The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:

Robin Wright's Interview at the New York Premiere

Robin Wright in New York City on December 19, 2011. :wub2:

Robin Wright Divorce: Marriage To Sean Penn Was 'Exciting And Difficult'

Robin Wright, whose divorce from actor Sean Penn was finalized in 2010, opened up about the couple's 14-year marriage to UK's The Times on Wednesday.

"I would use the words 'definitely never boring' to describe our marriage. It was exciting and difficult. I spent most of my life with this person," she told The Times (via Yahoo! Entertainment).

The pair married in 1996 and split in 2007, though they stopped divorce proceedings a year later.

After trying to rekindle their relationship, Penn filed for legal separation in April 2009. The couple attempted to reconcile one final time before Wright filed for divorce in August 2009.

"All marriages have their phases," Wright once said of their ups and downs.

The mom of two told The Times that she took time off from her career to focus on raising her kids. She recently returned to the big screen in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," which opened on Wednesday.

While acting is back on the table, marriage is not, Wright said.

"Would I Marry again? No. But never say never," she said. "Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it."

Photoshoot September 2011

The Moves Magazine, Robin Wright by Chesley Turner

Most of us first met Robin Wright when she played a princess. And not just any princess, but Princess Buttercup. Even with an impressive filmography, which includes The Conspirators, Forrest Gump, and the upcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we love to love The Princess Bride. Between the classic quotes and the classic tale, it’s a memorable film that stays with you. But part of what makes the film so special is its singular take on relationships, between a group of unlikely characters, its cast members, and two people in love. It’s a love story that illustrates how two separate entities can be more productive, more alive, more whole when they’re together.

“Usually in fairy tales with a princess, she’s the damsel in distress. But I would look at is as – There’s this beautiful quote, a beautiful way of looking at the connection of male and female. It’s Milton: ‘He for God. She for God through Him.’ Isn’t that amazing?” Robin quotes the inimitable Paradise Lost to display the power of symbiosis, of the dual nature of relationships. And she bemoans how the 21st century has belittled that power. “That is what I remember feeling when I was little; feeling your man is your prince! Symbolically, that’s what you wanted it to feel like. Like you could touch God through him. I wish there was more of that sweet, innocent feminine in the world. I wish we didn’t have to denigrate it.”

But don’t mistake her for a lovelorn lass. Robin’s got a handle on a very personal power of her own. “Knowledge is Power. Didn’t Malcolm X say that? But once you have the knowledge, it’s the confidence and the will that make the difference. You have the knowledge you want to apply or institute, and the confidence and will to make it happen.” That mantra is a constant in her life, through the ups and downs. “We all have to get over our insecurities. Things beat us down. We’re overpowered by things. But if we envision the change… It’s almost like the thought creates the vision creates the action. Power is real when you’re convicted in something.”

As a mother and an actress, Robin has faced the realities of family life, and of growing older with grace. “Aging is evolution. In the world and years on the planet and years in your body, with your experience. That’s the great side of aging: all that experience and history to learn from. We make big fucking mistakes. We do. And you learn and you move on and you make different mistakes.” Robin has a very pragmatic, but organic perspective on life. “God. Life is all about lessons and the reward of the lesson learned. You can apply and celebrate. Why live life unless you’re caring for other people? That’s a dire need of the world – to recognize that it is joyful to give to people that don’t have. I don’t want to wake up in the morning unless I can attain some joy or give some.”

And Robin has found a way to merge the power of true conviction with her philosophy of giving. Years ago, when interviewed by Charlie Rose, Robin shared that, in her youth, her dream job was to be an aid relief work in Africa. “I wanted to do that when I was seven years old. I wanted to go take care of the starving, disease-ridden babies all over the world because we are so blest. I remember absolutely having a desire to do that.” When the acting bug came along, she ended up championing the dreams-cum-realities of those who watch her films. But now the opportunity to help the continent that captured her concern and imagination years ago has arisen. Having recently returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on behalf of The Enough Project, she has found new inspiration, new knowledge driving action and result.

