Fan Encounter with Robert Pattinson(PICTURES) PART 05

Robert Pattinson has 5 bodyguards!

Robert Pattinson travels with five minders who guard him from fans.

Bosses at production studio Summit hired the heavy mob during shooting of Rob's latest film 'Remember Me', which is slated to hit UK screens on April 2.

The Twilight hunk has been forced to travel with bodyguards after almost being pushed under the wheels of a car by frenzied female admirers in New York's Union Square.

"If it hadn't been for the quick-thinking of two members of his team, he could easily have been a goner," the Daily Star quoted an eyewitness as saying.

"He was pushed off the sidewalk by the sheer number of fans who were trying to get close to him and fell against the door of a moving vehicle.

"If his clothing had got caught or a foot had gone under the car there's no doubt he would have been dragged along and seriously hurt," the eyewitness added.


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Robert Pattinson interview- 'Twilight' star wants to go from heartthrob to serious actor

"I don’t know why I didn’t see it coming,” Robert Pattinson says with a small smile. “I thought I’d be doing this tiny little film in New York, just hang out in New York.”

It didn’t quite work out that way.

Pattinson made the “tiny little film,” all right — a perfectly right-sized indie called “Remember Me” that opened Friday, with Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin as college lovers and Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper as the fathers who inevitably complicate things.

It was the filming itself that was over the top.

“It was nightmarish,” says director Allen Coulter, who handled the on-location shoot. “How he managed it, I don’t know. The paparazzi and the hordes of females?”

At one point in the movie, Pattinson’s character — a Holden Caulfield-ish rich kid named Tyler — has a chat with his tween sister in a city park. Coulter says hundreds of screaming fans showed up, hoping for a glimpse of the “Twilight” phenomenon.

“Just bedlam,” the filmmaker says. “But I thought he handled it very well. He thought about nothing but the film. He’s quite an actor.”

Co-star Brosnan — who wryly allows that “I’ve had my own fair share of admirers, long may it last” — says he was impressed by how Pattinson has been handling the “vortex of fame.”

“As a man of certain years and time in this business, and having sons, I want the best for this young man in every possible way,” he says. “And I think he’s acquitting himself grandly. I think he’s got a head on his shoulders.”

“Pierce was very mentoring on the set,” Coulter says. “He felt very paternal, certainly.”

The younger star’s appearances in public require a certain amount of forethought, subterfuge, quick thinking and stolid security. (During this interview, a very large and unsmiling man stood outside the door to his suite). The details of his private life — which he works hard to keep private — are the subject of rumor, analysis and outright fiction.

Case in point: his “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart. Since that movie series began, fans — and celebrity muckrakers — have tried to link them. First, the young stars denied a romance. Then they simply said nothing. Finally, haltingly, the actor confirmed to a British paper, “We are together, yes.”

But the two young stars still play it carefully, avoiding being photographed together, entering parties separately. “If there’s a photo, they’ll write a story about it,” a wised-up Pattinson observes. “If there’s not a photo, no one seems to care.”

Pattinson — who is rather shy and stammering in real life — doesn’t want to say anything more about it now; at a round-table interview late in the day, just an allusion to “your girlfriend” makes him laugh a little uncomfortably and roll his eyes before carefully saying nothing.

You can’t blame him. Any quote he gives is analyzed like some utterance from the Oracle of Delphi — or the Federal Reserve. When Details magazine recently put him in a Helmut Newton-ish photo shoot full of naked women, he joked that he was “allergic to vaginas.” The net erupted in a flurry of snarky posts and head-shaking questions: Was Rob Pattinson really gay?

“People take everything so literally,” he says now, running a hand through his eternally tousled hair.

It is all a little silly. But it also explains why, over a long day of press conferences, round-table interviews and private chats, the actor — who describes himself as “sort of uncynical and innocent” about love — is reluctant to give away too much about his private life.

“When the spotlight seems to be quite centered on you, the best thing I think anyway is to stay as much of a mystery as you can,” he says. “Don’t try to label yourself, don’t put yourself out there, because that only creates stories. . . . I don’t think your public persona is in any way helpful to your career.”

So here, with and without his help, are a few answers to the mystery of Robert Pattinson.

