Rob on Le Petit Journal

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Yann: Usually he gets welcomed by thunders of applause. The girls scream and take off their shirts. The photographers yell at him. It's a riot and complete chaos.
Tonight, let's spare him that, if only just for his ears. Let's welcome one of the biggest star of the world in silence. Here is Robert Pattinson.
Welcome to the show.

Rob: Hey. Silence *laughs*

Yann: Welcome to the show.

Rob: Thank you.

Yann: Bonjour.

Rob: Bonjour.

Yann: Sit down, please.

Rob: This is weird.

Yann: It is, huh? Do you like it?

Rob: Kind of, I'm a little, ... quite frightened. I don't really have experiences like that. This is serious.

Yann: They can scream if you want. Would you prefer that?

Rob: I mean if you feel like doing it. But you don't have to.

*Audience screams and claps*

Rob: It's better. I'm definitely not tired of it yet.

Yann: You're 26 and British, a huge worldwide star and you're the lead of Cosmopolis, the new movie of David Cronenberg.
And I'm going to ask you something difficult, summarize the plot and the mood of the movie in only one sentence.

Rob: It's quite difficult to summarize in one sentence but it's basically about a guy, a millionaire trader that goes across town in his limo and his world just goes completely insane in one day. That's the simple way of explaining it.

Yann: Ok, that's one sentence. The new president of the French Republic?

Rob: Describe him in one sentence?

Yann: No. Do you know him?

Rob: I'm incredibly ignorant.

Yann: His name is François Hollande and he was elected partly because of this sentence.

FH: This adversary governs: it's the world of finance.

Yann: The world of finance. Are the bad guys in movies financial traders now instead of the indians?

Rob: I don't know, I don't really see it like that ... That's amazing tho, this phrase but huh ...

Yann: Why?

Rob: Just the fact that someone is bold enough to say that in this kind of high position. Like every single person working in finance are gonna hate him.

Yann: Yes.
Teenagers loved you before now it's Télérama, the Inrock and Libération. You became the hero of the French intellectual press. Do you get a kick out of that?

Rob: Yeah, definitely. But it becomes ... it's very, very easy to become pretentious after that. I spent the last five years with people who asked me questions about my favorite food or stuff like, what's the perfect date ... And now I'm asked: 'what do you think of the economy?' I'm like, I don't know, I don't know anything about that.

Yann: Speaking of that, you gave thousands of interviews since the beginning of the Twilight saga. We gathered all the questions, the most boring ones that always come back, that are asked all the time. You're going to tell us, right after, which one pisses you off the most, ok?

Rob: Ok.

Questions:

• Are you the new Brad Pitt?
• Are you the new Jude Law?
• Rob, are you the new Robert Redford?
• Have you ever drank blood?
• Watch out, I have garlic, vampire!
• How does it feel to be a sex symbol?
• Was there pressure by shooting with someone like Cronenberg?
• Like most vampires do you live during the night?
• Isn't it hard to be famous at 26?
• As a British man, do you like pudding?
• So, the rivality between you and Taylor Lautner during Twilight filming, is that true?
• Can I have an autograph?
• You're rich, handsome and famous. What else is do you need?
• Hey Robert, you're a ladies' man.
• When are you and Kristen getting married?
• How old were you when you kissed a girl for the first time?
• Fans that scream all the time are irritating, right?
• Do you speak French? Could you say a few words for your fans?
• What do you have planned after the interview?

Yann: The most boring one?

Rob: That's every interview I've ever done. Those are the normal questions.

Yann: What's the most boring one then?

Rob: I don't know. Mainly, like, *drops his earpiece* I've lost my mind! I think ... a lot of people ask me ...

*Audience claps*

Rob: I thought I was getting an applause because I got it back in here. A lot of people ask me, ... tons of people ask me if I think I'm going to have a career after Twilight, which is really nice to hear: 'Are you worried you're gonna be a total failure after Twilight?' I get asked that a lot.

Yann: Yesterday, the author of a beautiful book about Marilyn Monroe was here on this show. Listen to what she told us.

Yann: If Marilyn Monroe was a 30 years old woman today, who would it be? From the top of my head I have: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, ... stop me when you agree on one. Rihanna ...

Françoise-Marie Santucci: No, I was gonna say none of them. I'm gonna give you a more twisted answer and say Robert Pattinson, I think.

Rob: You didn't give her very many good options. Between Paris Hilton, Britney Spears or me.

Yann: She didn't let me finish. There was Scarlett Johansson. Do you know why, do you a comment?
She said that because ...

Rob: It's my boobs.

Yann: She said that as a compliment because she was a popular heroine, worshipped but smart. So, that's why she said that.
Can I ask you one last thing? Just for me. *puts on vampire teeth* Do I look good?

Rob: It's beautiful.

Yann: Thank you Robert Pattinson. Your new movie is Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg.
Do you want screams, tiny cheers or the silence to leave?

