Rob in Esquire UK September 2014 Issue

Rob Pattinson is featured on the September issue of Esquire UK. He discusses about The Rover and Maps to the Stars, among many other things.

Last summer, he finished The Rover in Australia, a dystopian western from David Michôd, who made 2010’s brilliant Animal Kingdom. Pattinson’s performance is already receiving rave reviews. He then spent 10 days on Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s merciless satire about Hollywood, followed by Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert in which he plays Lawrence of Arabia. This spring, he made Anton Corbijn’s Life, in which he plays the photographer Dennis Stock, who took iconic photos of celebrities in the Fifties. And later, there’s a crime drama by the French director Olivier Assayas, co-starring Robert De Niro.

These are just the confirmed productions. There’s a long list of other compelling indie projects in the pipeline. A film with James Gray (The Immigrant) based on David Grann’s book The Lost City of Z, and a couple of films that are actually being written for him – Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), is writing him a gangster movie, set in Miami, and Brady Corbet, one of the killers in Michael Haneke’s blood-chilling Funny Games, is developing a script called Childhood of a Leader. “It’s about the youth of a future dictator in the Thirties,” he says. “Like an amalgamation of Hitler, Mussolini and some others. I don’t want to jinx it, but Brady is like a savant of film. I’ve known him for like eight years, and he’s only 25 now.”

This is an extraordinary résumé he’s building. And he’s doing it with purpose, actively seeking out the filmmakers he admires. He cold-called Harmony Korine and met him for dinner, telling The Hollywood Reporter, “it took me a long time to realise I could do that”.

Check out the full interview over at Esquire UK, as well as a photo gallery.

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Rob Covers The Hollywood Reporter's June 6, 2014 Issue

Rob is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter June 6 issue. He shot some exclusive photos as well as a cover story

See all photos and read the article here at THR.

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Robert Pattinson – Black Book September 2012

Rob Pattinson in Telerama 'Cannes' Issue

Rob is on the cover of Telerama Magazine's 'Cannes' Issue.


The interview was done in a private club in Sunset Boulevard.


He hid his intense beauty under a baseball cap, a blonde scruff, a lumberkjack shirt, a white tee and washed out jeans. They had the interview on the terrace where he could light up his cigarettes. Between light coughs and nervous laughs, he explains that he doesn't feel at home here. His dream is to work in a black comedy of Todd Solodnz or in dramas for men by James Gray or Jacques Audiard.


"I was scared of being cut off from the art-house cinema that I always felt passionate about. I was scared to never be asked to play in anything interesting, that my life would pass and that someone would ask me one day, 'so apart from Twilight, what did you do?'. In this industry, you're easily typecast"

Rob on cover of Premiere Magazine – Cannes Special

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Star of Cosmopolis, the new movie by David Cronenberg, in competition at Cannes, RP was a willing participant to a crazy photoshoot that lasted 13 hours! Find out more in the May issue.


In general, when you organize a photoshoot with an actor, whose movies made more than 2.7 billion of dollars all over the world, you except someone cold and shy, someone with a controlled image and with a safeguard. Everything is timed to the last minute, especially if the actor arrives late, everything has to be started over again. I say ‘in general’ because all of this doesn’t apply to Robert Pattinson!


It’s at the end of our interview that the actor comes up with the idea of a photoshoot dedicated to David Cronenberg’s movies. [ToR note: Check out stills for Cronenberg's movies The Dead Ringers, Videodrome and Scanners to compare.] Like a homage to his respect for the filmmaker, who by casting him in Cosmopolis, offered him not only a passport for after Twilight but aslo the opportunity to come and celebrate his entry to the adult age, on the steps of Cannes on May 25th.


To say that he got involved n the making of the photoshoot is an euphemism. The first images of Scanners and Videdrome we prepared for him as an inspiration for the future snapshots came back to us with an unexpected commentary: Rob was sorry that they weren’t more daring, wanting to push all the limits with this shoot – the complete opposite of what someone in his position would have asked Two days later, the photograph Eliot Lee Hazel and his crew – sort of strange for this kind of shoot (a special effect makeup artist, a pregnant lady …) – met in a glummy hotel in downtown L.A. to give the go-ahead of this shoot that lasted for exactly 13 hours.


After seeing the results of this shoot, we’re ready to bet that you won’t look at Robert Pattinson the same way again. That the last pretense who might still weigh on the actor will fly away as fast as they appeared.

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Rob on GQ Russia Cover

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Rob on Hot Magazine cover!