The beginnings

He was born in London in 1986; his mother worked for a modeling agency and his father was an upscale car dealer. He had two older sisters, who liked to dress him up as a girl (here comes another round of gossip), and attended a school he didn’t care for. He loved music — particularly guitar and piano — and by 12 had begun to do some modeling.

Acting, though, still wasn’t quite on his radar.

“I’ve always really, really, really, really liked film,” he says (and proves it, later on, by casually referencing classic Jack Nicholson performances and obscure Godard works). “I always watched a ridiculous amount of movies, and was quite educated about them from a very young age, but I never put it together about wanting to become involved with it.”

Then he joined an amateur drama club “as kind of a lark.” That he was good at it — that he enjoyed it — surprised him. (“I don’t like showing off — I don’t even like performing that much.”) But he started getting some parts on British television. And then came the role as the tragic Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

The Potter films were, of course, their own phenomenon. Yet Pattinson felt a little apart from it.

“The Potter films are shot at this random studio out in the middle of nowhere, so no one is waiting outside the gates for a glimpse, ever,” he says. “There’s nothing around. And I was still this complete enigma. I could kind of do what I wanted, and I could for ages. . . . I went to see Daniel (Radcliffe) do ‘Equus’ in London and no one even noticed me.”

Then Pattinson got the “Twilight” job. He knew the books were popular; he didn’t know what to expect from the movie. He got an apartment in Los Angeles and, after the shoot was finished, went back to looking for the next gig.

“Every single day, I’d go to a convenience store and get a bagel and a Snapple and read scripts,” he says. “And then, all of a sudden, I’m there on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Okay. And then the next day I went out to get breakfast and everyone was staring. And then a month later, there was the first Comic-Con and everything exploded. People were just screaming. Screaming.”

The almost orgasmic reactions shocked Pattinson because “the books are really so much about chastity. But people sexualize it in their heads. It’s so odd, and so funny. The fan fiction that people write and post — all of it ends up with Edward and Bella in bed. Or Edward and Jacob. Or everybody! It sort of ignores the whole point.”

But then, he admits with a laugh, “I think I’ve got a problem with reading scripts. I always seem to take the opposite meaning. Almost every job I’ve ever done — I don’t know why this is — but I talk to people after I’ve read the script and they say, ‘You’re seeing this the wrong way entirely.’ I disagree with almost everyone about absolutely everything.”

But the people who know Pattinson — from studio employees to co-stars — agree on one thing: He’s a sweet, unaffected young man. The moody Edward of the “Twilight” saga, the impulsive, raging Tyler of “Remember Me” — they’re only proof of what a good actor he is.

Real acting chops

Brosnan talks admiringly about his “grace under pressure.” Coulter notes that although Pattinson had signed for his small drama before the fame of “Twilight” really “went haywire,” afterward he remained committed. He didn’t try to renegotiate the deal. He didn’t beg to back out so he could take on a bigger-budgeted, better-paying job.

“On the contrary, he really wanted to do it because he knew it was an opportunity to prove he wasn’t just this flash-in-the-pan guy from ‘Twilight,’” the director says. “And he does prove it ... He’s not extremely experienced, and he’d be the first to say that. But he’s very smart and very dedicated and very, very hard on himself. Not on others — he’s generous and complimentary about everyone else. But he’s not generous with himself. And that’s actually a pretty endearing trait.”

Pattinson says he just appreciates the chance to prove he can be more than a glittering vampire.

“I was reading tons and tons of scripts and thinking about what to do after ‘Twilight,’ and there were so few that didn’t follow the same pattern,” he says. “Young guys, completely innocent virgins who learn the way of the world — every single story followed the same pattern, and (‘Remember Me’) didn’t really at all. It didn’t feel like it started at the beginning and ended at the end. It felt like it sort of started with chapter nine and ended seven chapters before you expected it to.”

Pattinson knows that people will attach outsized expectations to the movie just because of his participation. (“If it doesn’t make any money, what is he? What is his worth to the world?”) But he’s trying to ignore them. He’s already working on his next project, a new version of de Maupassant’s “Bel Ami,” playing a heartless seducer. And there is the third “Twilight” picture, “Eclipse,” scheduled for June — and, eventually, the series’ finale, “Breaking Dawn.”

After that? He shrugs and laughs.

“I don’t really know,” he says. “I hardly like any (scripts) I see. I’m sure it will end up looking quite random when you see what my next jobs are.”

