Robert Pattinson Interview With Madame Le Figaro (France) & New Photos!

Robert Pattinson is the featured cover story for the recent issue of Madame Le Figaro (France) magazine to promote Water For Elephants!  Here’s a part of the interview with Madame (Google translation)

Madame Figaro. – You shoot a lot. Besides the last two episodes of the saga Twilight , you’ll see in June in Bel Ami , Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, and soon in Water for Elephants , by Francis Lawrence. What attracted you in the role of Jacob Jankowski, animal trainer in a circus?
Robert Pattinson. - First, the book of the young novelist Sara Gruen, an incredible success in the United States, whose action is in the 20s in a traveling circus. Suddenly, with this role, I had the opportunity to leave the modern fantasy of Twilight , to live among the animals, touching the concrete things.

You seem drawn to the romantic past …
Yes, I include the history of America, I’m interested. In reading the script, I immediately hooked. It seemed obvious and easy. Jacob is a being tormented and mysterious. He lost his parents, he does not want to dig into his past and if this includes traveling circus, it is to prove himself as a veterinarian. It also ignores that he will live a violent passion and forbidden.

Your profile is accurate: that of being lonely, misunderstood and very attractive. It is a common point to all your characters.
That’s true. As if Edward, the hero of twilight , was the common thread of all these roles. Jacob sees things in black and white. As for Edward, he always distinguishes good from evil. In a sense, my characters are Manichaean. That’s why I try to bring inner complexity.

And Bel Ami , how did you work? Georges Duroy, the hero of the novel, is older than you.
It made ​​me hesitate. And then I started because Maupassant is my favorite French writer. Bel Ami is a classic unbeatable. With Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci, my playmates, we had fun. I concentrated on my game its great freedom of action.

Bel Ami is an animal, my first character is completely cynical and ironically enough honest. But it is destructive. He plays a sort of game where nobody respects the rules, where everyone has connections, a great travesty worldly where the key is to pretend. He cares, he does what he pleases, and that is precisely that appeals to women.

A bit like you after all …
Oh no! I’m no Don Juan. This is something that is beyond me and is actually quite cool, all those fans who take pictures of me, these blogs, this buzz. Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London or Paris to find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.

One thing you rebel, a dark side. Who are your role models, your favorite actors in movies?
James Dean only made ​​three movies, I like Giant with Elizabeth Taylor . But for me, the great icon of the 60s, it’s Marlon Brando, with this kind of rage internalized, this duality between masculinity and tenderness hidden. I’m also a fan of gangster films with James Cagney and Paul Newman, especially in Cool Hand Luke . And among actresses, Isabelle Huppert and those I love the golden age of Hollywood as Ava Gardner, the arsonist, and Katharine Hepburn, whether class, so rough and so funny. Kristen Stewart, whom I admire the game, has a small side Hepburn.

Audrey than Katharine?
No, Katharine. I’m not a fan of Audrey. I know she likes girls of my generation, but I find it a bit too girly.

You wear a fragrance?
Mine, my body odor. (Laughter.)

Read the rest at Madame!

I bet his body odor smells divine.  *sniffs*  LOL!  I beg to differ about his sex appeal!  I don’t see guys like Rob walking down the street that’s for sure!  *stares at the photos*  Nope!  Never seen a guy like that before!

[Source: Madame via PattinsonLife]

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