figaro

Robert Pattinson, du vampire au meilleur 

Avec notamment deux films en sélection officielle à Cannes, l'acteur gère sereinement «l'après-Twilight».
Sur une terrasse du Palais des festivals balayée par le vent, un homme, la tête rentrée dans les épaules, tire sur sa cigarette. Un garde du corps se tient à quelques mètres de lui. Le fumeur anonyme est Robert Pattinson. Avec deux films en sélection officielle, Maps to the Stars , de David Cronenberg, et The Rover, de David Michôd, l'acteur était l'une des attractions à Cannes. Quand on arrive à notre rendez-vous sur la Croisette, il n'a pas l'air très frais. La veille, il a fait la fermeture du Silencio, le club parisien délocalisé le temps du festival. Il s'est réveillé dix minutes avant ses rendez-vous avec la presse. 

Il est fatigué et spontané, disposé à parler de ces deux cinéastes qui l'aident à enterrer sa vie de vampire sexy. Le héros de la saga Twilight paye d'abord sa dette au Canadien Cronenberg. Comme dans Cosmopolis, en 2012, Pattinson est à nouveau dans une limousine dans Maps to the Stars, mais cette fois au volant. «C'est un second rôle, mais j'ai dit oui avant même de lire le scénario. Je ferais n'importe quoi avec ce type.» Son personnage est un chauffeur de limousine à Hollywood qui se présente comme un «acteur écrivain». «J'ai eu tendance à dire ça au début mais plus maintenant», plaisante le Britannique installé à Los Angeles depuis plusieurs années déjà. «Londres me manquait beaucoup au début, mais la plupart de mes amis sont partis à leur tour et Los Angeles est une très belle ville, dynamique. Et en même temps très bizarre. Tout dépend des gens avec lesquels vous traînez…» 

Plaisirs simples 

À Hollywood, les scénarios et les cinéastes viennent à lui. C'est ainsi que David Michôd, dont Pattinson admire le premier film, Animal Kingdom, le rencontre et le choisit parmi des milliers d'acteurs. Pourquoi lui ? «Parce que son visage me fascine, il est à la fois beau et atypique», nous dira le réalisateur. L'acteur passe ainsi sept semaines dans le désert australien, à neuf heures de route de la première ville. Il goûte la solitude, un vrai luxe pour ce jeune homme de 28 ans harcelé par les paparazzis. 

Après sa love story et sa rupture avec sa partenaire de Twilight, Kristen Stewart, qui en ont fait la proie préférée de la presse people, la star a redécouvert des plaisirs simples: «J'ai adoré pouvoir uriner tranquillement en pleine nature.» L'ancien mannequin a aussi apprécié de concasser un peu plus son image d'icône adolescente avec un personnage border line. «À la première lecture, je me suis demandé si ce type était handicapé mental. David Michôd m'a dit qu'il ne savait pas. J'ai fait d'ailleurs beaucoup d'improvisations, mais je crois qu'elles ont toutes été coupées!» 

Depuis, Pattinson a tourné avec Werner Herzog et Anton Corbijn. Il est annoncé dans les prochains films de James Gray, Harmony Korine et Olivier Assayas. Il serait même l'un des prétendants au poste d'Indiana Jones, en remplacement de Harrison Ford. Un coup de fouet dont sa carrière n'a pas besoin.

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With two films in the official selection at Cannes, actor handle serenely the "post-Twilight." 

On a terrace of the Palais des Festivals swept by the wind, a man with his head tucked into his shoulders, pulls on his cigarette. A bodyguard stands a few meters from him. The anonymous smoker is Robert Pattinson. With two films in official selection, Maps To The Stars, by David Cronenberg, and The Rover, by David Michôd, the actor was one of the attractions in Cannes. When we arrive at our rendez-vous on the Croisette, he doesn't look fit. The day before, he was doing the closing of the Silencio, the Parisian club relocated in Cannes during the festival. He woke up ten minutes before his appointments with the press.

