Robert Pattinson Talks Breaking Dawn, Bel Ami, Water for Elephants and More!

Today at the press conference for the latest Twilight installment Eclipse, Robert Pattinson revealed some information on his upcoming projects Bel Ami, Water for Elephants, Unbound Captives and even a bit on his upcoming Twilight films, the two pats of Breaking Dawn, which he REALLY hasn’t been paying much attention to.

We’ve heard a bit about Bel Ami and have even seen photos from the set. Below Pattison talks in depth what appeared to be one of his favorite characters of his upcoming films…

Robert Pattison: Bel Ami is about a character called Georges Duroy who is a broke ex soldier in Paris in 1890. He has no drive. He’s just jealous of everything. He’s completely talentless. The only thing he does is, by accident he finds this guy in the army with a brothel and this other guy want’s to impress him so he gives him money and buys him a round and it ends up being like he’s invited the Devil into his house. He seduces his wife. He seduces all his wife’s friends. Every single influential woman he can get, he has an affair with and it ends up screwing over the entire society.

All that we’ve known so far about Water for Elephants is that both Pattison and Christoph Waltz fought for the role and that both Sean Penn and Reese Witherspoon are in it — can someone say Oscar bait?. Find out more about the film and his role in it below…

Robert Pattison: Water for Elephants is a story about a guy in 1931 whose parents both die in a car crash when he’s at Cornell University studying veterinarian science. He jumps on a train out of desperation to find something else and it ends up being this circus train. He ends up falling in love with the star attraction who’s also the wife of the ring master and all the chaos that ensues after that.

As for Madeline Stowe’s upcoming project Unbound Capitves, Pattison confirms most of the stuff we already know…

Robert Pattison: Unbound Captives: It’s a Western. It’s a sort of romantic, drama, western. My character is the son of Rachel Weisz. He get’s kidnapped by Comanches when he’s four and is raised by them. And my mother spends like 15 years or something trying to find me and when she finds me and I come back I can’t speak English anymore. I don’t recognize her and she doesn’t recognize me and I have kind of massive ADD in it as well.

According to Kristen Stewart, many of the Twilight-ers have known that Breaking Dawn was going to be split into two movies for some time and everyone was doing their best to keep it under wraps. Apparently that wasn’t a problem for Pattison who appears to be just focusing on the acting side of Twilight and not too much of the rest of it…

How long have you known that Breaking Dawn was going to be two parts? Have you met with Bill Condon yet?

I found out about Breaking Dawn being two films when the press release came out (laughs). Bill Condon, I met briefly a few weeks ago kind of by accident just before the MTV Awards in a bar. He seemed great. He seemed like a really, really nice guy. I haven’t talked to him in detail about anything but Gods and Monsters, that was an amazing movie. I think it’s going to be good. I don’t even know where we’re going to shoot it yet or anything.

We’ll be back with more videos and stories from the press conference with Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, The Cullens and more!