ROBsessed™ - Addicted to Robert Pattinson

Metromix Q&A

In conversation, "Twilight" star and sudden mega-heartthrob Robert Pattinson frequently breaks into a giddy, surprised laugh—like he can't believe the silliness of becoming, seemingly overnight, the sort of actor who receives questions about his hair and the love of thousands of screaming girls.  You can't blame him for being a bit overwhelmed. Metromix talked to the 22-year-old English actor about becoming a vampire, not washing his hair and whether or not he's really a "sexy man-beast."  

Edward can run faster than a mountain lion and stop a moving car with his bare hands. Would you want to be an immortal vampire so you could do that too? 

I don't want to live forever. You don't die, so it doesn't mean anything. And then everyone would lose respect for you. It's like "Hancock." Everybody would just be like, "It doesn't mean anything if he's invincible."  

"Who's that obnoxious guy who keeps stopping cars?" 

It doesn't mean anything if there's no chance of you dying. I'd like to stop a car if I was human. And I just did it once and everyone saw and loads of supermodels saw.  

Yeah, seems like you're really having trouble meeting girls these days. 

Yeah, tons of 14-year-olds. They all love me.  

Why do you think you stood out from the more than 5,000 others who auditioned to play Edward? 

I think because a lot of people are willing to go in and play some kind of Adonis. And they have the body and everything. There's a lot of guys, especially in L.A., who can walk down the street and look like some kind of Greek god, statuesque guy. [And that's not me.] Especially not last year. I was like this chubby-looking . I looked kind of like an old, Irish alcoholic.  

And isn't that what the part called for? 

[Laughs] It absolutely called for that! I think they were getting desperate, so when I came...  

"We're tired of looking; Let's take the next guy who walks in!"

 I think a lot of it was that. Yeah, how uncomfortable I felt trying to play this perfect guy, it kind of inspired my performance when I was in the room 'cause I had no idea how to play it. And I [was] this kind of broken, totally self-conscious person who hardly said anything. And I think they misinterpreted the whole thing, thinking I was this really intense, really passionate guy. And I just had no idea what I was doing. 

 So they saw you were scared and confused and said, "He's moody, dark and exciting!" 

Yeah, that's the weird thing about it. 

 And now people online are saying, "This man is pure sex," or calling you "A sexy man-beast." How much of a sexy man-beast are you? 

[Laughs] I wouldn't be able to say. I don't think I'm much of one. It's funny, it is the secret to any guy—if people find him unattractive or whatever—you just get Stephanie Meyer to tell the world, to put on her website that this guy is now attractive and everybody changes their minds.  

That's amazing. So, how long does it take to get your hair perfectly coiffed like that?

 It's the funniest thing. I just wear a hat a lot. I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking [the studio rep] if I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off.  

What did you learn by not washing your hair for six weeks? 

That it starts to wash itself. If you don't wash it for six weeks you won't have to wash it ever again. Until it gets unbearable.  

Edward's such a forbidden love for Bella. What would you say to parents who thought you were bad news for their daughter? 

"You're right." And the girl would like [me] even more. 

 You're not trying to appeal to parents?

 He's a vampire, he's a social pariah. He's not a role model. He's a parasite. That's the cool thing about it. I don't think a vampire has any responsibility to anybody.  

Last question: How much more comfortable would this interview have been if I was screaming and crying and trying to touch you? 

It would have been a lot more comfortable. [Laughs] It would be standard.

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Philstar.com Robert Pattinson: Almost famous

philstar.com has a very reshing and good interview with Rob. It's very long so I can't post it here. Here is a bit and you can read the rest by clicking THIS link.

For Robert Pattinson, being cast as Edward Cullen — the most devastatingly handsome vampire in the whole world, the answer is quite obvious, “it feels like my own opinion is completely validated now,” he jokes.

The STAR met with the strikingly handsome actor recently in Beverly Hills to talk about the movie, his character, his sudden popularity, his fans and how he prepared for the greatest role of his young career. The jovial actor would break into sheepish smiles and hearty laughter every so often during the interview.

“I had an idea how to play the part and people will like it or they won’t like it. You can’t convince everybody, you just do what you think is right and accept the consequences.”

“It was written to be aesthetically pleasing but I wanted to interpret having a six-pack as a character and so I thought I’d lose every ounce of body fat I had. In the end I felt like I looked like an alien,” he reveals and lets out a loud laugh.

