Rob talks about Bel Ami, Music & Breaking Dawn

I must con­fess. I didn’t like Robert Pat­tin­son. And today I wish I had stood back. When Twi­light was released and we saw that 10,000 peo­ple were camp­ing in front of the movie the­ater of Los Ange­les where the pre­miere was tak­ing place , our first reac­tion as jour­nal­ist was : “But why are they enjoy­ing this saga ?”

When Pat­tin­son had arrived a few hours later , he was so over­whelmed that he quickly dis­ap­peared. Just a few words to the media . We had thus con­cluded that this guy was big headed . It was a huge mis­take. In fact , Pat­tin­son is a real shy guy . More­over , he is Eng­lish , so he is a phleg­matic shy per­son. And when we chat­ted with him , for the release of Eclipse , I real­ized that he didn’t expect such a phe­nom­e­non that night at the Twi­light pre­miere . Robert Pat­tin­son is only 24 and nowa­days , he is the most desired bach­e­lor of the world. . And trust me , he still can’t cope with his fame . So he stays at home , never goes out at night and when he’s not play­ing this 107 years old vir­gin vam­pire, he chooses inter­est­ing roles in inter­est­ing films . But let’s focus today on Eclipse because it’s been released all around the world , I hope you will for­give me for this easy play on words . Here is “Inter­view with a vampire”

R.M. : Since you’re Eng­lish, you must have fol­lowed the FIFA world cup . Why do you think this event is so impor­tant in the world?

R.P. : The eng­lish team is always a good one , we always have the best play­ers and no one is sup­posed to play bet­ter than us , but every­time , it’s not enough to win
I don’t know why foot­ball is so impor­tant and why it gath­ers so many peo­ple. Maybe because it’s easy to under­stand this sport . The more a sport attracts peo­ple ; the more pop­u­lar it’ll be , that’s why I never under­stood why foot­ball isn’t so pop­u­lar in the USA . It’s incred­i­ble to see such a huge and rich coun­try unable to have a good foot­ball team . I must say they improve and thay have a great foot­ball team now.

R.M. : You’re only 24 and you’re on the spot­lights , is it dif­fi­cult not to make mis­takes?

R.P. : Yes , it’s always frus­trat­ing and peo­ple always expect me to do some mis­takes to pounce on me. But I like being imper­fect. We can’t always look per­fect and sell such an image. It’s impos­si­ble. Any­way, I never tried to do so , it’d be dan­ger­ous . And I’ve always made a mil­lion mis­takes (laughs…)

R.M. : and if you did a film which hap­pens to be a fail­ure ?

R.P. : as long as I’m mak­ing a film for good rea­sons , and not money ‚it’ll be OK . If I decide to do a film just for money , there’ll be prob­lems. Noth­ing can be good if you do it for money or for fame . If we choose to do a film because we think it’s a good story, then even if it’s a fail­ure, I don’t mind. I’ve never been attracted by money or fame . My desires are quite lim­ited, so I guess it’ll be OK!

R.M. : Your upcom­ing film is Bel Ami , an adap­tion of Maupassant’s novel . You also played Sal­vador Dali and then you did Twilight.These aren’t clas­si­cal choices

R.P. : I never thought about what I wanted to do . And when you’re not famous , we can do inde­pen­dent films , more artis­tic films . And you have to be lucky to do it ! Then when I did Twi­light, I didn’t expect that suc­cess . First because it was directed by Cather­ine Hard­wicke who comes from the inde­pen­dent cin­ema indus­try. And then because Kris­ten Stew­art was cast . She had only done inde­pen­dent films . I thought it’d be a sim­ple love story with vam­pires and that maybe it’d become a strange remem­bered film . Obvi­ously , it became this huge phe­nom­e­non and no one had pre­dicted it. Once you’re in it , you have to surf on the suc­cess wave! I won’t com­plain to be in a suc­cess­ful film!

R.M. : You told us you don’t do films for money , but due to the suc­cess of Twi­light, did you take part to the nego­ti­a­tions?

R.P. : In a way , I did . But it’s my man­ager and my agent who deal with it . My only wish is to go on work­ing . The other aspects bother me. And I don’t think about money when I do films one after the other . It’s what I enjoy . Before Twi­light, I did a tiny film “Lit­tle Ashes”. There was no bud­get and above all no money for me but it allowed me to live 4 months in Barcelona, just for this film. It was awe­some ! Except that , my life is the same , I always do the same things . So there aren’t so many dif­fer­ence between the past and the present

R.M. : You play the gui­tar and you had a group . Is music impor­tant for you ?

R.P. : It’s very impor­tant and I think being an actor helped me for my music. In the past, I wasn’t inter­ested in music . My sis­ter who is a singer intro­duced me to this world . This indutry is much more dif­fi­cult thant the film indus­try. You’re not really respected when you’re an actor , but when you shoot a film , in the end you’re paid . In the music indus­try , you’re con­stantly asked to improve your­self . You work again on your music and once it’s done, you’re not paid !The only rea­son I started doing music and try­ing to record albums, it’s because I’m a bit famous , and it’d per­haps help me play­ing with famous artists .Once you’re famous as an actor, doors are open for music . So I hope I could record some songs , but just for me .If it’s for money , it’s use­less . And I con­sider that if you earn money no one can lis­ten to you until it’s over , nobody can judge you either

R.M. : What can you tell us about Break­ing Dawn.

R.P. :Bill Con­don is going to direct it , but I haven’t read the script yet . It’ll be 2 dif­fer­ent films . I con­fess I’m a bit afraid that this fran­chise is going to end . It’s a safety net which enables us to make some mis­takes in these films beause we know there’ll always be another one .But once it’s over , it’s over ! I’m glad we shoot the films one after the other . I used to try to shoot a film in between Twi­light films . For Eclipse, I had to embody Edward again in one week , and it was hard . One week prepa­ra­tion, it wasn’t easy and I was stressed at the begin­ning. So for the next installe­ments, I could be Edward dur­ing the shoot­ing of both films .

R.M. : Speak­ing about Edward, he’s a 107 years old vir­gin vam­pire ?

R.P. : (Laughs ) How old is he ? I think he’s 109 or 110…

R.M. : And he never had sex­ual rela­tion­ship before?

R.P. : I think he had an adven­ture with another vam­pire, in Alaska, but it’s not men­tionned ! (laughs) In the first book , it’s briefly alluded to but I don’t remem­ber it well . I don’t think it’s clearly explained . Fans enjoy think­ing he’s still a virgin !

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