He is tired and spontaneous, willing to talk about these two filmmakers who helped bury the sexy vampire. The hero of the Twilight Saga pays first his debt to the Canadian Cronenberg. Like in Cosmopolis, in 2012, Pattinson is back in a limousine in Maps to the Stars, but this time behind the wheel. "It's a supporting role, but I said yes before even reading the script. I'd do anything with this guy." His character is a limo driver in Hollywood who presents himself as an "actor writer." "I used to say that at the beginning but not anymore," jokes the British that moved to Los Angeles several years ago. "I missed London at the beginning, but most of my friends left and Los Angeles is a beautiful city, dynamic. And at the same time very weird. All depends on the people you hang out with..." 

Simple Pleasures 

In Hollywood, scripts and filmmakers go to him. Thus David Michôd, whose Pattinson admires his first film, Animal Kingdom, meets and chooses him among thousands of actors. Why him? "Because his face fascinates me, he is both beautiful and atypical" the director tells us. The actor spent seven weeks in the Australian desert, a nine-hour drive from the nearest town. He enjoys solitude, a real luxury for this young 28 year old man harassed by paparazzi. 

After his love story and breakup with his partner from Twilight, Kristen Stewart, who made him the favourite prey of the tabloids, the star has rediscovered simple pleasures: "I loved being able to pee peacefully in the nature."The former model has also enjoyed to break a little his icon image for teens with a borderline character. "At the first reading, I wondered if this guy was mentally handicapped. David Michôd told me he didn't know. I did a lot of improvisation to, but I think they have all been cut off!" 

Since, Pattinson shot with Werner Herzog and Anton Corbijn. Upcoming films with James Gray, Harmony Korine and Olivier Assayas has been announced. He would even be one of the contenders for the part of Indiana Jones, as a replacement of Harrison Ford. A boost to his career which doesn't need one.

source: le RPattz Club

translation: Pattinson AW

4 NEW *CLIPS* from "The Rover"... with Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce...

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they were shown during the interview on Recontres de Cinema (Cannes Press Junket) with Rob, Guy and David ...

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*INTERVIEW* of Robert Pattinson's interview with "Rencontre de Cinema"... Cannes 2014 Press Junket...

with Guy Pearce and David Michôd...

The rover - Rencontres de cinéma

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Complete transcription of Rob, Guy and David's interview in "Rencontres de Cinéma" on Canal +

Laurent : Guy, Robert and David , thanks for being with us today. You're here to talk about your upcoming movie, The Rover. First of all, David, I want to know how you manage to shoot a movie who is a thriller, an action movie, a survivor movie, a road trip with strong characters. It's amazing. What was your first motivation when you decided to direct this movie?

David: The 1st idea was very simple : just about a man in the desert who got his car stolen. Then I started building everything else around this idea. Throughout the screenplay writing, it became a mixture of various different elements. This movie looks like a western. What I really wanted to do was that the audience could feel something. During the shooting , it happened a lot for me that , after watching the dailies , I was like "What is this movie I'm doing? What is it ? It' really weird".

Laurent : Guy , was it a constant work on your character everyday?

Guy: Actually I talked a lot with David abt who was this man , what he lived before you met him at the beginning of the movie. For me, most of my work was done during rehearsal during our talks in order to really get who the character was. Of course, when you're doing a movie, the shooting is always a work in progress. You know which way you're heading but it 's rather how you do it to get there.

Laurent: Did you try to make up a backstory for your character?
Guy : Yeah, of course . You can't only rely on the very few information we have when we discover the character. You must rely on the entire story. For me , the movie wasn't just about a stolen car. The objective was a previous one so that's what I focused on.

Laurent: Robert, the movie atmosphere was also important for you?

Rob: Yeah absolutely. For me , the difference is how I viewed my character. Contrary to you. Rey, my character has always lived in that world. Whereas Eric, Guy's character, had a different life before.

Laurent: At the same time, this character is a present. Everything is allowed with this kind of guy.