I LOVE the quote they chose for the cover! So badass :P Check out a preview of the (most probably more than 2 pages, I think) interview below. The issue will be available at newsstands this week.

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Robert Pattinson Sings the Blues (Vanity Fair Web Exclusive)

From Vanity Fair, here is a web exclusive from the April 2011 issue.

Sing us a song, piano man—let’s start with “Happy Birthday.” New Orleans’s Preservation Hall—where Annie Leibovitz shot young Robert Pattinson, shown tickling the ol’ 88 with the world-famous Preservation Hall band—celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Situated in the French Quarter, the music venue is one of the country’s most hallowed: it was founded in 1961 for the purpose of preserving New Orleans–style jazz, and indigenous American music. On his first-ever visit to the Quarter, Pattinson jammed with the house band and thoroughly held his own—his celebrity perhaps subsumed by that of the musicians, whose legendary status awed everyone on set. “When we first started, none of us knew that Robert really does play piano,” says Ben Jaffe, the tuba player (center, above), the band’s director, and the son of the venue’s founders. “But when he got up there, he started ticking out these notes, and it was obvious he wasn’t just tinkling—he really knew how to play.” Though the musicians were expecting the actor to just pose, Pattinson gamely jammed along with their tunes. After finishing a song, he leaned over to Jaffe “and said, ‘That’s the first time I’ve played with a group of guys like that,’” Jaffe recalls. Not a shabby gig—especially with Jaffe’s homemade red beans and rice waiting as reward.


On the landmark birthday, Jaffe says he and the rest of the band are humbled: “It’s really momentous for us to reach this moment in our history, considering everything New Orleans has been through in the last five years,” he says. “It’s really a testament to the strength of the people of this city.” Preservation Hall endured a several-month hiatus post-Katrina and reopened in May 2006, structure miraculously intact. We say miraculously, because the hall’s charm is that it looks as though it might collapse at any moment—it’s one big happy jalopy of a 350-year-old structure, with all the glorious paint-peel-y, rusty-hinged patina of a Clementine Hunter painting. It strains at the seams with ambiance. And we hope, lack of air conditioning and all, that it never changes.

Rob in Vanity Fair US (April)

Rob is once again on the cover of Vanity Fair, this time with a four-foot long crocodile! Shot by Annie Leibovitz, it's an ode to the Lousiana setting of Breaking Dawn. Check out the full interview after the jump (it's long, and has a few F-word thrown around.)


Escape from the Twilight Zone
Forget the relationship with Kristen Stewart—Robert Pattinson has fallen hard for a pachyderm named Tai, one of his co-stars in this month’s Water for Elephants. That movie, with Reese Witherspoon as Pattinson’s on-screen love interest, gave him a professional break from the supernatural stylization of the five-part Twilight saga, but even on a remote Tennessee set he was besieged daily by crowds of his Twihard fans. Nancy Jo Sales finds the 24-year-old actor torn between gratitude for and despair about the fame that has engulfed him.

Rob In Galaxie Magazine!!

Squee!! Rob is featured as a cover story for Galaxie's March 1st issue!

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Galaxie cover featuring Rob!!!

Major whoop!! Galaxie Magazine is featuring Rob on the cover of their March 1st issue.

Go grab a copy on Monday!!!

Rob in VOGUE

Rob is featured in (US??) Vogue, along with his Remember Me co-star, Emilie de Ravin.

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Rob on DETAILS Magazine cover

Woah... hot! Check out these scans of Rob from DETAILS Magazine. The photos are truly artistic but definitely risque.

Here's an extract from the interview (caution: contains inappropriate language...)

Rob on the sexy Details photo shoot: “I really hate vaginas.  I’m allergic to vaginas.  But I can’t say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot , so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours...Thank God I was hungover.”


On his dream job of political speech writing: “You’d have two or three minutes to affect someone.  Make them hear you...I quite enjoyed doing the press for Twilight because there was a similarity.  But you’d better have something to say.  I felt a responsibility to be fascinating.”


On his emotional sight: “The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog.  My relationship with my dog, it’s ridiculous.”

There's about 6 pages of interview with Rob. Click here to read em. Also check out a behind-the-scenes video here (sorry, can't embed)

Photo credits: Norman Jean Roy for DETAILS. Thanks, Meredith!!

Harper's Bazaar Rob and Kristen photoshoot

Omigawd. This photoshoot is sooooo gorgeous!

Rob and Kristen will be gracing the cover of the November issue of US Harper's Bazaar!!!

Check out the interview, the photoshoot, 11 facts about R & K, and the video.

