Another great interview from Cannes! He reads fanfiction (
woohoo!), says Kristen and he are just friends (
the same answer in all Cannes interviews so yawn), talks about how he thinks Twilight books are sexy (
oh the leg hitch, you just want them to do it already!) and how he is happy with the Volturi fight scene since it makes him look like he is good at fighting...
From
TheStar.com by Peter Howell:
CANNES, France–There are no crystal decanters of blood for Robert Pattinson to sip from, or milky white virgin necks to nibble upon.
Pattinson's treats, arrayed before him on a glass table shaped like a kneeling Greek goddess, aren't your typical vampire fare: a bowl of potato chips, packages of green apple mint gum and a box of See's chocolates imported from the U.S.
The world's sexiest undead man eschews all the caloric temptations, apologizing as he nips off to another room for a few drags on a Camel Lights cigarette before commencing this interview.
"I'm sorry!" he says, pausing only to shake hands. "I'll be right back!"
Pattinson returns a few minutes later, flashing a smile filled with extraordinarily white teeth. Despite the 28C heat on this sunny day at the Cannes Film Festival, he's wearing two shirts (a short-sleeved one over a T-shirt) and cotton jeans with holes in the knees.
The London-born actor's heavily moussed hair, as always, looks like it has been styled by the fingers of ravaging fans of the Twilight books and films that have made him into a teen scream sensation.
"It's completely nuts," Pattinson, 23, says of his sudden global acclaim. "I had lunch in some restaurant the other day down the street and if you're in a place for more than an hour, word gets out. There were like 500 or 600 people outside, watching and waiting for me."
He is animated and engaging while speaking, quite unlike the pale and brooding vampire Edward Cullen he plays in Twilight, a 2008 hit, and its sequel New Moon, which arrives in theatres Nov. 20.
Which means he had to act the role, of course, and in Pattinson's case he used the approach of a method actor, trying to move the way a vampire does. The feat was complicated by the desire of director Catherine Hardwicke, the film's producers and Twilight novelist Stephenie Meyer that Pattinson not act like the typical neck-biting bloodsucker.
"They kept saying they wanted to reinvent the genre of the vampire film, so I was really just trying to figure out how to play a vampire not as a vampire," Pattinson says, running a hand through his brown locks. "I looked at a lot of movement in samurai films, because of the stillness. None of which I particularly used. It just sort of felt Zen."
He finally determined that the key to understanding Edward was aloneness.
"I spent a lot of time by myself. I tried not to talk to too many people. My initial instinct was not to talk to anybody at all, so my first line would be like the first time I had spoken in a month, so you could get that kind of weird dialect. But it's quite tough to do that!" he laughs.
Tougher still is living up to expectations of what Twilight fans expect of Pattinson and his co-star Kristin Stewart, who plays Bella, the all-too-human love of the immortal and undead Edward.
So far, fans have given the actors an enthusiastic thumbs up, to the point of fantasizing them as a couple in real life, something that both Pattinson and Stewart have denied, albeit not terribly convincingly, with "we're just friends" shrugs.
(The flames of Pattinson's and Stewart's supposed hot love were fanned all this past summer by tabloid reports while the duo were in Vancouver filming Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight franchise, due out in 2010. The tabs had the couple married off and even expecting a baby, although Pattinson knocks the rumours in a cover story in the December issue of Vanity Fair, which has just been released.)
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