The EMPIRE photoshoot has always been my favourite amongst all of the ones Robert did last year. Every time they release a new outtake, they never fail to impress me. This time, I feel like jumping up and down. These photos are so beautiful…..
Laura Culpepper, the MTV intern who interviewed Rob (twice…) wrote a blog about the kind of role she’d like Rob to play and how much she wanted him to release a music album. She also said that Rob is a ‘big ball of goofiness and sarcasm’.
Laura’s interviews with Rob were one of the ones I really enjoyed and I’m looking forward to see them together again next year. To read Laura’s article at MTV.com, please click here. And below is a short clip of one of Laura’s interview with Rob.
Director: Daisy Gili
Writer: Ian Beck
Role: Richard
Costars: Talulah Riley (Jane), Anna Calder-Marshall (Priscilla), David Burke (Freddie), Marianne Borgo (Marie Pierre) and Laurence Beck (Nico)
DVD release date: 16 August 2010 (UK), 2 November 2010 (US)
(Note: The Summer House is also included as part of ‘Love And Distrust’ DVD which is a compilation of short films).
From Official Site:  The Summer House is about a moment in a young girl’s life. A turning point, a time for decision: to go back, or go forward?
Jane (17) is in rural France visiting her aunt Priscilla during the hot summer of 1969, the year of the Moon landings. Also staying at this beautiful 19th century chateau, a sleeping beauty of a house, are her aunt’s old flame Freddie Porteous, a charming Englishman, and his wife Marie Pierre, a French woman of great sophistication and beauty.
Jane has left behind an unfaithful first love. Several letters have pursued her, letters decorated with hearts to tempt her. The author of these letters, Richard (18), turns up uninvited. Jane is unaware that her situation is provoking tensions among the older generation, she catches whispers of unspoken somethings at the heart of Freddie and Priscilla’s relationship and she finds Marie Pierre’s allure and passion unsettling.
Jane looks to her role models for advice but Priscilla, Freddie and Marie Pierre have become wrapped up in their own giddy feelings about what it was like to be 17 and in love. At a party to celebrate the moon landings Jane is transformed by Marie Pierre from English mouse to sophisticated woman. Wanting to impress and suspecting Richard might be at the party she holds her head high.
Dizzy from dancing and emboldened by champagne Jane ventures out to the Summer House. Curiosity has got the better of her. Is there a dalliance between her sensible aunt and charismatic Freddie? Instead she is confronted by a repentant Richard. He wants her back. She is impossibly tempted, but repelled by his crude attempt to force her.
The romantic ideal of young love becomes crushed by his rough desire and by the giggling arrival of Priscilla and Freddie. Jane is forced to face the disappointment of reality. Troubled by Richard’s motivation and by the apparent immaturity of Priscilla & Freddie, she burns the unopened letters and drops them into a deep well. Her world has changed, expanded; a more complex fairy tale is emerging…
Background to Richard (Rob’s character):
Richard is just eighteen. He is a good looking boy, with an ambivalent feminine side, skinny and androgynous in the fashion of that time. He is narcissistic and entirely self regarding, his is a solipsistic universe with only one golden person inhabiting it; himself. Jane was the trophy girlfriend until he found better, then he was in turn dumped and now is back trying to ingratiate himself with Jane. He has written letters to the chateau, decorated the envelopes with psychedelic love hearts.
He sees himself as a lover, as a pop figure, something of a curious cross between Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. He is the kind of boy who will hang around looking pitiful and hoping his moodiness will attract girls, which it does. If thwarted he will turn nasty in an instant, and does. He wants Jane to feel sorry for him for making the mistake of giving her up. He is desperate for her, but he is the wrong boy, he is an ‘unsuitable boy’.
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Photo Credit: Campbell Mitchell
Director: Paul Morrison
Screenplay: Philippa Goslett
Release date: 6 May 2009 (USA / UK – limited release)
Rating: R (USA)
Role: Salvador Dali
Costars: Javier Beltran (Lorca), Matthew McNulty (Bunuel), Marina Gatell (Magdalena) and Arly Jover (Gala).
