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Pattinson, who became a superstar as vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, spoke of his role as Tyler and the movie at the press junket for the film in New York City.
Do people judge your work differently after the Twilight films?
Yeah, I think people do judge things differently after the Twilight films; they view it differently, but there’s nothing you can really do about that. I do take that into account more now than I used to. Doing the (Salvador) Dali movie (Little Ashes), when I was doing it, I didn’t think anyone was ever going to see it. It’s a very different place to be at when you think you’re making a movie which nobody is going to see; you’re not afraid to experiment with things.
We’re dealing with random violence in this film. Was there something from your own past that you could bring?
No. It was more about the reactions after (the random violence). The way he dealt with random events. Little bits were cut out of it but I remember after the first fight with Chris Cooper’s character, his mother was saying, ‘You need to sue the police force,’ and I was like, ‘For what?’ He doesn’t really care. ‘Well, at least, get an apology,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t think you can sue the police force for an apology.’
It was kind of this blasé attitude, even when it’s been him who’s been the one who is harmed. I always related to that. Looking back into the past and bearing grudges, I don’t really do that. The way that his violence comes out as well, it’s illogical. It’s not against really legitimate targets. I kind of relate to that. When you have a spasm of rage it goes, almost inevitably, to the complete wrong target and it causes you more problems. So, it’s better to keep it chained up all the time.
A lot of that anger goes against Tyler’s dad, played by Pierce Brosnan. What was it like acting with him? And is your relationship with your own dad, anything like that?
(he laughs) I think my relationship with my dad is the opposite. With Pierce, the part was written as much more controlling. He was incredibly arrogant in the script. And, Pierce seems like a really nice guy and he read the character as, he’s not a horrible man. He’s not a monster, and that completely changed what Tyler’s relationship is with him. You’re looking at a guy where you know the audience is going to be thinking, ‘He’s all right,’ which is kind of interesting.
This guy Tyler is rebelling against nothing. He is attacking (his father) because he knows he can be attacked and he’s going to keep standing afterwards.
Pierce was great. I had no idea who they were going to cast in that part and when (they told me) I was like, ‘That’s a tough act to follow’. But I think he was perfect for it.
Did you enjoy your fight scenes; acting with fists not words?
Yeah. I loved it. It’s completely different. I never do stuff like that in reality so it’s quite cathartic in a lot of ways.
Was it daunting working with Chris Cooper as Ally’s tough dad?
Yeah, I don’t know how I’d feel if I really had any fighting back to do. I was continually beaten up by him (he laughs). But, yeah, it was quite daunting. It’s very hard being strangled. It’s really difficult to look like it’s actually happening, because if you’re being strangled nothing really happens. You just stand there.
I was experimenting with myself just before we shot it. I don’t really know what the face is to represent being strangled.
Have you been in a fight before?
Well, I’ve been beaten up a few times. I was a bit of an idiot when I was younger, but it was always unprovoked, in my eyes anyway. It was just after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor and that generally provoked a lot of people into hitting me.
Were you hurt in that particular fight scene
Oh no, not at all. The only thing that I hurt myself on was a bit they cut out of the movie where I flipped out afterwards, out of my own impotence in this fight. You walk into the big confrontation and end up getting completely destroyed by your competitor.
I was hitting myself afterwards in a little spur of the moment thing which they cut out of the movie. I hit myself so hard I was in pain for the rest of the shoot. It was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done (he laughs).
Did you have any trouble with the New York Bronx accent?
I grew up watching American movies. I learned how to act, to whatever extent, by watching American movies way more than English ones so I kind of, in a lot of ways, feel more comfortable speaking in an American accent. It feels more real to me in a lot of ways.
In the Twilight saga you are working with a lot of younger actors. Other than Emilie, the actors in this film are a bit older. Is it different working with older actors?
Yeah. In a lot of ways, it’s different because when you’re working with young people it’s like you’re going on the journey together. Everything is fresh to you. If you’re working with experienced people, they’re much clearer about what they want to do or bring to the job right from the beginning, which is really good in some ways. But, at the same time, they’re very willing.
Chris and I were rewriting the scene when we fought each other during the lunch break just before. I never worked with anyone who is really tied down to what they want to do and that’s that. It’s really good either way.
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From NewsOK:
‘Remember Me’ star Robert Pattinson won’t forget what ‘Twilight saga’ has created him
NEW YORK — Robert Pattinson is understandably a little fidgety and distracted these days. Everywhere he goes, it seems, he’s followed by lightninglike flashes and shutter-clicking hordes of paparazzi. When word gets out that he’s in town — and, somehow, it always does — screeching gaggles of young female fans gather nearby and swoon over his every move.
So it is that the hunky, 23-year-old British star of the hot teen vampire films “Twilight” and “New Moon” seems a bit preoccupied as he is ushered into a midtown hotel suite to discuss his new movie, “Remember Me,” during a recent press event hosted by Summit Entertainment.
Flanked by a team of stern, clock-watching publicists who admonish everyone around, “No pictures; no autographs,” Pattinson looks slightly sheepish as he’s handed a bottle of Fiji water and settles into a chair.
