Paul Aguirre-Livingston: You must get asked a lot about working with a certain teen heartthrob on the upcoming Cosmopolis.
Denise Cronenberg: Oh, Rob? Poor guy had to stay in his trailer the whole time. That's not what I call fun. But he's a dream to work with. What a terrific kid.
Kristin Scott Thomas knows a thing or two about typecasting in her native land. “If the character is cold, witty and a snob, they’re going to call me,” she opines.
What she finds less easy to understand is the hold two of her recent co-stars – Ryan Gosling and Robert Pattinson – have over other women. “It is rather extraordinary that I have ended up acting with these incredible heart throbs,” she says. “I have to say, I don’t get it really.”
Uma Thurman has praised her 'Bel Ami' co-star Robert Pattinson for his acting ability.
The 25-year-old actor became very involved for his role as 19th century Parisienne womaniser Georges Duroy for the film, and Uma insists he is constantly working hard to bring his skills up to the "next level."
In an interview with Stylist magazine, she said: "He's very serious. He did a huge amount of rehearsals in his own time. I think that's what you do when you're a young actor, when you take your work very seriously and want to take it to the next level."
Uma, 41, rose to fame as a teenager in films including 'Dangerous Liaisons' and 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' and while she finds it hard to be as serious as her co-star - famous for his role as Edward Cullen in the 'Twilight' franchise - she did offer him advice on set.
She added: "When you've been doing this a really long time, it's hard to take it all so seriously. I said to him, 'Don't get too upset about it, because, before you know it, 'Twilight' will just be an old film that made you lucky enough to get another job. But when you're in that position and you're young, it's hard to hear through the noise."
Uma doesn't like to watch her oldest roles again, and she displayed a similar attitude to Robert in her earlier years.
She added: "I find it excruciating to watch myself as a teenager. I've made a vow never to do it. I was only 17 and working with some of the finest people you will ever meet in the industry, but you don't realise until you've spent 25 years trying to work with such a group again."
You'd think any actor would jump at the chance to work in a film that stars Robert Pattinson. Think of the exposure they'd get!
However, one of Pattinson's Cosmopolis costars says it wasn't the Twilight hunk that drew him to the film...
"Everybody keeps asking me what Pattinson was like," Jay Baruchel told us last night at the premiere if his new film Goon at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood.
"He's a lovely man, incredibly polite and very disarming, but I was just there because [director] David Cronenberg is my idol," he said. "I got to be directed by my hero and I would have just picked up his dry cleaning, so the fact that I'm in it—I don't even remember what I did. I was just kind of there watching the whole time."
In the flick, Baruchel plays a man who starts a tech company alongside Pattinson. And we're surprised to hear none of Baruchel's friends or family begged him to come to set to meet the Breaking Dawn actor.
"I surround myself with girls who keep their stuff on the DL," he grinned. "So I think my sister kept it to herself."
Is Baruchel even a Twilight fan? He laughed, "Not really."
Source: E!Online I Via: RPLife Too bad Cronenberg didn't direct one of the Twi-flicks!
The fragrant Robert Pattinson plays the cynical accidental journalist whose adventures drive the plot of Bel Ami. They must have had some interesting conversations about the pressures that early success can bring. There are few idols more hotly pursued than the star of the Twilight films.
“He’s wonderful,” she says. “He’s handling everything very well. He never brought any of what he was going through to the set. He was always incredibly well prepared, very professional and a very great actor. I loved working with him. We joked a lot. Made fun of each other and had a great laugh.”
Did she have advice for him? “Not really. He seems to be handling it all very well. I can’t imagine being as famous as he is.”
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As the winner of several Olivier awards, British director Declan Donnellan is used to the odd coup de theatre, that moment when events on stage take a turn for the astonishing.
But what happened on the red carpet in Berlin for Bel Ami, his feature film debut, had even Donnellan thinking he had lost the plot.
"There was one moment when I thought I'd gone mad," says Donnellan, who was in Glasgow last month for the film festival premiere of Bel Ami with the movie's co-director, the theatre designer Nick Ormerod.
"I was convinced I heard some people scream 'Nick', 'Declan'. I thought this is really pathetic, you've gone mad. But we looked round and there was a group of about six people who had photos of us taken from the set, pulled from the internet. We were so grateful," he says, laughing. "We threw them in Rob's face."
The "Rob" to whom he refers, and the reason why Donnellan and Ormerod were amazed to receive any attention at all, is Robert Pattinson, one of the stars of Bel Ami but best known for playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga. For Twihards, as fans of the vampire films are known, Pattinson is a one-man Beatles, or a taller Daniel Radcliffe, take your pick. When he walks a red carpet it gets very noisy, very quickly.
While promoting "Goon," a film he stars in and co-wrote, Jay Baruchel shared his experiences working for a short period of time on the Manhattan set of "Cosmopolis." Unfortunately for the Pattinson fans out there, according to Baruchel, Cronenberg's next movie might be too strange for them.
"An exceedingly strange movie," Baruchel said, describing "Cosmopolis." "All the Team Edward girls won't be seeing this one, I don't think."
For Baruchel, working with Cronenberg — who made a name for himself with horror films — was a dream come true. "Basically, it was that Cronenberg is a hero of mine. I'm a Canadian boy. I love horror. That's all I want to do," Baruchel said. "If you're a Canadian horror fan, Cronenberg's the Holy Grail."
