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Robert Pattinson tells Grazia France “My mission is to make films that the industry considers impossible”

As you will recall, we posted Philippe Azoury’s selfie with Rob where he promised a new interview was coming in Grazia France.  It’ finally arrived.  You can read it after the cut

It initially looked like a treasure hunt: Robert Pattinson makes an appointment, “ for lunch “, in a posh restaurant in London. The reservation is under an assumed name, as it should be. But at the appointed time, an SMS warns us that the place has changed.  It will be a hotel bar, quieter. It’s actually empty, otherwise a kid in a baseball cap who shoots an electronic cigarette sipping a tea, no, it can not be him. We inform our contact that we are on the spot, which asks us to return: the kid with a cap signals us, and laughs. It was him, sitting alone.

We expected a staff. Has one or more agents, two bodyguards – why not.  Nothing, the guy is alone. “Oh, yes, ” he said, rolling his eyes, “I can not bear this circus, I’m big enough to have a drink in a bar, right? ” Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is 32 years old. He wears an upside down cap and a gray hoodie, like a slacker. He wants to sit at a sunny table and enjoy the luxury of becoming a Londoner like any other.  We have just come to talk to him about a prisoner. Mounted.

Heroes of Independent film

The hero of High Life , the splendid and unusual sci-fi film signed by Claire Denis, a fuel masterpiece with a strange weightlessness, a very “kosmische musik” plane, before becoming frightening by its sudden acceleration in violence or in sexuality. The actor has for the director the eyes of love: “ I have never seen a being so punk.It even refuses to be called a filmmaker woman.It just wants that we look like a filmmaker. I waited five years for the film to be made, and I would have waited for her again, like David Cronenberg, she manages to persuade a whole team to follow her in an uncomfortable area. “

In High Life , he is one of the navigators of a spacecraft made up of prisoners, who are sent to certain death to explore black holes. The first half hour of the film is almost him, alone, in this ship, surrounded by corpses, holding a baby in his arms … “ Legislation required us to shoot with twins, to comply with filming schedules.  claire, who has a twin sister, did not really like this idea of ​​confusing them, but we had to do it.  One of the twins screamed as soon as I took her in my arms. Nothing to do. At the end of this disastrous first day, I proposed a solution: my oldest friend had just had a daughter. I had already hugged him a few weeks earlier. It’s with her that we made the film. After a fortnight, she called me ” dad ”. My friend was collapsed .. “

“My mission is to make films that the industry considers impossible”
He remembers being surprised by the nakedness of the spaceship: “Claire wanted him to be as spectacular as possible, and his theory is that in the future, in such a ship, there will be nothing because everything is miniaturized, no more vessels made up of millions of buttons, they will be cold and clinical. “Claire Denis’s style is broad and musical, in keeping with the melodic movements that compose for her Stuart Staples, Tindersticks. The whole game, silent, mute, seems in harmony with that, to wonder if it turns with the music on the set: “No, but the Safdie brothers, on Good Time, had playlists for each scene, not to mention the fact that they talk to you during the taking, take the head: after two minutes, you do not understand anything, it’s chaos, your face looks dazed, and then they start filming you in close-up … Ah, oh, the bastards, that was exactly what they wanted! “ 

Robert Pattinson is not looking for box office success anymore. He became the hero of independent cinema. No doubt he knows deep inside him that even if a movie worked, it would not get to the top of  Twilight’s craziness. It would be just another success, he does not need it. What he’s looking for, little vampire, is eternity differently: by works that will stay.  The films of David Cronenberg , James Gray, the brothers Safdie and High Life finally are of this type. “We call De Niro to make impossible roles, it’s his mission, and my mission is to make films that the industry deems impossible. “

And he burst out laughing. If in the eyes of critics, Robert Pattinson is the best career that is, we guess that within the industry, his choices are not to everyone’s taste. He, like Kristen Stewart , have preferred to knock the celebrity off, either because our two millennials are pretentious and think it will last forever, either on the contrary to kill it, or better: survive it. They have spent half of the last ten years unable to step outside without creating a riot. They saw their romantic relationships explode in mid-flight because of that. “We do not know what it is before we have lived. I do not know how I did not come to suicide. My luck is that I had a group of friends since I was fifteen. They joined me. At first, we did the four meaningless things celebrities do, and then I started doing just the cool stuff of our sixteen with them . “

“I thought it was easy, it was enough to be a pretty boy”
We remember having read a story about him, trying to get back to the KitKatClub, Berlin’s famous fetish club. He is laughing again like a dirty brat. “Well, it was years ago … I was with my dad and some friends in an after party in Berlin, someone started the idea of ​​going there: ” Let’s go to ! the orgy club ”the guy at the door said, ‘?’ so you want to go into a black club where people are hidden you really sure that you’re ready to get into a club where you will be naked , WITH YOUR FATHER? “  Ah, ah, ah! ” He plays the dilettante badly.  We know that under this mask, there is an attentive workman, animal. “I have not always been like that. I thought it was easy, it was enough to be pretty boy.  Then I saw Kristen play on the set.  And I understood that I would have to adapt, to level myself if I did not want to be crushed … “

His life, when he does not play, what does it look like? “To the people of my generation: I scrub on Instagram, I watch videos of animals, gangsta stuff, girls who show off, I’m hypnotized, addicted I was devouring movies at my house there is two more years, I’m on my phone, I’m reading so little now that I’m reduced to LA listening to audio books, it has affected my concentration, learning lines of text is getting harder. I’ll have to quickly detox this thing … “

The emblem of his generation suffers from the same evils, the same emptiness, it is logical and normal. He has not yet found a way to kill this youth of which he is both the victim and the executioner.  “A few weeks ago, I was with a filmmaker in Canada and her producers were not sure if I was the right person for the role.” She said, “But if you look at it! He’s no longer a teenager. “ It was perhaps one of the worst moments of my career! “Robert Pattinson is 32 years old, and eternity for him.