Besides, right now, his main job is just trying to have a normal life.

He is not complaining, not really. And even if he’s sick of the paparazzi, he is certainly not whining about his fans, the “Twihards” who stand screaming outside premieres or shakily hand him photos to sign.

“People coming up to you in the street is nice,” he insists. “It’s just when people know they can make money off your life, that’s when it becomes difficult — because they’re relentless.”

So he has strategies.

“It’s a bit of a hassle, but if you make sure you don’t go where the crowds will be, if no one finds out where you’re staying or having dinner, then it’s fine,” he says. “People say I should just accept it, don’t let it rule my life, but having photographers surrounding me when I’m trying to have dinner? That’s not life for me at all. If you can avoid that — which is possible, most of the time — then it’s not crazy every single day.

“And then when it isn’t,” he adds with a grin, “then you can actually enjoy the kind of hysterical parts.”


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Five Reasons Why Robert Pattinson's New Movie Will Hit—or Not

Remember Me will hit because...

1. It can't miss.

Nobody expects the film, a straight-ahead romantic drama trying to make a go of it in a genre dominated by Nicholas Sparks-spawned titles, to topple Alice in Wonderland, or even challenge Matt Damon's Green Zone for distant second at the weekend box office.

Given its lean budget—only $16 million—Remember Me doesn't have to do a lot to get fat: A debut in the neighborhood of $10 million would do it. Heck, even Leap Year, which nobody liked, and which didn't feature an abbreviatable star, opened with about that much.

2. Team Pattinson is on board.

Guess who's made the Twilight franchise a megafranchise? Young women, followed by formerly young women. Guess who's most into Remember Me? Young women, followed by formerly young women.

3. It's all about the all-new Eclipse trailer.

Sure you could watch it—and did—on your phone this morning, but Pattinson's hair and Taylor Lautner's abs look so much bigger on the big screen. Isn't that worth the price of admission alone?

Maybe. Or, then again, maybe not. Which brings us to the second part of our countdown:

Remember Me will bomb because...

4. One compound word: Bandslam.

Despite great reviews, a franchise-familiar face (High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens) and the supposed lure of the all-new New Moon trailer, this 2009 summer flick failed to open in the top 10. If it's true Pattinson's a far bigger name than Hudgens, then it's also true Bandslam's Rotten Tomatoes score was far higher than Remember Me's (at least as of late Thursday).

5. One stalled breakout vehicle: Me and Orson Welles.

Zac Efron might have graduated from HSM once and for all in this Richard Linklater drama, but he couldn't put bottoms in seats. The $25 million movie barely made $1 million domestically.

On the plus side for Pattinson, Efron did break out, even if his movie didn't. And if a Wildcat can do it, then surely so can a vampire...er, right?

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Rob with Fans in London March 11

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Robert Pattinson – take away his used shirts, shoes and cell phone…now!

Ever thought about using those checks shirts Robert Pattinson is seen the most? Or using the cell phone that touches Rob’s hands, and sometimes lips too? Or walking with the same pair of sneakers Rob used once?

Well, here’s a chance for all those guys who want to impress their gals dressing up like RPattz! And you don’t have to buy the duplicate ones as Rob’s used ones are up for auction!

People magazine reports that the outfits worn by the hot Brit star in the movie “Remember Me” will be held for auction. The auction will be held at Premiere Props’ warehouse in El Segundo, California (128 Sierra Street, El Segundo, CA 90245). The stuffs will be on display from 9AM to 11AM before starting off with the auction at 11AM PST.

The auction will be live both at the venue as well as online. The websites where the fans can place their bids are www.icollector.com or www.LiveAuctioneers.com. The list of items from the movie “Remember Me” is on display at http://www.icollector.com/search.aspx?p=1&q=remember%20me.

One can also call up Premiere Props at (310) 322-PROP / (888) 761-PROP to know further details.

A major part of the collection at the auction will be handed over to the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

A large number of items from RPattz’s forthcoming film are placed for the auction. Attires like Rob’s dreamy blue Prada suit, slip-in Birkenstocks, off-white LNA T-shirt, purple stonewash half shirt etc. and also the accessories like the flip-on grayish silver cell phone, baseball bat, sneakers, backpacks etc will be available for the fans to own.

Apart from Rob and his movies’ items, there will be stuffs from other popular films like “The Blind Side”, “Leap Year” etc along with the used items of the stars!

