LOS ANGELES�ROBERT PATTINSON usu�ally arrives at our inter�views with an easy, sly grin on his face. The smile reminds us that we�re in for another humor-filled talk with the guy.
What was dif�fer�ent this time was his haircut�cropped on the side�which made him look younger.
In this chat, Robert talks about his anx�i�ety over the com�ing end of the �Twi�light� series, how he feels about the kiss�ing scenes between Kris�ten Stewart�s Bella and Tay�lor Lautner�s Jacob, and a life-changing moment, among others.
Robert has come a long way from the first time we inter�viewed him on the Lon�don set of �Harry Pot�ter and the Gob�let of Fire,� in which he played Cedric Diggory.
Below are excerpts:
What are you look�ing for�ward to about �Break�ing Dawn� being shot back-to-back as two films and of Bill Con�don direct�ing them?
I�m glad that it�s Bill Con�don. I love his stuff. I haven�t seen the script yet but I am fear�ful about the series� end. It�s such a great secu�rity blan�ket. It�s like a net. You can afford to make mis�takes when you have another �Twi�light� film to make. After that, I guess you�re on your own.
I�m glad the �Break�ing Dawn� films will be done together. Because oth�er�wise, it�s quite hard to fit another film in-between each one. Like what hap�pened in �Eclipse��having to get your mind back to where it was before. I had about a week of prepa�ra�tion time. It was quite stress�ful in the begin�ning. With the two films done together, you can just stay in char�ac�ter the whole time.
In the tent scene which is already the much talked-about thing in �Eclipse,� your vam�pire char�ac�ter is of course cold, body tem�per�a�ture wise, while Taylor�s Jacob dri�ves home the point that he�s lit�er�ally hot�ter.
It�s sort of an odd scene. It�s quite dif�fi�cult. It�s incred�i�bly depress�ing for Edward (laugh�ing). It does make him seem incred�i�bly unat�trac�tive. But I never really got it in the first place. It�s like hav�ing some freez�ing cold per�son next to you (laugh�ing). It�s horrible.
Tay�lor told us that you were always crack�ing up in that scene.
I was in a very strange room when we were shoot�ing that scene (laugh�ing). I kept get�ting obsessed with the idea of the word �thoughts� with an Amer�i�can accent. It sounds like �farts.� I couldn�t get over it the entire day. The open�ing line was, �Can you at least keep your thoughts to your�self?� I�m sit�ting in this tent and every sin�gle time, I laugh over that line. Tay�lor got to the point where he was like, �Those words don�t even sound the same. It�s not funny at all.�
I think I was tired. I find all this stuff where we have to boss each other all quite funny. Con�sid�er�ing that we�re in teen-girl mag�a�zines and stuff � Tay�lor always has his shirt off. And I�ve got my lit�tle quaff (laugh�ing). We�re try�ing to act all macho. I thought it was really funny.
Talk about the dynam�ics between the three of you now that Jacob gets to kiss Bella in this movie.
It�s weird. Not only do they do the kiss�ing scenes�they never do it when I am even on the set. I have the day off. You gen�uinely feel like someone�s cheat�ing on you. Then you come back to the set. And almost always, it�s after one of their scenes where I sus�pect them of doing some�thing. It just so hap�pened every sin�gle time�I would come into work being like, �So how was it?�
Can you set the record straight�your Edward char�ac�ter is a 100-year-plus-old vir�gin?
I think he�s � how old is he now? He must be 109 or 110. There�s an arguable point with another vam�pire in Alaska from the first book. It�s briefly men�tioned. But I can�t remem�ber if it�s actu�ally fully explained if he is a vir�gin or not. I think the fans like to believe he is.
Since these �Twi�light� films are fantasy/romance/thriller dra�mas, may I ask which love sto�ries inspired you?
I have to sound really cheesy and say my par�ents. My par�ents met when my mom was 17 and my dad was 26. They�re still together. I grew up in an age where every�body gets divorced.
But in terms of film, I�ve always liked despair�ing, painful love sto�ries. I think that�s prob�a�bly because I�m still young. There�s a Godard film called �First Name: Car�men.� I�m not even going to attempt to say the French pro�nun�ci�a�tion. I always found that to be one of the most truth�ful and inspir�ing love sto�ries I�ve seen on film.
How uncom�fort�able is it to be act�ing with con�tact lens on?
