Here’s a new/old inter­view Robert Pat­tin­son did in Cannes.

Edward has a much smaller role in New Moon. How much was this changed for the movie?
It didn’t change that much. Or maybe it did. There’s a sort of new image of me that Bella sees, or cre­ates. You’d think she went mad. She thinks she has visions. I’m not really that much in those scenes. Those scenes are mixed with mem­o­ries of her, and fantasies.

The ten­sion for pre­serv­ing the vir­gin­ity is a very impor­tant sub­ject in the saga.
In many ways it is. I think this was done because Stephe­nie loves that kind of ten­sion; hav­ing an unfull­filled desire the whole time, that’s the best kind of love. Makes every­thing more dra­matic, roman­tic, tragic. Peo­ple can see it in many dif­fer­ent ways.

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But how do you see it?

I always try to find the best in every­thing. Edward is a very human char­ac­ter, and I’m like him in many ways. He doubts him­self a lot. But he wants to do the right thing. He’s a nor­mal guy, he makes mis­takes. And it’s funny how fans see him as a per­fect guy. He’s not; he’s a jeal­ous per­son. But he does try to be a good per­son while fol­low­ing his heart.

Why did you pre­fer to be an actor and not a musi­cian? Or do you think you can be a musi­cian as well?

I think in many ways you can do both, but it’s very hard to fol­low both careers seri­ously. And to be hon­est, I wasn’t very inter­ested in mak­ing money with music. I make music for ther­a­peu­tic rea­sons. But music can help act­ing, tim­ing wise. You become less shy. It’s like when you’re with peo­ple, there’s a bar­rier. You feel naked. I think that helps.

Robert shares with us that he’s writ­ing music for a movie.

“Yes I wrote music. I’m writ­ing music for a movie, but it’s just the music. I won’t be singing in it”.

Will you ever write music for any of the Twi­light films? (score)

The music I’m writ­ing is for a movie that it might never get made.

What’s your favorite instru­ment to play? What you’re instru­ment of choice when you’re com­pos­ing new music?

I play the gui­tar a lot because you cn’t take a piano every­here (mim­ics the move­ments and laughs). I like the feel­ing that I get, I love it. But I played the piano before I played the gui­tar. I’m start­ing to play a lot again. It’s always nice to play again. I love Van Mor­ri­son and all that 70’s music.

You travel all over the world, that must take time for you to do the things you like to do. Does it bother you much, or how much are you will­ing to take?

I don’t mind the com­mer­cial aspect. I must say, if I could do the same things I’m doing right now with­out hav­ing any­one know who I am, I’d love it. When you’re very famous, you can’t lead a nor­mal life any­more and that’s scary. You might not be able to relate to nor­mal things again. You can’t walk into a build­ing, you can’t sit down for cof­fee any­more and find inspi­ra­tion to do things. Peo­ple ask­ing for my auto­graph, I can’t relate to that. That’s not inter­est­ing; it’s annoy­ing. And it’s very scary to think that you’ve lost any nor­mal life you had. I’m still new at this, but you know what? The fans love Edward, not me.

I read some­where that you love Jack Nichol­son and that he’s you role model.

Yes, in a weird way. It has to do with the deci­sions he made in his career. It’s strange, but I don’t think there’s another actor as coher­ent as he is. And with the same qual­ity of work.

Is there any younger actors that you like?

Romain Duris. And Val Kilmer.

You’re the most talked about per­son on the inter­net, do you read what peo­ple say about you?

I did it for a few months, but I’m done with that.

Why?

It’s easy to become obsessed with it. ‘I have to change’. When every­thing starts, that’s what you think ‘I have to change’. Why? It’s so stu­pid. A bad arti­cle can really get to you. And if you keep looking…

Did you travel with friends? Did you bring any­one to Cannes?

No, I’m here by myself.

Where do you live right now?

Nowhere. I’ve been work­ing for the past year and half. I have no home, or anything.

Do you feel like estab­lish­ing some­where? Buy­ing a house, maybe in LA?

It doesn’t make sense, I don’t go there very often. I’m maybe there one week at a time, stay in hotels. But it would be nice to have a place wher I can out down all my things.

A place to call your home? Or just a place where you can leave all your things?

I have a lot of books, but I don’t care very much for other poses­sions. I only have suit­cases in my hotel rooms.

Twi­light Poi­son via Pat­tin­son Life