From Official Site – Madrid in 1922 is a city wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalà arrives at university at the age of 18 years old, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university’s social elite — Federico GarcÃa Lorca and Luis Buñuel.
Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time he, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However, as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull toward the charismatic Federico — who is oblivious to the attention he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Magdalena. Finally, in the face of his friends’ preoccupations — and Federico’s growing renown as a poet — Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success.
Alone in Madrid, Federico struggles against his psyche, tortured by the damning implications of his own religious beliefs and the undeniable voice of his flesh. He is haunted by news of Salvador, who is collaborating on a Surrealist film with Luis and has embarked on an affair with Gala, a married woman.
By 1936 Spain is teetering on the precipice of civil war, and Federico, now a highly acclaimed and controversial playwright, receives an invitation to dinner from Salvador and Gala. But the hosts have a rather unusual agenda and the evening is a disaster. A week later, Salvador is hosting a party when he discovers that Federico has been assassinated in the outbreak of war. The walls of self-denial that surround the artist come crashing down as he realizes, too late, the depth of his love for Federico.
“The story of the movie is basically what led what was essentially this chronically shy kid who was massively talented—Dali had already mastered every style of painting by the time he was thirteen—he was an astonishingly talented guy. And he was virtually incapable when he was growing up, he was so chronically shy, and he grew into this caricature of this guy who had absolutely no fear of anything. And the story of the film signifies the time when he became that caricature.” (from Good Prattle)
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Director: Uli Edel
Screenplay: Diane Duane, Peter Morwood and Uli Edel
Release date: November 2004
DVD:  Check your local DVD retailer. Can be found with any of the above film titles and also “Dark Kingdom – The Dragon King’
Rating: M 15+ (Australia)
Role: Giselher
Costars: Benno Fürmann (Siegfried), Kristanna Loken (Brunhild), Samuel West (King Gunther) Alicia Witt (Kriemhild), Julian Sands (Hagen) Max von Sydow (Eyvind).
TRAILER (shows glimpse of Rob towards end)
Official Site: Europe – the Dark Ages. When the evil Twin Kings betray his father, the King of Xanten, the young prince Siegfried narrowly escapes with his life. Rescued by the kindly blacksmith Eyvind, he is raised as a simple blacksmith, unaware of his true kingly heritage. When the gods send him a sign of his destiny in the form of a fallen meteor, he is led both to the metal which will be forged into his destined weapon, and the woman fated to be his love, Brunhild, the Valkyrie warrior queen. Duty drives them apart, but they swear to reunite and never to leave another.
Siegfried comes to the kingdom of Burgund, where he earns the respect of its king, Gunther and the love of the princess Kriemheld. But a powerful evil is plaguing the land, and it is up to Siegfried, armed only with the sword forged from the god’s metal, to slay the dragon Fafnir – and to claim the dragon’s gold as his own. With this treasure comes the curse of its rightful owners, the mystic Nibelungs, and the hatred of Gunther’s adviser, the villainous Hagen, who covets the gold for his own. To gain the treasure, Hagen uses black magic to make Siegrfied fall in love with Kriemhild and forget Burnhild, the love the gods had chosen for him. The curse then spins an expanding web of betrayal, deception and greed that traps everyone, plunging a world into chaos.
Note:Â Giselher is the younger brother of King Gunther .
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Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg (Based on the novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer)
Score: Carter Burwell
Release date: Nov. 21, 2008 (USA)
DVD release date: March 21, 2009
Rating: PG – 13 (USA)
Role: Edward Cullen
Costars: Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke, Cam Gigandet, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, and Elizabeth Reaser.
TRAILER:
From official site: Twilight is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella’s soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?
I was so determined to make him like the most depressing character in the history of fiction. I think that’s the point. (in an interview with Blast)
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