That cover is just gorgeous, not to mention we have the glorious pic of Rob as Dennis Stock in larger size *claps hands* We will update with the translation once it’s available 🙂 Translation added below!

Some really great quotes here, not all 100% new I don’t think, but a good read all the same.  From The Sydney Morning Herald:

When the actor James Dean died in a car crash in 1955, the second and defining film in his short career – Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause – had just come out. Dean was 24.

East of Eden had put him on the map earlier that year; Giant was in the works. In retrospect, three films doesn’t seem much of a basis for what Dean was about to become: the embodiment of a generation’s bohemian disaffection with their parents’ post-war world. Fact was, however, they didn’t come any cooler than Jimmy Dean. They still don’t.

You can see that in the clutch of photographs taken of Dean for Life magazine by ambitious young Magnum newcomer Dennis Stock.

It was Stock who took the photograph that would grace millions of teenage bedroom walls in the decades to come, a photograph familiar even to people who don’t know who Dean was: Dean with his collar turned up against the wind in wintry Times Square.

It is that photograph that forms a kind of backdrop for Anton Corbijn’s new film Life, which traces the brief relationship between Stock and his equally ambitious subject.

Any actor would show due trepidation before agreeing to play James Dean, not just because of his hallowed status but because it would be so easy to slip unawares into mumbling, fidgeting parody.

Dane DeHaan, who is most familiar as Green Goblin in the recent Spider-Man films, kept saying no.

“I didn’t really think I could do it. Then I had a meeting with Ian Canning, the producer, and he explained to me how for him it wasn’t simply a movie about James Dean, it was a movie about how a normal person could be turned into an idol. Which I think is a really interesting topic.”

DeHaan felt some kinship with Dean, whom he describes as “a really bull-headed, uncompromising artist, pretty mistrusting of the world around him.”

From the start, as Corbijn shows, Dean was at loggerheads with the studio heads; Ben Kingsley does a spectacular turn as studio mogul Jack Warner, telling Dean exactly how much of a rebel he wants him to be.

“I know what that’s like, although I have a different take on it,” DeHaan says. “I don’t let it get to me as much as he does. When I made this film, it was right before the press tour for Spider-Man. There was this looming sense of what was going to happen, in the same way as before East of Eden came out.”

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A preview of Rob’s interview with NEON Magazine, we will of course post the interview in full when it surfaces.  Until then…

Robert Pattinson (29) doesn’t want to be a Hollywood-actor only anymore – as he told Neon Magazine: “I’d like to do something aside from acting, in a field that I’ll have better control over. Last year I’ve tried various things on the sly, but I´m not going to talk about it, otherwise it will not work out!”

The glamourous Hollywood-scene is not for him, he tells Neon: “Of course there are these events where a bunch of dressed up girls hangs out. But you’d have to be a complete idiot to hook up with one of them – imagine someone sleeping with you simply because you´re famous? Women wanting to sell their time with a celebrity and running with the story to the next tabloid.”

Robert Pattinson will be in cinemas next with the movie “Life” September 24th.

Neon Magazine will be on stands September 7th.

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Thanks so much to @enamoramiento1 for tweeting us the translation 🙂

Here’s a great new German interview with Rob and Waz-Online, that thankfully has been translated by @inthejungle83.  I love how grounded Rob is.

 

Thanks also to Elise and  Maria for the heads up.

InStyle Men gave the heads up that Rob was on the cover of their August edition.  Thankfully @nicole2dogs was able to obtain a copy and uploaded the scans:

 

I see the “Life” promotion is kicking in.  Here’s an extract from tv3.ie (who I see mention an interview Rob gave to Jolie Magazine.  See below for scans I hope that interview surfaces soon):

“Robert Pattinson wishes he had a bigger ego.

His shy nature often made it hard for him to cope with the attention, making him wish for a bolder personality.

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