You can�t feel prop�erly. You can�t sweat. If you do any�thing to sweat, every�thing starts break�ing on your face. You can�t even psy�che your�self up for a scene. I don�t know how peo�ple do scenes with con�tact lenses on. I just find it impos�si�ble. The Edward char�ac�ter is about restraint and restrict�ing your�self about every�thing. He�s not a very effu�sive per�son. A lot of the per�for�mance should be done with your eyes but then you elim�i�nate that abil�ity by putting the con�tacts on. When�ever I do other movies in which I don�t have to wear con�tacts, I breathe a sigh of relief.
In �Break�ing Dawn,� you become a father and Bella becomes a vam�pire bride. Do you have tips for Kris�ten on play�ing a vam�pire? Do you feel that you�re mature enough to play a dad?
It�s funny because I�m play�ing a dad in some scenes in �Break�ing Dawn� and I�m por�tray�ing one in a movie I�m doing now as well. I�m ter�ri�fied about doing it. I don�t know what I�m going to do when it comes to those scenes. I�ve been com�plain�ing so much about hav�ing the makeup on and con�tact lenses. Kris�ten is like, �You�re so pathetic. You have to just get over it. Why can�t you just get used to it?� [Now, since Kris�ten has to wear con�tact lens, too], I can finally be like, �You will know what it�s like. You�re going to be in con�stant aggra�va�tion the whole time.� Which is great.
We don�t see a lot of guys like Edward who pro�tects a girl�s virtue. Do you relate to him at all? How old-fashioned are you?
I think I�ve become more old-fashioned. I feel like I�m already turn�ing middle-aged now (laugh�ing). It�s quite nice to be doing a series of films that a lot of peo�ple think uphold pos�i�tive virtues. Some peo�ple actu�ally think the films are a good influ�ence on their kids.
Stephe�nie Meyer was on the set of �Eclipse� more often than she was on the first two movies. What was that like?
It�s not intim�i�dat�ing. She�s really nice. She really likes the films. It was strange, though. I didn�t really notice until toward the end of the film�ing. I was like, �Stephe�nie has been here every day� (laugh�ing). It was inter�est�ing. She�s always open. She would never really come in and push any�thing on us. She was open to answer�ing questions.
You have a west�ern genre film project, �Unbound Cap�tives,� in devel�op�ment. Why are you fas�ci�nated with west�erns?
I grew up watch�ing west�erns. My dad�s favorite movies are all west�erns. I hope that film hap�pens. It�s such a com�pli�cated film to get together because it�s not really an action film or any�thing. It�s a slightly depress�ing roman�tic drama, half of which is in Comanche. It will def�i�nitely be dif�fer�ent. My char�ac�ter is a mas�sive stretch for me.
You play the gui�tar. How impor�tant is music for you?
It�s really impor�tant. Inci�den�tally, my sis�ter is a singer and a song�writer. Act�ing has helped as well because I�ve never really had any par�tic�u�lar inter�est. The only rea�son I�d start releas�ing records is hope�fully so I get a name in music and have good peo�ple who would want to col�lab�o�rate with me. I guess hav�ing a name in act�ing, you can get your foot through the door with quite a few musi�cians. I hope I�ll be able to record some stuff just for myself. The idea of sell�ing it�as soon as you start mak�ing it�it dies in a lot of ways. It�s too scary at that point. Then every�one feels the need to judge it. But if you�re not mak�ing money and you�re doing it for your�self, then no one�s going to judge it.
�Twi�light� is very pop�u�lar with young peo�ple, includ�ing Jaden Smith. What kind of books and music did you like when you were a teenager?
I was obsessed with a writer called Mar�tin Amis when I was a teenager. I read every�thing. Every sin�gle time I went to a book�shop, I�d see if he has other books. I used to buy mul�ti�ple edi�tions of his books.
Mar�tin, Van Mor�ri�son and Jimi Hendrix�they were my peo�ple when I was grow�ing up. I�d obses�sively col�lect all their stuff.
That�s funny about how Jaden likes the �Twi�light� thing. He�s like the first guy who�s will�ing to admit it (laughing).
What has so far been a life-changing expe�ri�ence for you?
My mov�ing to sec�ondary school. I was kicked out of my first school. There is a whole sys�tem of the schools in Lon�don where I went from one school to another and then to uni�ver�sity. Every�body went to the same schools. But I got kicked out. I ended up going to an arts school which was prob�a�bly the best thing that ever hap�pened to me.
Why were you kicked out?
Secret (laughing).
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