Robert Pattinson Daily

Overnight Robert Pat­tin­son became an inter­na­tional star thanks to the role of Edward in the Twi­light Saga. The story of love between a vam­pire and a reg­u­lar girl cap­tured hearts of peo­ple all over the world. We met up with him in New York where he attended the pre­miere of his new movie ‘Remem­ber Me’.

You must be really happy that with that movie you can change your pub­lic image a bit, you smoke and drink all the time in it, get into fist fights, you’re no longer just that ‘pretty boy’.

Yeah, that’s one of the things that I liked the most about that movie. After the first fight, no one even thought about that ear­lier, I have mas­sive cuts and bruises all over my face and they stay for the dura­tion of almost the whole movie. It’s an inter­est­ing romance, just imag­ine that some­one is try­ing to hit on you look­ing like that [so unat­trac­tive]. In the scene when I meet Ally for the first time, when I was read­ing the script I didn’t real­ize that my whole face is going to be bruised, I mean imag­ine a guy try­ing to impress a girl hav­ing a black eye [every­thing is writ­ten on his face] yeah. It was a cool scene.

Do you pre­fer real­is­tic movies like that one, or maybe the fan­tasy world like Twilight?

I don’t know. That script seemed just very hon­est and real, you don’t get some­thing like that too often, but some­times, real­ity can be just incred­i­bly bor­ing and fan­tasy is just more fun to play. But in that script there was just some­thing very spe­cial, I’ve never seen a movie like that. Gen­er­ally though, I don’t have any spe­cial preferences.

Are you kind of tired of fame because of all the chaos that hap­pened after Twi­light, are you both­ered by the whole inter­est? Does it make your life very difficult?

Some­times. I mean, like when I’m in New York and I can’t go out at all. [Or any­where in the world prob­a­bly] Some places, in some places it’s eas­ier, there are places where people’ve never heard of Twi­light [well don’t come to Poland then] Oh yeah? They’re big fans? [oh yeah, they all know you]. It can be very frus­trat­ing, but there’s always some way around it, if you plan ahead you can have a sem­blance of a nor­mal life. [Yeah, but in nor­mal life there’s no need for spe­cial plan­ning] I mean I think it pays off, I hate when I go out for din­ner and there’s a whole crowd of peo­ple out­side, and even if I just know that that crowd is there, I just can’t enjoy what­ever I’m doing [because you know what’s going to hap­pen after you leave] Yeah, and so I have to plan to be able to avoid that. But then again there are sit­u­a­tions when the crowds of fans are great, like this morn­ing, when I went to the Today Show. It’s such a sur­real, strange thing, I mean, I’m just 23 and it’s already so mas­sive, it’s like a turn­ing point in my life.

There’s going to be more films in the series so it’s prob­a­bly just going to be esca­lat­ing and last for few more years.

I don’t know how it can really esca­late more, there’s nowhere it can really go [we’ll maybe meet in a year or two and you’ll tell me if it hap­pened] yeah. Just before Christ­mas I was in Munich, I was at a sta­dium and there was 20 000 peo­ple there [scream­ing your name] yeah, and I didn’t even do any­thing, I just said ‘Hi’ and that’s it, it’s com­pletely sur­real, there’s no other word for it.

You must be happy that your career is going the way it is?

Def­i­nitely. There weren’t any bad sides, I mean, I can do movies that I really want to do now [you have a choice and that’s the most impor­tant thing for an actor] yeah, it’s amaz­ing. I mean, there’s a bit more pres­sure on you and what jobs you do, but gen­er­ally it’s great. And I hope that for the next few years I’m just going to have great fun.

Trans­la­tion by don­iczka at Pat­tin­son­life via RP Life