Chat: with Robert Pattinson

November 27th, 2009 • By Camilla • Eclipse, Robert

Times Live have posted an interview with Robert they did with him on the set of Eclipse. Read it below!

On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, Canada, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it.

Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury, with a cellphone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside.

Robert Pattinson, 23, from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks. Instead he lives in danger of being trampled in a stampede of teen love. He plays the vampire Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga, the biggest books-to-screen phenomenon since Harry Potter – in which, by the way, Pattinson was Cedric Diggory, heroic golden boy and victim of Voldemort. Boy, his life has changed since Hogwarts.

In Canada, he is shooting Eclipse, the third of Stephenie Meyer’s quartet of novels. The second, New Moon, was released this month in a publicity extravaganza that involved shutting down New York’s Times Square. The last time the actor was there, the square was also closed to traffic, for an event only marginally more fascinating to the world: the election victory of Barack Obama. We talk on the phone. Even now, a year afterTwilight’s release, Pattinson sounds utterly stunned by the hysteria swirling around him.

“It’s been a little frightening,” he laughs, a sort of embarrassed chuckle, the sound of someone negotiating the best bit of luck they have ever had, not wanting to sound blasé or overexcited. “In England, no one had heard of the series when I went for the audition, so it has been a total, utter surprise. The change to my everyday life is so extreme. Before this, I was used to working 10 days a year. Originally, I did a three-picture deal, but I wasn’t even really thinking about that . I had no idea I’d still be working on it now.”

Does the poor boy, who still calls London home, feel he has to hide? “I tend to stay in the hotel because where I’m staying is publicised all the time. There’s always a bunch of people outside. I can’t really be in Los Angeles now at all. It’s not that the fans are threatening, but the paparazzi follow me all night.” This hounding can evoke an absurd sympathy, considering the kid’s fortune and prospects. But then he brightens, telling me he was buying a guitar the other day and had to spell his name 12 times, and the guy still didn’t twig. “I loved that.”

When he read the first script, he had no idea how to play it. “I thought Bella, the heroine, would be a damsel in distress and I’d have to be the alpha-male hero type, so I thought I was never going to get it. But then they cast Kristen Stewart and she’s not really like that, so I realised there was a different way to play Edward, to show his vulnerability.” Could he get trapped and find it hard to move on to different sorts of roles?

“It worries me, because the whole Twilight thing keeps getting bigger and bigger, and now it’s so big, even my own ego can’t cope with it. A certain amount of success you can mentally deal with, but there’s a point where you think: ‘Jesus Christ, what is this? I’m not that great!’ I just wanted to make an American film, and I wanted it to be relatively good and to be good in it. I have never pushed to do anything . As soon as you start going to the gym every day and try to look like a movie star, you’re going down a worrisome track.” He laughs. “Being an English guy, you get a lot more breaks. You’re allowed to look a little worse. It’s that thing about English teeth.”

To say New Moon is eagerly awaited is like saying the Pope could use a miracle. Moreover, it promises to be twice as hormonally charged as Twilight, since it offers two poster boys for the price of one.

Is Pattinson embarrassed to have millions of girls in love with him? “The only time it’s embarrassing is when you do a photo shoot and people try to force you to look clean-cut,” he says. “When they use pictures where you’re smiling sweetly and having your hair brushed, because that’s not what you want to be known for. I don’t really know why the girls love the movie so much. The series has become a bit of a cult. People like being part of the club. They’re obsessed.”

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Dorlocita said:

I like Rob’s unshaven, smoking, drinking a beer, biting his nails, hair messy, pics the most. And by the way, when twilight is done, Robert will have his life back. His roles will change and so will his audience.

November 27th, 2009

patricia zavala said:

it would suck to be in your hotel room so that girls wont get you but it sucks cuz you cant really do anything with all the fans and stuff but you are a amazing actor and i hope to see you in more movies ans stuff and i hope that maby one day i will get to meet you

November 29th, 2009

patricia zavala said:

im sorry that you have to go through that but you cant blame them cuz your fans love you and think that you are amazing cuz you are i just hope that one day i will get to meet you

November 29th, 2009

patricia zavala said:

i hope to meet you one day cuz i am one of your fans but i dont think that i will ever meet you and im sorrythat you have to be in a hotel room for a while

November 29th, 2009

dorlocita said:

What draws me to Rob? His boyish charm. His sexy baby pigeon-toed walk. The magic he brings to the big screen. It’s all that. Yeah, I like all those things

November 30th, 2009

Penny Fearn said:

im not obsessed but i do love it… rob pat suits everything..and i dnt think he has got better as a actor…i admir his work..and for many years i have wanted to be an actor… im not going to give up on my dream but i know i can do it…

December 1st, 2009

maria sobron said:

Hello I am a girl who is 12 years old and am mad for edward nothing that you know that these very good

edward i love youu

Your you are the best and nobody is since like I your you want very much

December 1st, 2009

arzu said:

ı love you robert

February 12th, 2010

arzu said:

senı sevıyrm

February 12th, 2010

breezie pruitt said:

i am your biggest fan

March 6th, 2010

pipi and lara said:

hi robert we are your biggest fans literally we watch twilight everyday o h and you should see our rooms its all twilight it was nice talking to you plz reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 6th, 2010

ashley holbrook said:

hi my name is Ashley Holbrook i’m a fan there is one wish i want to is to sing a song with u and i want meet u and the other cast and i want to come to my school it is call madison high school it is in ohio i think u are a really good actor and i like u in twilight and new moon oh if u see a girl with a jones bag thats me i don’t like them i want one of u it would be cool if me and u could sing one at my school i wish i could be in a movie so if u finds this you are awsome my big sister likes u oh silly me i’m 16 years old oh and i want a kiss from u that sound silly well if u go i’ll see u

May 15th, 2010

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