He regrouped, started thinking about his character, gained back a few pounds and was so relieved to be talking with people again. “I am too self-critical. I used to give myself a hard time, that’s why Catherine had a hard time with me,” he says with a grin.

“Kristen gets very into the part,” Robert adds. “I trusted that and it was really good. She has to put up with a lot from me. It was ridiculous. I don’t think very many actresses would put up with it. I spent every day dissecting every single little lines — I even dissected her lines! We definitely had a strong bond over it.”

The two stars’ little fights would soon be replaced by constant flirting. Entertainment Weekly noted that the producers, at one point, were actually worried that their two main stars were actually falling in love.

Were the reports true that Robert actually proposed marriage to Kristen? “Yes, he did that,” Kristen acknowledges, “but I am not sure if he was serious.”

Asked about it, Robert laughs and reveals that he actually has proposed to countless women and on the day of our interview some are even sending him text messages asking him if their wedding is still on.

Wedding proposals or not, the actor has a lot more to worry these days. He has become the hottest heartthrob in town and is on the verge of becoming a major Hollywood star. “I think you can control it in a way if you are careful. I have been pretty much an idiot my whole life and it’s a little daunting to change your lifestyle from being an idiot into not being an idiot but I think it’s a good thing,” he quips. “I think I have to think about being more responsible and less reckless now.”

How about girls running after him now?

“Well it’s nice but they’re all pretty young,” he remarks.

But there are other older womenwho love him.

“Yeah, they tell me that ‘there are Twilight moms who love you’ and I can’t take that too seriously,” he says, “’Edward breaks up the Twilight family’ — that would be too funny.”

Was he ever the pretty boy in school?

“Not really. I didn’t play sports or anything. I used to be like kind of gangly. I used to play music but it wasn’t like a rock band because there was a lot more improvisation.”

Girls young and old would rejoice knowing that Robert is not in a relationship at the moment. The 22-year-old actor shares that he is attracted to smart women. “I was watching 30 Rock the other day and I really like Tina Fey, she is like the sexiest woman!”
(Gozde's note: Hey Rob! I have a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, you know I'm just sayin' ;))

Celebrity crushes are one thing that the good-humored actor is trying to keep to himself. “You tell people who your celebrity crush is hoping not to bump into them in the future so you always want to think of the right one to say. I used to say I liked Elisabeth Shue until I realized that she is like 50 now.” He corrects himself later and asserts that it was actually Patricia Arquette, during her True Romance days, which he had a crush on. “I can have a type on anyone,” he says.

He likens Edward’s loneliness to the 80-year-old protagonist in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Memories of a Melancholy Whore. “I like love stories between old people. I wanted to make Twilight more about that,” he emphasizes. “I always liked relationships that are like a nightmare, like you would have to fight for something — I can relate to that. I guess I am crazy that way.”

Robert considers Los Angeles his current home. He hasn’t been back to his native London in a while. “I have lived here for a few months. I’ve only been to London for a total of not more than 10 days this year. I really want to go back but I don’t like flying. I always think I am gonna die on a plane.”

Playing a vampire has somehow made him more fearful of death. “But I think I am just a paranoid person,” he reiterates. “I am scared in the back of cabs now. I think I am gonna die in a cab. I even get scared when I am driving.”

And he does not wish to live forever, either. “I guess I am more afraid of living forever than not being able to kill myself than dying,” he says with a little serious note in his voice.

BuzzSugar Interview with Rob

Buzzsugar.com interviewed Rob. The only part that is different from other interviews is this:

That’s true, Edward is extremely chivalrous in the book, which actually made me wonder if you thought of him as just a regular teenage guy, with, you know, teenage thoughts — or this 100-something-year-old mature being who's wise beyond his years?

Well, what I wanted to do — he still has the mentality of a 17-year-old, but he's seen all these things, so he's a bit jaded in a way. But at the same time, if you keep experiencing different stuff through the same eyes, you get a very crude vision of the world, and I think that makes him jaded — kind of more jaded than if you were just 108, because he has no level of acceptance, where if you are 108 years old, you're like, "Oh well, I’m going to die soon." But [Edward's] just still fighting with everything. Still fighting about, you know, when you’re 17 you're fighting everybody. You have a very volatile character and it just has never died down. But I never thought of him of more than a regular guy — I mean I grew up being kind of polite to people. I think he’s a normal kid. Also, I think being with [his father] Carlisle. . . I feel a father figure has put bounds around everything that is right and true. . . he's instilled those morals and virtues into him. He tries to live a little bit more like that.

