Sunday, April 10, 2011
Rob & Reese talk about "Water For Elephants" in 'Marionnaud' (Switzerland)
Via: RPLife
The interview is the same from Miradas Magazine (Miradas has more questions) with a few differences in the first 3 questions. Probably because of the translation.
"Water For Elephants" tells from the magical love which changes two people despite every objection and holds a lifetime. In the sophisticated screen adaption of Sara Gruen's same-named bestseller, a past era becomes vivid again and a circus to a loction of dramatic incidents.
Towards the end of the shooting, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon ("Walk The Line") and "Twilight"-Star Robert Pattinson were available for a short interview on set with the British journalist Elaine Lipworth.
Elaine Lipworth: Reese, could you describe Marlena's journey? It looks like a wonderful role you're playing.
Reese Witherspoon: She's fantastic. I am overhappy that I've got the role of Marlena. It really is an experience playing a woman, who experiences such an interesting journey throughout the whole movie - from a by violence scarred relationship up to the eventual release and new hope in her life. And I must add (laughs), I know this might sound fluffy: But even just the glamour of everything is so fascinating, the costumes and the entire set...!
EL: What type of woman is Marlena?
RW: She's a very interesting girl. She's got a strong survival instinct and works with an unbelievable strictness to be THE attraction in the circus.
EL: How would you describe Jacob, Robert?
Robert Pattinson: The circus world is entirely unknown to him. At the beginning of the story he knows exactly who he is and what he wants. But he notices that the world he gets roped into threatens the idealism in him. In a way the story tells about Jacob, who comes face to face with so many exertions and challenges - and at the end of the day he realizes that he can still be an idealist.
EL: How long have you practised with the elephant, Reese? When we see you and Rosie riding, we think you've been doing this for a lifetime.
RW: I've practised with her for three months. I drove twice a week to the ranch where she lives with six other elephants and practised with her. Again and yet again I fell off her back.
EL: Have you developed a close relationship betweet you and Rosie?
RW: Oh yes! Today's her last day on set and it makes me really sad. This nonverbal, very close relationship with an animal we're all connected with, is simply magical.
RP: Rosie has got a wonderful aura. It's strange - all elephants have got this, perhapy because of their size. You're just so comfortable around them.
EL: What about the other animals?
RP: Well the lion is rather a sullen bloke. (laughs)
RW: You can't even speak with the lion. You can't even look at his thatch.
RP: The zebras are completely crazy! One day they ran away and we all ran for our lives - I grabbed Christoph Waltz and hided behind him. (laughs)
Towards the end of the shooting, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon ("Walk The Line") and "Twilight"-Star Robert Pattinson were available for a short interview on set with the British journalist Elaine Lipworth.
Elaine Lipworth: Reese, could you describe Marlena's journey? It looks like a wonderful role you're playing.
Reese Witherspoon: She's fantastic. I am overhappy that I've got the role of Marlena. It really is an experience playing a woman, who experiences such an interesting journey throughout the whole movie - from a by violence scarred relationship up to the eventual release and new hope in her life. And I must add (laughs), I know this might sound fluffy: But even just the glamour of everything is so fascinating, the costumes and the entire set...!
EL: What type of woman is Marlena?
RW: She's a very interesting girl. She's got a strong survival instinct and works with an unbelievable strictness to be THE attraction in the circus.
EL: How would you describe Jacob, Robert?
Robert Pattinson: The circus world is entirely unknown to him. At the beginning of the story he knows exactly who he is and what he wants. But he notices that the world he gets roped into threatens the idealism in him. In a way the story tells about Jacob, who comes face to face with so many exertions and challenges - and at the end of the day he realizes that he can still be an idealist.
EL: How long have you practised with the elephant, Reese? When we see you and Rosie riding, we think you've been doing this for a lifetime.
RW: I've practised with her for three months. I drove twice a week to the ranch where she lives with six other elephants and practised with her. Again and yet again I fell off her back.
EL: Have you developed a close relationship betweet you and Rosie?
