Robert Pattinson Interview with Telepoche

Exclu­sive inter­view with Franck Ragaine in Los Angeles
It’s in Bev­erly Hills that a short haired, relaxed, smil­ing and some­times amused Robert Pat­tin­son met with us to speak about Eclipse, the third install­ment in the Twi­light Saga, where he again takes the role that made him a star.
Since the begin­ning you’ve been com­pared to James Dean, does that flat­ter you?
I don’t know… In fact I’ve decided to take it as a com­pli­ment. But I know that I can never take the place of a James Dean. Fur­ther­more the world of movies have changed so much, peo­ple like James Dean and Mar­lon Brando don’t exist any­more. At the time their name alone allowed them to have con­trol on a movie. Today that’s not the case!
Aren’t you scared that you’ll be Edward forever?
If I under­stand cor­rectly I’ll always be com­pared to some­one else. In fact I’ve real­ized that the quote “The salary of an actor depends on the suc­cess of his last movie” is quite true.
Does the fact that you’re pigeon­holed into the skin of this char­ac­ter scare you?
This com­par­i­son seems to decrease as the films go. Fans don’t see me like that anymore. Contrarily to the first movie they can dif­fer­en­ti­ate my char­ac­ter and me. At the start when I did pub­lic appear­ances, for them I was Edward 100%. I could read it in their eyes. Many lacked con­trol which scared me. Every­thing has changed and now when I do inter­views I am as hon­est and sin­cere as pos­si­ble. I’m not Edward and I make sure it shows.
Besides every­thing else you play with medias, like when you recently said that Kris­ten Stew­art (his part­ner in Twi­light) was pregnant.…
The only times I answer like that is to avoid manip­u­la­tion that medias can some­times do. If I don’t reply seri­ously, they can’t attack me seri­ously either. It’s a tactic!
In three years you must have read and heard every­thing about yourself?
Incred­i­ble things! I’d have slept with so many peo­ple and made so many girls preg­nant… But after a while, the pub­lic doesn’t believe what’s said any­more and they tell them­selves that it’s not real. Thankfully!
Do you read fan mail?
Some­times. I think that cer­tain let­ters don’t get to me. I’m sur­prised I haven’t received death threats (smiles).
What is the most inde­cent pro­posal you’ve received from a fan?
I will keep that a secret as it was so inde­cent I doubt she was in her nor­mal state of mind when she made it.
The fun­ni­est experience?
It was recently. It hap­pened while I was film­ing “Water for Ele­phants in which my part­ner is Reese With­er­spoon. We had a scene with ele­phants but there were so many paparazzi around that it was scar­ing the ani­mals and it was impos­si­ble to film. Out of the blue, fans, that were wait­ing for auto­graphs, had enough and cir­cled around the paparazzi. Teens made big guys run away. It was unreal! I was pleased.
In Eclipse you play Edward for the third time. Do you fear you’ll repeat yourself?
The more I become famil­iar with the role, the more I try to do new things and take risks. You can’t be scared to go on unknown areas. The prob­lem with Edward is that he doesn’t age, there­fore it doesn’t make the task easy. Because for a human being grow­ing older brings on many possibilities.
But the rela­tion­ship between him and Bella changed in this third installment?
Dur­ing the first two movies, his only worry was if he wanted to make a life with her. Now that he’s made the deci­sion to marry her, there­fore accept­ing a life in a more human form, it changes every­thing. He must face the world of the liv­ing more than the immor­tal one. It adds a com­plex­ity that’s inter­est­ing to play.
With the salaries you get did you do crazy things like buy the car of your dreams?
No, I don’t have a pas­sion for car, I don’t see the point in spend­ing my money on a car. Even clothes, I don’t care much, I wear the same things all the time. But I did buy myself a few guitars.

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