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SciFi interviews Robert Pattinson

Is it true that you and [director] Catherine Hardwicke knew immediately from his audition that Robert was the right guy to play Edward?

Stewart: Not to discredit anyone who came in to read for the part, and I wish I had a more articulate way to put it, but Robert came in and he wasn't just playing the strikingly handsome vampire. Deep down, I could see the pain in him. And he looked at me for real. He wasn't just auditioning. He was present. He was there. We could see each other. That's what needs to be in the movie.

Robert Pattinson, you'd not read the books prior to becoming involved with Twilight, and you had no way of knowing that even as you shot the film it was emerging as a phenomenon. How strange has it been to be in the eye of the storm?

Pattinson: It gets stranger and stranger every day, at the moment. I was literally completely and utterly ignorant until the last day of shooting of what it really was. Even the budget didn't reflect that kind of phenomenon that it is now. It wasn't that kind of $200 million budget movie. It was a relatively low-budget thing. So I literally had no idea it would get this kind of attention.

Why are so many people so passionate about Twilight?

Pattinson: I think that for a lot of the fans of the book it's become a kind of cult now that they like defending. Other young people want to join it because they feel like they're missing out on something. I think it's a rolling stone gathering more and more people with it. I don't know for sure. I can't really tell you. What I always thought about it when I read the book was that it seemed like Stephenie Meyer completely believed that she was Bella, and so in a lot of ways, when you're reading it, it seems uncomfortably voyeuristic, like you're reading somebody's fantasy. And after meeting Stephenie Meyer it's absolutely not the case. But I really, really thought, when I was going to meet Stephenie, that it was going to be a very strange experience, with her thinking that I was a character. I think that's one of the reasons, that it's just such an intimate thing that people can really belong to. It's just one these rare things that everybody wants to have a piece of.

What do you remember of your audition with Kristen Stewart?

Pattinson: I didn't even know I was doing a reading when I went into the audition. So I went in thinking one thing, and then Kristen was already there and she had already done readings with tons of other people. As well as doing this performance, which I really wasn't expecting, she was also a little bit jaded. I think she'd done about 10 readings that day. I was kind of intimidated by what she was doing. I was stunned because it was so different from what I was expecting. And I guess it never really changed the whole way through, which kind of works, just in terms of the story, me having to be the powerful one but being intimidated by her. The relationship built from that. It was always a struggle for me to say things to her in scenes. Everything seemed sort of strained and, weirdly enough, it came out looking right. Almost from day one there was just something which worked, but it was a completely unorthodox way of going at it. We really weren't trying to act like we were really in love with each other right from the beginning. It was more about trying to intimidate each other and showing how much we didn't care about the other person, which I guess worked. In a lot of ways that's how long-lasting relationships work.

How pleased are you with the finished film?

Pattinson: I liked what [screenwriter] Melissa Rosenberg has done, which is make it a much more actiony-based film, but [she] managed to keep in a lot of the intimacy as well. It's a really good adaptation. Virtually every scene I did was with Kristen, and I really liked working with her, so I hope that translates. I never watch my stuff, so I don't know. But I really tried to go out of my way to make it not another cash-in on one of these teen-novel adaptations, which I think even 6-year-old children are sick of and know the only reason are being made is for money. I thought the core of Twilight could really be made into an interesting film, and I tried to do it as honestly as I could and as seriously as I could. And I hope it turns out all right.

A sequel based on the second book, New Moon, is already in preproduction. What from that book are you eager to see on screen?

Pattinson: New Moon, out of the series, was my favorite one, though Edward is hardly in it. But I tried to set up a performance which would last the three movies without me getting bored of it. He becomes such a different character in the later stories, and I love that, and tried to allude to that in the performance in this one. He's kind of snappy, and there's a buried anger underneath this whole layer of being a gentleman. There's frustration and just a lot of self-loathing, which I liked about the character. I like that in the second one he's literally suicidal. Seeing this perfect being be totally suicidal will be very interesting to play.

I've posted all the "Rob related" parts and you can read Kristen's answers to other questions HERE.

Teen Music Hollywood Article.

Robert Pattinson-King of the Night

Let's get to the dish! Perhaps even something you haven't read before. We met Robert, we chatted with him, we learned that, before he was cast as troubled painter Salvador Dali in the indie-film Little Ashes, Rob was disillusioned and ready to give up acting for a possible music career.

TeenHollywood: Your "Cullen" cast members said that you weren't too swift on playing baseball either but you picked it up?

