New DiorRob Article in ELLE Magazine (France) New Interview New Pictures!

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Robert Pattinson, the phoenix.

Is there a life after Twilight? It's the question the actor is trying to answer by using his talent in independent films and his sex appeal with Dior Homme fragance. Meeting.

"The most important is to be cool" . After 5 years being in the eye of the Hollywood storm, Robert Pattinson finally understood everything. The reveleation didn't come out of the blue, walking his dog in LA streets. We always felt in him a king of unease. And he still find it hard to hide ( perhaps he wasn't really trying) the fact he was at the right place doing the kind of movies that made him an idol. "Playing in movies you won't want to see, it makes things a little harder" he confesses. It's hard talking about them, hard to promote them, ahrd to relate to this audience.... Up to the moment I met David Cronenberg, who cast me for Cosmopolis, I had the feeling to "fall" into roles I didn't really chose. Above all I was trying not to sink. For the first time I thought I've been chosen for my talent. David gave me self-confidence. It changed everything in the way I considered my job as an actor".

Funny moment you'll say to become the new face of a famous fragance brand, lend ( in exchange og a lot of dollars) his face to Dior Homme and see his image all over the billboards all over the world? In fact, not really. Of course Dior wasn't the first brand to ask Rob Pattz to do so. Before her, others certaintly imagine they could capitalize on the huge popularity of the Twilight hero. But is seemed the honorable French House managed to find the right words to convince him. Or rather the "right" word: freedom. Pattinson used it to fullfil an actor's dream: shoot with Romain Gavras, the French Underground gifted director who is surfing between the super cool ( the video clip "Bad Girls" from M.I.A) and the extremely controversed ( The Video clip "Stress" from Justice). "I've been trying to contact him for aboutt a year and he never answered my calls. When Dior contacted me, I thought "I'm sure he'd like to work with me if I proposed him a Dior ad". Bingo! Gavras accepts and restores the actor's image who is lacking artistic legacy and the French House's that is always looking for hype credibility.

The film he directed is indeed a champagne bubble, a duster of cool influences from the sixties, where Rob and the french top model Camille Rowe are making out, are smoking cigarettes, driving fast in an old BMW convertible on the beach.... a very New Wave, sensual and fresh atmosphere. Sounding like a crazy fan, the star is assessing his unlimited admiration for the "anarchist" Gavras "He has a completely different conception of the world from me, he is extraordinary self-confident. I'm rather neurotic. It's boring but at the same time I like it , my lack of self-confidence is the only thing I find interesting in me."

We can say it , with Robert Pattinson, there's a big mistaking. His love story with Kristen Stewart, the swirls that agitated his couple, up to the break-up, a few months ago, didn't help to improve things. And he's extremely aware of it. "People saw me in one or two movies and the decide that's what I am. It's up to me to go and fetch the directors with whom I want to work with. I'm doing it but to do so I must overcome my shyness. It happened to me a few days ago: I met one of my hero at a dinner. I sent him a text message rhe following day to tell him I'd like to work with him. After 3 hours withiut any answers, I was on the verge of sending him a message to apologize, it would be lile 'Sorry, sorry. It was so presumptuous from me'. But he eventually answered me. "

Feveris like a young girl in love, Pattinson has this mix of passion, detachment and extreme lucidity that makes his daily work complicated. Once again, 'Cosmopolis' and his first experience in Cannes marked a turning point: "I promised myself to only do the things I loved." Not easy in a land of very big productions, when professionals advised him to "make a male audience." "I don't even know what it means 'to make a male audience', I don't want to force guys to go watch my movies" he laughs. But the young wolf is not completely naive and he understood that the cool was a necessary condition to be noticed by the independent cinema. "In fact it's just marketing and the most important in marketing is to be coherent. It requires to refuse tons a package of propositions. Of course, the risk in this business that evolves so quickly is to refuse projects up to the day they don’t propose you anything anymore. When that day comes, i’ll have to apply for ‘Dancing with the Stars’."

At the moment, he's announced to star in the next Werner Herzog movie, alongside James Franco and Naomi Watts (He doesn't confirm this information), and he's just finished filming 'The Rover', the first David Michöd's movie, acknowledged screenwriter, author of 'Hesher' and 'Animal Kingdom', really close to the Edgerton brothers. A clique that he's right to get close to in order to be accepted by the aficionados of the US independant cinema. Then, he'll find again his fairy godmother, Cronenberg, in 'Maps to the stars', script by Bruce Wagner, a leading figure of the new generation of American writers.

Even if he finds some kind of twister pleasure in hiding behind the character of this nerdy geek and tormented, Pattinson doesn’t lack determination and is building a career that seems to look like him. After all, DiCaprio was previously followed by screams of crazy young girls as well, and Brad Pitt showed off his pecs in 'Thelma and Louise' and even in some episodes of 'Dallas', way before David Fincher, Neil Jordan or Terry Gilliam gave him the keys of more substantial roles. No one criticized them for it. And we will forgive Rob Patz for choosing movies of second zone before. Especially since he promises, while laughing, under the amused gaze of his new female colleagues from Dior, that he's going to make an effort about his look: "I like fashion but I’m not confortable with the fact that people will judge me on what I’m wearing. So, I always wear the same thing. But look, I have this Dior jacket that was given to me and I wear it everyday!" It's never too late to do things right, Rob. Let's hope that with a perfect look, he'll keep his frankness. "A few months ago, I started drawing dresses for women, "Haute Couture" dresses ..." He bursts out laughing again. "It was probably a sign that I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown!" Fragile, touching and irresistibly sexy despite himself, Pattinson, the teen idol, has finally become a man.