Chris Weitz on Robert Pattinson’s chill media ‘tude

“Twi­light: New Moon” direc­tor Chris Weitz talked exclu­sively with The Dish Rag about Robert Pattinson’s notice­ably more relaxed inter­view skills on his recent New York media tour for “Remem­ber Me.”

The actor wowed NY talk show hosts with his off-the-cuff amus­ing remarks about how sexy Betty White is on “The View,” telling the “Today Show” that he offered to do a nude photo shoot for Details, revis­it­ing his lady parts allergy, even good-naturedly climb­ing up a tree for a “Both­ered” video with Jimmy Fallon.

The guy is becom­ing a younger, wit­tier, even more self-deprecating George Clooney.

IESB: Did you have any pre­con­ceived notions, com­ing into this film, about what it would be like to work with Kris­ten Stew­art, Robert Pat­tin­son and Tay­lor Laut­ner, prior to film­ing with them? And, was there any­thing you learned about work­ing with them that really sur­prised you?

Chris: I think what sur­prised me most was how level-headed they were, given the kind of pres­sures that they were under from the atten­tion of the fans and the num­ber of things that could have taken their head out of the game, and how much they really cared about get­ting their char­ac­ters right. In the sec­ond film, in a fran­chise in which you know that peo­ple are going to go see it any­way, it’s very impres­sive to see young actors who really care about get­ting things just right. It’s the first time I’ve actu­ally been twice the age of the actors, except on About a Boy, but that was really work­ing with a child actor. These guys are actu­ally rather grown up. I was sur­prised at how old I actu­ally felt, in com­par­i­son to them. At the same time, I was really impressed by their professionalism.

IESB: Is there a spe­cific rea­son why you didn’t include any com­men­tary from Kris­ten, Rob and Tay­lor on the DVD? Were they just not available?

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