The Film Stage – The B-Side Celebrate Robert Pattinson
The Film Stage’s – The B-Side is celebrating Rob’s career – not so much the successful films that Rob’s received acclaim for, but the movies that he made in between. From The B-Side:
As his star rose, Pattinson would get weirder and weirder in his role choices. The ultimate result is a filmography primarily built by B-sides. Today, Conor and I focus on four: Remember Me, Water for Elephants, Queen of the Desert, and Damsel.
We bring up that GQ profile that got some traction at the start of quarantine, The Takeout’s attempt to make Pattinson’s “fast food pasta,” the quite-memorable ending of Remember Me, the impressive life of Gertrude Bell (on which Queen of the Desert is based), and the tragedy that nobody has watched Damsel.
Terry Gross from Fresh Air spoke with Rob about The Lighthouse, Rob’s forever changing accents, preparing for The Batman and more (including hearing Honeybun). Here’s an extract from the transcript. Sit back and listen to Rob for over 30 mins.
British actor Robert Pattinson can’t tell you how many times people have said to him: “Hey man … you know what you’d be great at playing? An English prince.”
But that’s not really his thing.
“I think when you first start, if you’re tall and English and have kind of floppy hair, in England that is the box that you’re put in,” he says. “But I like movies because of Pacino, basically. I didn’t grow up watching period dramas and being like, ‘That’s what I want to do!’ ”
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On something filmmaker David Cronenberg told him at Cannes that stuck with him
I’d never been to Cannes before … and I was very nervous, and I said, “How do you think it’s going to go tomorrow?” And David [said], “I’m fully expecting a significant number of walkouts.” It absolutely terrified me when I first heard it … but as soon as I saw his pleasure in thinking that there were going to be walkouts, it really made a big effect on me. … If you’re chasing after people, getting them to like you, you’re always going to be unsatisfied. Whereas, if you team up with people who throw caution to the wind about their work and are entirely unconcerned … they’re going to make exactly the movie that they want to make.
It’s competition time for those who have instagram.
As you know Damsel will be released on DVD in Australia on 29 May 2019. To celebrate this release Sanity Australia is giving us 3 DVD’s to give away**. All you need to do is follow both @robertpattinsonau and @sanityau on Instagram for your chance to win one of the three! It’s that easy. Head on over to our instagram and comment in the competition post to let us know which State you reside. We will select three random winners and Sanity will post you the DVD.
You have to be
in it to win it. Competition will close 13 May 2019.
**Please note competition is only open to Australian residents.
UPDATED: 13 May 2019 – COMPETITION NOW CLOSED. Winners announced on our instagram
Robert Pattinson Damsel is Available on DVD & Bluray from 23 May 2019
Robert Pattinson Damsel is being released on DVD & Bluray in Germany on 23 May 2019. You can preorder your copies at Amazon (Germany) here. It’s title is “Smoking Gun – Nicht jede Frau will gerettet werden”, which means “Smoking Gun – Not every woman wants to be saved”.
Thanks Melanie for the link, translation and heads up.
Robert Pattinson Photographed for THR Photoshoot during Sundance 2018
I bet there are more outtakes for this shoot – gimme. Yeah I now I’m being greedy, for now am just happy that Westley Hargrave shared this gorgeous BTS on his instagram. For those who need reminding of the portrait from this shoot – click HERE
Robert Pattinson #DamselMovie to be released on DVD in Australia Soon
Damsel was given a classification of MA15+ on 11 February 2019 by the Classification Board, and although I can’t find it on any of the popular DVD sites, at least we know it’s coming. Thanks to Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia. I’ll keep you posted as soon as I find a link and/or specific release date.
UPDATED: 28 FEBRUARY 2019
Great news Aussies – Sanity has listed Damsel for preorder with a release date of 29 May 2019
UPDATED: 14 MARCH 2019
Sanity has updated their website with official artwork
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