RW: Oh yes! Today's her last day on set and it makes me really sad. This nonverbal, very close relationship with an animal we're all connected with, is simply magical.
RP: Rosie has got a wonderful aura. It's strange - all elephants have got this, perhapy because of their size. You're just so comfortable around them.
EL: What about the other animals?
RP: Well the lion is rather a sullen bloke. (laughs)
RW: You can't even speak with the lion. You can't even look at his thatch.
RP: The zebras are completely crazy! One day they ran away and we all ran for our lives - I grabbed Christoph Waltz and hided behind him. (laughs)
Autographed shirt by Rob on auction for Japan Earthquake Relief
Via: RPLife
Yoshiki Foundation America is auctioning off a T-shirt autographed by Robert Pattinson!
Other items to be auctioned: signed shirts by Reese Witherspoon & James Franco, Autographed Comics by Stan Lee and much more.
All proceeds raised by Yoshiki Foundation America “Japanese Relief Fundraising Auction” in conjunction with Yahoo Japan and associates will go to Japanese Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami recovery efforts.
More info on Japan Earthquake Relief Auction can be found here
Yahoo site for more info (Japanese)
All proceeds raised by Yoshiki Foundation America “Japanese Relief Fundraising Auction” in conjunction with Yahoo Japan and associates will go to Japanese Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami recovery efforts.
More info on Japan Earthquake Relief Auction can be found here
Yahoo site for more info (Japanese)
NEW: Rob's interview in Dagens Nyheter newspaper (Sweden) - scans & translation
Scans
In three years, British Robert Pattinson has thanks Twilight films gone from unemployed actor to idol female fan everywhere. DN Sunday´s Maria Lindholm was the only Swedish interview with the star for his new movie.
The soon to be 25-year-old Robert Pattinson sits slumped on a folding high chair in a smallroom in the luxury Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. Although four people from the film company are in the same room – to film the interview and make sure we speak the outlined time – standing outside the door are Pattinson’s bodyguard Dean and his manager Nick Frenkel.
Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Walz at the same hotel, but it is obvious who is lashed upon. Even if Robert Pattinson hasn´t been a household name more than three years, and in contrast to Hollywood’s A-list names such as Johnny Depp andBrad Pitt have no long film resume or critics praise to brag about, there is no movie star that is currently followed by an equally large army of feverishly passionate, obsessivefans.
Today Robert Pattinson, dressed in gray T-shirt, rumpled blue blazer, beige baggy chinos, and boots, to give interviews for a completely different movie – “Water for Elephants”. Since the actor is known for having large music and literary interests, I have brought with me a Swedish classic in English (Pär Lagerkvist’s “The Dwarf”, required reading for young people with a modicum litteraturpretentioner).
It’s written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner, is is anything for you?
- Yes, it seems pretty amazing! I have never heard of him? I´ll read it tonight, perfect, “he says, and lights up after carefully reading the back.
Right now plays Robert Pattinson in the last two Twilight Films, “Breaking Dawn” Part one and two, in Vancouver. He has flown down to LA in the morning.
- I had not read the Twilight books before I auditioned for the role, but after I read the first three in one weekend. I felt a bit ridiculous that even auditioned for the movie because Edward Cullen is described as extremely beautiful. It seemed rather smug to show up and even think that you have a chance, he has previously told.
The book series about the love between high school student Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, 107 years old but frozen in a 17-year-old’s body, in four titles written by Stephenie Meyer has since the first release in 2005 sold over 100 million copies.
When the first book was made into a movie the books were already a success, but no one could predict how enormous the phenomenon could be. Therefore, the roles went to the acclaimed but certainly narrow indie actress Kristen Stewart and the almost completely unknown, British Robert Pattinson. His biggest previous role was as a secondary character in a Harry Potter film.
Twilight was made with one, by American standards, low cost of 37 million dollars but recorded far more than tenfold. Super success has largely been attributed to actor choice. Robert Pattinson picture-perfect face and hair seemed soon to be on every cover from teen magazines to Vanity Fair.