She was visiting to learn more and raise awareness about the illicit trade of valuable minerals and the resultant marginalization and victimization of women. “The impetus behind getting involved – being a part of this organization, this movement, this action – is when I discovered that we are actually helping fuel this war.” It is one of the deadliest wars in history. In the past 9 years, there have been more deaths than in the whole of World War II. And one of the most vile and pervasive weapons of this war is rape. Robin remembers seeing an interview of a young child soldier who had raped and murdered Congalese women in the course of the war. “In Africa, the woman, the mother, is powerful. Once you take her out, there’s no family. Once you rape her, you take her power… basically she is evaporated. It ruins the family. Rape is a weapon of war. It is intentional, designed, and premeditated. I saw that documentary and I had to go.”

What’s more, this war is being fought over products that effect our everyday lives. The valuable minerals in question come from the Eastern Congo and are used by electronics companies that create our phones, our computers, our suites of iThings. “We’re not saying boycott. We just want minerals to be clean, not an illicit trade.” She calls up the parallel between these minerals and the blood diamonds of South Africa. In both instances, the only solution comes by exacting change in policy. “We have to push our administration. The people have to protest, demand the implementation of a transparency scheme. We have to make it work so that people aren’t being killed when the minerals come out of the mines.

“Every 48 minutes, a woman is raped. That’s insanity.”

Beyond calling attention to a depravity that is connected to common commodities, Robin is asking for people – for us, for you – to wake up, and to speak out. “Guess what? We can help. Our money is being traded with these people, so our hands are dirty too.” Keep an eye out for a short documentary that Robin took part in, covering the concerns, the needs, and the lives of the Congalese people who are living through this war. “We’re hoping it will be picked up by Time.com, and I wrote an op-ed to accompany it. It’s the type of thing that can spread through social media.” Don’t worry; the irony that the very technology that runs on the minerals in question will be the best way to promote the cause of The Enough Project is not lost on Robin. “That’s just the way it has to be.”

Sometimes the grace, eloquence, beauty, and determination of a woman can be an unmitigated power in and of itself. A power to make change when there is no other conceivable option. “It makes it real when you’re convicted in something. I’m newly involved, on a physical level. I spent four or five years reading about this cause, and then I went to the Congo, and it has changed my life.” Robin has embraced this cause. “To have it in the palm of your hand – it becomes part of your skin. My confidence is there because my passion, my concern, my care is so deep. As a mother, you care for the people you love. This is just expanding outside of your family, your loved ones, into a more global family.”

It’s a call to action – at the very least, a call to awareness – that is hard to deny. Coming from such a passionate, involved, accomplished woman, one can’t help but be moved. It’s time for us to take a look at people who are marginalized as a part of our gain, to hear them asking for help, to recognize their right to safety and respect, and to respond, well, “As you wish.”

http://www.newyorkmoves.com/?p=1509

17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at The Hollywood Palladium on January 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.

Woody Harrelson and Robin Wright, Toronto Film Festival, 2011

Face Time With Robin Wright

LOS ANGELES — It’s a typically sunny winter day in Los Angeles, where actress Robin Wright tilts her head back and closes her eyes to get into character while a small camera crew hovers nearby.

But today’s job is not a movie helmed by a Hollywood director. Peter Lindbergh is shooting French retailer Gerard Darel’s spring-summer print campaign as advertising guru David Lipman stands watch.

The team of Wright, Lindbergh and Lipman is a tight one; the agency has conceptualized five Darel campaigns since Wright signed on in 2010; Lindbergh has been shooting the ads since 1993.

“I hadn’t met Peter until I started working with Darel, but we absolutely fell in love with each other. I could work with him all day, every day,” said Wright.

Lindbergh is working intensely to shoot the five set-ups before the light fades, and has banished all but key crew from the poolside set, but it only takes Wright minutes to summon the expressions and poses he’s looking for.

The set, at Chateau Marmont, has been designed to resemble Saint-Tropez, with buckets of peonies, red and white striped backdrops and a vintage Porsche convertible. Lindbergh also directed a short film for the brand co-written and voiced by Wright about her own connection with France.

“There’s such a high level of trust between them, which means Robin gives so much during the shoots,” added Lipman between takes.

