Robert Pattinson Interview with Sweden's Klick! Magazine
In “Remember me”, Robert Pattinson, 23, has Swedish Lena Olin as his mother, Pierce Brosnan as his father and the “Lost”-actress Emelie de Ravin as his girlfriend. With those surrounding him and being named as our new James Dean, he is obviously this weeks Kex!
- Thanks, I guess…
Last time we met you said you hadn’t been affected by your fame since you were spending most of your time making movies. Has that changed or are you still able to go to the pub with your friends and have a beer?
- Working in England is the opposite of working in the States. When I was having dinner at a London pub the other day, a waitress came up to me and said how much I looked like the guy from “Twilight”. She said, “You could be his brother”.
- Other who recognize me in London are almost a little embarrassed and don’t even want to look at me.
How are your family members handling it?
- Mom is still calling every day asking about all the gossip. My sisters have no problems, except from getting their Facebook accounts hacked from time to time.
What do you tell your mom? - I hate having to promote myself to my family. I don’t want people I know to read things about me since they might get the wrong impression.
You are an executive producer for this movie. What did that mean?
- I was asked about the casting. But I had no oppositions. I thought Emelie de Ravin was the best by far out of those who read for the part.
You got to have a Swedish mother in the movie.
- Lena, yeah. What an amazing actress she is. I liked to study her when she was working. It was shame that we didn’t have more scenes together.
What was your first love like?
- Romantic and beautiful. But then it got worse. She broke up with me (laughs) and there isn’t much more to say about that.
How old were you?
- I was 19 or 20.
In an interview recently you said that you’re closest to your dog. What did you mean by that?
- I was kind of joking when I said that. But she was special and had been a family member for many years when she passed away last year. She was as much of a sister as anyone else.
Do you have a new dog now?
- No.
Are you planning on getting one?
- I don’t think so.
He makes a nervous laugh and lowers his eyes.
- I get so emotional by this.
Which would you choose – break someone’s heart, or getting your heart broken?
- Simple – even though I shouldn’t say it: break someone’s heart.
- It takes so long for my heart to heal. Or maybe it gets broken too often. Sometimes it feels like I have my heart broken every day.
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Rob talks Remember Me, Bel Ami and Sex Scenes in Interview with TimeOut
The hum of nervous excitement buzzing around Robert Pattinson’s hotel suite this morning is such that you half expect him to walk out with golden skin and alarmingly sharp teeth. But in the flesh, the ‘Twilight’ star is warm, earnest and posher than you might imagine, with something of the teenage schoolboy to him, even down to the frayed cuffs on his jacket. In our closely monitored chat (20 minutes! No questions about Kristin!) Pattinson talks about his role as chain-smoking student loser Tyler Hawkins in the US indie movie ‘Remember Me’, about creating ‘mystique’ as an actor and about sucking blood off his co-star’s lip.
You looked scared stiff when you were handing out a Bafta award last month. Are you getting shyer?
‘I think I am, yeah! The more interviews you do, the more stuff you say to people. You suddenly get worried that people are more likely to judge you. If no one knows anything about you, then you can say whatever you want — and just contradict yourself later. But the more contradictions you make, the scope gets narrower as to what you can say before people get pissed off.’
Where does ‘Remember Me’ fit into the ‘Twilight’ craziness?
‘I’d read tons of scripts after the first “Twilight” movie and this was one of maybe two that I liked. I didn’t work for the whole year after “Twilight”. What did I do? Nothing! [Laughs] It was really nice. I was still so used to hanging around most of the time when I was in England. And now that I’ve been working a lot, I can’t imagine going a month without fretting. So now, I’m doing job-to-job-to-job. Which is a dangerous thing to do because you have a film coming out every three months. It’s over-saturation. You have to work a bit on creating some kind of mystique.’
Mystique? Is that what you feel you need? Or what you feel people want?
‘I see people who are in newspapers and magazines all the time. If they’re in every single week, I’m far less interested in their movies. So, yeah, I am always a little bit wary.’
Your new film ‘Remember Me’ is set in the summer of 2001. Did you have any reservations about fictionalising 9/11?
‘When I first read it, I didn’t think it was contentious. I thought it flowed organically; it’s anchored in reality. It hit hard for me so I wanted to portray the same emotions that I felt the first time I read it. I’m terrified of people thinking it’s manipulative. I read the script and I felt this should be made.’
You get beaten up a lot in ‘Remember Me’. Was it fun to act like a real person for a change?
‘Yeah, it’s always enjoyable smashing things up. I guess that’s one of the funniest things about it — from the first fight, which is such a severe beating, there are all these wounds on his face, for two thirds of the movie [laughs].’
And then your screen girlfriend [Emilie de Ravin] kisses you and she’s got a split lip…
‘There was a big moment, which is in the script, where there’s a kind of kinkiness with the cut in her lip but that got cut from the movie – where I’m sucking a little bit of blood off it [laughs]. I think it was a little bit too weird.’
Is this your first sex scene?
‘No. My first sex scene was in “Little Ashes” when I was about 21, and it was with a guy. And I’m supposed to have a kind of nervous breakdown in the middle of it as well. So that was a nice introduction to it!’
Do you feel like you have something to prove, ‘Twilight’ having been so bankable?
‘I think people are really harsh about anything that becomes successful. It’s really weird. I was looking at this article about “Little Ashes”. “He still hasn’t proved his box office potential. ‘Little Ashes’ bombed.” Could it have been the gay theme? Or, er, the fact that it was only released in 16 cinemas?’
There’s a lot of fags, booze and sex in this movie. What about your younger fans?
‘That’s the least of my concerns. I think it’s so ridiculous, people putting pressure on the arts. I think parents should be the ones who teach kids. The more you try to hide things like that, the more exciting and appealing they are. [Grins] The abstinence movement is only a reaction to everybody being so obsessed with sex for the past 20 years and it being so open to everyone. It’s crazy to think that young people, when their hormones are most raging, that they’re suddenly like, “Oh, I don’t want any of that.”’
You’re currently filming ‘Bel Ami’ with Uma Thurman. You play a real swine.
‘I thought it was one of the funniest scripts I’d ever read. When they made the movie in the ’50s with Angela Lansbury, they had to change the story. The novel is about this guy who screws everybody over and seduces all these women and completely gets away with everything. And in the first film, they had to have him shot because they thought that audiences wouldn’t be able to accept it. In this one it’s the total opposite. This guy is a complete arsehole, so arrogant and stubborn and self-righteous about everything. He remains an arsehole to the end and everyone congratulates him for it.’
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Robert Pattinson Autograph's Guitar for Good Cause
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Following the encounter, guitar shop owner Norman Harris told press, “He’s really a nice guy- very shy, very quiet.”
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Old news I know.
Better late than never =)
Eclipse Sneak Peek On New Moon DVD
I totally love what I see.
I feel like a shit
for diss'n Mr. Slade
before actually seeing any footage.
Jackson's hair in this one?
Totally fucking cool.
Edward.
Totally fucking HOT
again.
NOW?
I cannot wait
I'm starting to have a good feeling
about this one,
for the very first time.
No more "Dickhead Slade"
For now...
