Robert Pattinson, who soared to global stardom in "Twilight" and has just committed to a screen adaptation of the fourth installment in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series, is more than just a pretty face. The actor, who didn’t go to acting school, talks to The Hollywood Reporter U.K. Bureau Chief Stuart Kemp in Cannes about how long it might take to fall in love, why he doesn’t care who directs him as long as it’s a good script and losing his car.

THR: Have you been to Cannes before?

Pattinson: I came here on holiday once when I was 12 but not since. I wouldn’t appreciate it (here) as a holiday now.

THR: Let’s talk about "Twilight." There are four books. Is the plan for you to do them all?

Pattinson: I have committed to the fourth one, "Breaking Dawn." But I don’t know quite when Summit is going to shoot it because of my schedule.

THR: How is the script for "New Moon" different from the second book?

Pattinson: It kind of plays relatively close to it. I would still describe it as being a sort of supporting role (to Bella’s story). I think it would have been a bit cheesy if it had just stayed as a voiceover part as my character is a voice in her head in the second book. They’ve shot these hallucination bits of the film. You’re playing a figment of Bella’s imagination and I was trying to do it in a really 2-D kind of way. I hope it doesn’t come out flat and boring (laughs).

THR: What’s the schedule for "New Moon"?

Pattinson: We’ve got four days left on the shoot for this. I’m going to Italy for the remaining days of the shoot.

THR: And then?

Pattinson: Then I’m going straight into filming (the relationship drama) "Remember Me," then have just three days off before going back to finishing up the third instalment in the "Twilight" series, "Eclipse." After that I am doing a film "Unbound Captives." I can’t say much about that but I know the script needs me to learn Comanche! Maybe it’ll be like in "Dances With Wolves!" My part is entirely in Comanche, ha ha.

THR: You’ve been shooting sequences from the second and third in the "Twilight" franchise at the same time. Is that harder for an actor than doing separate films?

Pattinson: Not really. We will just shoot the Vancouver bits (for ‘Eclipse`’) and then "Moon" is out later this year.

THR: How did "Remember Me" come about?

Pattinson: I read the script last summer and then met with (director) Allen Coulter and really liked it. It’s quite a simple story but there was something about the character and way he spoke that was very similar to the way I speak. There is a naturalism to the writing and I really felt a connection to it.

THR: What’s the script about?

Pattinson: I read somewhere it was being described as the modern day "Love Story." It isn’t anything like "Love Story." It ("Remember Me") is really hard to describe. It about a 23-year-old guy and knowing someone for six weeks. You don’t just fall in love and say, I’m in love, after six weeks. It’s really a relationship story. It’s very natural and the characters are incredibly real and well scripted. It’s one of the few scripts I’ve read where you finish and realize you didn’t really want it to end. I have no qualms in saying that (writer) Jenny (Lumet) is a genius.

THR: How so?

Pattinson: I went up to her house one weekend and we all hung out there and just chatted about the script and asked me what I wanted from it. She worked on the draft and about a week later she delivered this script. She’d captured little bits of my voice and all the inflections and mannerisms I have. The character in the script is quite similar to me.

THR: Playing yourself?

Pattinson: You can only really play yourself in a role once every 15 years I think (laughs). And you can only do it if its a good script and captures you properly. It is very therapeutic actually.

THR: Where and when?

Pattinson: It is set in NYC and will shoot there for eight weeks.

THR: You sound like you enjoyed helping with the writing of "Remember Me." A frustrated writer?

Pattinson: No, it’s great when someone else is doing the writing for you.

THR: How do you see your career to date?

Pattinson: I didn’t go to acting school, I fell into it. I don’t really have conventional taste, and I want to only do films that I feel will be beneficial to my life. What we’ve molded with "Remember Me" is a very exciting and subtle work. I don’t really understand acting as acting. I’m definitely not one of those people who can just look scared when they’re told to by a director.

THR: How do you select projects?

Pattinson: If there’s a good script I don’t care who the director is that is attached. I like the most random scripts and I am really close friends with my agent. She really gets me and knows my taste. Occasionally she’ll say, "I’ve got this really awful script but maybe you should read it anyway," and I look at a page and agree with her. I barely ever like scripts actually. After I did "Twilight," I really wanted to work but just didn’t see a script I liked. I ended up doing nothing for a whole year. It was frustrating.

THR: Did the huge global success of "Twilight" affect you as an actor?

Pattinson: I prefer to do nothing than something stupid. I feel there’s so much pressure because of this idea of career. It’s a little worrying. It made so much money that now you get judged not by how good the film is but how much money the film your in is making. That’s the scary thing now.