Rob: I mean, I quite like the idea of leaving in silence, maybe everyone can just hum. Just hum. A dramatic exit.

Yann: Thank you Robert Pattinson.

Rob: Thank you.

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Another Q&A with Rob and Cronenberg in London on June 1st

The first Q&A was announced here. It'll be at Curzon Mayfair on June 1st at 6:30PM

Now we hear about a 2nd Q&A happening on the same day at London’s Regent Street Apple Store. From We Love Movies [More Than You]

Friday the 1st of June is a packed evening at London’s Regent Street Apple store. If you live in London and haven’t taken advantage of the wealth of Meet the film maker talks that the Apple Store host, you are really missing out.

This friday sees Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt discuss their latest movies. It’s totally free, but seats are limited, so make sure you get there early.

Between 6 and 6.45pm, you can hear director David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) discuss their new film, Cosmopolis. Eric Packer (Pattinson) is a billionaire being chauffeured across New York in his extravagant limousine when wild activity erupts on the city’s streets. The movie is already attracting rave reviews and Cronenberg already wants R-Patz in his next project.

From Apple's Regent Store Website


Podcasts from past events are available for download on the site.

Apple's Q&A will be from 6-6:45PM GMT and Curzon starts at 6:30PM GMT (there'll be a screening of the movie first).

Thanks to Gossipgyal

Great New Interview - Rob talks about being 26, Cosmopolis, not being able to hide and more

Robert Pattinson has swept away his teen idol persona in one fell swoop, thanks to Cosmopolis. ShortList’s Jonathan Crocker talks off-piste career choices with a reluctant superstar

Five minutes after meeting her, Robert Pattinson found himself having sex with French actress Juliette Binoche in the back of a limo. “She literally turned up and was like, ‘Let’s do it,’” he grins.

“It was just hilarious. There wasn’t enough room in the limo so she was banging her head on the ceiling.” So this is what’s it’s like to be Robert Pattinson. “It’s just boring,” he counters, almost apologetically.

What happens when you’re mega-rich, mega-handsome and mega-bored? You flip out. You get in a limousine and go on a ride that could change your life forever. Bouncy, backseat sex with an Oscar-winning actress. Boozy, late-night clubbing. Rabid crowds trying to get their hands on you. You beat up a guy in the street. You kill a man...

Hold on a minute. This isn’t Robert Pattinson’s real life. Well, it isn’t and it is. His startling role in David Cronenberg’s new arthouse psychothriller Cosmopolis – dark, sexy, violent, cerebral and possibly the weirdest film of the year – is exactly the one he’s been waiting for. A film impossible to understand, yet makes perfect sense.

In the most daring performance of his career, Pattinson plays a 28-year-old multibillionaire travelling across Manhattan in a stretch limo to get a haircut. By the end of the film, he’ll have destroyed everything he possesses to create an exciting, dangerous future.

“I want more,” Pattinson tells a bare-breasted hooker who is aiming a high-voltage Taser at his naked chest. “Show me something I haven’t seen before.” Well, here it is: Pattinson escaping from the Twilight zone.

Since transforming from an out-of-work London actor to hair-gelled bloodsucker Edward Cullen, Pattinson has been engulfed by a tsunami of fan frenzy not seen since Leonardo DiCaprio failed to shove Kate Winslet off that floating door in Titanic. He sees his own face everywhere: on posters, on merchandise and magazine covers. Fans send him vials of their own blood and scream terrifying things such as, “Rob! I just want to touch your hair!”

He stays in hotels and needs 25 bodyguards to protect him at premieres.

“People used to go absolutely insane,” he says. “They couldn’t hold themselves together at all.” Doesn’t he wish it would all just go away? No, actually. “I’m clinging on to that for dear life,” he laughs. “That’s my career!” That’s the problem and Pattinson knows it.

MOVING ON

In Twilight, he plays a 107-year-old vampire trapped in the body of a 17-year-old boy. In real life, Pattinson’s curse is worse: he’s a 26-year-old actor trapped in the body of a 107-year-old vampire. “I mean, playing the same part for a while... You just run out of ideas. You feel kind of useless, you don’t know what to do any more. I’m not trying to get away from it. You’re screwing yourself, you’re saying you think your work is sh*t if you try to get away from it. And I never thought it was. I kind of got to the end of my inspiration. You get to the point where you’re like, ‘I don’t want to do a film for a teen audience any more.’”

Exactly what Cosmopolis is, though, Pattinson’s still not sure. “Normally, you’d think that if you read a script and you don’t understand it, you probably shouldn’t be doing it,” he says. “But if it’s a Cronenberg movie, you have to do it. It was a strange situation.

I asked David what it was about and he said, ‘I don’t know what it’s about either.’”

New Cosmopolis clip - We Die on Weekends

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New Pictures from the Photocall/Press Conference in Lisbon + Quotes

Rob Interview with Fun Radio (France)

or listen to it HERE

PART 1

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

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

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

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

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

There we think he might say Jean Dujardin, right?

