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Robert Pattinson Thought He Met Jennifer Lawrence, Actually Just Watched Hunger Games

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Robert Pattinson has discovered that his memory of first meeting Jennifer Lawrence was wrong all along.

The pair star opposite each other in upcoming dark comedy-drama Die, My Love, and have been busy promoting the movie with appearances at the likes of Cannes and London Film Festival.

In a new interview with MUBI, the pair were recollecting when they first met, with Robert musing: “I think I met you at a Comic Con, at the Hard Rock Hotel.”

Cue, a confused looking Jennifer.

Turns out, Robert’s memory had deceived him, mixing up meeting the star in person with watching her on-screen persona, Katniss Everdeen.

“No, now I remember what it was,” he corrected himself. “That was when I was watching Hunger Games… I was watching it in a hotel room,” with Jennifer quipping, “By that measure a lot of people have met me!”

The actor starred as protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian film franchise for one of her breakout roles, with the character famously volunteering “as tribute” to save her sister from entering into the deadly game.

In Die, My Love, Jennifer stars as Grace, a woman who falls into postpartum psychosis while holed up in a remote house as her husband Jackson (Robert) goes off to work.

In an earlier press conference, reported by the Guardian, Jennifer spoke about drawing on her own experiences as a mother to help her in her role, also expressing the struggle of separating her own actions with her character Grace’s.

“There’s not really anything like postpartum,” she said. “It’s extremely isolating. The truth is extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating no matter where you are. You feel like an alien.”

The movie is directed by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, who also picked apart unconventional threads of motherhood in acclaimed 2011 psychological drama We Need To Talk About Kevin, which starred Tilda Swinton.

Die, My Love is in cinemas on Friday 7 November.

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Line Of Duty Star Vicky McClure Teases A New Project With Her Co-Stars

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Another day, another 24 hours wishing and waiting for our nerves to be destroyed with a new series of Line Of Duty, one of the best British cop dramas to ever do it.

Since the last series wrapped in 2021, viewers have been eagerly awaiting news of a seventh season, but so far there hasn’t been any solid confirmation either way from the cast or creator, Jed Mercurio.

Now, Vicky McClure – who played main character Kate Fleming in the show – has spoken about where she’s at in terms of Line Of Duty’s future, teasing a potential reunion with her co-stars, though not in the way viewers might expect.

In a new interview with the Radio Times, Vicky said she didn’t have any updates regarding the return (or not) of the show, but added: “I don’t want to give anyone any false hope. We’ve all been very clear that we’d absolutely love to do another series.”

Line Of Duty also starred Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston as Ted Hastings and Steve Arnott respectively, who together with Kate formed the anti-corruption unit AC-12, given the unpopular job of ‘policing the police’ to weed out corrupt officers.

And while Vicky might not have delivered the news fans were hoping for, she did tease a potential collaboration with her co-stars that sounds more Place In The Sun than police procedural.

“Adrian, Martin and I have been talking about doing a travel show together,” she said. “If any of us ever has any spare time, we’ll do it. Line of Duty gave us two brilliant things – our careers and our friendship.”

Vicky, Martin and Adrian would join a long list of celebrities who have taken to documenting their travels for TV, with everyone from Jack Whitehall to Gordon Ramsay appearing on our screens in the growing format.

In fact, Martin himself has already starred in his own travel show, with his BBC Fling miniseries taking him to Scotland and Norway, meaning he’d be well-prepared to lead the charge in a Line Of Duty travel reunion.

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‘What Is There To Regret?’: Bob Vylan Frontman Reflects On Glastonbury Chant Backlash

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The frontman of the punk rap duo Bob Vylan has insisted he stands by the chant he performed at this year’s Glastonbury that landed the group at the centre of backlash.

Over the summer, the band provided Glastonbury with one of the year’s most talked-about sets, where they made headlines after leading the crowd in chants of “free Palestine” and “death to the IDF”, referring to Israel’s army.

At the time, the pair faced condemnation from Glastonbury’s organisers, the BBC – who broadcast the set live on its iPlayer service – and even the prime minister Keir Starmer.

Local police also said shortly afterwards that they were opening a criminal investigation based on both Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s Glastonbury sets, though this has since been confirmed to have been dropped.

During his first in-depth interview since the controversy arose, Bobby Vylan maintained on The Louis Theroux Podcast that he has no regrets about anything that transpired.

“If I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again,” Bobby insisted. “I’d do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays. I’m not regretful of it at all.”

He continued: “The subsequent backlash that I’ve faced – it’s minimal compared to what people in Palestine are going through.

“If that can be my contribution and if I can have my Palestinian friends and people that I meet from Palestine, that have had to flee, that have lost members in double digits of their family and they can say, ‘yo, your chant, I love it. Or it gave me a breath of fresh air or whatever’ – and I don’t want to overstate the importance of the chant. That’s not what I’m trying to do – but if I have their support, they’re the people that I’m doing it for. They’re the people that I’m being vocal for.

“[In that case], what is there to regret? Because I’ve upset some right-wing politician, or some right-wing media?”

The vocalist and guitarist went on to say he didn’t anticipate the backlash Bob Vylan’s set would go on to receive, particularly as in the moment, even members of the BBC team said it had gone well.

“It wasn’t like we came off stage, and everybody was [appalled],” he claimed. “It [was] just normal. We [came] off stage, [it was] normal. Nobody thought anything. Nobody.

“Even staff at the BBC were like ‘That was fantastic! We loved that!’.”

Bobby also had choice words for Damon Albarn of Blur, who previously called Bob Vylan’s chant “one of the most spectacular misfires I’ve seen in my life”, alleging the frontman was “goose-stepping in tennis gear”.

“There’s no space to be hyperbolic in that. Especially given what we were accused of,” Bobby responded. “Being accused of being anti-Semitic, it was disappointing. Because it lacked self-awareness, I think, his response.

“I just want to say that categorising it as a ‘spectacular misfire’ implies that somehow the politics of the band or our stance on Palestinian liberation is not thought out. And as a more senior, experienced, veteran artist – he’s been in this industry for a long time – I think that there were other ways that he could have handled that question being fielded to him.”

He added: “I take great issue with the phrase ‘goose-stepping’ being used because it’s only used around Nazi Germany. That’s it. And for him to use that language, I think is disgusting. I think his response was disgusting.”

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Shortly after Glastonbury, the members of Bob Vylan said in a joint statement: “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force’ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.”

“The government doesn’t want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity. To ask why they aren’t doing more to stop the killing. To feed the starving. The more they talk about Bob Vylan, the less they spend answering for their criminal inaction.”

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