THR: Presumably there will is the hope that people who like you from "Twilight" will go and see "Remember Me"?

Pattinson: It’s going to be helped by that. I just hope when people go and see it, they don’t say, "Edward wouldn’t do that." That’s not going to be good!

THR: Do you still have a place in London?

Pattinson: I gave up my flat a year ago. I’m not really living anywhere at the moment because basically I am constantly working and on the road.

THR: Nothing to ground you?

Pattinson: I don’t even remember where I left my car (in Los Angeles). It’s probably been towed away by now. That’s my only immovable possession and now I don’t know where it is! (Laughs.) It was important to me because it was the first car I ever bought. Made me feel like a man, buying a car.

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Two more pics from Cannes @ Terraza Martini

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New Moon - Kristen Stewart rates Sean Penn

Friday, 15 May 2009

Kristen Stewart might get to kiss Robert Pattinson but it is working with top actors that gets her excited

She was thrilled to be hand picked by Sean Penn to be in the movie Into the Wild.

Kristen told Joy magazine: "I think it’s one of my favorite movies, and not just because I’m in it. I was so lucky to get that role.

"Sean Penn actually called me on my cellphone. He’s very bold and secretive. Plus, I know he’s sure of the effect that one phone call of him can do to a person. He told me who he was and said: "Hey, I’m working on this movie that I love. I care about it more than anything and I’m reaching a point in which I don’t know what to do".

"He asked me to read the script for him with the other actors. I read for the sister’s part, who narrates the whole story. Two days later he called me and said "I don’t know how you’ll fit into all of this, but I really want you to do this movie with me, and I’ll find you your perfect role". And there were two roles, the role for the main character’s sister, and Tracy the singer. And he chose Tracy for me.

"That moment was amazing. That’s the reason why I chose acting, to get to work with people like Sean Penn."

Kristen also revealed what it is about Bella Swan that excites her.

She said: "She’s a very strong girl. If you look a it superficially she’s a character full of clich: she’s the damsel in distress. But what’s amazing about her is that it’s her strength that moves the story. Edward does it too, but Bella is brave in a very scary situation. She’s very confident too."

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Hung over and hung over

First - Kirsten Stewart in Vancouver on Monday, day after the New Moon wrap party, where my sources say she was smoking some BC bud, on her way in and out of a hair appointment looking like it was a rough night. Or a great night. Pretty much what Laura and I look like now. Except for us it’s been 4 nights in a row. Vodka face bloat, not cute.

Kristen is back at work on set today shooting Bella sad and depressed at home scenes.

Interesting note:

Kristen was staying at a different hotel from Pattinson for most of the shoot. It’s a popular hotel for celebrities in Vancouver but it’s wide open access. Pattinson’s hotel has several exits and he would also get picked up in an underground parkade, far from the stalkers. Around the time of the New Moon cast party however, Stewart switched to Pattinson’s, supposedly so that she could get away from the twi-hards. You twi-hards are free to draw your own other conclusions.

Over in Cannes, this morning, Robert Pattinson, after a boozy night on Paul Allen’s boat, posed for a photo call on the beach before international interviews all day. Laura was working at the Grand and saw him going from outlet to outlet, running his hands through his hair, dutifully promoting Twilight/New Moon. Am told he seemed overwhelmed by the absurdity of the situation – on a dock, by himself, photographers calling out. It was early, I was yet again rushing to the Palais to file, and once the young French tourists heard he was there, it was a hormone surge you could feel from miles away.

Had a colleague text me, she was trying to make her way to the pavilion while it was all going down and her words were:

Get these high school musicals out of my f-cking way!

Had to laugh.

Last night, am told Pattinson was happily enjoying the attention of several euro social climbers on the yacht, and had a moment with Orlando Bloom, no doubt exchanging tips. It was like a pretty-off. A pretty explosion on the cote d’azur. Pattinson was enjoying the open bar. Liberally. As he should. This is Cannes, after all.

*The pics of Rob have been posted already so here are Kirsten´s

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and a little thing that i didnt see it posted about that plaboy interview Shia gave to playboy. Apparenly Kristen is on Shia’s list of "Girls he would like to fuck after his mom":

The actor did, however, list a few other Hollywood ladies he considers hot: "Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Camilla Belle, Kristen Stewart from ‘Twilight,’ " he said. "The best of the bunch is Amber Tamblyn, from the ‘Sisterhood of Traveling Pants’ movies. She may be better than all the dudes."

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* mods, i checked, twice, and none of  the new pics or interviews were not posted yet. = )

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