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Robert Pattinson leaves vampires behind in David Cronenberg's unsettling 'Cosmopolis'

Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker — a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."The "Twilight" heartthrob stars in David Cronenberg's Cannes Film Festival entry as sleek, self-centered moneyman Eric Packer, who sees his fortune and sense of self evaporate during an eventful day in his stretch limo.Pattinson's famously handsome face is on-screen in every scene, but "Twilight'''s young fans may be surprised and confused by a film that explores Cronenberg's fascination with physical, social and psychic violence.The 26-year-old actor is not worried."If some 12-year-olds went to go and see that, or got the video for their birthday — sitting down and watching that, it's incredible," the actor said during an interview on a Cannes hotel rooftop. "I would love that to happen if I was a kid."It's a bit of amiable mischief-making from an actor who wants to be known as more than...

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