Robert Pattinson’s hot and that’s cool. . .

EDWARD Cullen wouldn’t last five minutes in the baking heat of Marree, a one-pub town 650km north of Adelaide.

But Robert Pattinson has channelled the physical discomfort of his seven-week summer shoot in the middle of the Aussie Outback into a character he hopes will make an equally indelible impression as the Twilight vampire.

“It’s added lots to the performance – being covered in dirt, pouring sweat, with tons of flies around. You lose your inhibitions quite quickly,” the English star said on the set of his latest film, The Rover, in which he sports a crude DIY haircut and badly-decayed teeth.

A neo-western set in a brutal, anarchic near future, the $12 million film is director David Michod’s hotly anticipated follow-up to the internationally acclaimed Animal Kingdom.

Guy Pearce plays the title character, an embittered outsider with whom Pattinson’s naive victim forms an uneasy alliance.

Marree, population 90, is about as far from Hollywood as an actor can get.

“That’s good in some ways,” Pattinson says. “You definitely end up making a different movie. Being in the desert has a funny effect. It does change you in a way.”

Pattinson confirmed his participation in three upcoming projects: Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert with Naomi Watts and Jude Law; Maps to the Stars, a comedy directed by David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis); and Hold Onto Into Me with Carey Mulligan.

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*claps hands* not super HQ but I’ll take anything we are given.  Every time I look at this pic, my excitement grows even more 😀

Thanks to photographer Matt Nettheim for sharing this.

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Sadly I didn’t have much time this week for edits but I managed to come up with a few that I thought would be ok to share!  Really hope you enjoy….happy weekend all! 😀

 

Which means this version is bigger *claps hands*  I am dreaming of a HQ version.  A little greedy I know, but how can I help it :D   How EPIC is this still!!!

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I don’t think I’ve truly recovered from the epic release last night of that first official The Rover still.  The reaction has been very positive.  For those who follow us on Twitter you will have seen this morning that Vertigo drew my attention to Matt Joseph’s (We Got This Covered) reaction.  I thought I’d bring it on over here seeing as I know some of you aren’t on social media.

“There’s a lot of reasons to look forward to The Rover. Firstly, its director David Michod’s follow-up to the extremely successful and very well made Animal Kingdom, a film that I was really, really impressed by. Secondly, it stars two actors who are often overlooked: Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce.

Allow me to clarify that last comment. Yes, Pattinson is a mega-star but his acting talents are usually downplayed. Most critics don’t give him enough credit but if you’ve seen him in anything outside of Twilight, you’ll know that he’s quite a talented individual, capable of giving great performances. For all the backlash he gets for starring in the Twilight films, I actually really enjoy Pattinson as an actor and am very happy to see him taking on more mature, dramatic roles like this.”

As for Pearce, he’s one of my favourite actors currently working today. I honestly love this guy. He definitely gets a decent amount of exposure and acclaim, but he’s not as high up on the A-list as he should be.  Seriously, Pearce kills it in every role and I absolutely love watching him on screen. He’s a brillaint actor and I’m hoping his role in the upcoming Iron Man 3 will propel his star even higher.

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Excited yet? We sure are. And can you blame us? The trio of Michod, Pattinson and Pearce is an extremely promising one and that first look photo above looks great, I can’t wait to see the two actors face off against each other.”

Vertigo – thanks again for bringing this to my attention earlier this morning.  I agree with you – love it when fanboys get excited.

EW has the first exclusive still from The Rover and boy does it NOT disappoint.

“Australia was founded as a repository for crooks and criminals — a wretched hive of scum and villainy, like the British Empire’s own Mos Eisley. Of course, that was a long time ago and the Australian national demeanor has since shifted from “kill or be killed” to “live and let live,” but David Michôd’s gritty 2010 drama Animal Kingdom chronicled some of the country’s more modern criminal descendents. In his upcoming sophomore effort, The Rover, the director takes things even further.

Robert Pattinson plays a denizen of the Outback in the near future, after a worldwide financial collapse has sent many like him running to the still viable mines of the Australian desert. “It’s like a new gold rush,” says Michôd. “Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers.” Guy Pearce, who had an uncharacteristically reserved role in Animal Kingdom, gets to sink his teeth into a nicely nasty part opposite Pattinson. “The basic story is really quite elemental,” says Michôd. “You’ve got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy’s character, and in Rob’s character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul.”

Of course, just by its setting and basic plot, The Rover is poised to draw comparisons to one of the antipodean country’s most memorable cinematic contributions. “You put cars in the desert in Australia and people are going to think of Mad Max,” says Michôd. “And with all due respect to that film — and I stress that — I think The Rover is going to be way more chillingly authentic and menacing.”

For more on The Rover and first looks at other upcoming projects, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday.

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