Robert Pattinson on Edward Cullen

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal­i­for­nia — Mil­lions of women all over the world dream of being held in his arms. He’s strong, hand­some, charm­ing and endear­ingly old-fashioned. But sev­eral scenes in the upcom­ing film “New Moon” seem to reveal a dif­fer­ent side of Robert Pattinson’s iconic char­ac­ter, moments that raise an intrigu­ing ques­tion: Is Edward Cullen a jerk? 

 

From uncool park­ing prac­tices, to stalk­ing, to aban­don­ing his loved one in a time of need, per­haps the 108-year-old vam­pire needs a class in mod­ern eti­quette. For more on the topic, we took the spoiler-free evi­dence straight to RPattz him­self for an all-in-good-fun investigation:

A Volvo Faux Pas? — It’s not giv­ing any­thing away to say that the first time we see Edward in “New Moon,” Bella is watch­ing him park his car in the Forks High lot. Pulling in side­ways, he takes up three spaces (!) and then struts toward the cam­era defi­antly. “Yeah,” Pat­tin­son laughed when asked if tak­ing up mul­ti­ple spots is a dick move. “I didn’t help the sit­u­a­tion much [with the strut], either. I always thought [park­ing like that] was a lit­tle strange myself.” Blam­ing direc­tor Chris Weitz’s instruc­tions for the shot that was meant to make Edward look more cool than cocky, RPattz tried to defend Edward. “I think [he did it] because that was the only spot, there weren’t any other spots avail­able,” he offered, insist­ing it looks bet­ter on film to drive across mul­ti­ple spaces than to exe­cute a three-point turn between parked cars. “It would be less of a dra­matic entrance if I’m, like, back­ing up into something.”

Please Stay 100 Yards Away From Bella — A critic once called Edward “one of mod­ern fiction’s best can­di­dates for a restrain­ing order,” and after watch­ing the “New Moon” movie, it’s hard to dis­agree. He spies on her while she sleeps, gets angry when she sees friends he doesn’t approve of, keeps deceiv­ing her dad — and even when they’re bro­ken up, his appari­tion watches Bella’s every move. “I guess that’s what the story is about in ‘New Moon’,” RPattz admit­ted. “I love Char­lie — Bella’s dad’s — atti­tude toward Edward in this one; he never gives him a break about any­thing, he’s just con­stantly say­ing, ‘That guy. He’s just ter­ri­ble for you.’ ” Dra­mat­i­cally, how­ever, Pat­tin­son said that a court decree to stay apart wouldn’t make for a very roman­tic movie. “I guess the restrain­ing order wouldn’t really be very good for any­one,” he joked. “But [Bella] could use a restrain­ing order. I think if [Edward] wasn’t a vam­pire, and this was in real­ity, a girl’s par­ents would think he was an oddball.”

Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em — Sure, there are exten­u­at­ing cir­cum­stances, but here are the facts: He told Bella he loved her and in the new movie he dumps her and splits for Italy. Not cool, Eddie, not cool. “One of the main things I felt [while film­ing the breakup scene] was what fans think of Bella and Edward’s rela­tion­ship, what that rep­re­sents to them as the ideal rela­tion­ship,” Rob said, admit­ting he felt like he was being a jerk to all the female Twi­lighters when he dumped Bella. “You’re break­ing up the ideal rela­tion­ship. I felt a lot of the weight behind that … you could really feel the audi­ence watch­ing as you’re doing it.”

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