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Robert Pattinson Talks Bare Bellies, Biting Strangers

Today 9:07 PM PST by MARC MALKIN

Things are getting weird for Robert Pattinson.

But considering he's starring as high school vampire Edward Cullen in the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling young adult novel, Twilight, that's probably to be expected.

Still, just last week the 22-year-old British actor was at an Apple store in New York City when a seven-year-old girl asked to take a photo with him. No big deal, right?

“But then she went really quiet and she was like, 'Can you bite me?'” Pattinson told me with a somewhat nervous laugh yesterday in a Beverly Wilshire Hotel room, where he’d been holed up doing press all weekend. “It wasn’t a joke...I looked at her and thought, 'Do you know what you’re saying?' There are these kinds of sexual thoughts that come out of people that they don’t even know are sexual.”

And to think the movie doesn’t even hit theaters until Nov. 21.

Pattinson insists he never actually thought he’d be cast as the mysterious and potentially dangerous vampire who falls in love with the new girl in town, Bella Swan (Into the Wild’s Kristen Stewart).

“I was embarrassed going into the casting because in the character breakdown, the first line is, 'Edward is the ideal perfect man,’” he said. “I literally put it off for five months and then I went in mainly because I had seen Into the Wild and I wanted to meet Kristen because I thought she was cool. But I felt like an idiot being like, “Hi, I’m here for the ideal man audition.“

And it only got worse from there. He had to take his shirt off for director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) because Edward’s perfection includes a six-pack, something Pattinson didn’t have at the time.

But once he landed the role, he decided it was time to get fit. He began a two-month daily regimen that included three hours of kickboxing and at least two hours of running. He not only gave up beer, but he also limited his meals to just one a day.

“I was just trying to lose like every ounce of body fat so when I took off my shirt, I would look like an alien,” Pattinson said, presumably meaning a hot alien. “I thought that kind of worked for the story. The idea of taking my shirt off and looking like some sort of Adonis? Everyone would just laugh.”

But then things went slightly awry. Two weeks before shooting, Hardwicke told him the shirtless scenes were being tossed because he had gone too far. He'd lost 30 pounds since the last time she had seen him. “I just looked so different,” he said. “I was so much more muscular than I had ever been in my life, but I looked weird.”

Hardwicke eventually relented and did shoot a shirtless scene or two, but Pattinson's stomach ended up on the cutting room floor because by that time, he said, “I was on a full cheeseburger diet.”

Pattinson and his co-stars take off this week for a six-city promotional tour around the U.S. Then it’s off to Australia. "I haven't really had time to reflect on it," Pattinson said. "It's pretty nuts. It doesn't seem very real at all. I just go to these different cities and people start screaming."

With Twilight being the first in Meyer’s four-part series, a sequel is likely. However, an official decision won’t be made until studio execs see box office numbers. But Pattinson is confident they’ll be back for more. “I have ideas already about the second one,” he said. “I’m looking forward to doing a saga.”

More kissing scenes in DVD

Another amazing interview from collider.com with Catherine Hardwicke

What do you think is the secret of Rob Pattinson's appeal. Not as Edward, but as Rob.

Catherine: Well, you know, he is a very fascinating person. Have you guys met him yet?

No.

Catherine: He's read a very eclectic, strange group of novels and stories and books, and the music he likes and the films he seeks out. He's quite a unique person. (laughs) And you know, he has a gift, where he can just sit down and start playing guitar or playing piano, and something comes out of him that doesn't come out of anybody else in the world and he's just really unique. Things you'll probably see later if he's still alive by the time he gets here. He's special. (laughs)

The Entertainment Weekly story made it seem like he was obsessing almost too much about the role. Is any of that true?

Catherine: Yeah, you know sometimes that was probably true. I think it quotes me as saying sometimes, and this is true, I have to say, Rob we have to go through the whole thing once, when we'd rehearse. Don't stop on the first sentence or on the first word. Sometimes you have to just try something and see if it works instead of second-guessing yourself. So that was one thing I tried. to get him to just try it and then look at the big picture.

it was reported on the internet that the author, maybe, had you pull back on the kissing scene.

Catherine: Yeah, she thought that the way we filmed the kissing scene was a little too steamy. Because I had a wide shot in the cut, so I ended up filming with the B camera and using more intimate shots. Which, actually, I think it still feels pretty steamy. But it's just a little more intimate.

So how did you shepherd your actors through that fragile ego period of like, everyone on the internet hates me? They don't see me as the character.

Catherine: Yeah, I had spoken to other people that had been involved in Spiderman, like Thomas Hayden Chuch. He was cast in Spidey 3 or whatever and he told me people just freaked out. How can that fat dude be, blah, blah blah. He said, look, you've just got to go for it. And then once they see what you're doing they're just going to be...I was telling everybody these stories and I said, don't watch anything, don't read anything, and Robert said, but my Mom sends it to me...thanks Mom. But he actually said it made him want to work harder and do better. I mean, maybe that's how you deal with something. I don't know.