The two next films “New Moon ” and “Eclipse” were even bigger success stories which together recorded the absurd $ 1.5 billion. This is without counting DVD sales, all around products and advertising partnerships. Overall Twilightfranchisen one of the world’s biggest cash cows in a short time put the actors on the list of those who profit most in Hollywood. Robert Pattinson has been named one of the world’s largest makers of Time magazine (in addition to “world’s sexiest man”).
How does it feel with all the attention?
- It’s incomprehensible, “he answers.
The hope from the film company is probably to his enthusiastic fans also go and see “Water for Elephants, ” based on a book of the same name by Sara Gruen. Robert plays Jacob Jankowski, a young man in the 30′s who by chance ends up at a circus as a zoo keepers and falls in love with the circus director’s wife, artist Marlena, played by Reese Witherspoon.
- I think a lot about that time, the United States during the Depression, how things looked then. When I heard that Reese and Christophe Walz had accepted the other roles were in no hesitation, “he says.
Many Robert Pattinson-interviews are about the actors sudden super-celebrity status and how he handles it. A fairly normal middle class upbringing in a London suburb and a greater interest in books, music and movies than celebrity status makes him an unusual Hollywood star. Especially in comparison with American colleagues his age with a background as a former child star or super-educated Disney celebrities, as Zac Efron and Shia LaBeouf.
During the interview, he appears not as a polished celebrity. He listens carefully, shifting from responding thoughtfully and wisely to giggle and shyly.
- I met with director Francis first went to visit the elephant Tai, who plays a lead role in the movie, before I read the script for “Water for Elephants”. But I said that I had read the script and said yes because we had a nice time. I´d get to work with an elephant in three months. Then I read the book and liked it.
Reese Witherspoon has said that lots of fans came to the filming, some hanging there around the clock to meet you. What do they want?
- Nothing special really, just saying hello. They´d be let down. I think they appreciate more that just a glimpse of me in a car than to actually meet me.
Why do you think that?
- If you hang around a movie in 50 days to meet someone so the expectations are impossible to fulfill. If not I would levitate in front of them.
Have you ever been a fan?
- I loved the TV show “American Gladiators” when I was little. I was obsessed with a female gladiator named Jet. But then I was 8 years old.
Do you have some secret interest that you youtube the evenings?
- Live Videos of Van Morrison. And clips from “America’s funniest home videos”. I like to watch people fall down.
Although Robert Pattinson dresses in Gucci and Prada at premieres the paparazzi pictures mostly feature him in t-shirts, plaid shirts, torn jeans, sneakers and RayBanSunglasses. Despite its anonymous style of clothing he has been named “best dressed man” by several magazines.
You must have been asked by every designer and fashion houses to be their public face, but something like that, you have not accepted?
- No, I do not know why I would do it. It is not fun and I would look stupid.
Many of your colleagues do it.
- Yes, but I do not understand why? Or, yes, money of course. For girls it’s different, more women buy fashion magazines and it is more relevant to their career. But there is nothing for me.
Many fans seem to know that Robert is in LA and doing interviews, Twitter peppered by questions if anyone knows where he is, what he´s doing. But although there are a number of journalists at the hotel and the studio even carted elephant Tai to the hotel car park, no one gossiped about where we are.
Paparazzi is all that Twilight stars openly complained about since its success. The fans are no problems, but the photographers are, in their often unpleasant way and shouting insults to get a reaction that is a great picture.
- It’s hard to be cool sometimes. I hold my gaze down, while the anger grows, he says.
After our interview, Robert leaves the hotel room – the bodyguard follows him close to where they rapidly go away down the corridor and disappear, with Robert Lagerkvist book in his hand.
The manager Nick remains pacing. He says that both he and Dean are needed there, many ask and require impossible things by his protege.
- I have worked with Rob since he was 16 years before he did Harry Potter. He is a really nice guy. But he does not have a publisher so I go with him instead.