Rob: Yeah, when we read his description. We're told he's from somewhere in the South of the USA. But we don't know precisely what kind of accent he has. It's amazing since we can play this character in so many different ways.

Laurent: Yeah that's true.

Rob: I remembered when I arrived on set in the morning I didn't know what was going to happen to him or what was his accent like.

Laurent: Robert , did you try different things with Guy? Did you exchange ideas during the shooting?

Rob: Yeah my role.

Guy: And we also rehearsed before the shooting. We had a week to rehearse in Adelaide so we could find out who were our characters at that time.

Rob: and as for my character, you must know that most of my acting consisted in reacting to your character. Your part is like a constant force in the movie.
Guy: And I also play according to Rob's reactions. I also had to try not to react.
Laurent: Just like a tennis match.

Guy: Because Rob gives both a vulnerable and heartbreaking performance. Which was awesome for me since my character couldn't be overwhelmed by all that. At leads up to the moment when their relationship changes.

Laurent: Guy it must be so exciting when a director like David propose you such a project?

Guy : Yeah it's incredible. Even when you know him for a long time, when it's with someone you like, with whom you want to work with; when he gives you this kind of project... you know it balances all the times when you have to fight to get a part or when you're playing characters who are not very important. So when you get this kind of proposition, it's always exciting. It's like when you're a small actor and they propose you a big part, you have this feeling of euphoria that never changes. It's very rare but when it happens it's delicious, it's a great honor.

Laurent: David, how did you try to work with Robert and Guy? Did you give them a lot of freedom?

David: no , no freedom at all !

Guy : He locks us in our rooms. We can't even go to eat at the restaurant. No freedom at all !

David: When I write a story , I have a very precise idea of who the character is but it's only after casting the actors and after talking abt the characters with them that they get all their dimension. I imagine the character of Eric with Guy on my mind. I had always had him on mind when I wrote the script. But we could really talk about him in details with Guy a few days before the shooting. It's incredible what we could do with such a few days of rehearsal ! When we worked on set the very 1st day, to shoot the very 1st scene with Guy. It was exhilaring for me . Just to see the way Guy was standing. I had the character in front of me. Then we had told him all about Eric's backstory. I didn't know who I wanted for Rob's character. I met Rob before and I had found him very interesting. When I started the casting, I had this weird feeling that he was the actor I wanted to see the most ! Fortunately he came fo the screen testing and once more it was exhilaring. I was convinced I had found the character and the man who was going to play it.

Laurent: Eric is such an exciting character to play because its' a physical part. Guy using your body as part of your performance, was it something particular?

Guy : I love that. I'd rather let my body speak than with dialogues. I'm much more an instinctive character than an intellectual one .

David: It's amazing how much information you can send to the audience with a physical acting. Very soon during the rehearsal we talked abt using the shoulder and his way to walk. The shoulders and the neck. It's strange to think it's often the way to get a character. When I 1st realized that on the shooting it was very exciting for me since Guy's character became really lively !

Laurent : and after all it's the story of the movie. They are like animals. It's also a metaphor of our society. It's not really good currently to be a human being with the global crisis. We can really go back to our primitive instincts. Maybe I'm wrong but I think it's the movie's topic right?
David: When I was writing the script, I was projecting myself in the future as it is depicted in the movie and there were my own anguish and my own despair and in particular through Eric, Guy's character with his anger. I started imagining an older world in a few decades, completely devasted by the people who are in charge today : from the origins of the economic crisis to our inability to find a solution to fight global warming. I just imagine the Man in a few decades living in a world in which he's angry. Angry enough to commit murders.

Laurent: Do you agree with that Robert? Is it really about our society?

Rob: Yeah . When I read the script, I was thinking about all the ramifications of the story. In the movie you can see 2 stories which are close together and they are full of emotions. It's what makes me and Guy come closer.

