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Of course, the subject of many interviews for Rob during his US COSMOPOLIS Promo a couple weeks ago was the supposed “affair” that his girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, was caught in, red-handed.

Actually, everyone has seen the stories — including Pattinson. “Yeah, I read it,” the 26-year-old British actor says during an interview at a New York hotel.“It’s my life. You sort of want to read it. You feel like you need to read it. It’s one of those things where you keep picking a scab. You know you shouldn’t be doing it, but it’s a weird kind of addiction. You desperately want to stop.”

“At times, I find the whole thing pretty funny,” Pattinson admits. “It is pretty funny. My life is kind of ridiculous to me. It’s so absurd at times.”

Obviously, Rob presses for more Cosmopolis talk during the interview and admits that he “didn’t fully understand” the script (Cosmopolis) at first. Cronenberg, similarly, had some reservations about casting Rob as his leading man, saying:

“I did my homework and watched Little Ashes (2008) and Remember Me (2010). I even watched interviews that Robert did. I wanted to know what this guy was like when he was just being himself. I wanted to get a feel of what he was like as a person. I wanted to know that he had a sense of humor, and he does. I finally said, ‘OK, this is the right guy.’  ”

Read more of the interview at the source.

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Through it all, he felt the love of his fans. The Twi-hards definitely have been Team Robert.

“I don’t credit that to myself,” Pattinson says. “It’s just that there is something elemental about the ‘Twilight’ books and the movies. The core story has connected to people.

“The fan love from that is kind of amazing. I guess it’s so much better than everyone hating you.”

By now he should have developed an attitude — if only he knew how.

“I want to change. I can’t make myself change. I can’t develop an attitude,” Pattinson says with a goofy giggle that is his trademark.

Adds Cronenberg, “I’ve seen him even try to change and it’s pathetic.”

In “Cosmopolis,” based on the novel by Don DeLillo, Pattinson plays a 28-year-old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager whose world is exploding. He gets into his stretch limo to get a haircut from his father’s old barber while wagering his company’s massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. His trip across the city becomes a journey as he runs into city riots, various visitors and intimate encounters.

Filming in a limo for so long wasn’t claustrophobic.

“I actually kind of enjoyed it,” he says. “In the beginning, I wanted to stay in the car for the entire day. But it was so unbearably hot. I couldn’t really do this method.

“The car made me really concentrate.”

Read more of the interview where Rob talks about dealing with the levels of fame here.

Source: Chicago Sun Times / Via RPLife

COSMOPOLIS will be playing in the following locations and opening on the listed dates. Please check back here for an updated list with additional cities and dates. UPDATE: Links to buy tickets at each theater location added.

• 08/17/2012 Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center, New York, NY
• 08/17/2012 Sunshine Cinema 5, New York, NY
• 08/17/2012 The Landmark 12, West Los Angeles, CA
• 08/24/2012 Empire 25, New York, NY
• 08/24/2012 The Beekman, New York, NY
• 08/24/2012 Los Feliz 3, Los Angeles, CA
• 08/24/2012 Broadway 4, Santa Monica, CA
• 08/24/2012 Art Theater, Long Beach, CA
• 08/24/2012 Playhouse 7 Cinemas, Pasadena, CA
• 08/24/2012 University Town Center 6 Cinemas, Irvine, CA
• 08/24/2012 Rancho Niguel 8 Cinemas, Laguna Niguel, CA
• 08/24/2012 Laemmle NoHo 7, North Hollywood, CA
• 08/24/2012 Burbank 8, Burbank, CA
• 08/24/2012 The Block, Orange, CA
• 08/24/2012 Century Downtown 10, Ventura, CA
• 08/24/2012 Kendall Square Cinema 9, Cambridge, MA
• 08/24/2012 Boston Commons, Boston, MA
• 08/24/2012 Criterion Cinemas 7, New Haven, CT
• 08/24/2012 Palace 17 & Odyssey, Hartford, CT
• 08/24/2012 Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia, PA
• 08/24/2012 Ritz 16, Voorhees, NJ
• 08/24/2012 E Street Cinema, Washington, DC
• 08/24/2012 Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Chicago, IL
• 08/24/2012 Century Evanston 12, Evanston, IL
• 08/24/2012 Cedar Lee Theatres, Cleveland Heights, OH
• 08/24/2012 Lagoon Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
• 08/24/2012 Eden Prairie, Eden Prairie, MN
• 08/24/2012 Sandy Springs 8, Atlanta, GA
• 08/24/2012 Ballantyne Village 5, Charlotte, NC
• 08/24/2012 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Austin, TX
• 08/24/2012 Arbor Cinemas at Great Hills 8, Austin, TX
• 08/24/2012 South Beach 18, Miami Beach, FL
• 08/24/2012 Sunset Place 24 Theatres, South Miami, FL
• 08/24/2012 Gateway 4, Fort Lauderdale, FL
• 08/24/2012 Delray Beach 18, Delray Beach, FL
• 08/24/2012 Shadowood 16, Boca Raton, FL
• 08/24/2012 Palace 20, Boca Raton, FL
• 08/24/2012 Winter Park Village 20, Winter Park, FL
• 08/24/2012 Downtown Disney 24, Lake Buena Vista, Fl
• 08/24/2012 Denver Film Center/Colfax, Denver, CO
• 08/24/2012 Century Theatre @ 29th Street, Boulder, CO
• 08/24/2012 Cinemas Palme D’Or 7, Palm Desert, CA
• 08/24/2012 Hillcrest Cinemas, San Diego, CA
• 08/24/2012 La Jolla 12, La Jolla, CA
• 08/24/2012 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA
• 08/24/2012 Scottsdale 101, Scottsdale, AZ
• 08/24/2012 Tempe Marketplace 16, Tempe, AZ
• 08/24/2012 Esplanade 14, Phoenix, AZ
• 08/24/2012 Fox Tower 10, Portland, OR
• 08/24/2012 Meridian 16, Seattle, WA
• 08/24/2012 Varsity Theatre, Seattle, WA
• 08/24/2012 Lincoln Square Stadium 16, Bellevue, WA
• 08/24/2012 Embarcadero Center Cinema 5, San Francisco, CA
• 08/24/2012 Century Cinema 16 – Mtn View, Mountain View, CA
• 08/24/2012 Camera 7, Campbell, CA
• 08/24/2012 Shattuck Cinemas 10, Berkeley, CA
• 08/24/2012 Century CineArts @ Santana Row, San Jose, CA
• 08/24/2012 CineArts at Sequoia, Mill Valley, CA
• 08/24/2012 CineArts 5 – Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Hill, CA
• 08/24/2012 Rialto Cinemas 9, Sebastopol, CA

