Ok mag­a­zine have this exclu­sive inter­view with Tate Elling­ton, Robs co-star in Remem­ber Me:

Being mobbed every time you leave the house is all in a day’s work for Robert Pattinson.

But for Tate Elling­ton, who played Robert Pattinson’s on-screen best friend in Remem­ber Me, thou­sands of scream­ing fans fol­low­ing you down the street is one hel­luva ter­ri­fy­ing experience.

OK.co.uk’s Nicola McCaf­ferty spent an evening chat­ting with Tate, the self-effacing actor who starred as Aidan Hall, about what life is like for the Twi­light hunk; how tricky it is work­ing with him and how they escaped the hysteria…

What was it like work­ing with Rob on Remem­ber Me, did you guys strike up an instant rapport?

“Yeah I think so [I hope so]! I met Rob at the screen test and luck­ily I wasn’t too ner­vous that day as I was like I prob­a­bly won’t get the job so… 

“But when I got the job and I met him again, he was auto­mat­i­cally as nice as can be and I had to make a point to be more talk­a­tive as I can be really shy, and Rob had a bit of shy­ness too. 

“I was happy he wasn’t like this big jerk com­ing into the room and he was utterly always so hum­ble and nice about every­thing.“
  

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 You played Rob’s best friend in the movie, did you guys spend time get­ting to know each other in preparation?

“After I got the job we had a cou­ple of times where we would go to the hotel where he was stay­ing and get to know each other.

“We sat around and had a beer and just chat­ted — it was good.

“I felt very com­fort­able with him from the get go. And I met Emi­lie de Ravin not long after, and auto­mat­i­cally we were all jerk­ing around!” 

Were you a Twi­light fan before you started work­ing on this movie?

“I was not… I actu­ally made a point not to watch Twi­light [when I got the role], but a girl I was dat­ing at the time was an insane fan about it.

“She explained to me all four books, I was like that sounds great I might read that at some point! She was also a Harry Pot­ter fan and got me hooked on it and when I heard Rob was in it, I was like Oh Cedric Dig­gory! Oh no wait, Twi­light… [laughs]

“I watched Twi­light not too long after we fin­ished shoot­ing and I kinda expected it to be a bit girly but it was good — I was like, way to go Rob!”

“At some point I have to watch New Moon — I still haven’t seen it. But it feels weird now — you’re like watch­ing a friend. 

Rob quite famously got mobbed by dozens of fans on the New York set… What was that like? 

“It was like a run­ning joke [when Rob got mobbed on-set.] “The pro­duc­ers sort of prepped me, they were like this sort of thing might be hap­pen­ing and I got there the first day and exactly that hap­pened and I was like woah, you weren’t kidding! “We had to fig­ure out how we were gonna get round it. It was tricky.” 

How did Rob cope with all the atten­tion? 

“He was so great, I dunno if i could do that every­day, the guy can’t even walk down the street — that would prob­a­bly throw me. 

“But it was hilar­i­ous ‘cos every­day you knew exactly when Rob was gonna show up on set, you’d just hear the screams and you’d be like — oh Rob’s coming! 

“We always got a kick of that. The crew han­dled it really amazingly. 

“You just kinda got used to it and it was nice — every­day there was just a lot of peo­ple there to say hello!” 

Did he get a bit freaked out the time? 

“Rob was ini­tially a bit… New York is quite an enclosed space but he fig­ured it out. 

“[But] he was always so nice to all the fans. 

“It was always overnight for him. I think he’s really set­tling into it now. I think he’s done a great job with it. 

“i dunno if I could cope with it… It would freak me out.” 

Read the entire inter­view over at OK 

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