Guy: To build these charactars, you have to start from the inside in order to understand the feeling and the essence of the character. Of course you know something's happening on a larger scale. But personnally, in order to play my character correctly , I had to build him from the inside towards the outside. After that you finally understand what's happening and that's when you arrive in Cannes that you realize "Oh yeah that's it!".

Laurent: The movie has a connection with the current economic and political world. It's a post apocalyptic movie. Currently , and not only in France, but also in the USA or even in Australia , it's the same mess. You know what I mean?

Guy : How easily we're always on the verge of a global catastrophe for anybody !

Rob: It's completely ridiculous. I remember a scene we were shooting near a mine which was still active . We just stood there and realized how ridiculous the situation was. How ridiculous the mine was taking out all the ressources within the ground. Nothing will be growing up for at least 400 years. There isn't any wild fauna left. There's only birds left. We just have to sit down and play video games.

Laurent: Yeah you're right and at the same time it's a real movie. It's really cinematographic. There's a lot of light, desert and huge landscape. Was it a hard shooting for you?

David: We had quite a big crew if we consider the place we were shooting. We were very very far from the next city?
Laurent: From the civilized world too?

David: And it was very hard. It was so hot. There were a lot of flies. There weren't any network. We were constantly dirty.

Laurent: You mean no mobile phones, no networks?

Guy : the more up north we went, the less network we got. We just put our mobile phones on the tables and we just realized that we had to talk to each other.

David : Which was wonderful. We stuck together every nights. As we were leaving at the same place, we started to get drunk !

Laurent: Did you feel a kind of pressure on your shoulders since Animal Kingdom, your previous movie, had a huge success in the whole world. Did it add some pressure for this movie?
David: Yeah I felt pressure Not necessarily when we started shooting but when I decided to do this. This movie , I literally get into it. It's now when we arrived in Cannes that I could feel the audience's expectations. I don't know what other people are expecting from me for this 2nd movie. I have no idea abt what they are hoping for. So I have absolutely no control to know if my movie will meet their expections or not. So this is the aim of this week in Cannes : to try to know the place of The Rover in the world.

Laurent: Do you agree with that Guy?

Guy : I can't see what he's talking about !

Laurent: You drank too much last night !
Guy: Of course I understand him perfectly ! It's interesting when we speak about the expectations surrounding a movie. What is fascinating in our job is the huge difference between the reality of what we are living from the inside , when we shoot a movie, and how is it perceived outside. At a certain level , trying to understand what people are feeling from the outside is exactly the same thing when you try to understand from the outside how we work in the inside. We can think that these two processus are ridiculous but I understand the point of view. The 1st movie David made...
Laurent: Yeah Animal Kingdom.

Guy: was an incredible movie
Laurent: Absolutely.

Guy: It had an incredible success. The importance is to know if you can deal with the pressure from the 2nd movie. Are you obliged to be as good as the 1st one? Or do you do like David and you focus on the following movie and the following one and not try to compare with the first movie. It's this way you can manage to do it. Its the problem when you come to places like Cannes. People are automatically comparing movies. I want to say "Oh no don't make comparisons!".

Laurent: Is it the same thing for you Robert? Do you know exactly what is your next project or is ot the contrary? Do you say 'I've made a movie with David Cronenberg, with David Michôd, now I'm going to try something really different? '

Rob: No I think it depends on the director's choice but it took me a while to realize that. You'd be much happier working with the best directors in the world and something better will always stand out. You don't necessarily need to read the script. It'll be great to have them.

Laurent: Guy, I remembered you in Cannes for LA Confidentials. It was 17 years ago, in 1997. We were a lot younger then.

Guy : Yeah a lot younger !

Laurent: Is is always a new experience being here in Cannes?

Guy: Oh yeah absolutely. I met this morning the producers of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert "which premiered here in 1994. Unfortunately I coudn't be here. Generally , we come here with great films. This year it's with The Rover, two years ago it was with Lawless and of course before that with LA Confidentials. It's a great experience. In Cannes, movies have always had a priviledged place so it's an honour to be here. Here people really adore films so...
Laurent: Is it the same thing for you Robert?