So, have you started making the list of items you want?

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Pattinson lives like a vampire

Robert Pattinson’s real life is not much different from that of the vampire he plays in the hit Twilight series, for the actor rarely steps out in daylight in fear of being mobbed by over enthusiastic fans.

The 23-year-old star, who portrays Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of the novel by the same name, revealed he dodged trailing paparazzi and screaming followers and managed to be one his own while driving through LA.

"I'd been working all year pretty much without a break, then I'd gone back to LA and I'd been followed around all the time,” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.

"I finally escaped from people and I drove past this guitar shop and I was just like ''I need to remind myself why I'm doing this''," he added.

The Brit further said the reception is different everywhere he goes, saying: "Every time I come back to London I'm always thinking it's going to be the same as America but it never is. People don't look for the same stuff.”

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Robert Pattinson stays in the Twilight to try and hide smoking habit

Robert Pattinson has been bemoaning the fact he's been spotted again smoking - despite having pledged to give up numerous times since he shot to fame as Edward Cullen in Twilight.

The 23-year-old was first spotted in sparking up at the end of 2008 just after he'd first shot to fame - much to the consternation of his anti-smoking fans.

He's since tried to give up on a regular basis - most recently last month - but can't quite kick the tabs and has now been spotted sparking up on the London set of his new movie Bel Ami.

Poor R-Pattz is apparently worried about what his mum will say...

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Robert Pattinson wants to tonsure his head!

Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, who is busy promoting his upcoming movie Remember Me, is reportedly considering shaving his golden brown and tousled locks. The New Moon star would love to tonsure his head. In an interview, he said that he was busy with promotional works for the past few days. So he could not have a haircut.

Recently, Robert Pattinson appeared on US TV's the Early Show. Answering a question whether he would like to shave his head, Rob said, "Oh yeah, definitely. I would love to. I was so frustrated the last few days promoting this because I need a haircut and can't have a haircut because I'm working."

Rpattz also spoke about his forthcoming film Remember Me. He said, "It feels like a late 70s, romantic... romantic dramas [back then] were a little bit deeper than they are now. Everyone in it is a good person."

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Robert Pattinson: Why does he hate watching himself on screen

Twilight actor Robert Pattinson has admitted that he hates watching himself on screen. Now, his fans just go crazy over his films and count the days to his next release, but Edward Cullen aka Robert, himself, is not a big fan of himself.

He loathes when he sees himself on celluloid coz he finds it difficult to believe in his character. He knows that he’s only doing the part of anactor and so, unlike his fans who drool over his vampire character, he finds his screen avatar a fraudulent one. He also confesses that he is unable to convince himself and always gets this eerie feeling that his emotions are fake and phony.

He quips, “I hate watching myself on screen, because I’m constantly worried that I’ll look like a fraud. Even before I started acting, I was constantly thinking I was faking my emotions. I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up, pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate – I actually didn’t feel anything.”

He also recalls, “I took my mother to the ‘Twilight’ premiere and squirmed through the first ten minutes. But in the end I couldn’t bear it, so I had to leave and went out and sat in the car.”

Now with such a weird confession, I wonder what his fans would react like……….

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ROBSTEN lovey-dovey during remember me screening

ROBERT Pattinson and Kristen Stewart behaved like they were the only two people in the theater at the actor’s movie premiere in New York City Monday night.

According an eyewitness who saw the couple inside the Big Apple’s Paris Theater, Rob and Kristen were pretty touchy-feely during the screening of Remember Me.

“Inside the theater, Rob rushed to sit down next to Kristen, who had been seated already. Kristen immediately asked him, ‘How was it?’ — referring to his red carpet entrance and interviews. He shrugged and smiled,” said the onlooker.

“As the lights went down Kristen clapped along with the crowd. She leaned over to Rob and nuzzled her head into his neck. He leaned his head into hers. They looked quietly affectionate and at ease with one another.

“During various scenes in the movie, Rob gave Kristen a nudge shoulder to shoulder. It was a cute gesture, perhaps to show her how into her he is. Throughout the movie, they each took sips from the same water bottle and they nuzzled into each other’s necks as they whispered and cuddled.

“It looked like they were kissing each other’s necks at different points in the movie — about six times. They definitely looked like a cute couple sharing quiet moments together.

