Robert Pattinson gave another good interview in support of The Rover. Rob spoke to The Guardian and while this isn’t one of his funniest or most enjoyable pieces ever, I still liked it. I guess Rob is probably grateful that he’s in a place where he can promote work he’s genuinely proud of, and there does seem to be a difference between his promotional work in the past year and his work during the Twilight years. You can read the full piece here and here are some highlights:

He had to audition for The Rover: “I’m quite good at doing meetings. If I’m just meeting someone about a job I’m like a dog, especially if my agent’s said to me: ‘A lot of people want this job.’ Then I’m like: ‘Oh yeah? Then I will do anything to get it!’” What’s his technique? “I don’t know, I just become a bulls–t artist! That’s when I start acting! I’m really much better at doing it when the cameras aren’t rolling …”

His pre-audition process: “I just can’t … I literally can’t do it. It’s just me looking uncomfortable, trying to put on an American accent … or sitting in the corner, making myself throw up and punching myself in the face.”

But he does enjoy acting in general: “For whatever reason, I think there’s something profoundly satisfying about being able to watch something you’ve done afterwards, or to just do a scene and feel like: ‘Oh, I just had an out-of-body experience for a second!’ Just for one second. And generally people don’t even notice. It feels literally like you’ve been asleep for a second.”

The Twilight films were the hardest work he’s ever done: “I think Twilight’s probably the hardest part I’ve done, because to do it for five movies, it’s really hard to think of stuff that’s maybe not boring. Especially if you don’t die. Because what’s the drama? You’re not scared of anything! And that’s the whole essence of drama: life and death.”

He tries to write: “I was trying to write a play the other day and I showed it to my assistant and didn’t quite realise how bad it was. I was writing it totally by myself in the middle of the night thinking: ‘This is how you do it! You just stay up all night and keep writing!’ She came in the next morning, and I’d been up all night writing. I said to her: ‘You have to read this! It’s amazing!’” He could tell it was perhaps not, he says, from her facial expressions as she read. “And then she said: ‘It’s not in English … and half the time you haven’t even put the character names in so it’s just a stream of consciousness …’”

He wants to do theater: “Something in a really small theatre. I don’t think I could do something on Broadway … But I’d quite like to do something kind of shocking.”

[From The Guardian]

He wrote a stream-of-consciousness play that wasn’t even in English? Sounds Cracken-esque. Maybe those extracurricular-partying rumors are true? I don’t know. I think Rob parties too much, for sure, but people have always said that about him and he still manages to get work and show up for all of his stuff. I remember during the Twilight years, everyone always talked about how much he drank during his off-hours, but he was never late for work, never begged off an interview, nothing. I guess that might be the definition of “functioning alcoholic” though. Maybe. But for sure, he’s a bulls—t artist. And a charming one at that.

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