So while there’s an obvious comfort level on the shoot, the stakes have never been higher. Under new president Marianne Romestain, the 40-year-old company is poised to expand its retail reach outside of France, and has charged Lipman with branding it on an international level. The ads will break in March magazines including British Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Spanish Vogue.

“Marianne is pushing us further to connect with Robin emotionally,” Lipman added. “It’s less about the product and more about Robin. There are very few brands that respect women and want to give them clothes to make them look good at every age, and that concept is so exportable.”

Said Wright, 45, “I normally wouldn’t do this sort of thing, but I really feel like the brand is about individuality. It’s not like, ‘Here, wear this blazer and be this person.’ I wouldn’t be a good model for any designer’s idea of what fashion is. This is about letting your own personality come through.”

While she portrays a woman vacationing on the French Riviera, Wright is not necessarily acting. “I have always loved France. After I graduated [from high school] I got on a plane to Paris the next day and stayed for years,” said Wright, who modeled in Europe before becoming an actress. Today she’s one of the busiest women in Hollywood, currently garnering positive reviews as Daniel Craig’s editor-lover in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” which she called “a dream project.” She’s also heading to Australia next month to shoot “The Grandmothers” with Naomi Watts, based on a Doris Lessing short story about two childhood friends, both grandmothers, who fall for each other’s sons. “I know that sounds strange, but when you read the script, it makes perfect sense,” said Wright. “I’m always looking for different projects because I get bored easily.”

“This ad campaign doesn’t represent a revolution, as we are known for telling colorful, cinematic stories in our ads,” said Romestain, who came onboard in June after serving as managing director of the French division of Fast Retailing Co., where she oversaw the rapid overseas expansion of French contemporary brand Comptoir des Cotonniers. “But in order to retail outside of France we need to give people a clear message of who we are.”

At Darel, a company with annual sales of 200 million euros, or $260.7 million at current exchange, Romestain plans to increase business by 15 percent each year for the next five years, mostly by way of international expansion in the U.S., U.K., Spain and China.

The brand is currently sold through 300 directly operated stores and 1,200 multibrand retailers in more than 40 countries, including Bloomingdale’s. But high on Romestain’s list for 2012 are retail stores in New York and Los Angeles.

Romestain believes a French actress, or even a French set (the ads have also been shot in Malibu, Calif.), isn’t the key to getting Darel’s message across, but rather a woman like Wright — mother, actress and activist — whose attitude and lifestyle enhance the allure of the company’s offerings. Past models shot by Lindbergh for Darel have included American actress Mamie Gummer, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stephanie Seymour, Brooke Shields and Nastassja Kinski.

Throughout her five wardrobe changes, ranging from a long aqua silk dress to a crisp white basque top and sleek pants paired with an orange Simple Bag, the company’s “It” accessory, Wright’s porcelain face conveys the bliss of a woman on holiday.

“Emotion is the direction ads are going,” Lipman noted, “and it’s time we pushed those boundaries again.”

Other firsts for the agency include the James Franco-written, directed and photographed ads and films for Seven For All Mankind and Hickey Freeman’s Francesco Carrozzini-directed docu-film featuring NHL player Sean Avery. Lipman described his firm’s latest creative efforts as “realism with a heartbeat.”

http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/the-wright-stuff-5443381

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Robin Wright sous le soleil de L.A.

L’actrice récidive dans la nouvelle campagne Gérard Darel

Rendez-vous au château Marmont, qui domine les collines de Los Angeles. Le lieu emblématique de la cité des anges a été pris d’assaut par la marque Gérard Darel pour y planter le décor de sa nouvelle campagne, et y mettre en scène sa muse de charme: Robin Wright.

Sa petite coupe courte lui donne follement un air de Jean Seberg, de femme joueuse et épanouie. Devant l’objectif affûté du prestigieux Peter Lindbergh, que l'on ne présente plus, Robin Wright se glisse dans les atours de Gérard Darel pour le printemps prochain, pour son plus grand bonheur. «Je pourrais travailler avec lui toute la journée, tous les jours!», s’extasie-t-elle, interrogée sur cette cinquième collaboration avec la griffe frenchy et le photographe star. Aventure éphémère qui se prolonge au fil des saisons, après des clichés cocooning pour l'hiver, ce partenariat nous révèle une Robin Wright à chaque fois plus glamour, qui se prête au jeu de l’égérie avec la même évidence.