“At one point, Kristen laid her head on his shoulder and he rested his on hers. Their little signs of affection were mutual.”

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Robert Pattinson linked to Greek God

ROBERT Pattinson has been likened to Greek god Zeus — by his Remember Me costar Emilie De Ravin.

The Lost actress says the Twilight star’s sex appeal is largely lost on her and she finds his fanatical admirers hilarious.

“Working with Rob was like me and Zeus,” says Emilie. “I heard girls were fainting at his movies. That’s hilarious.

“But I have to say he is a nice guy and working with him was easy.

“We both got along really well. We spent lots of time just getting to know each other as people so that helped.”

Emilie recently revealed that she enjoyed filming sex scenes with the British hunk.

“He’s a lovely guy,” she said earlier this week. “Nothing felt unnatural or weird. Sometimes those things are awkward, but we get along really well and we’re friends. So everything in that respect then was much easier. It became just a part of the day.”

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Robert Pattinson Makes Family Dejected Over Dog Comment

Robert Pattinson is in big trouble with his family after recently naming his late pet dog as "the most important person in my life" in an interview. The "Twilight" star left family members and friends stunned when he didn't hesitate to name his pooch as the one person that meant the most to him.

He tells WENN, "I keep talking about my dog all the time. I had this incredible dog which I talked about in this interview the other day and I said the dog was the most important person in my life and my family went crazy at me for saying it. It (his death) was one of the most defining moments of my life, it was the worst day of my life having the dog die."

And, out of respect for the pet, Pattinson refuses to conjure up memories of the day his dog died for emotional movie scenes - where he has to cry. He adds, "I was talking to people who picture a dog dying when they want to cry and I was like, 'I would never do that!' It cheapens the memory so much."


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Robert Pattinson is terrified of breaking down in interviews

The 'Twilight' heartthrob gets stricken by nerves whenever he has to speak about himself and wishes he could stay out of the spotlight when he isn't making movies.

He said: 'During interviews I'm incredibly nervous. I don't want there to be a silence, because I'll start crying out of nervousness. I just say the first thing that comes into my head. But the only way to establish any kind of mystique is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. Unfortunately, I have to. It's in my contract.'

The 23-year-old star - who is dating his 'Twilight' co-star Kristen Stewart - hates watching himself on screen because he always feels like a "fraud" who is ill at ease with his emotions.

He explained to Live magazine: "I took my mother to the 'Twilight' premiere and squirmed through the first ten minutes. But in the end I couldn't bear it, so I had to leave and went out and sat in the car.

"I hate watching myself on screen, because I'm constantly worried that I'll look like a fraud. Even before I started acting, I was constantly thinking I was faking my emotions. I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up, pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate - I actually didn't feel anything."

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Robert Pattinson didn't want to do "Twilight"

ROBERT Pattinson admits he DIDN’T want to star in the Twilight movies.

The British actor — who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the smash hit film franchise — says he was keen to perfect his craft before taking part in such a high-profile project.

“At first I didn’t want to do a movie like Twilight,” he said. “I specifically hadn’t done anything that anyone would see since Harry Potter, because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn’t want to be an idiot. I was going to wait for another year to do two or three more little things and then do something bigger.

“Twilight came kind of randomly. It was a chance and, as I didn’t have a reputation at all, there was nothing for me to lose.”

“The producers actually asked me to take my shirt off at the audition,” R-Patz recalled. “I thought, if that’s the criteria, then you’ve got the wrong guy. I knew about the audition five months beforehand, but I didn’t want to bother getting a six-pack or doing much else at all in preparation — but looking back, I might have combed my hair. I thought that I had to be this bland guy with his shirt off who people just project ideas onto. At first I thought to play Edward in an interesting way was totally impossible.

“There was a lot of debate about the make-up I wore in the film, as at first it looked ridiculous, because I’m already quite pale with dark eyebrows. I didn’t even think of make-up when I got the part, and I wasn’t too involved in any of the decisions. I was more of a victim.’

Pattinson — who’s rumored to be dating his costar Kristen Stewart — admits that while he liked his character in the first instalment of Twilight, it was only in New Moon that he really warmed to the role.

“I understood Edward much more in the second one than in the first,” he said. “New Moon is about his being compelled to do the wrong thing, and I understand that a lot — especially when it comes to relationships.