The opportunity for Baruchel came about in a rather mundane way, but his reaction to it was anything but. "I was in Manhattan last year, keeping my lady company, and they called up and were like, 'Hey, do you want to do two days on this new Cronenberg?' I said, 'Yep!' 'Wait, wait. We'll send you the script.' I couldn't care less; what I'm playing is a means to an end. I just want to go and film-nerd-out about 'Videodrome' with him for two days."
The actual experience of working with Cronenberg did not disappoint. "Not only did I get to go and be a fly on the wall for two days and watch one of my heroes do his thing, I actually had the pleasure being directed by him," Baruchel said."Coolest thing ever."
Grazia Daily: You’re working on Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson now, what’s that been like?
Denise Cronenberg: Oh, he’s lovely! He’s such a nice, sweet kid. He’s intelligent and smart; he was very brave to take on something like this because I think he was quite hesitant at first. But David is wonderful with actors and he’s a father of three, so he uses that. He and Robert had a wonderful relationship. It was an unusual film to do, very unusual. We had to do a rave, street fires and have cars exploding for this film! David and I decided what we thought we’d put Robert in. I then talked to Gucci who were incredible and gave us all his clothes. He’s dressed from head to toe in Gucci from the tie to his socks! And we had no money, like really, no money so we could never have done it without them.
24:00 - She says she loved filming Water for Elephants and cried when she had to say goodbye to Tai
26:30 - Says she loved Water for Elephant's dresses
33:00 - She says that Rob loves animals, that it was the reason he agreed to do the movie. Talks about Tai and that she was always following him and that he was also good with Uggie.
44:00 - Her most challenging role was Water for Elephants because of the circus training, learning how to work with the elephant and the horses.
47:00 - How was to play Rob's love interest in Water for Elephants and his mother in Vanity Fair? "Totally weird".
And love she does. If becoming this Parisian socialite sounds like
Ricci's SoHo pipe dream come true, it's not the only fantasy on offer.
There was also Pattinson. Locking lips and limbs with the Twilight star
in a series of boudoir scenes, Ricci gets more R-Pattz ass than Bella
Swan ever has. So come on, Christina, kiss and tell... "Everyone keeps asking me how is to kiss Robert," she says. "He's a good kisser. And I'm not being nice. It's just like that."
She may be six years his senior - he was just four when Ricci made her
film debut as swimming-obsessed moppet opposite Cher in 1990's Mermaids -
but Ricci insists that she and Pattinson got on famously. "He's always
the kind of guy that you can look at and go, 'Oh God, This is
uncomfortable!' And he's really lovely to work with, especially in those
kinds of scenes, because he's so quick to laugh at himself - and me!
He's very self deprecating, as am I."
Ology Rob
Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had been keeping mum on their
relationship for years even though it was clearly obvious to Twilight
fans that the two were an item. No more Team Edward and Bella jokes. It
was and still is all about RPattz and KStew. The two tend to be quite
shy during red carpet premieres but their affection toward one another
has been quite different. Their Breaking Dawn co-star Daniel Cudmore,
who plays Felix in the series, chatted with Ology about the two and how
their relationship was handled on set. He was pretty reluctant at first
but after hearing that the romance was finally confirmed he gave us a
bit more detail.
"Yeah, they--did they come out about that? I don't know. Yeah, I
don't know. It's funny because I think the whole time everyone--it
doesn't matter who you are and where you are--when you see two people
together you know," Cudmore said. "You could just tell whether or not
they are in a relationship. But you know at the same time like it's not
really any of our business to pry or poke and at the same time they just
kept it very professional. So--and then obviously they are trying to
hide it from everybody else."
Trying to hide a high-profile relationship from the public can be a
struggle for any couple. So as Cudmore agrees, filming such a phenomenon
like Breaking Dawn in Vancouver helped the cast stay grounded and
ultimately helped in keeping the paparazzi away. "That's the tough
thing, and I give kudos to the people on the top positions, because all
of the things that they have to deal with on top of just trying to
deliver on set every day and be the face of a franchise. I mean I
couldn't imagine the pressure that they were going through with
everything else on the side."
Stewart recently went public in November 2011 with the romance when she
mistakingly told GQ UK that her "boyfriend is British." At the time of
the photo shoot she didn't think that her response was a part of the
actual interview.
The fragrant Robert Pattinson plays the cynical accidental journalist whose adventures drive the plot of Bel Ami. They must have had some interesting conversations about the pressures that early success can bring. There are few idols more hotly pursued than the star of the Twilight films.
Grazia Daily: You’re working on Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson now, what’s that been like? 
Ology Rob
Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had been keeping mum on their
relationship for years even though it was clearly obvious to Twilight
fans that the two were an item. No more Team Edward and Bella jokes. It
was and still is all about RPattz and KStew. The two tend to be quite
shy during red carpet premieres but their affection toward one another
has been quite different. Their Breaking Dawn co-star Daniel Cudmore,
who plays Felix in the series, chatted with Ology about the two and how
their relationship was handled on set. He was pretty reluctant at first
but after hearing that the romance was finally confirmed he gave us a
bit more detail. 