His hair tousled and his face fashionably stubbled, he’s decked out in gray shirt, gray wind-breaker jacket and rumpled dark jeans, appearing every bit the successor of moody-broody heartthrobs in the James Dean-Johnny Depp lineage.
“Remember Me,” a contemporary romantic drama about two young lovers struggling to deal with family relationships damaged by untimely deaths, was shot on location around New York City, and Pattinson admits through a series of rueful laughs that his red-hot celebrity made the production a chaotic ordeal. Everywhere they filmed, groupies and paparazzi crowded in and created turmoil.
“It’s weird,” Pattinson said. “I did this film, and I hardly knew anyone on the crew because I couldn’t get out of my trailer, especially the first month. I mean, I didn’t know anyone on the set. It was really odd.
“But at the same time, it’s really a quite nice lesson in discipline because you literally have to do it,” he said. “You can’t say, ‘I’m not performing until all these people go away.’ It was way more intense than any of the ‘Twilight’ films even.”
Director Allen Coulter said he knew going in that Pattinson’s feverish celebrity would require extra layers of security around the filming.
“I knew when Rob was going to the bathroom accompanied by about 14 guards that we had real security issues,” Coulter said. “I mean, we expected something, but not what we got. Joe Reidy, a masterful assistant director who’s been with DiCaprio working with Scorsese and others, even he was staggered by the intensity of it. It was tough.
“The first few days in particular, when we had to get our footing, Rob and the others managed to perform intimate scenes when we had 30 to 50 guys on the sidelines with cameras, that we were barely able to control, not to mention 700 to 1,000 young girls all vibrating. It was not easy for the cast to act, and it was not easy for us to do our jobs.”
Despite rigorous security efforts and lots of burly production assistants to keep crowds at bay, “you simply couldn’t defeat it,” the director said. “They (groupies) had inroads and ways of finding out where we were going to shoot. And we’d show up somewhere at 5 a.m., and there would be girls standing there waiting for us so they could see Rob walk from his trailer to the set. They’d see him for maybe 15 seconds. They’d wait all day for that.”
Still, Pattinson, who went from a supporting role in two “Harry Potter” movies to international stardom as sexy vampire Edward Cullen in the first two films of “The Twilight Saga” series, said he’s learning to deal with the daunting distractions of fame.
“It really is just about blanking it out,” he said. “I mean, at the beginning I was having loads of problems with it because it was really crazy. When we were filming around Washington Square Park, it was just complete mayhem. There was this one moment where one of the security guys saw me getting more and more and more angry with the paparazzi guys, and he said to me, ‘Imagine like going up and trying to hit one of them and missing, right there in front of 40 cameras.’ And that was enough to break my rage. It didn’t really bother me after that.”
The noisy commotion of celebrity, however, did detract from his performance, Pattinson admitted.
“It makes you a little more self-conscious. I mean … yeah. You can’t really experiment with things. You can’t really do silly things to get yourself comfortable. So it did in a way detract. But at the same time, there is a certain quality to Tyler (his character) that’s a little bit clenched, that’s about suppressing his emotions, so maybe it helped.”
Pattinson said he received a valuable lesson in handling the demands of celebrity with grace from co-star Pierce Brosnan, who plays his emotionally withholding, business tycoon father in the film.
“Pierce did one thing the first night I went out to dinner with him before we started shooting,” Pattinson said. “We were in this place, a sort of old-fashioned French restaurant, and all these sort of banker-looking guys were there. They didn’t recognize me, but they obviously recognized him, he was probably like their idol, and Pierce said he noticed these people looking over.
“And I’m sitting there getting more and more self-conscious and ready to leave. And he goes over and introduces himself to everyone at the table. And at first I thought, ‘You are completely insane.’ But it worked so well. I mean, he talked to them for about a minute. And people did not look around afterwards, and you can tell that they’re going to go home and say, ‘Yeah, he’s such a nice guy.’
“And after that there was nothing weird about us being in the restaurant,” Pattinson said. “You’re no longer a kind of freak. But, of course, he’s got enormous confidence, so he can do that. If I did that, it would probably look like I was trying to start a fight or something.”
Finally, Pattinson said he is trying to maintain a calm sanity about his dizzying fame and to be aware that it could go away as quickly as it came.
“I think it’s all really simple,” he said thoughtfully as handlers swooped in to wrap up the questioning. “I mean, you look at how people are judged in the public arena, and I think the majority of people kind of get beaten by it, the people who are seen all the time. I mean, the less you’re seen then you’ll be all right. As long as you keep attempting to make quality films, then eventually your name stands for something other than meaningless celebrity. It’s a kind of difficult battle, but you have to make the work mean more than your celebrity. I think Johnny Depp has done that, and that’s what I’d like to do.”
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Here are a few colour enhanced pics I made of Rob at the Remember Me Press junket.
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Here are some black & white pics of Rob at the Remember Me press junket.
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Awesome pics of Rob from the Remember Me Press Conference.
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