“Edward makes a mistake in New Moon that’s acknowledged by everybody, including himself. He’s totally undermined physically and emotionally and so is much more humanised. In the first one, he’s still an idealistic character from beginning to end.

“In New Moon, he’s more the hero of the story who refuses to accept that he’s the hero. I think that’s kind of admirable. Once you’re immune to failure, nothing matters. I saw that after being the hot thing for a few months after Harry Potter; it calms down until no one cares. It helps knowing that pretty soon, no one will care.’

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'I understand Edward Cullen now, especially with relationships,' says Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson has revealed that he has come to identify with his '"Twilight" charcter Edward Cullen in "New Moon."

“I understood Edward much more in the second one than in the first,” he said. “'New Moon' is about his being compelled to do the wrong thing, and I understand that a lot — especially when it comes to relationships.

“Edward makes a mistake in "New Moon" that’s acknowledged by everybody, including himself. He’s totally undermined physically and emotionally and so is much more humanised. In the first one, he’s still an idealistic character from beginning to end.

“In 'New Moon,' he’s more the hero of the story who refuses to accept that he’s the hero. I think that’s kind of admirable. Once you’re immune to failure, nothing matters. I saw that after being the hot thing for a few months after 'Harry Potter' it calms down until no one cares. It helps knowing that pretty soon, no one will care.’

“At first I didn’t want to do a movie like 'Twilight” he told Showbiz Spy. “I specifically hadn’t done anything that anyone would see since Harry Potter, because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn’t want to be an idiot. I was going to wait for another year to do two or three more little things and then do something bigger.

"'Twilight' came kind of randomly. It was a chance and, as I didn’t have a reputation at all, there was nothing for me to lose.”

“The producers actually asked me to take my shirt off at the audition,” he said.

“I thought, if that’s the criteria, then you’ve got the wrong guy. I knew about the audition five months beforehand, but I didn’t want to bother getting a six-pack or doing much else at all in preparation — but looking back, I might have combed my hair. I thought that I had to be this bland guy with his shirt off who people just project ideas onto. At first I thought to play Edward in an interesting way was totally impossible.

“There was a lot of debate about the make-up I wore in the film, as at first it looked ridiculous, because I’m already quite pale with dark eyebrows. I didn’t even think of make-up when I got the part, and I wasn’t too involved in any of the decisions. I was more of a victim.’

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TACA Airlines interview with Rob

His mother used to be a model; from her, Robert Thomas Pattinson inherited his good looks and a passion for acting. Pattinson was born in May 1986 in London, and his father is a car salesman. But it was his mother who encouraged him to become an actor and helped him land his first big role at age 15—when he became the good-looking Cedric Diggory in one of the famous Harry Potter films. That’s where the director of Twilight saw him a couple of years later. Not convinced that Pattinson could bring vampire Edward Cullen to life, she made him travel from London to Los Angeles for a screen test. The test was a love scene with the one who would become his co-star in the saga and also the young lady who stole his heart: Kristen Stewart.

Fans of Pattinson, who love him unconditionally without knowing him, would melt at the opportunity of speaking to him and seeing him just the way he is behind the scenes. He’s a bit shy, smart and very affable with occasional acquaintances—à la Johnny Depp, one of the actors he admires. His blue eyes are always smiling, especially without the discomfort of the contact lenses that he must wear while playing Edward in Twilight, New Moon and the upcoming movie, Eclipse. Edward is the character that, in spite of himself, has made Pattinson extremely famous around the world.

“It’s too much attention. I still don’t understand why something like this happens, and I think I’ll never understand it. It must be that pale skin is very sexy (he jokes). It’s very hard to see as normal the fact that girls see you, start screaming and ask you to please bite their necks. When I was going to school, just the opposite happened to me. You lose a lot of privacy, but I’m not complaining. Don’t let it be misunderstood; I’m just trying to survive the new fact of having turned into a phenomenon almost as big as the vampire I play,” he says while seating on the edge of his chair, leaning his elbows on his legs and holding his face in his hands—one of his favorite poses.

