Robert Pattinson stars in David Cronenberg new movie about the dark side of Hollywood, Maps To The stars, and has admitted the fictional character of Havana, played by Julianne Moore, an actress beyond her best days, isn't far from the truth in Tinseltown.
Moore received the best actress gong for her unlikeable but sympathetic portrayal of the Havana, who is struggling to upset her star might be falling and Pattinson is full of praise for the depiction having, he claims, known people a lot like her.
Naming no names, he told the Independent: "I've met characters that are pretty similar to those depicted. Everyone is saying that the film's so biting, but I think it's sympathetic to a host of characters. Women like Havana, in reality people would despise her, they don't have any friends for a reason, but I don't think anyone comes out of the movie hating her and I think that's testament to Julianne's performance. It's interesting and that's why people are interested in the subject, it's a bunch of weirdos who spend a lot of time self-obsessing and talk about it afterwards."
The movie reunites Rob and director Cronenberg, following the 2012 film Cosmopolis and both films sort of have a running theme as Pattinson's characters are both connected to limos. In Cosmpolis he played a billionaire who drove around New York in a limo, this character drives it and is a struggling screenwriter. So what does Rob think of the connection? "It's a bit weird. It's like Cosmopolis was the audition for this: 'Well he fits into a limo, why look for someone else?'"
Rob talks Maps To The Stars (FameFlynetUK)
After the Twilight movies, Rob has actively tried to avoid the mainstream and instead sign up for smaller projects, like Guy Pearce sci-fi The Rover and his upcoming role in Queen of the Desert where he plays TE Lawrence, opposite Nicole Kidman's Gertrude Bell in a biographical tale of the British archaeologist's life.
But for anyone thinking this was a Peter O'Toole re-make, Pattinson assured that he's very much a supporting cast member. Speaking of the role, he said: "It's sort of close to the real guy, it's certainly not [the film] Lawrence of Arabia-like, At the same time the guy was really small and I'm not physically kind of right for the part, but I think I have quite a good little handle of who he is. After I got cast I started researching and there are certain things you can't do as I'm just not physically the same so I had to invent it a little bit, and it's a small part as well. The film's about Gertrude Bell, it's really not about making Lawrence of Arabia."
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