New Rob interview

The amazingly ROCKING Betzabe translated Rob's Spanish interview for us! Thanks babe!
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ROBERT PATTINSON: THE VAMPIRE THAT FEARS FAME.

Mexico, DF - The english actor, Robert Pattison, who has jumped into fame after playing Cedric Diggory, the good boy from Hogwarts in HP and the goblet of fire, visited the city of Mexico to promote his more recent work in the film Twilight.

In this adaptation of the best-seller from S. Meyer directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Kristen Stewart, Pattinson incarnates Edward Cullen, a charming and mysterious young man that falls in love for the first time, but with a big problem: He is a vampire and the girl whom he's on love with, Bella Swan, is a mortal who's blood he wants to drink. In the interview the actor confessed the difficulties of playing the "perfect man"

Q: Is it your first time in Mexico?
A: Yes, it's the first time. I haven't seen anything but I like it still...I like the hotel (laughs)

Q: Tell me the funniest experience you've had with a fan
A: I don't know, the majority of people who come up to me are very nice. Probably at Comic Con in San Diego last year, because there were more that 7000 people in the audience and at that moment I didn't really have any idea that Twilight was that big. I got up on stage and the people started screaming for 45 mins. It was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me.

Q: You say that because you haven't met the Mexican fans yet.
A: Yes, also at the airport here, it was really surprising

Q: Twilight takes the classic elements of a vampire movie, do you believe it actualizes these elements?
A: Yes, I hope. The story is set in the real world and not so much with the traditional vampire fangs, garlic or that they drink blood. Vampirism in Twilight is more of a sickness, it seems to be a very negative thing. I believe that this makes it different from other stories...well, maybe it isn't different (laughs). The majority of the vampires are idolized, but in twilight they're simply normal people, I think.

Q: How do you think you relate to Edward Cullen?
A: I don't really know, I suppose that having a lot of self doubt and of not being good with the people around me, things like that. I can relate with that

Q: What about the seducing vampire side, Are you a seducer like Edward?
A: Absolutely not (laughs)

Q: What's your tactic on attracting girls?
A: That would be giving away my secrets (laughs) Well no, I really don't do anything in particular

Q: What was your biggest challenge with this role?
A: it's actually very interesting because everyone who read the book puts this character on a pedestal, he's very important to them. Even though he's a fictional character, it's almost impossible to play this role...the way he acts, they way he behaves and how he looks...everything is too perfect, It's a big challenge.

Q: Have you ever been involved in a situation like Edward and Bella's?
A: Mmm, not really

Q: Maybe not with a girl, but with a friend or family member?
A: One time, I was in a very intense relationship with a girlfriend...not as intense as that one but it was very hard in the time I was with her.

Q: Do you believe in vampires?
A: No I don't...it would be cool if they existed, but not, I don't believe in vampires.

Q: What do you think it is about Vampires that fascinates people?
A: I think it has to do with the power they have. They're immortal and very strong in comparison to common humans and that makes them attractive, but at the same time they're completely defenseless without the mortal humans

Q: If you could change something about Twilight what would it be?
A: I don't know. When something already exists, in everything I think about it's like understand every step of the story. I like to try and understand the steps that lead the story instead of trying to change is. Something I tried to do in the film is to not have Edward and Bella touch, ever...but they didn't let me do it (laughs)


Q: What can you tell us about your song on the twilight soundtrack,"Never Think"
A: It's just a song...well, it's not even finished yet, to be honest"
Q: And it's already very anticipated...
A: I know, honestly it's scared me. I thought that it was really funny because the director had a cd with stuff that i had recorded on the computer in the last year and she asked me if it was ok to include my music on the soundtrack and i told her yes. And now it's a huge success and it looks like i'm trying to start a music career and i thought - No, not at all. There is another song that is in the film and i think that it will also be on the soundtrack and a "bonus"; that is in a very significant part of the film and i think it makes the scene better.
Q: Do you like horror films?
A: My favorite movie is The Exorcist.

Q: Why?
A: Because it is one of the most original films ive seen and the best acted. It has Ellen Burcken...no, not Ellen Burcken, it has Ellen Burstyn...wrong Ellen (laughs)

Q: What can you tell us about your character Dali in "Little Ashes"? It's about a very different type of story, and he is one of the founders of surrealism...Is there something surreal in your life or do you identify with this character?
A: We filmed it before Twilight, 2 months before but it was very different to anything I'd done before. I felt like I didn't know why I got the role. All of the production people were Spanish and new him, and I can't speak spanish, the only thing I could do was read books on Dali everyday and I began to care about him after that. I think that even though for whatever reason he became a very bizarre man, I feel I can identify with him when he was young, and I started to see myself more like him in the film, which is a bit odd

Q: Which did you enjoy more, playing Edward or playing Dali?
A: They are very different. For the film about Dali, I had to study a lot and it was a lot of work. In twilight I also had to study a lot and these are the first 2 characters in which I get into profoundly. They're very different from each other, but I try to give each the interest they deserve. I think I learned a lot from making these 2 films, I think you can play any role if you put in enough effort and you make it as interesting as possible.

Q: Can you tell us about the surprising fame you had after Harry Potter and now this new movie, twilight?
A: With Harry Potter I always knew it would be something like that because it was already so big before I was even involved, but with Twilight I didn't have any idea that it was this huge, and and it kept getting bigger and bigger while we were shooting

Q: Are you afraid of loosing something because of fame?
A: Yes, I'm afraid. It's werid when you can't go to the places you use to go because it's all so different now, everything feels different. All of a sudden people are looking and you and you think- Ok, I can't do anything stupid- That's always annoying (laughs)

Q: Of course you can...
A: (laughs)

Q: Are you afraid of getting stuck in the role of Edward Cullen like with Dan Radcliffe and Harry Potter?
A: No, I think it's possible for them to label me with that role, it's too specific and I don't get older or anything like that. I hope that I don't get stuck or labeled with that role, but I don't think it will happen

Q: What is it that you like most about acting?
A: I like being able to totally commit to something, you can create a world in which you want to live in and, the majority of the time, you can become the person you want to be in that moment. It's interesting, I don't have much of a "life" outside of work, so it's good to feel like you've got something to do (laughs)

Q: If you were not an actor, what would you do?
A: I would have liked to be a pianist or (*I HAVE NO IDEA BUT SOMETHING TO DO WITH POLITICS)

Q: What are your next projects? Will your fame help you choose what you will do in the future?
A: Yes, it helps. But they tend to offer a lot of roles that are exactly the same as twilight, but I'm going to do a small independent project next year and two other things of which I still can't talk about.



*Means I didn't know what the hell that meant. Sorry. Some of it sounds weird but I think it's that they translated Robert's britishness into spanish weird and so me trying to translate back just gets a bit weird. But you get the gist.