Rob: I love to come in Cannes. I always try my best to come here. For the moment, it's a complete success. I got three out of three.

Guy: We are going to help you fix that. We're going to ask Jane Campion.

Rob: Yeah it's the same for me. It's here we can feel people's gratitude. It's completely different. Even for the interview. Everywhere else in the world when I'm promoting a movie, I'm only asked what is my favourite meal or something like that. It's so frustrating.

David: Noboby asks me this question !

Laurent: And screening your movie is Cannes it's a bit crazy ?

David: It's crazy when you look at that from an outside point of view. It's exactly what we think. But I realize that this festival worships the cinema with his ceremonies and his traditions, with the upcoming pressure going with each screening on several days. So when we land on the stairs we know we're going to live one of the most important moment in our lives. It's really magical .

Laurent: Thank you very much all of you. Thank you.

source: Canal +
source update: @LeRPattzClub

*PREVIEW* of Robert Pattinson’s Interview with "Le 19:45 M6" (France) .... Cannes Press Junket...

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or  ➜ HERE (M6 replay "Le 19:45" ) ...


source: RPL

Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce and David Michôd... "The Rover" interview for "Rencontres de Cinéma" (France)...

1st June 2014...

from Canal +

Chaque dimanche à 11H35, Laurent Weil rencontre les stars françaises ou internationales qui font l'actualité des sorties cinéma dans les salles en France

Every Sunday at 11:35, Laurent Weil meets French and international stars who make the news for movie releases in theaters in France

source: Pattinson_AW

*NEW CANNES PORTRAIT* of Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce and David Michôd... "The Rover"... Cannes 2014...

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*GIFS* of the new video of Robert Pattinson... Arriving for "The Rover" Cannes Premiere...

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*NEW VIDEO* of Robert Pattinson... Arriving for "The Rover" Cannes Premiere...

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Rob's at 2:16...

 

Cannes 2014 - Episode 1Cannes 2014 avec Les expendables sur la croisette, Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Ryan Reynolds, Rosario Dawson, Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Carole Bouquet, Nicolas Winding Refn, Willem Dafoe, Alice Taglioni, Gaspard Ulliel, Dean DeBlois...

source: Pattinson AW
vimeo: Cannes en LIVE !

*VIDEO* Robert Pattinson in the blooper's of "Les InRockuptibles".... Cannes 2014

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Rob... around 0:54 and 2:21

Festival de Cannes 2014: Le bêtisier des inRocks

dailymotion: Les Inrockuptibles

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*VIDEO* of Robert Pattinson's interview with "My TF1 News" (France)... Cannes 2014 P

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Rob starts at 5:00

Travelling spécial Cannes 2014 : rencontres avec Ryan Gosling et Robert Pattinson sur WAT.tv  

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*VIDEO* of Robert Pattinson's interview with "Verissimo / Ch5" (Italy)... Cannes 2014 Press Junket...

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"I was really happy to play this role. I've had lots of space for improvisation. I started talking about my character with the director David Michod, at least, eight months before we started filming it. We discussed that aspect ought to have, the body language. I think the character is very sad, but at the same time, funny or comic".

source: RPL
dailymotion: veronicaspuffy

New *VIDEO* of "The Rover" standing ovation.... Cannes 2014...

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Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson
Enthused response to premiere. Monday 19th May 2014

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New PIC* of Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce... from the Cannes Press Junket 2014...

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source: RPL

- Associated Press - Kellan Lutz about Robert Pattinson....

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from Associated Press 

It was a "Twilight" reunion on the Riviera. 

Both Kellan Lutz and Robert Pattinson were in Cannes this week to promote projects: Pattinson had one film in competition at the film festival and one out of it, while Lutz was around town for his role in "The Expendables 3." 

The two caught up with each other at a party, and in an interview, Lutz bragged on his friend, whose performances in "The Rover" and "Maps to the Stars" are being highlighted by critics. 