Au cœur du château Marmont, lieu iconique des stars hollywoodiennes, Gérard Darel invente une histoire, celle de Robin Wright, tour à tour au volant de sa cabriolet de collection dans un caban court orange assorti à son pantalon en seersucker couleur ficelle, ou décontractée au bord de la piscine, avec son total-look en popeline blanche, elle joue l’audace avec son Simple Bag corail, le it de la saison prochaine. Romantique, Robin Wright arbore la broderie anglaise pour un moment lecture sous le soleil californien, puis se glisse dans sa longue robe fluide émeraude pour se délasser pieds nus.

Sophistiquée, lumineuse, Robin Wright incarne toujours la femme Gérard Darel à merveille, avec son aura de beauté intemporelle.

http://www.gala.fr/lifestyle_de_star/mode/...254560/(page)/7

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Robin Wright enchante Darel

La nouvelle campagne publicitaire de Gérard Darel a été dévoilée. Pour la quatrième saison consécutive, l’actrice Robin Wright incarne au naturel la marque française.

Le Château Marmont. Un lieu féérique de la cité des Anges. L’hôtel érigé sur Sunset Boulevard renferme les secrets de l’élite hollywoodienne depuis presque un siècle. Décor fantastique au cœur de la ville du 7ème Art, l’établissement a inspiré le quatrième long-métrage de Sofia Coppola, «Somewhere». En approchant la saison estivale, c’est une tout autre scène qui se tourne. Une figure du cinéma s’expose devant l’objectif de Peter Lindbergh. Elle joue un rôle qui lui est familier, celui d’égérie pour Gérard Darel.

Pour la quatrième saison consécutive, Robin Wright incarne l’image de marque de la maison française. Les clichés rétros de l’automne dernier immortalisés par le photographe allemand sont délaissés pour une campagne dégorgeant de couleur. Confiant avoir eu «le coup de foudre» pour celui qui est surnommé «le sorcier de l’image», l’actrice se révèle littéralement dans la campagne publicitaire printemps-été 2012.

En robe émeraude (Photo: Peter Lindbergh)

«Beauté franche, naturelle, jamais calculée»

Au bord de la piscine au turquoise étourdissant, l’héroïne de «Forest Gump» arbore une coupe de cheveux courte. Habillée d’un ensemble en broderie anglaise vanille, elle rêve, ayant délicatement ôté ses spartiates dorées. Sur un autre cliché, elle surgit d’un cabriolet de collection, vêtue d’un pantalon en seersucker couleur ficelle, assorti à un flamboyant blouson de cuir corail. La nuit tombant sur cette chaude journée d’été, la star revêt une robe émeraude au drapé sensuel. Sans jamais se séparer du nouveau «it-bag» de Darel.

http://www.parismatch.com/Conso-Match/Mode...e-Darel-378833/

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Robin Wright danse pour Gerard Darel

Amica March 2012 : Robin Wright by Steven Gomillion & Dennis Leupold

star: robin wright

photographer: steven gomillion and dennis leupold

stylist: sarah gore reeves

make-up: marina gravani

hair: paul norton

tfs

I so wish she had married Cary Elwes instead of Sean Penn...they were the most beautiful on-screen couple in movie history!

^ I so agree with you lileneboheme. Ugh Robin and Cary Elwes = PERFECTION!!! I'll always love this movie, it's a classic.

Thank you so much for all this gorgeous gifs

^ I so agree with you lileneboheme. Ugh Robin and Cary Elwes = PERFECTION!!! I'll always love this movie, it's a classic.

Thank you so much for all this gorgeous gifs

No problem, I'm so glad to meet a fellow fan!!!

New pictures of Robin

Robin Wright and Naomi Watts film scenes for 'The Grandmothers' with director Anne Fontaine.