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Sara Gruen gets a star turn in the film version of her novel Water for Elephants, now in post-production.

She got to meet stars Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Just as thrilling was being lifted into the air by Tai the elephant, who depicts circus elephant Rosie in the movie, due April 15.

„Her trainer told me to hug her trunk,“ says Gruen, „so I did, and suddenly I was 7 feet in the air. She gave me many kisses, probably because I always carry mints for my horses, so I was slipping her candy every time I got a chance.“

Gruen, her husband and three sons were cast as extras in a scene in which the circus performers and animals parade down the streets in Weehawken, N.J.

„We retook that scene I think 18 times,“ Gruen recalls. „I’m the one Rob Pattinson (who plays veterinarian Jacob Jankowski) elbows past and says, ‘Excuse me, ma’am’ to.“

As for Christoph Waltz, who plays an abusive animal trainer, Gruen says: „I watched a scene being filmed when he was ‘beating’ Rosie. From the side of the road, it was very obvious that he wasn’t going anywhere near her, but from behind the bank of monitors, it was extremely convincing.“

USA Today / Strictly Rob


By Jonathan Moore, Correspondent

Robert Pattinson stood inches from me. Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, both Oscar winners, were only feet away. Directly in front of me, and behind the camera, sat Rodrigo Prieto, an Oscar-nominated director of photography.

I should have been completely awestruck at the level of talent that surrounded me. Yet the only thing I could truly focus on was my aching feet and legs due to the flat slippers the wardrobe department had given me to wear – and having to stand on them for hours on end.

Playing the Tall Man, a non-speaking, featured-extra role in the film „Water for Elephants“ proved to be equal parts fun and exhausting.

Based on the popular book of the same name by Sara Gruen, the story is about a young man who joins a Depression-era circus. I was cast as a part of a group of sideshow performers that included a midget, Wolfboy, the Fat Lady, the Strong Man and a couple of contortionists.

My job was to be present in the background and, in some cases, right up next to the lead actors. I suppose my claim to fame was the scene in which I and a few other men physically shoved Pattinson to the front of a group of circus workers so that he could be properly „initiated“ into the circus life by being sprayed with water, pelted with pies and kissed by the showgirls.

But there were other scenes, too, including one on the sleeping car of the train, another when I stood with Pattinson and a few others and watched Witherspoon cavort with an elephant.

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larry411: BTW Water for Elephants WILL be a wide release.

This interview sounds a little „off“. There are quotes from the Eclipse press conference, a few interviews and some new ones (like the ones about Uma Thurman).

I can’t say if it’s real or not, maybe some things were lost in translation. *shrugs“

// OK! Magazine Turkey

ONCE AGAIN: ROBERT PATTINSON

Robert Pattinson is on the news again with the release of his most recent movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. In this interview young actor talks about Uma Thurman and Reese Witherspoon with whom he worked with in his two new movies, and how he works with his lover Kristen Stewart on set.

- According to what we’ve heard you were so hilarious on set that Taylor Lautner says you always had to reshoot because of your jokes.
Not really, I’m not funny at all (laughs), he is just kidding. These rumors are spread so that I won’t look too grumpy in interviews (laughs louder).

- But isn’t it like a caricature that you are a romantic vampire and that Taylor is a muscular werewolf? You should be laughing about this a lot when cameras are off.
Yes, in fact, it is funny but what’s funnier is that actually I have to be as muscular as he is (laughs). I can’t go to the gym, what can I do.

- What makes this new movie enjoyable for you?
I think the increase in the number of actors. In the first two movies there were only two couples and no more. This time cast is expanding and everybody has an important part in the story. This means a large cast with small roles. Also in this movie there are grandiose fight scenes as opposed to the first two movies. And this is a different stand for a Twilight movie.

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// On set, 16-07-2010

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// Telepoche Magazine

It’s in Beverly Hills that a short haired, relaxed, smiling and sometimes amused Robert Pattinson met with us to speak about Eclipse, the third installment in the Twilight Saga, where he again takes the role that made him a star.

Since the beginning you’ve been compared to James Dean, does that flatter you?
I don’t know… In fact I’ve decided to take it as a compliment. But I know that I can never take the place of a James Dean. Further more the world of movies have changed so much, people like James Dean and Marlon Brando don’t exist anymore. At the time their name alone allowed them to have control on a movie. Today that’s not the case!

Aren’t you scared that you’ll be Edward forever?
If I understand correctly I’ll always be compared to someone else. In fact I’ve realized that the quote “The salary of an actor depends on the success of his last movie” is quite true.

Does the fact that you’re pigeon holed into the skin of this character scare you?
This com parison seems to decrease as the films go. Fans don’t see me like that anymore. Contrarily to the first movie they can differentiate my character and me. At the start when I did public appearances, for them I was Edward 100%. I could read it in their eyes. Many lacked control which scared me. Everything has changed and now when I do interviews I am as honest and sincere as possible. I’m not Edward and I make sure it shows.

Besides every thing else you play with medias, like when you recently said that Kristen Stewart (his partner in Twilight) was pregnant.…
The only times I answer like that is to avoid mani ulation that medias can sometimes do. If I don’t reply seri­ously, they can’t attack me seriously either. It’s a tactic!

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The vam­pire strikes back

As you’re nei­ther Amish or a char­ac­ter from Lost (cor­rect me if I’m wrong), we won’t do you the dis­hon­our of intro­duc­ing you to Robert Pat­tin­son, 24 years old, the vam­pire that sparkles under the sun, the actor who was unknown two years ago but who con­quered the Hol­ly­wood fortress and dri­ves girls around the world crazy. You already know all that. You almost cer­tainly know that The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse (directed by David Slade, direc­tor of Hard Candy), comes out in the­atres July 7^th, a mere seven months after New Moon. The vam­pire saga which is now worth more than a bil­lion dol­lars at the inter­na­tional box office isn’t ready to hang up it fangs as the fourth instal­ment, Break­ing Dawn, is already announced for Novem­ber 2011. Pat­tin­son is get­ting tons of offers and is cur­rently nego­ti­at­ing an impor­tant turn in his career: become the new Johnny Depp or join Orlando Bloom and Hay­den Chris­tensen in the frozen aisle sec­tion. As he was fin­ish­ing Bel Ami, a Mau­pas­sant clas­sic and get­ting to begin­ning film­ing Water for Ele­phants, a Fran­cis Lawrence drama (I am Leg­end) with Reese With­er­spoon and Christoph Waltz, R-Pattz got caught by Pre­miere for an exclu­sive interview.

P: The last time we spoke you were film­ing New Moon. Now one year later we meet again for The Twi­light Saga Eclipse. I have trou­ble fol­low­ing it’s going so fast…

RP: Only two months went by between the film­ing of New Moon and Eclipse, dur­ing which I filmed Remem­ber Me. Every­thing, went by so fast that I feel like I never really left Twi­light. That being said, I still felt lost when I arrived on the set of Eclipse. I didn’t have any prepa­ra­tion time and it took me a few weeks to adapt.

P: What did you expect from David Slade and was he dif­fer­ent on set from what you imagined?

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