"It's great chatting with Rob and seeing his success," Lutz said at a resort outside of Cannes this week. "I think one of the great things talking with Rob after we did 'Twilight' stuff is he just doesn't care about the money. He's doing good work and he wants to work with great directors and great actresses and actors and working with great material, as we all should." 

"I think that the blessing of being part of the 'Twilight' franchise is it's given us this safety net," he added. 

Lutz has taken more action roles, which he calls his passion, since the "Twilight" films wrapped, while Pattinson has gravitated to edgier projects. Lutz said he believes an Academy Award is in Pattinson's future. 

"He has the chops and he's doing what he loves to do and I'm so proud of him for everything that he's doing," he said. 

Another "Twilight" alum, Kristen Stewart, has her film, "Clouds of Sils Maria," premiere here on Friday night; it is in competition.

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- The Sydney Morning Herald - New *INTERVIEW* for "The Rover"... Cannes 2014...

with quotes from Rob...

from The Sydney Morning Herald
(excerpt... Rob's related part)

After the extraordinary success of Animal Kingdom, writer-director David Michod had all kinds of possibilities dangled in front of him – scripts, movie proposals, meetings, offers from every conceivable direction. What he chose, in the end, was something of his own, a story set in the immediate future and shot in a remote location in Australia. 

The Rover, which has just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, stars Guy Pearce and Twilight star Robert Pattinson as an unlikely pair of travelling companions on a dark, brutal journey. 

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‘‘I like to meet actors, and I like to meet actors whose work I’m not necessarily familiar with,’’ Michod says. He had never seen any of the Twilight films, the hugely successful vampire romance franchise that made Pattinson a household name and a paparazzi target. ‘‘But I heard a couple of people say that he’s interesting.’’ When they met, he found Pattinson ‘‘very smart and not the sort of pretty boy I was expecting’’.

Talking to Pattinson, in the final stages of the shoot, it is clear he was more than enthusiastic. He was already aware of the members of Blue-Tongue and had seen several of the films. ‘‘I like the way they work together and keep it quite tight. It reminded me of me and my friends, and I knew it was the kind of environment I wanted to work in – with a bunch of young people who were ambitious.”

What’s more, he loved Animal Kingdom.When The Rover came his way, he was in.

‘‘It was such a startlingly original script. When I read it, I thought, this is one of those parts where you think, ‘I’d love to do this, but I know I’m not going to get it.’’’He did a couple of tests in Michod’s Los Angeles house. ‘‘They were exhausting, they were about three hours long, but it was kind of fun. I liked the way he worked in the audition. Normally, they’re such horrible experiences.’’

Pattinson’s character, Rey, is an American. He and his brother have come to Australia to work, but have fallen on hard times. He is naive and trusting ‘‘in a really strange way. He was brought up to believe he’s not capable of being independent. [He is] someone who has always been looked after and he has taken it with him into adulthood.’’

So when he loses contact with his brother at the beginning of the film, he is stranded. ‘‘He grabs onto the first person who comes along’’ – and this happens to be Pearce’s character, who has an ulterior motive for joining forces. ‘‘No matter how he gets treated, Rey just wants to please him. There’s something so strange and disturbing about the whole relationship.’’

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The Rover will screen as part of the Sydney Film Festival, which runs from June 4-15. David Michod will discuss the film with Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson and producer Liz Watts at Sydney Town Hall on June 8.

you can read the whole itv... HERE.


source: @Gossipgyal via RPL

*INTERVIEW* of Robert Pattinson's interview with "ET Canada"... Cannes 2014 Press Junket...

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from ET Canada

Few things in life are as nerve-wracking as auditioning for a movie role. Even for Robert Pattinson, one of the most successful and popular actors in the world, auditioning for a role can be an almost unbearably stressful experience. To get the lead role in The Rover, for instance, Pattinson had to audition in front of director David Michod (Animal Kingdom), and by his own estimation, the audition did not go well. 