At the moment, there is only one thing anyone cares about regarding these two, who, as Twilight's Bella and Edward, manifest all of our vampiric romance fetishes: Are they dating or what? Well ... it's clear that Rob and Kristen are close -- very close. Okay, who is the most romantic then? "I have a no-bullshit detector," says Kristen, "so I'd have to say Rob is. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming." Rob chuckles when asked the same question. "Um, I don't know. What did Kristen say?" You. "No. I'm better at faking." This is followed by a very long laugh.

The two first met at the 2007 auditions for Twilight, what they both assumed was going to be a cult vampire movie -- not a $380-million-grossing global phenomenon complete with their own Barbies. They were thrown into a bedroom scene -- well, a scene in a bedroom, anyway. "It wasn't like we had to lie down together," Kristen says, "but we were very reactive. We had a very responsive, palpable thing." Robert notoriously took half a Valium beforehand. "I was calm and collected, and then we do this thing where we're pretty much making out. I've since tried to do it at another audition, but it completely just collapsed." He adds, "Kristen was very different from how I expected the girl who played Bella would be. I was kind of intimidated."

Even though she was born and bred in chillaxed Los Angeles, Kristen is an intense young lady -- and the shock of unruly black hair she currently has (a legacy from her role as Joan Jett in the upcoming The Runaways) does nothing to dispel that perception. Some Twilight fans were upset about their Bella turning into a noir-haired badass, but rest assured she'll be wearing a wig in Eclipse. "I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty," she declares, then smiles, "but now that my hair's grown out and shaggy, it sort of looks a little funny. I'll admit that." Kristen swears like a sailor and feels everything 200 percent. "She's a unique girl," says Rob simply. "You really don't meet many people like Kristen."

Robert Pattinson rocks Vanity Fair

OMG!!! Rob has finally made it on the cover of Vanity Fair!!

Check out the cover, and also the edited cover.

All thanks to Thinking of Rob!!

2008 Vanity Fair Rob outtakes

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Rob in AnOther Man magazine

Rob is featured in the October issue of AnOther Man, and it comes with an interview and some new photos!

Was Pattinson aware of the loyalty of fans of the Twilight books? It looks like the sort of obsessive fandom that can turn into anger and even hatred when an adaptation isn’t to their liking. Did he know what he was letting himself in for? “It’s strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn’t even buy them in London. I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren’t available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all. I’d seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke’s other films, and that’s all I thought it was, something really small.”

His manner is very laid back. He doesn’t sound thrusting or ambitious, more like he’s just going with the flow and enjoying things. Is he going to harness his newfound fame and box-office appeal to approach the kind of filmmakers he wants to work with in the future? He’s not so sure. “Annoyingly, there are so few parts I feel I can add anything to, or that I want to do.” But he knows what he doesn’t need. “I don’t want to be an actor for the sake of it. I don’t find any particular pleasure in being an attention-seeker.”

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Rob covers OK! Philippines

Rob is on the cover of OK! Philippines. He made their list of 2009 Most Beautiful Stars.

In this exclusive interview, Rob shares with OK! his thoughts about his quick rise to fame, being beaten –in karaoke!- by fellow sexy actor Hugh Jackman, and why he doesn’t want his own creations to be included in future Twilight soundtracks.

Do you feel like you’re living in a parallel universe sometimes, what with all the media frenzy caused by the huge success of Twilight?

I don’t know what my real life is any more. I have to do this [acting] every day so I guess this is my real life anyway.

How are you handling it all?

I hope all right. I don't really know how I'll be in the long run about it. When the second one[The Twilight Saga:New Moon} comes out, then I'll see how I am then. But right now I can still ignore things to quite a big extend and kind of pretend they're not really happening.

It must be overwhelming at times.

It is. It's crazy, believe me, when young girls come up and say stuff to you like they're going to do this or that if you don't turn up at their school ... But I think the lucky thing is that I didn't set out to achieve anything so it's quite easy to deal with, and the only thing you have to deal with is the actual new lifestyle. My brain isn't changing, I think. It's people around you who change or who treat you differently.

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Rob covers Hot Magazine

hot Magazine features Rob Pattinson on the cover of their latest issue.

FYI, the Rob article is based on the supposed interview with Daily Mirror UK. ROBsessed confirmed that this interview was a FAKE interview...

Cover: @hotmagazine

Rob's Nylon flashback

Nylon Magazine dug out this photo of Rob way back when he was 19!

Rob was featured in Nylon's STREET book of Style, and is quoted as 'an unknown actor'...

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