Can you talk about what made you trust your gut about the leads? What made you say, I know this is going to be the one.

Catherine: Oh, okay, well, first of all, I had looked at everybody else. Even people that the fans suggested. You know we'd try to contact them. Are they the right age for it? Are they interested? Are they available? When that was done, do they look good in person or do they just look good in the photo? Abercrombie & Fitch model or whatever. But we tried to check out everybody that the fans suggested, but those suggestions were really bad, actually. They might have been originally or whatever. Brad Pitt's a bit too old to be still in high school(laughs)...I felt confident that I'd looked at everybody they had seen and farther, and then I looked at millions of other people too, and so I knew what the choices were out there. And after I saw Rob and Kristin I didn't even just say yes right there in the room. I had to look at my video and step back a day or two later and have a little bit of distance. How does this feel on the screen, not just in the room? And I felt really good about it.

What specifically did you see when you reflected on Kristin and Rob?

Catherine: Well, when I saw Kristin, I loved her in Into the Wild. Just that image of her sitting on that bed, in the trailer and that yearning. So palpable and her emotions were so strong and she could convey that. I thought that was great. So I was pretty much sold on Kristin even before I went to Pittsburgh and spent a day working with her. I felt like she was going to be pretty great. And then it's finding chemistry and then he worked with her. And when Rob and Kristin work together, you know, you could feel it in the room. (laughs) It was kind of scary. Kind of cool You know?

Collider: I'm curious, I know you just got back recently and I'm sure you're not thinking about yet, but what can we look forward to on the DVD/Blu-ray?

Catherine: Actually, I have been working on the DVD already. So we put together all the deleted scenes and extended scenes, there's quite a few, like 12 or something like that. And then I made some montages of some other crazy elements, like more vampire kiss, biting. And more human hijinks. And I made a pretty wild music video, like a remix of Bella's Lullaby and I did some pretty trippy things that you may like.
You can read the rest HERE

Thank you, I'm not perfect. I'm rugged

Reelzchannel.com has a bit about the first fan raction to Rob. Here is what he says about it:

Perhaps no one had a tougher time of it than Robert Pattinson, described in the novels by Meyer as being almost impossibly beautiful.

"All my [reactions] [were] like, 'He looks like a bum,'" Pattinson says with a chuckle.

"I was expecting that, though. I would have had the same reaction. I was embarrassed even going into the audition. I thought I'd be judged. You look on the synopsis and it's like 'Edward is the perfect man. He has impeccable face, body - everything about him is amazing.' I was quite happy when it was 100 percent negative. I was like, 'Thank you, I'm not perfect. I'm rugged.'"

ANOTHER Rob interview

The interview is REALLY long so I can't post it, HERE is the entire thing :-) And below is some parts I selected. Enjoy!

You and Kristen have a great chemistry, but you also have great chemistry with your family in the film. Can you talk about that dynamic both onscreen and off?

Robert Pattinson: "It was strange. Like, I definitely had a thing with Kristen like that. I mean, all the scenes are pretty intense and when you're working with one person most of the time, especially on a relationship that seems impossible when you first start it, you get like a little bubble. But with the family, they're just really funny people and so I just got on with them. It wasn't really acting. I just had an American accent. Peter [Facinelli] is one of the funniest people I've ever met. Is the line in there where Rosalie breaks the bowl and Peter says, 'Oh, Rosalie always busted my bowls'?"

No.

Robert Pattinson: "It's cut out? That was literally my favorite line in the whole movie."

What do you think is the secret to the chemistry that you and Kristen developed and shared throughout the movie?

Robert Pattinson: "I think it was just doing the opposite of what the actual story is, thinking about it in the opposite way. Right from the beginning in the audition we did the meadow scene, which isn't in a meadow in the film, but it's supposed to be about, I guess, him trying to intimidate her and her looking at him with nothing but love and adoration and awe, as if this god has just come down to meet her. But I really thought and I played it as this god is broken at this normal girl's feet. Even the position that we were in…at the end I was literally kneeling at her feet. I can't remember what happens in the movie, but that was in the audition. She was doing this mothering thing as he's looking to this normal girl for support. I think that really works. She's very strong. She's not a damsel type girl. It's weird. They just cast the opposite people. I'm a wreck and she's really strong and it's supposedly the other way around. I think that's why it kind of worked."

What was up with you proposing marriage to Kristen? Was that just a rumor?

Robert Pattinson: "I can't even remember when this happened. Kristen is like, 'Yeah, you did.' I was like, 'Oh.' I think that someone else sent me a text the other week saying, 'Are we still on for our marriage?' I think it was yesterday that I was supposed to marry someone else."

Is this a regular thing with you?

Robert Pattinson: "I guess it must be."

Are you still doing music?

Robert Pattinson: [Laughing] "Not so much anymore. Since I was on the soundtrack I've given up."

If they want to do a Twilight sequel, it'll take time to get it all together.

Robert Pattinson: "Yeah. The thing is that I have to stay the same age unless they recast me. So they'd have to shoot it quite quick because I already look about three years older than I did then. So they can't wait too long."