NEW Rob Interview with The Daily Telegraph — Talks About ‘Eclipse’, ‘WFE’ and his personal life

GIVEN Twilight’s phe­nom­e­nal inter­na­tional suc­cess, it’s hard to imag­ine the next instal­ment of the vam­pire flicks could be a box office flop.

But Robert Pat­tin­son isn’t tak­ing any­thing for granted on the eve of the release of The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse.

“To be hon­est, I’m more ter­ri­fied that it’s going to come out and no one’s going to see it,” Pat­tin­son said.

Speak­ing on the phone whilst dri­ving on a Cal­i­forn­ian high­way, Pat­tin­son is refresh­ingly down to earth, far removed from the hype that sur­rounds his Hol­ly­wood hunk sta­tus. His Amer­i­can twang from Twi­light is replaced by his polite and friendly British tones and he seems gen­uinely keen for a chat — despite his rep­u­ta­tion for being as brood­ing as his Twi­light per­sona, the mys­te­ri­ous Edward Cullen.

He sounds kind of flat­tered, although wary, when this Insider admits to being an avid Twi­light fan.

“Have you ever done an inter­view with a jour­nal­ist who was a crazed Twi­light fan?” I blurted.

“I think I’ve had one,” he muses. “She was from Viet­nam and she was hav­ing a full-on panic attack in the inter­view, which was quite funny.”

With two block­buster films already on the 24-year-old’s resume, three more in the works and mil­lions of ador­ing fans, Pat­tin­son has Hol­ly­wood at his feet.

The first two instal­ments, Twi­light and New Moon, have bro­ken count­less box-office records, gross­ing more than $60 mil­lion in Aus­tralia alone and $1.3 bil­lion worldwide.

The suc­cess was ini­tially based on the cult fol­low­ing of Stephanie Meyer’s nov­els, which cen­tre around Pattinson’s char­ac­ter Edward, his mor­tal love inter­est Bella Swan (played by Kris­ten Stew­art) and a were­wolf named Jacob (played by Tay­lor Laut­ner), who is also vying for Bella’s love.

The lat­est instal­ment, directed by David Slade, is slightly darker than the first two with a larger cast which includes Aus­tralian Xavier Samuel, whose char­ac­ter Riley leads an army of new­born vam­pires on a killing spree in Seattle.

“There’s more action in it and I guess it’s dark and more vio­lent, but I always thought the tone of New Moon was quite dark,” Pat­tin­son says.

The actor’s rel­a­tively new-found fame has brought with it an unwanted spot­light on his pri­vate life, in par­tic­u­lar his much talked about rela­tion­ship with co-star Stewart.

“It is extremely dif­fi­cult but we are together, yes,” he told a British tabloid ear­lier this year, giv­ing the media the first real proof the pair are, in fact, an off-screen item.

The intensely pri­vate star refuses to give press any fod­der about his rela­tion­ship — not for any amount of cash the gos­sip mag­a­zines might throw the couple’s way.

“I don’t under­stand why some peo­ple (sell sto­ries) because it only ends up in sad­ness for your­self. I try to avoid it,” he says. “It becomes about money, and as soon as you start sell­ing your actual life then you’re going down a really bad road.

“As long as you keep your job and your life sep­a­rate, you’re much hap­pier, and it’s much eas­ier to deal with things and it’s much eas­ier to escape.”

Pat­tin­son, whose unruly head of hair and pierc­ing blue-grey eyes have secured him spots atop a string of “world’s sex­i­est” lists, can’t see what the fuss is about, bewil­dered by the atten­tion on his looks.

“I remem­ber when I had my hair cut and it was on CNN,” he said. “Have they got noth­ing bet­ter to talk about? It’s quite funny.”

Pat­tin­son cut his locks for his lat­est movie, Water For Ele­phants, in which he plays a vet­eri­nary stu­dent work­ing at a cir­cus who falls for an eques­trian rider, played by Reese Witherspoon.

“The whole men­tal­ity of the char­ac­ter is com­pletely dif­fer­ent to Edward and I haven’t really had an enor­mous amount of time to pre­pare for it,” he says.

It was film­ing this movie that pre­vented Pat­tin­son from vis­it­ing Syd­ney with Laut­ner and Stew­art ear­lier this month to pro­mote the new Twi­light movie.

“I haven’t ever been to Aus­tralia but a lot of my best friends from school have moved there, to Mel­bourne,” he says excit­edly, using our chat as an oppor­tu­nity to get in touch with a long-lost mate.

“If Char­lie is read­ing this, tell him to call me,” he says. “We used to stay in con­tact via Face­book but I can’t really have Face­book any more because it kept get­ting hacked into so I haven’t talked to him for a while.

“Tell him to call my mum because he’s prob­a­bly still got that number.”

As for what the future holds, there’s the strong pos­si­bil­ity he won’t be in front of the lens forever.

“I really enjoy it (act­ing) but there are a lot of other things I want to do as well. I really want to pro­duce a movie,” he admits.

As for whether he will miss play­ing Edward when the fourth and final Twi­light film, Break­ing Dawn, is com­pleted, the actor’s feel­ings are mixed: “I don’t know. I did some shoots for Eclipse a few weeks ago and it did feel so famil­iar … I guess I’m going to miss it quite a bit when it’s finished.”

But there’s one ele­ment he won’t be sad to leave behind: “The con­tact lenses are the most annoy­ing things to put on every morning.

“I bet you the next thing I do will be some prosthetic-heavy part, play­ing a cow or something.”

That’s still some way off though, with pro­duc­tion on Break­ing Dawn begin­ning later this year.

The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse opens on July 1

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