Rob and 'Water for Elephants' in Total Film Mag - June 2011

Total Film UK Interviews with Rob, Reese and Francis Lawrence. Rob talks about working with 'Oscar winners', animals, the movie and more. Francis Lawrence talks about casting Rob and Reese talks a little about Rob's fans and paparazzi. There's also a short interview with Gary Johnson, Tai's trainer, where he talks about Rob. And Total Film reviews Water for Elephants.

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 And their review of the film...


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Rob quotes " You can never really predict what an audience is going to do or how they are going to perceive something. It's a very different role but I don't feel pressure to change people's opinion. You can't...if that is what you're going for people will always see through it. And they definitely wouldn't you. As soon as you jump into the ring and make it really obvious that I'm 'proving' myself to do something, then everyone's going to question it a lot harder. I really like the period 'Water for Elephants' was set in. The story was sweet.  I love working with animals. almost more than people. I wasn't a career choice. Maybe a little bit. "
On working with Oscar winner... "When they first got cast I was a little bit nervous. But it was an insurance policy. You're not just doing something where its entirely on your shoulders. When you see the trailer and it got 'Oscar winners Christoph Waltz and Reese Witherspoon', they're giving it legitimacy already. There's something nice about that.

From Francis Lawrence "The biggest surprise is going to be Rob because he is so well known for playing a very specific character in a movie which has such a specific tone, and he's very , very different in this. One of the reasons I cast him was that when I sat down with him I felt that naturally that Rob is the character of Jacob. He has, even with everything around him, a sense of humility, and he looks at things in the world with a sense of wonder."

5 comments:

Khou said...

I love this quote "He has, even with everything around him, a sense of humility, and he looks at things in the world with a sense of wonder."

Anonymous said...

So few comments? I feel like everyone missed the fact that this is the first review of WFE from a real critic...and Rob's performance is praised.

valéria said...

I love this review! finally some recognition for rob! but I must say that I would ever understand all that has relentlessly negative to remember me and this obsession to always associate him with the Twilight fandom ..... there is so much more than Edward!

RockFan said...

"A swoony, enjoyable, old-time romance whose best acts are a period-perfect Pattinson and a playful pachyderm."

Awesome.

Anonymous said...

It's really nice to see a review where Rob's acting is praised without any snarky comments about his acting being wooden or Edward Cullen being mentioned. Nice :) I really hope this movie shows critcs that Rob is a fine actor.