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Robert Pattinson - TWILIGHT
\\\'Breaking Dawn, Part 1\\\' Won\\\'t Die at the Box Office
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 continued to reign supreme in the number one slot at the box office this weekend --
and for its third weekend in a row. The Twi-hard favorite has grossed an unbelievable $247.3 million in North America since
its November 18th release.
Robert Pattinson Interview TWILIGHT
Question: Are really ready for the fandom that\\\'s going to result from this film?
Pattinson: Yeah. My brain doesn\\\'t really accept it. So it\\\'s fine. I can be put anywhere and
it just goes completely over my head. I just don\\\'t want to get stabbed or something. Literally,
my representation asked me, \\\'Do you have any problems with this? Is it going to be okay?\\\' I said, \\\'
I just don\\\'t want to get shot or stabbed. I don\\\'t want someone to have a needle and I\\\'ll get AIDS afterwards.
\\\' That\\\'s only my real fears.
Question: And the scary part is that there are probably people out there who would do that.
Pattinson: I know. Whenever I see a crowd I always think that. It\\\'s like being on a plane. I think the
bottom is going to hit the runway when it\\\'s taking off.
Question: The picture of you in \\\'Entertainment Weekly\\\' article is that you were obsessive about playing this role
and had a lot of angst about taking it on. Is that true?
Pattinson: Yeah. I didn\\\'t want to do a stupid teen movie. I specifically hadn\\\'t done anything which anyone would
see since \\\'Harry Potter\\\' because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn\\\'t want to be an idiot. This came kind
of randomly and I didn\\\'t really know what it was when it first started. I was going to wait for another year. I wanted
to do two or three more little things and then do something bigger and then this kind of happened and I was like, \\\'Well,
okay.\\\' I had done another movie where I\\\'d gotten really intense about it before and I felt kind of satisfied afterwards,
much more satisfied than I had from other movies. I don\\\'t know how it turned out or what the result from getting intense
about something is, but you definitely feel more satisfied. I wanted to take that into \\\'Twilight\\\' and also try to break
down the assumption that if a movie is being made from a book which is selling a lot of copies, which every single book
that sells a lot of copies now is made into a movie immediately and they\\\'re virtually all not very good and everyone knows,
even six year olds know, that it\\\'s just to make money – I didn\\\'t want to be involved in something like that.
I thought Catherine [Hardwicke] and Kristen [Stewart] would be supportive of that. But they\\\'ve also got reputations
whereas I don\\\'t have a reputation at all. So I wanted to make sure that by the time people got to Portland that I knew
everything about everything and just be like really – I didn\\\'t talk to anyone about anything other than the part for about
a month and a half of the shoot. I think it kind of galvanized people. I think most people read the book and
it\\\'s an easy read. It\\\'s a nice book. So I think most people went in thinking, \\\'Yeah, it\\\'s a happy film.\\\' I\\\'m like
holding the book and saying, \\\'No! This is going to win Oscars!\\\' [laughs]
Question: Did that approach make him harder to let go of when the movie was done?
Pattinson: No, not really. It broke down as I was doing it mainly because people wanted
me to make it lighter. At the same time, me thinking that my idea would work and all of that
it was different to the book where he makes little quips and stuff. He\\\'s a confident character and no girls,
if you\\\'re writing the perfect guy you wouldn\\\'t write him as some manic depressive weirdo who\\\'s
trying to kill himself all the time whatever his six pack is like. So I spent a long time fighting with producers.
Catherine got me a copy of the book with every instance that he smiled highlighted and I was just like, \\\'Okay, fine.\\\'
Question: What do you have coming up then?
Pattinson: I\\\'m doing a little movie called \\\'Parts Per Billion\\\' with Dennis Hopper and Rosario
Dawson in January and hopefully something else just after. We have to wait and see if a sequel
is happening. I don\\\'t want to jinx it so I don\\\'t want to say anything.
Question: Did anything from your \\\'Harry Potter\\\' experience prepare you for the whole pop culture
phenomenon of \\\'Twilight\\\'?
Pattinson: Having it die down afterwards. Having it being the hot thing for a few months and then i
t just going and no one giving a shit. It helps. It helps once you get used to it and know that no one will care.
Once you\\\'re immune to failure it\\\'s like nothing matters.
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Joss Whedon - Director
Julia Roberts - Actors
Andrew Stanton - Director
Gary Ross - Director
Dwayne Johnson - Actors