Like Stewart, he keeps messing up his hair, which very much despite himself has also become his trademark. “Before, I used to wash it once a week. I didn’t pay attention to it at all, and now everyone makes sure I don’t cut it,” he says, smiling. “My hair has its own life, how silly.” He hasn’t been able to go back to London and live there for an entire year because he’s been working non-stop, and hotels have become his permanent abode. His friends say that he’s looking for a home in L.A. to live with Stewart. Theirs is a relationship with only photos as a witness and not the actors themselves; that’s because, among other things, their publicists forbid journalists from asking them about it.

Pattinson just finished filming the third part of the vampire saga, Eclipse, which will once again focus the frenzy upon him when it premieres in June. He also filmed the romantic drama Remember Me, which is also about to premiere and in which he plays a rebellious youth in a story similar to that of Romeo and Juliet. It’s about a forbidden love between two youngsters whose parents hate each other. According to the critics, the film helps to show that before the heartthrob that he doesn’t want to be, Pattinson is a great actor.

They must send you hundreds of screenplays. What makes you choose a movie like Remember Me over others?
The screenplay is amazing, and that’s the first thing I look at—and also my character. At first, I thought it would be just one more story. When I read it, I realized that it was a drama that would allow me to express myself as an actor. I hadn’t read Twilight and, nevertheless, Edward also obsessed me—especially the idea of getting into the skin of an immortal being and sharing his doubts. I wouldn’t want to be immortal at any price, but as an actor this saga lets me be like that from time to time.

You also played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. What did you learn from that experience?
I began to paint pretending I was him, and thanks to that movie I discovered how much I like painting. And I thought Dalí was a genius; the more I read about him, the more his mind fascinated me. There, I play a young Dalí, who just returned to Spain from London and who likes to play jokes on his friend Federico García Lorca, playing with his emotions, telling him he’s gay. It was three marvelous months in Barcelona, and another British actor and myself were the only ones who knew how to speak Spanish, how embarrassing. But I fell in love with the city.

Did you use to travel a lot before having to travel for purely promotional reasons?
I loved traveling, and that’s what I miss most about my life before Twilight. Now I like to go on promotional visits to places like Tokyo, where I can walk around more peacefully and lead a pseudo-normal life. When I was younger, I took a long trip to Berlin. I always liked exploring cities, going to their clubs. I’m a musician; I had a band and like that atmosphere. Now I make up for it by composing when I’m at the hotels, during filming. I want to produce a record but when all of this passes, later on. People on the street call me Edward; if I launch an album, they’re going to buy it thinking that Edward is the one who’s singing. How strange!

In New Moon, you only appeared in one of Bella’s dreams. What will Eclipse be like?
I can’t say much in advance, but only that it’s not as intimate as the other two, because many of the characters are at war. Taylor [Lautner] and I have many scenes in which we seem jealous of each other, and that was pretty easy because it’s incredible how much he transformed his body. It’s amazing. All of a sudden, Taylor turned into a Jacob that is the prototype of a teenager’s dream. All the same, our characters unite in the movie to save Bella.
Are you somehow similar to your vampire, Edward Cullen? Can you understand the passionate love he feels?
It’s very hard to compare yourself with a vampire. What I like most about him is that he’s very operatic, very white or black, always going to extremes. He loves but can’t enjoy it because he’s afraid of his love killing her. I think the movie is a perfect metaphor of sexual abstinence (laughs). Edward is conflictive, and I also am. He’s a bit dark, and I have my depressive moments. And as far as his approach to love, I think we’re alike. I like lasting emotions; I want to be with someone for 10 years and not just for 10 minutes. Like Edward, I’m very intense.

You and Kristen became really famous at the same time. Did you help each other understand the phenomenon?
It’s great to share intense experiences with someone who’s also trying to understand what’s happening around her. It’s not easy to become a poster stuck on a teenager’s wall; there’s no school to prepare you for that. Kristen is a great actress; I learned a lot from her. But basically I think that we’re alike in that both of us want to be actors, just that—we never tried to be posters.


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Robert Pattinson Sunday Herald Sun Interview

AT 23, Robert Pattinson’s chosen career is simmering along quite nicely, thank you, with the handsome London actor pulling in an estimated $20 million, give or take a few bucks, last year.

Having kicked into high gear playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) before the hugely successful Twilight series, “R-Patz” (or sometimes even “Spunk Ransom”), as he is known, is the cause of instant hysteria among young women around the world and much innuendo in the gossip pages.

But he is in a relationship with his beautiful Twilight co-star, 19-year-old Kristen Stewart, and both are so in demand that you wouldn’t think they would have time to read anything salacious about themselves.

