Robert Pattinson interviewed by Vanity Fair Spain
A new interview appeared in Vanity Fair Spain. Below is an extract (thanks to Google translate). Interesting to read about Harmony Korine and I am beside myself that Rob has been pursuing Almodovar:
The man who sits down for this interview has nothing to do with the character that the press sold during [the Twilight years] (surly, provocative, hating his existence), to begin with because he smiles. Smiles constantly. The only thing that Robert Pattinson has in common with R-Patz, of course, is the hair: he is constantly touching, as if he were angry with it, and before each shake the mane acquires an even more impressive position than the previous one. That’s the only special effect in Pattinson’s career right now.
“There are already enough fucking movies in the world,” says the actor to explain why he pursued the French director Claire Denis, after being impressed with A Woman in Africa , to give him work in High Life . “I do not have any power to get funding for a movie, unless it’s a vampire movie. In that case maybe they would give me $20 to do it.” Pattinson writes personally to authors who stimulate him emotionally or intellectually without telling his agents. He did it with James Gray (The Lost City of Z), Antonio Campos (author of the indie Christine phenomenon, with whom he will shoot The Devil All The Time ), Werner Herzog (The Desert Queen ) or the Safdie brothers (Good Time ), to whom he was attracted after seeing a single photo of Heaven Knows What : the close-up of his protagonist, the heroin addict in real life Arielle Holmes , illuminated in magenta tones.
It does not always work for him (he contacted Harmony Korine , but his role in Beach Bum has been done by Zac Efron and he confesses that he has been “working” with Almodóvar for years), but Robert Pattinson is building a career not based on his fame but against it.
