PopSugar UK’s Transcript of the Remember Me Press Conference in the UK

From Pop­Sug­arUK

I was lucky enough to attend the Lon­don pre­miere of Remem­ber Me and meet Robert Pat­tin­son and Emi­lie De Ravin ear­lier this month. Rob and Emi­lie chat­ted about their film, their roles in Twi­light and Lost, and lots more. In Part One of this series of inter­views Robert reveals how he felt dur­ing the fight scenes, how he views father fig­ures, his role in Bel Ami and his rela­tion­ship with his friends and fam­ily. Stay tuned for the next installments!
On play­ing brood­ing types, and whether he’d con­sider a lighter role:
 “I did the kind of lighter stuff before Twi­light came out, and it just so hap­pened that Twilight’s become so much about the arche­type of the brood­ing per­son. I mean I never thought that Tyler was that brood­ing to be hon­est [laughs], and then I just get it at every sin­gle thing, peo­ple say­ing, “brood, brood, brood” — I hadn’t even heard the word before Twi­light! I guess I like to play bro­ken and trou­bled char­ac­ters because it seems more inter­est­ing, espe­cially because I’m not that bro­ken and trou­bled myself.”
On his new roles:
 “I’m doing some­thing now [Bel Ami] that’s still quite dark, but the guy, his char­ac­ter isn’t so frac­tured, he’s just some­one who’s incred­i­bly focused and has a lot of con­fi­dence in him­self, and noth­ing can shake his con­fi­dence. And then after that, I think there’s a kind of lighter thing as well. I don’t know, it’s not really that they’re angsty it’s just that joy seems to be more a uni­ver­sal emo­tion in script, it’s quite dif­fi­cult — if you’re happy, you’re happy.”
On how the char­ac­ter of Tyler developed:
“The script changed so much over seven months and just had loads and loads of re-writes. I tried to tai­lor things to what I was inter­ested in, like the rela­tion­ship with the dad changed quite a lot because I thought one of the things when you’re a young guy one of your biggest fears is this irra­tional fear of walk­ing in your dad’s foot­steps and liv­ing the same life as him. I thought, even if your dad’s a good guy, you just want to assert your inde­pen­dence on every­thing and it causes these irra­tional sort of rages.”
On his own fight­ing history:
 “I haven’t been in a fight in quite a long time, I think I’m too scared now. I think if I got in to a fight now, some­body would just kill me just for the sake of it [laughs]. I liked a lot of Tyler’s char­ac­ter, the rebel­lious­ness and auda­cious­ness of it, it’s like a fan­tasy of myself, like yeah, I’m the kind of guy who just ran­domly gets in fights. Yeah, I do it all the time. But, not really [laughs].”
On film­ing the fight scenes:
Pro­ducer Nick Osbourne: “I felt scared for you because the day you were doing the Chris Cooper fight, Chris was doing press-ups against the wall [laughs].“
Robert: “Yeah, he’s like unbe­liev­ably strong, he’s ter­ri­fy­ing. And the fight I was hav­ing at the begin­ning I was doing it with this big stunt guy and I kept hit­ting this thing against the wall, next to his head. Then I was hit­ting him with what I thought was my full strength, I hit him in the head about four times and every time I hit him, I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry’. And he’s like, ‘It’s fine, it didn’t even hurt’. Yeah, that was kind of an ego deflater!”
On his friend­ship group:
 “It’s nice that I’ve grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them… I grew up with a lot of peo­ple who a lot of other peo­ple regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for pro­tec­tion, and so I don’t ever really think I’ve been looked at as a hero.”
On who he con­sid­ers his hero:
 “Outside of my fam­ily, I don’t really know. They’re great peo­ple and my par­ents are great par­ents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don’t know, I think that’s about all the heroes I’ve had.”
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