Robert Pattinson talks to Elle France
It’s a good thing to wake up to a new interview and photoshoot – thanks to Elle France. Here’s a very rough translation thanks to Google:
Between autuer films and blockbusters, the actor is also the face of the new eau de toilette Dior Homme. If the next Batman seems to slip into his roles as if to disappear, he imposes more than ever his captivating presence.
He is only 33 years old and gives the impression of having already lived a thousand lives. As if Robert Pattinson was boiling a flow of energy which encouraged him to constantly reinvent himself. Model at 16 years old, musician and professional actor at 18 years old, he occupies our fantasy space, we have to make a reason. Dare to say: “I’m going to interview Robert Pattinson”, your colleagues and conscience give you looks of envy, even jealousy, your friends do not believe you and think that you are overwhelmed, because the idea of ​​hearing his voice is sacred. Mysterious, the English actor can boast of already having 34 films to his credit. He was able to conquer an immense renown with “Twilight” before moving towards a cinema qualified as avant-garde or even experimental with directors like Claire Denis, David Michod, David Cronenberg or Robert Eggers. Without ever losing this aura and an audience that sells it like an idol.
So when we learn that he’s going to reconnect with the blockbusters – “Tenet,” by Christopher Nolan (in theaters July 22), and Matt’s new film “The Batman” Reeves (in theaters June 23, 2021), taking over from Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck, our blood is just a trick. Robert Pattinson endlessly cultivates the art of psetting us, constantly revealing a another side. Like the campaign of the last Dior Homme of which he is the muse since 2013 and where he appears sometimes dancer, sometimes brawler but always seductive. No doubt, Robert Pattinson is unique. As good English as he is, we would have thought that his first film shock was a film with Laurence Olivier playing King Lear or Othello, Richard III and why not Hamlet. Missed! Robert Pattinson swears by Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless.” “At the age of 15, I received as a Christmas gift a book with the movie poster on the cover. I broke down for the allure of Jean-Paul Belmondo. I thought he had a draw. Incredible. I was quick to see the film. It’s a shock! The character of Belmondo represented everything I wasn’t, that is, nonchalance melee with the assurance I dreamed of acquiring. The innate class. I thought to myself, one day, I’ll be like Jean-Paul Belmondo! This need to find a model reveals an amazing humility, but also an insatiable desire for perfection. To go from forward and again, even if it means accepting secondary roles. Being there without attracting attention could be how it works. An art of disguise. In David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” he looks like a sleepwalker hidden behind his sunglasses, in “Maps to the Stars,” by the same director, he falls asleep at the wheel of a limousine. In “The Lost City of Z,” by James
Gray, he’s unrecognizable with his beard provided, in Benny’s “Good Time” and Josh Safdie, he’s wearing a blond straw hair. Ditto in “The Lighthouse,” of Robert Eggers, where he seems to be hiding under dirty hair and a mustache frankly unappealing. “For me, cinema is life with a net,” he continues. That is, we know the replica of his partner. We know more or less how the scene will unfold. I feel safe on a platter, it’s less chaotic than in real life where surprises are legion. Everything can stop overnight. From the beginning of my career, I understood this and the confidence in me followed. You know, when you start, the mere fact of being chosen for a to know that you have been thought of and that you are wanted is a reward extreme, difficult to explain. Being the chosen one made me happy. It was later that I including the other side of the coin. Did I want to bathe forever in the ultraexposure ? I guess I don’t”.
Robert Pattinson needed to explore other countries. His meetings with director-authors enriched it: “I had the impression of reconnecting with art from the 1970s, he explains. It did me a lot of good. This experience convinced me that I was on the right path. Take the style of Claire Denis with which I shot “High Life”, it is inimitable. I had tried many times to meet her. It ended up being done and it turned out to be the opposite of what I imagined. I thought she was serious, in fact, she is very funny. “Robert Pattinson tells us that he would love Jacques Audiard or even Jean-Luc Godard to think of him. ” The life is long! He adds. Always in the process of going towards new artistic lands, it is in Cannes, in 2018, on the occasion of the evening organized after the official screening of “Good Time” that he flashed on The Blaze, the duo French electronic music (Guillaume and Jonathan Alric). “They were the party djs. I liked their music and their clips. When I learned that the Dior Homme perfume team had approached them to carry out the new campaign, I was convinced that they were going to do a great job. And I am sincerely proud to have participated: they have a crazy talent. ” Under the air of a great young man with so British phlegm, hides a man who recognizes his fears. A weakness for some, an act of bravery for others. What could be more cute than a man who open his heart? So, before shooting the film for Dior Homme, Robert Pattinson told us: “I knew that I had a dance scene. It worried me. In my head, dancing is complicated. While I can walk around naked, kissing partners without a problem. But then … I confessed to The Blaze that I was really uncomfortable with this scene. Fortunately, after a tequila shot, everything went well! I am not maybe not the best dancer in the world but I won a victory! ” It is amazing that dancing the trouble to this point when he does not hesitate to masturbate at cinema: in “High Life” and, of course, “The Lighthouse”. Completely scenes assumed, we note, each time in author films. If the door remains open to the most daring acts, the man seems to modesty and displays a beautiful elegance, even with a white James Dean or Marlon-style T-shirt Brando. “These men, as simply dressed, Inspired. They’re still as modern as ever. At home Robert Pattinson, fashion is of great importance. He even tried to draw models, whether it’s jackets or pants. “I learned to cut them. This provides great satisfaction. Especially when you manage to wear the garment we imagined. For example, I made my jeans Ideal. The coolest thing in the world. Maybe a day I will be able to launch my brand! Where does it come from? this attraction to men’s fashion? Robert Pattinson quotes his father: “I remember his inimitable gesture. Putting perfume in its Hair! For him, the art of perfume refers to desire to be good in his own skin. “I like to take care of Me. It’s a must. Wearing a perfume gives me a sense of well-being. I feel “relaxed.” And we think it’s even more attractive. As proof, his conquests as the sublime Suki Waterhouse. If this subject remains top secret, it is may wonder, however, whether he has not also bewitched by the must-have tube Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man”, a song hears on the clip of the perfume. “A title with strong connotations sensual and sexual. You can feel the weight of every word, “I am your man,” I offer myself to you. At the same time, the pace is slow. This song moves me to the highest point. Always in emotion, he can’t help but remember his first came to New York. Founding moment of his Existence. “In the early 2000s, I stayed at a friend of my parents’ house in Williamsburg, the neighborhood in a gigantic loft where the owner played basketball! I was 17. For a kid Like me, what a slap! I really felt to be in America. Better yet, to be in a film. Robert Pattinson was still unaware that he had found his place. And what a place. The richest in adventures and encounters, that of the 7th art.