Rob: (chuckles) Everybody's been saying that! I'm terrible. I'm completely malcoordinated. I'm terrible at all sports. Also, I don't see the point as well. I even had a baseball coach. Catherine was so determined to make me look like a professional baseball player, and literally I couldn't take it seriously. They were like, 'you've got to have a ready position'. So for the rest of shoot, every single time, there's like confusion with the blocking or anything, I'd say, 'look, I'll do it in my 'ready position', no matter what the scene was. Like the sex scene or whatever. I'll come out in my 'ready position'. (we both chuckle)

TeenHollywood: Hilarious. How much of the stunt work did you do?

Rob: My hand-eye coordination is bad but I did quite a few of them. But I had a good stunt double as well. He's a professional free runner. I can do something and get injured and look like crap playing it or he can do it and make it look really good and no one notices the difference. After a while, I tried to do the Tom Cruise thing (his own stunts) but I eventually gave up. But I did a whole bunch of it. I managed to pick up so many injuries whenever I tried the simplest of stunts. I went to pick up Kris and I almost ripped my hamstring. It's not even a stunt.

TeenHollywood: So you're saying that Kristen Stewart is heavy?

Rob: (laughs) No. She weighs like 50 pounds. I literally did one squat. And this was after three months of training. I don't know what it takes.

TeenHollywood: When you were a teen or kid, was there a movie you couldn't wait to see just like many fans can't wait for this one?

Rob: I'm sure there was. Can't remember but right now I can't wait till The Wrestler (starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei) comes out.

TeenHollywood: That's a bummer. You play the artist Salvador Dali in a film. Very, very different from this one. How was that experience?

Rob: I did that before Twilight and I was going to give up acting before that. I did the casting about two years before to play Lorca and they said 'we found a Spanish guy who looks just like Lorca to play Lorca'. Do you want to play Dali? Which is like the opposite part to Lorca. They told me four days before shooting. I was just so disinterested in acting at the time. I just thought 'oh, a three-month vacation in Spain, okay'. I went there and it was so intense the whole time and everybody was speaking Spanish and I don't speak a word of Spanish. The whole crew was Spanish. I was the only English person there for the majority of the time. It gave me a reason to really focus on the script and the research to a ridiculous degree. It was the only thing I did for the entire time.

TeenHollywood: So you got swept up in preparing for the role?

Rob: Yeah. I had this whole series of photos. And figuring out the way he would move his body. There's a picture of him pointing. I spent days trying to figure out 'how did he get his arm like that?' It was probably unnecessary but it was the one time I felt like slightly satisfied. But I wanted to bring that intensity to every job. And even though this was essentially a teen movie when they were talking about it, I thought 'it doesn't have to be a teen movie. Nothing has to be what it's predefined as'. So I fought with people a lot on it. I kind of relented after a while because I didn't know what I was doing (he laughs). But I was determined for it not to be a cheesy, cash-in movie. I hope it isn't. I haven't seen it yet.

TeenHollywood: Why were you so disillusioned?

Rob: Just mainly because when most films are being made now they're designing it to make money even before it's started shooting. Prejudging an audience is completely impossible to do. 'Audiences bought this so they're going to like this'. It's impossible to do. But you're going to make the same movie again and again. No one's going to break out of it. I just thought, 'I don't want to be adding shit to the pile so I might as well complain about it and not be part of it'.

TeenHollywood: Was music your Plan B?

Rob: Well, I was doing music but my sisters were saying 'you can't make money out of music' so I thought 'why not just see what happens with acting and don't really bow down to anybody?' If you get fired, you get fired. I got fired before a few years ago. I was like 'whatever. Maybe something might come along'. You can't not do it. I really love films. So I'd like it if there was another golden age (of films) like the '70s. I don't think that will be for a while.

TeenHollywood: Is there a moment you're looking forward to in the next Twilight movies?

Rob: Definitely the second one. The second one's my favorite book and I think you can really change the character at the end. He's distraught and every ounce of confidence he has in the first one is gone by the end of the second one by his reappearance at the end when he's essentially committing suicide. He can really completely change his image, like, nothing in the rest of the books. I can create something quite special with it, I think... if they let me. (laughs.)

TeenHollywood: Would you want to be immortal?

Rob: No way! I just want to get to 32. That's the age I'm looking forward to.

TeenHollywood: Do you wish they'd let you cut your hair?

Rob: (running his fingers through it) Hey, I did cut it. (with a pouty look) No one's even noticed. (laughs)

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I condensed the article and took out the stuff that we have already heard about.

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