They don’t, but Pattinson gets reminded of it constantly, nevertheless.“I still get my mum (Clare) calling me up every single day and questioning me about the gossip stuff,” he says with a slight shake of his head and a smile.

“I don’t like people I know reading that stuff about me because it kind of distorts everything. You’re inevitably going to find something bad eventually and I don’t want to be having to do PR to my family.”

Other than that, Pattinson’s sudden surge of fame through his vampire character, Edward Cullen, in the Twilight movie franchise has not overwhelmed him.

“My family has dealt with it really well,” he says. “I mean, they’re pretty untouched by it. My sisters (Victoria and chart-topping singer-songwriter Lizzy) are fine. They occasionally get their Facebook (pages) hacked into and stuff, but that’s the only downside.

“I’ve just been working in England and it’s the polar opposite to working in America. There’s no-one around the set and it is wholly different working there, so I’ve been getting to know what a normal life is like again.

“People are very different about it in London. If they do recognise me they’re embarrassed to say something and you can go into so many areas where people have no idea who you are.

“In London the other night I went out to have dinner in some pub somewhere and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, ‘You look just like that guy from Twilight’. I was astonished because every time she came up she was like, ‘You literally could be his brother’ and she never put two and two together.”

But while Pattinson relishes his relative anonymity in England – in the US and elsewhere he inevitably draws a crowd – he sometimes struggles with whether or not he should just sweep fame up in his arms and embrace it.

“I’m wondering whether I’m holding on to something I should be letting go of by not changing anything,” he says.

“But, you know, I don’t particularly feel any different and I think because I’ve gone from job to job to job it means you stay in this sort of netherworld, so I feel relatively untouched.

“It’s kind of like accepting that you’re famous or just staying blind to it. I’m sort of wondering whether that’s the right way to go about things and whether it stops you growing as a person if you do that, but I don’t really know yet.”

He had one brief lesson in handling fame from Pierce Brosnan, who plays his father in the new film Remember Me, when the two went out to dinner together in New York.

“Some people were looking over,” Pattinson says. “They didn’t know who I was but they knew him, obviously. He went up to them and introduced himself and asked how their evening was going.

“At the time I was thinking like, ‘What are you doing?’ but it worked fantastically because no-one treated him like he was a sideshow attraction any more and I’m sure those people went home and said what a nice guy he was.

“I don’t really have the confidence to do that yet, but it works better than my method, which is just hiding under the table or leaving immediately if anyone looks around.”

Pattinson’s box office appeal has reached such a high point now that he is a producer on Remember Me, with input to deliberations on matters such as casting with fellow producer Nick Osborne and director Alan Coulter, who is mainly known for TV (The Sopranos, Sex and the City) but also did the movie Hollywoodland (2006), starring Ben Affleck.

“But I’m such a novice at all this,” Pattinson says. “At the end of the day it’s the director’s decision about casting.”

Apart from Brosnan, the movie stars Academy Award winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation, 2002), Oscar nominee Lena Olin (Enemies: A Love Story, 1989) and Australian Emilie de Raven, one of the stars of the TV series Lost.

“I read with a bunch of girls and I watched all the tapes – which is unheard of, normally, for an actor to watch the audition tapes – and that was interesting and a kind of incredible thing to be allowed to do,” Pattinson says.

“Emilie was the best out of all of them and Alan thought she was way, way best before I had even met her, so that was lucky.

“She was great to work with. She is not ‘actressy’ at all, totally unpretentious, and she’s got a lot of spunk and fire in her.”

Set in New York, Remember Me stars Pattinson as Tyler, a rebellious young man who, since the suicide of his older brother, has had a troubled relationship with his father.

Soon after taking a beating at the hands of a police officer (Cooper), Tyler meets college student Ally (de Ravin), who he later discovers is the police officer’s daughter.

Tyler and Ally, however, become soul-mates and are happy, but then their relationship is suddenly threatened.

“As soon as I read the script I just sort of related to it in a fundamental way, right from the beginning,” Pattinson says.

“I don’t know why. But I just felt very connected to it the first time I read it and as all the rewrites happened and everything about it changed, I still always felt like everything about it was very true.

“It seemed like it was written for a reason.”

Maybe just to make Robert Pattinson even more famous.

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