People Magazine: Robert Pattinson & His Water for Elephants Costars

Posted on 01. Jan, 2011 by in News

People has a new article on Rob’s decision to play Jacob in Water for Elephants, including interviews with the film’s animal coordinator and director.

“Rob was non-committal until he saw the elephant,” recalls the film’s animal coordinator Paul ‘Sled’ Reynolds. “After he met Tai, he knew he wanted to do this movie. He absolutely adored that elephant.”

… While it was important to the filmmakers that Pattinson bond with Tai, their chief concern was making sure sparks flew between him and Witherspoon, 34.

“I saw early on that those two had a real on-screen chemistry,” the film’s director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) tells PEOPLE. “There was just this thing that happens between the two of them when they are together as those two characters that was very exciting.”

Go to People.com to see what the director had to say about his first meeting with Rob.

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One Response to “People Magazine: Robert Pattinson & His Water for Elephants Costars”

  1. Deedee

    02. Jan, 2011

    Cute! even an elephant can’t resist the urge to touch that face.