Maybe he needs support. “Water for Elephants” director Francis Lawrence said that after he met Robert for the first time he was not afraid to Twilight fame would come in the way of the new role.
- He is very attentive to everything around them. Very humble. Almost careful.
When Robert during a joint press conference more later in the day asked: “What would you rather do if you worked in a circus?”, He replies:
- I like ordinary everyday jobs, like stacking boxes. It is pure escapism. I would like to pitch the tent along with everyone else. It would be a relief to just be one of the group.
Robert Pattinson
Born: 13 May 1986 in London.
Lives: In a hotel on the recordings, owns no home.
Family: Mother Clare, father Richard, big sisters Lizzy and Victoria. Girlfriend KristenStewart, co-star in the Twilight movie.
Current project: Make the lead role in “Water for Elephants, ” Swedish Prime on April 15. This fall he returns as vampire Edward Cullen in the penultimate Twilight film,”Breaking Dawn” Part 1.
5 FILMS WITH Robert Pattinson – FROM FLOP TO TOP
2004 “Ring of the Nibelungs”. Supporting role as the Vikings in the TV movie. His voice dubbed by another actor.
2004 “Vanity Fair”. Playing 16 years old when the 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon’s son. Cut off (but is included in the DVD version).
2005 “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. Playing the heroic Triathlon champion Cedric Diggory as murder at the end.
2008-2012 Five Twilight Films like Edward Cullen. The first three films have so far recorded more than two billion dollars.
2011 “Water for Elephants”. Lovesick veterinary student at the American circus 1931st -Opening on Friday April 15.
Robert Pattinson’s LIFE CURVE
1986 Born in London on May 13, the youngest of three siblings.
1998 Begins work as a fashion model 12 years old, ending after three years. Some particularly embarrassing pictures circulating on the web.
2001 Joins a theater group on the advice from his father who had seen the cute girls there.
2002 First film role in the costume drama “Vanity Fair” will be removed. Robert goes to the premiere without knowing it.
2003 casting directors feel ashamed to have forgotten to inform about cutting away and give him a role in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”.
2006 career goes no further. Play Salvador Dali in the indie film “Little Ashes”. Decides to focus on music instead.
2007 prompted by his American agent to audition for “Twilight.” Samples Neck with Kristen Stewart at the home of director Catherine Hardewicke and gets the job as the Bildsköne vampire Edward Cullen.
2008 “Twilight” will be a huge success. Robert also has two original songs on the soundtrack.
2009-2010 wins include “Best Kiss” and “Best male leading role” twice in a row at the MTV Movie Awards. “New Moon” and “Eclipse” are huge successes viewing.
Records 2010-2011 “Water for Elephants” and adopt the dog Bear.
2011 Records “Cosmopolis” directed by David Cronenberg. “Breaking Dawn” Part 1 was released in November. Part two 2012th
The soon to be 25-year-old Robert Pattinson sits slumped on a folding high chair in a smallroom in the luxury Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. Although four people from the film company are in the same room – to film the interview and make sure we speak the outlined time – standing outside the door are Pattinson’s bodyguard Dean and his manager Nick Frenkel.
Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Walz at the same hotel, but it is obvious who is lashed upon. Even if Robert Pattinson hasn´t been a household name more than three years, and in contrast to Hollywood’s A-list names such as Johnny Depp andBrad Pitt have no long film resume or critics praise to brag about, there is no movie star that is currently followed by an equally large army of feverishly passionate, obsessivefans.
Today Robert Pattinson, dressed in gray T-shirt, rumpled blue blazer, beige baggy chinos, and boots, to give interviews for a completely different movie – “Water for Elephants”. Since the actor is known for having large music and literary interests, I have brought with me a Swedish classic in English (Pär Lagerkvist’s “The Dwarf”, required reading for young people with a modicum litteraturpretentioner).
It’s written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner, is is anything for you?
- Yes, it seems pretty amazing! I have never heard of him? I´ll read it tonight, perfect, “he says, and lights up after carefully reading the back.