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Cronenberg discusses why Rob was the right guy to play Eric Packer in Cosmopolis:

[Laughing] “Well, this is the magic of casting! I think as a director, it’s part of your job. It’s a really important part of your job. I think a lot of people don’t even realize that the director’s involved in casting. Some people say, ‘Did you choose your actors?,’ and I say, ‘Yes. You’re not a director if you don’t.’”

“Of course, you’re juggling many things, like I say. You’re juggling, for example, their passports. This is a Canada / France co-production and we were limited to one American actor. Most people of course don’t know that – nor should they. Paul Giamatti is the only American in this movie even though it takes place in New York City. So from that kind of aspect to just finding the right guy…of course he’s got to be the right age, there are a lot of things that are just basic. And then after that, though, there are no rules. You as a director just have to intuit that this actor will be able to carry off this role.”

“We often talk about chemistry, for example, in movies between actors, let’s say. When I was doing A Dangerous Method, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender – how do I know they have chemistry together because I had never seen them in a movie together? They’ve never been in one; they’ve never met each other. I don’t see them together until I’m actually directing them, so I have to be this kind of dating master who can anticipate that this couple will be good together. It’s a strange kind of thing. So you give yourself credit when it works, and you have to berate yourself when somehow it hasn’t worked. That’s basically where you’re left.”

Further, Cronenberg describes the chemistry he had with Rob, saying that Rob was thinking that he’d be “alone in the limo, a one-man show with a lot of day players coming in.” However, Cronenberg said that he had reassured Rob that this wasn’t the case, saying that “[he would] be there; [he would] be there every moment.”

Read the full interview here.

Thanks RPLife
Source: About.com

Cronenberg talks about the steps it took to cast Rob as Eric Packer, emphasizing the fact that it was a Canada-France co-production, meaning that the film’s location was not in the United States. Therefore, passports and visas became a significant decision-maker in casting the movie. Rob, being the amazing, charismatic, British actor that he was, was perfect for the role:

So I looked at everything I could find that Rob had done, including “Little Ashes,” where he plays the young Salvador Dali, and I thought, yeah, he could really do this. And I think he’s actually extraordinary. It’s ultimately intuition on my part, and casting is a huge part of directing that’s very invisible. Making-of documentaries don’t usually cover the casting process, but for a director it’s a hugely important part of your art. Juggling all those other balls that I was just talking about, and still coming up with the right guy.

Cronenberg further comments about whether he thinks Rob is “eager to change his image after ‘Twilight’, and push into doing different kinds of characters:”

Well, I know from doing interviews with him in Europe that he’s not really thinking in terms of his career. He gets offered a lot of stuff, and it’s usually very conventional, boring stuff. He’s always been interested in doing unusual stuff. He’ll tell you that when they started with “Twilight,” he thought it was kind of an indie film. Which it sort of was, you know! It had Catherine Hardwicke as the original director, and it was an unusual, off-kilter vampire story. Nobody knew that it would be the kind of mainstream success that it became.

In a way, “Cosmopolis” is a lot closer to his heart than “Twilight,” you know. When he read it, he told me that he was also struck by the dialogue. He thought it was incredibly fresh and new and surprising and engaging, and he immediately wanted to do it. He was afraid, because I think he still hasn’t come to terms with the fact that he’s actually an actor! He didn’t grow up thinking he wanted to be an actor. As with many actors, and not just young, inexperienced ones, he wasn’t sure he was good enough! He wasn’t sure he was the right guy, and he didn’t want to be the guy who would bring down this terrific project. So my job, at that point, was to convince him that he was indeed the right guy. That took me about 10 days, I suppose.

Read the full interview here.

Source: Salon | via RPLife