“I’m so bad at auditioning, and I was terrified that I wasn’t going to get it,” Pattinson tells ET Canada exclusively. “I really, really fought for it.” 

What made Pattinson—an actor with no shortage of scripts coming his way—fight so hard for this particular role? As Pattinson explained, the role of Reynolds (a naive, simple-minded drifter) was simply too good to pass up. 

“It’s a character that doesn’t really have any constraints,” he said. “It’s not really specified where he’s from or what his desires are or even his mental state and I felt really relaxed doing it because you could just do whatever you wanted, basically.” 

Unlike during his audition, Pattinson was completely at ease playing the character during filming—an experience which the Twilight star says was a first. “It felt for a second that I knew what I was doing because I just sort of fell into acting and I never really felt like that before,” he said.

source: RPL

- IndieWire - David Michôd about Robert Pattinson and "The Rover"....

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from IndieWire ...

It's been four years since Australian filmmaker David Michôd wowed at the Sundance Film Festival with his blistering feature debut "Animal Kingdom." He's finally back with the equally violent and bleak "The Rover," which just premiered out of competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and opens in June via A24. 

Set in the Australian outback ten years after the collapse of society, "The Rover" centers on Eric ("Animal Kingdom" star Guy Pearce), a weary, hardened man who strikes up an odd relationship with a young, socially awkward American (Robert Pattinson), after his car gets stolen. With the help of his new companion, Eric sets off on a bloody journey to track down his car at any cost.

Indiewire sat down with Michôd in Cannes to discuss his experience at the festival, why it took so long to follow up "Animal Kingdom," and why he cast Pattinson in a role sure to surprise the actor's many fans.
This marks your first time at Cannes. How's it been?
It is as I had always imagined it. The madness of it. That strange mix of money and gross-ass luxury with a true and sincere reverence for cinema. I haven't experienced it anywhere else. 

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Having Robert Pattinson by your side no doubt increased the amount of flashes going off on the red carpet the other night.
Yeah, there were moments where I realized that none of them were actually pointing at me [laughs].

About those expectations, how have you dealt with them coming into the festival without driving yourself mad?I've dealt with it by distracting myself with other work. If I hadn't I would have just spent the last several months sitting around causing myself to suffer. But it has been strange. Certainly this has become apparent for me here. I realized that I just had to let it go. I have no control over other people's expectations.

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It does boast the lightest scene of Cannes, where Pattinson's character sings along to a Keri Hilson jam alone in a car.You're the first person to bring that up! I kind of half expected it would be a thing. When I was doing press for "Animal Kingdom" every press person would ask me about "All Out of Love."

What went into selecting that song?One of the things that was challenging for this movie was it was set in a period of the future, so it makes musical choices really kind of difficult. I'd imagine that maybe there's a sense that pop is still some kind of functioning genre, like the equivalent to classic rock. I wanted at that point in the movie to remind people that Rob's character is a lost kid, one who in different circumstances would have favored pop songs. I just wanted that moment in the film to be a strong reminder of the fact that he just wants to be a kid.

About his performance, he's a true revelation in "The Rover." What led you to cast him?
It was a meeting. I still haven't seen the "Twilight" films. I don't feel I need to. I had a meeting with him before I knew I was going to make "The Rover," and found him instantly beguiling. 

Why did you meet with him if you weren't familiar with his work?
I'd seen nothing. It's that weird thing that happens after a movie you've made has gotten some attention — you go on a billion blind dates. And this was one of them. I didn't really know anything about him, but I really liked him. He was really smart, funny and open. He seemingly had great taste. He had a really interesting and eclectic knowledge of cinema. When it came time to cast for "The Rover," I just had this weird feeling that he was the one I wanted to see the most. Fortunately he really wanted to do the movie. 

I mean I put him through the wringer. We worked for three of four hours during our camera test, but I felt I knew within the first few minutes that I found the guy for the character. The next few hours were just us exploring. He helped me find the character. 

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source:  RPL via ToR