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

Bérénice Béjo.

Yep, nice for her.

It's like the story of her life.

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

Bérénice isnt like the easiest name to remember either.

Since it's still early, it's 6:17am, we asked him the first three things he does when he wakes up. And in order, please.

Rob: Complain. About being awake. Huuuh, feel confused about where I am. Checking that my arms and legs are still attached.

He doesn't pee?

He's a star.

He's a vampire, he doesn't pee.

We edited a part with just his laugh because I find it amazing.

Let's see, Robert Pattinson's laugh.

They pretend to tell a joke and then play Rob's laugh lol

This was the first part of the interview. I can already tell you that he's going to talk to us about the UEFA European Football Championship, boys. We're gonna talk football with Robert Pattinson and he'll tell us too what puts him off in the girls he meets.

Of course, and he'll give us too the recipe for eggs with meurette sauce, Robert Pattinson style. It's eggs with blood, it's amazing. Only he knows how to do make them.

PART 2

Exclusive interview with the hero everyone talks about. The actor that makes Hollywood shake. The lead of the Twilight saga movies, Robert Pattinson who gave us an exclusive interview for Fun Radio.


Robert Pattinson who plays in Cosmopolis which just came out in theaters. To be honest, it's a role that's completely different from the one in Twilight. I'm reminding you by the way that the last movie of the saga comes out in November. Let's imagine that in ten years, he's asked to reprise his role as a vampire, would he say yes?


Rob: In ten tears? Probably, yeah. It'd be so strange like still trying to play 17.


It remains that it's thanks to Twilight that Robert Pattinson because such a huge star and idol for girls. So, let's ask the question, girls you never know if he breaks up with Kristen Stewart. What don't you like in girls, what puts you off?

Rob: People who are sort of ... snob. 'Cause they always feel like I need to attack them.


To finish this interview, the UEFA European Football Championship starts in ten days so we asked him if he was going to root for team England, his native country.

Rob: England - France would be fun. I mean England now is so ... no one is expecting anything from the team. It's literally like ... who's their trainer? But, like, England puts so much pressure on them but I think they're gonna do really well this year.

You see, the purpose of doing interviews is to learn things and I just did.

Well, I just learned that he knows nothing because England - France is a group match.

Well, I just learned that he's English.

But he played in Harry Potter, that's how he got discovered.

... big blank.

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More Pictures of Rob with fans in Portugal on May 28th

The pictures from the premiere from that source were added to this post - second set of pictures

New Rob and David Cronenberg Interviews with STV from Cannes

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New Picture and Interview from Portugal

Translation

How would you define Eric Packer (main character in 'Cosmpopolis'): it he just a sort of a weirdo or is he a visionary?
He's just a weirdo(laughs). I think he is a person who is desperately looking for something but doesn't know what that is. Basically, no one is a visionary, the world repeats itself.

But wasn't Don DeLillo's a visionary when he write the book? Because the story was written 12 years ago, but is current and reflects the global economy today...
Yes, that's crazy. But at the same time, the collapse of financial markets... it seemed obvious that would happen.

Do you follow news about the economy, the reality of Europe?
In general but not specifically. It's weird. I know they're all terrified of what's happening.

The dialogues of 'Cosmopolis' explores this theme but in a poetic, theatrical way. Do you believe that there are people that speak like that?
It is a little too theatrical. But Eric is a guy who doesn't share his world. In his universe, everybody speaks his language, behaves like he wants. He is totally egocentric, maniac, wants to be God.

And how different is Robert from Eric?
(Laughs) He's really confident and thinks no one can change him. While I... I change in every new talk, with every new person. I want to please those who talk to me.

But are you a confident person...
Kind of. I'm more confident when everyone hates me.

But they all love you, especially because of the success of 'Twilight'. Did you accept this movie because you thought it would change your career and turn you into a "serious" actor or was it because you would film with someone like David Cronenberg?
I try to do all my jobs as if I'm a serious actor (laughs). And some people forget that I ever did in the past... But David's (Cronenberg) movies are all so unique and personal that I knew it was important to make this movie.

At the Cannes Film Festival, critics were divided: hated and loved the movie. Do you really care about reviews?
I am always surprised. I thought no one would notice the film (laughs). But I like to see such passionate reactions, in any sense whatsoever. And everyone cares about the critics. I care about what everyone says. I care about what girls (fans) outside will tell and maybe they won't even like it

Are you going to work with Cronenberg again?
Yes, in a movie about the movie industry. Really fun and bizarre. I still don't know when we're going to film because I have other projects...

Do you think 'Cosmopolis' could be an Oscar movie?
I don't know. I keep my expectations low.

But winning an Oscar is the biggest dream for an actor...
Completely. Actors are moved by the awards, it is as if they were kicked on the head.

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Great Pictures of Rob at the Cosmopolis Premiere in Portugal