Right now plays Robert Pattinson in the last two Twilight Films, “Breaking Dawn” Part one and two, in Vancouver. He has flown down to LA in the morning.
- I had not read the Twilight books before I auditioned for the role, but after I read the first three in one weekend. I felt a bit ridiculous that even auditioned for the movie because Edward Cullen is described as extremely beautiful. It seemed rather smug to show up and even think that you have a chance, he has previously told.
The book series about the love between high school student Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, 107 years old but frozen in a 17-year-old’s body, in four titles written by Stephenie Meyer has since the first release in 2005 sold over 100 million copies.
When the first book was made into a movie the books were already a success, but no one could predict how enormous the phenomenon could be. Therefore, the roles went to the acclaimed but certainly narrow indie actress Kristen Stewart and the almost completely unknown, British Robert Pattinson. His biggest previous role was as a secondary character in a Harry Potter film.
Twilight was made with one, by American standards, low cost of 37 million dollars but recorded far more than tenfold. Super success has largely been attributed to actor choice. Robert Pattinson picture-perfect face and hair seemed soon to be on every cover from teen magazines to Vanity Fair.
The two next films “New Moon ” and “Eclipse” were even bigger success stories which together recorded the absurd $ 1.5 billion. This is without counting DVD sales, all around products and advertising partnerships. Overall Twilightfranchisen one of the world’s biggest cash cows in a short time put the actors on the list of those who profit most in Hollywood. Robert Pattinson has been named one of the world’s largest makers of Time magazine (in addition to “world’s sexiest man”).
How does it feel with all the attention?
- It’s incomprehensible, “he answers.
The hope from the film company is probably to his enthusiastic fans also go and see “Water for Elephants, ” based on a book of the same name by Sara Gruen. Robert plays Jacob Jankowski, a young man in the 30′s who by chance ends up at a circus as a zoo keepers and falls in love with the circus director’s wife, artist Marlena, played by Reese Witherspoon.
- I think a lot about that time, the United States during the Depression, how things looked then. When I heard that Reese and Christophe Walz had accepted the other roles were in no hesitation, “he says.
Many Robert Pattinson-interviews are about the actors sudden super-celebrity status and how he handles it. A fairly normal middle class upbringing in a London suburb and a greater interest in books, music and movies than celebrity status makes him an unusual Hollywood star. Especially in comparison with American colleagues his age with a background as a former child star or super-educated Disney celebrities, as Zac Efron and Shia LaBeouf.
During the interview, he appears not as a polished celebrity. He listens carefully, shifting from responding thoughtfully and wisely to giggle and shyly.
- I met with director Francis first went to visit the elephant Tai, who plays a lead role in the movie, before I read the script for “Water for Elephants”. But I said that I had read the script and said yes because we had a nice time. I´d get to work with an elephant in three months. Then I read the book and liked it.
Reese Witherspoon has said that lots of fans came to the filming, some hanging there around the clock to meet you. What do they want?
- Nothing special really, just saying hello. They´d be let down. I think they appreciate more that just a glimpse of me in a car than to actually meet me.
Why do you think that?
- If you hang around a movie in 50 days to meet someone so the expectations are impossible to fulfill. If not I would levitate in front of them.
Have you ever been a fan?
- I loved the TV show “American Gladiators” when I was little. I was obsessed with a female gladiator named Jet. But then I was 8 years old.
Do you have some secret interest that you youtube the evenings?
- Live Videos of Van Morrison. And clips from “America’s funniest home videos”. I like to watch people fall down.
Although Robert Pattinson dresses in Gucci and Prada at premieres the paparazzi pictures mostly feature him in t-shirts, plaid shirts, torn jeans, sneakers and RayBanSunglasses. Despite its anonymous style of clothing he has been named “best dressed man” by several magazines.
You must have been asked by every designer and fashion houses to be their public face, but something like that, you have not accepted?
