Aus­tralian actress Emi­lie de Ravin has moved from the small screen to the big screen in the upcom­ing roman­tic drama Remem­ber Me (out March 12).

In the movie, de Ravin (Claire on the TV smash hit Lost) plays Ally who becomes the object of affec­tion of one brood­ing young man named Tyler, played by super hunk Robert Pat­tin­son. Tyler has a strained rela­tion­ship with his father a (Pierce Bros­nan) due to a fam­ily tragedy and didn’t think any­one could pull him out of his funk until, he met Ally (Emi­lie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unex­pect­edly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find hap­pi­ness but soon, hid­den secrets are revealed, and the cir­cum­stances that brought them together slowly threaten to tear them apart.

De Ravin recently spoke to Tribute’s Toni-Marie Ippolito to dis­cuss film­ing Remem­ber Me, how hard it was to con­cen­trate with the paparazzi on set, what Robert Pat­tin­son is really like to work with and, of course, her feel­ings on the final sea­son of the hit series Lost, which made her a house­hold name.

Con­grat­u­la­tions on this film. It looks fan­tas­tic. So, what did you think first think about this love story?

DE RAVIN: I fell in love as soon as I read it. It’s one of those few and far between scripts that you read that you’re like, “This is just some­thing that I would just kill to be a part of.”

Read the rest of the inter­view after the jump!

I under­stand there were about 180 women that were up for the part and then you got it! How does that feel for you as an actor?
DE RAVIN: It’s pretty amaz­ing. Also, they were going in a lot of dif­fer­ent direc­tions with the look for Ally to start with and sort of ended up, I think, the fur­thest from where they started [Laughs]. I’m happy though.

What was your reac­tion when you found out that Pierce Bros­nan, a.k.a James Bond, and Robert Pat­tin­son were going to be a part of this film?
DE RAVIN: That was, you know, even bet­ter. We’ve got a really tal­ented cast. Pierce is play­ing Rob’s dad. I’ve got Chris Cooper play­ing my father. Lena Olin is amaz­ing and we’ve got a won­der­ful lit­tle 11-year-old girl, Ruby, who’s play­ing Rob’s sis­ter who’s just a sweet­heart and really tal­ented. Every­one sort of ended up work­ing together really well too, which is, you know, difficult—especially when you’re deal­ing with fam­ily units.

It looks like it’s a really intense, emo­tional story. Can you tell me a lit­tle bit about it?
DE RAVIN: The premise for the movie is really a roman­tic tragedy. My char­ac­ter and Rob’s char­ac­ter both have dealt with tragedy in our fam­ily and our past and we sort of meet unex­pect­edly, fall in love unex­pect­edly and then sort of the way the cir­cum­stances that we meet basi­cally threaten to tear us apart. It’s really about just trea­sur­ing and appre­ci­at­ing every moment you have with loved ones and fam­ily because you can never go back.

What do you think it is about roman­tic tragedies that we just love so much? They’re heart wrench­ing!
DE RAVIN: They are heart wrench­ing! And for this film specif­i­cally I think it’s just the real­ity of this story that peo­ple can (relate to), whether they’ve been through some­thing tragic in their life. It’s not dealt with in a fluffy movie way, which I think a lot of sto­ries are. It’s really gritty, it’s very hon­est and you know, espe­cially the rela­tion­ship with Tyler and Ally. You can be, “Yeah, I’ve been like that in my rela­tion­ship before. That’s kind of how it is.” None of that sort of per­fect “first this and first that.” It’s all just down to earth and real.

It’s real life stuff. Tyler’s character’s got some stuff going on, but so does Ally with her dad. Could you relate at all to this char­ac­ter?
DE RAVIN: Yeah. I mean, not in a spe­cific writ­ing sense or not in a spe­cific cir­cum­stance of what hap­pened to Ally. But yeah, I think I always draw from life expe­ri­ence when it makes sense. So there’s always lit­tle things that you can find to incor­po­rate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact cir­cum­stance or some­thing sim­i­lar that maybe brought up a sim­i­lar emo­tion in you.

While you were film­ing, there seemed to be a lot of paparazzi around because of Robert’s fame from Twi­light. How did you guys deal with that?
DE RAVIN: Um, yeah, you know, it took a lit­tle get­ting used to. We really shot the major­ity of the film on loca­tion, you know, in and around Man­hat­tan so there’s just peo­ple every­where any­way. It got a lit­tle hec­tic at times!

It must have been a bit dis­tract­ing.
DE RAVIN: The first day I was sort of like, “Oh my God. How am I going to focus?” And you know there were times that we were rehears­ing and you can’t even sort of think about what you’re doing. You feel all these eyes on you and you become very sud­denly self-conscious about what’s going on as opposed to being in your own lit­tle world of the character.

What’s it like work­ing with Robert Pat­tin­son?
DE RAVIN: He’s such a nice, gen­uine, great guy as a per­son. And you know that’s always nice when you’re work­ing with some­one you get along with. [He’s] very giv­ing. We sort of worked on stuff a lot together and we’d talk about things and really devel­oped our char­ac­ters together as much as we could. And that’s a real give and take thing if you’ve got one per­son not want­ing to do that and one that does—it sort of cre­ates a bit of con­flict. But we were both sort of on the same page with every­thing, which was great.

Being on the same page, did that help with your chem­istry? How do you know things would work out well with the both of you?
DE RAVIN: Yeah, well you know, I guess you don’t really a lot of the time, do you? I tested for this with Rob so I guess they see whether your inter­pre­ta­tion of the char­ac­ter and his inter­pre­ta­tion are going to go together. But then there’s also that you can change it up a bit too to make it work bet­ter or bring it back. It’s an inter­est­ing ques­tion because it is some­thing that I think comes more from really just get­ting along with that per­son and lik­ing that per­son as opposed to sort of some­one who really annoys you.

Are there any mem­o­rable scenes that really stick out for you in this movie?
DE RAVIN: That I can talk about with­out giv­ing away any­thing? [Laughs]. There’s a lot. I had a won­der­ful time. We had a lot of fun. There was one scene that I was really excited about doing with Chris (Cooper) who plays my Dad. We have a big fight and that was just such a sort of emo­tion­ally chal­leng­ing, inter­est­ing theme because it was sort of one of those things that —we’re very evenly matched as our char­ac­ters as father and daughter—it’s not sort of one under­mines the other. So that was a lot of fun to play with. And, you know, Rob and I had a lot of fun play­ing together. We had a really fun sort of water fight scene. Just get­ting to do some­thing like that that’s so sort of play­ful and fun.

Read the rest of the inter­view here, where she talks about Lost

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