- No, I do not know why I would do it. It is not fun and I would look stupid.
Many of your colleagues do it.
- Yes, but I do not understand why? Or, yes, money of course. For girls it’s different, more women buy fashion magazines and it is more relevant to their career. But there is nothing for me.
Many fans seem to know that Robert is in LA and doing interviews, Twitter peppered by questions if anyone knows where he is, what he´s doing. But although there are a number of journalists at the hotel and the studio even carted elephant Tai to the hotel car park, no one gossiped about where we are.
Paparazzi is all that Twilight stars openly complained about since its success. The fans are no problems, but the photographers are, in their often unpleasant way and shouting insults to get a reaction that is a great picture.
- It’s hard to be cool sometimes. I hold my gaze down, while the anger grows, he says.
After our interview, Robert leaves the hotel room – the bodyguard follows him close to where they rapidly go away down the corridor and disappear, with Robert Lagerkvist book in his hand.
The manager Nick remains pacing. He says that both he and Dean are needed there, many ask and require impossible things by his protege.
- I have worked with Rob since he was 16 years before he did Harry Potter. He is a really nice guy. But he does not have a publisher so I go with him instead.
Maybe he needs support. “Water for Elephants” director Francis Lawrence said that after he met Robert for the first time he was not afraid to Twilight fame would come in the way of the new role.
- He is very attentive to everything around them. Very humble. Almost careful.
When Robert during a joint press conference more later in the day asked: “What would you rather do if you worked in a circus?”, He replies:
- I like ordinary everyday jobs, like stacking boxes. It is pure escapism. I would like to pitch the tent along with everyone else. It would be a relief to just be one of the group.
Robert Pattinson
Born: 13 May 1986 in London.
Lives: In a hotel on the recordings, owns no home.
Family: Mother Clare, father Richard, big sisters Lizzy and Victoria. Girlfriend KristenStewart, co-star in the Twilight movie.
Current project: Make the lead role in “Water for Elephants, ” Swedish Prime on April 15. This fall he returns as vampire Edward Cullen in the penultimate Twilight film,”Breaking Dawn” Part 1.
5 FILMS WITH Robert Pattinson – FROM FLOP TO TOP
2004 “Ring of the Nibelungs”. Supporting role as the Vikings in the TV movie. His voice dubbed by another actor.
2004 “Vanity Fair”. Playing 16 years old when the 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon’s son. Cut off (but is included in the DVD version).
2005 “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. Playing the heroic Triathlon champion Cedric Diggory as murder at the end.
2008-2012 Five Twilight Films like Edward Cullen. The first three films have so far recorded more than two billion dollars.
2011 “Water for Elephants”. Lovesick veterinary student at the American circus 1931st -Opening on Friday April 15.
Robert Pattinson’s LIFE CURVE
1986 Born in London on May 13, the youngest of three siblings.
1998 Begins work as a fashion model 12 years old, ending after three years. Some particularly embarrassing pictures circulating on the web.
2001 Joins a theater group on the advice from his father who had seen the cute girls there.
2002 First film role in the costume drama “Vanity Fair” will be removed. Robert goes to the premiere without knowing it.
2003 casting directors feel ashamed to have forgotten to inform about cutting away and give him a role in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”.
2006 career goes no further. Play Salvador Dali in the indie film “Little Ashes”. Decides to focus on music instead.
2007 prompted by his American agent to audition for “Twilight.” Samples Neck with Kristen Stewart at the home of director Catherine Hardewicke and gets the job as the Bildsköne vampire Edward Cullen.
2008 “Twilight” will be a huge success. Robert also has two original songs on the soundtrack.
2009-2010 wins include “Best Kiss” and “Best male leading role” twice in a row at the MTV Movie Awards. “New Moon” and “Eclipse” are huge successes viewing.
Records 2010-2011 “Water for Elephants” and adopt the dog Bear.
2011 Records “Cosmopolis” directed by David Cronenberg. “Breaking Dawn” Part 1 was released in November. Part two 2012th
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