A rather exhausted looking Robert Pattinson talks to inthenews.co.uk about his new film Remember Me at its premier in London’s Leicester Square.
Following what appeared to be an exhausting few hours on the red carpet, ‘RPattz’ and his most recent leading lady Emilie du Ravin made their way into the Odeon for the premier of their new film, and to talk to yet more journalists.
Glowing in a black lace cocktail dress with terrifyingly high heels, the tiny Emilie du Ravin looked at ease next to her co-star. Poor Pattinson however, who has become synonymous with the Twilight brand and now attracts hundreds of screaming young girls wherever he goes, looked drained after his hours spent talking to fans, signing autographs and ‘biting them’. “I’ve been up since 6am” the heart-throb said wearily.
Nicholas Osborne, Remember Me’s producer, said the Twilight star was on board from the start: “I’m very proud to say that Rob read the script in the parking lot of an In n Out Burger! And it was two months before Twilight came out and Rob signed on and stuck with the project and from there everything snowballed.
“Rob [who is also executive producer on the film] always wanted this project to be handled a certain way and so we consulted with him on the script and various things along the way.”
Emilie (looking surprised) says to Robert: “I didn’t even know you were [executive producer] when we were filming!”
So what makes someone like Robert Pattinson choose a little known film such as this? He says: “I read tons and tons of scripts over the summer after I’d done Twilight, I mean hundreds, and all of them seemed exactly the same, but this one, initially just because the way the dialogue was written, seemed more naturalistic than most things.
“And also Tyler as a character – it seems that most movies that have a young male protagonist as the lead, they either have to be a virgin to begin with and have to learn everything during the movie or they always have to go through the trials of the movie and end up a completely different person afterwards. But Tyler seemed like he came with a lot of baggage, and a developed character, and just ended up being developed in a slightly different way.
“You just never see that in films any more, especially not with young people, and that’s what initially drew me.”
Both Emilie and Robert have difficulties, with their fathers in the film, played by Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan, but how was it playing alongside such famed actors? Emilie says: “I was over the moon when I found out Chris was playing my dad, I’ve been a fan of his for years and think he’s just incredible. He’s a very intense person but very giving.”
While Robert added: “When they first talked about the father role I never ever would have thought that it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles.
“But I think he has this innate like ability about him, as soon as you meet him. And Charles on the page was someone who was very domineering and quite a strong character, and Pierce, just by being Pierce, changed the whole dynamic of it. It was great, as it made it a much more interesting relationship I think.”
Robert’s younger sister in the film, played by Ruby Jerins, has a very sweet relationship with his character Tyler. Robert easily sung the little actress’s praises: “I always wanted a younger sibling and Ruby is one of the best actresses I have ever worked with.
“She is surprisingly articulate about her character, and when I first met her she seemed like a very, very normal kid, and then the more she talked about her character and her character’s development, she could just improvise for hours and she was so comfortable working in front of the camera, and she was really amazing. It was really easy to do anything with her.”
But how was it for him stepping out of the ‘Twilight’: “I never like anything [films], so it’s very easy to decide what to do! Even movies I’m not in! I’ve never felt any pressure to do anything. Even when we were filming it I never thought about the box office or anything.
“It’s not a Twilight movie, its an original screenplay. And it doesn’t fit into any genre. They don’t make movies like it anymore, and that’s the only criteria I really have if there seems to be a gap in the market for something then I just try and do that.”
While Emilie added: “It [the film] didn’t read like script, it read like a letter, it was so honest and organic in that way.
“[Lost] has been a big part of my life and it’s been a great ride. It’s kind of bittersweet that it’s ending.
“I’m glad it’s ending on a high note, but obviously you miss certain things about projects.”
The film, set in New York, deals with some tough issues, but Nicholas Osborne says they were all pleased with how it came out: “We had a lot of New Yorker’s on set, and we had a lot of New Yorkers who had been affected by the events in the movie, and we had a number of cops in the movie who were affected by the events as well, and they all read the script and fell in love with it and felt it was an important story to tell.
“We always felt good about that, that they gave it their stamp of approval.”
At #12, Robert Pattinson’s Remember Me earned $1.9 million down an acceptable 41.6% from last weekend. Curiously, when compared to other movies Remember Me actually does better on weekdays than on weekends.
The romantic drama was #10 on Friday, but according to current estimates it had only a minor surge on Saturday and did poor business on Sunday. That has been the film’s pattern since it opened two weeks ago. A relatively weak weekend, but then on weekdays it goes up a spot or two on the chart.
To date, Remember Me has grossed $17.1 million, or about $1 million more than its production cost. It’ll probably earn another $3-$5 million in the next couple of weeks, ending its run in the low $20m range. That’s not bad at all for a movie that at first looked like it was going to disappear within the week.
Robert Pattinson has revealed that he would love to star in a romantic comedy.
The Twilight star fancies hiding away his vampire fangs for something more light-hearted, but claimed he hasn’t found anything perfect.
“I’d love to, but they are always just so rubbish – I mean like, I’d absolutely love to do it, but I’ve literally never read a good rom-com script,” he told GMTV in an interview airing on March 29.
Robert, who stars in Remember Me with Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin, reckoned there’s too much competition to be a romantic comedy king like Hugh Grant.
“I think it’s such a typical career choice for me, as well, to be honest,” he continued.
“If you do a big franchise thing – especially for English guys – you try and do a Hugh Grant part or something. Which I don’t think would be the best idea for me… mainly because it’s quite difficult to be Hugh Grant!”
With her new film, Emilie de Ravin has hit the jackpot. Not only does she get to cavort in steamy scenes with heartthrob du jour Robert Pattinson (OMG! RPattz!) in Remember Me, but she gets to bask in the heat of a talked-about movie that, without Pattinson’s involvement, may have been another under-the-radar romantic drama.
Pattinson’s first project since the unprecedented success of the Twilight films sees him as an angry rich kid – sans creepy vampire makeup – who falls in love with a ballsy young philosophy student, played by de Ravin. At 28 – five years Pattinson’s senior – she is still girlish enough to pass for 21.
You’ll most likely recognise the Australian actress de Ravin as the young mother Claire in Lost (currently in its explosive sixth series on Sky1), but her association with Pattinson has catapulted her into the celebrity weeklies.
When we meet in New York, where the film is set, a blizzard is raging outside the hotel window. Like Pattinson, she seems embarrassed about her success, shrugging off compliments and rolling her eyes at talk of fans and paparazzi. “I get recognised,” she says with a dismissive wave, “but I’m not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.”
De Ravin is part of a new breed of celebrity – like Pattinson and his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart – who shun the glamour and adulation that many see as a perk of the job. When de Ravin slouched onto the red carpet at the London premiere of Remember Me recently, grinning awkwardly in her black Oscar de la Renta mini-dress, she and Pattinson looked as though they would rather be anywhere else.
Despite their ‘I’m-so-normal’ façade, journalists are warned not to ask about their private lives on pain of death. A hovering publicist peers up from her BlackBerry at the mere hint of a personal question to de Ravin (it could be worse: no less than three handlers accompany Pattinson during his interview). But this much we know: she married the American actor Josh Janowicz in June 2006 after being together for four years. The couple separated last year, but are rumoured to have reunited.
“Love is such an objective thing,” she says, in a suitably vague answer to a necessarily vague question about love. “I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke,” she continues, gesturing towards her Coke can. “So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.”
But in terms of relationships?
“It’s different with every person. It depends if it… clicks. It’s chemistry.”
Either way, if she’s in love when we meet, there is no ring on her finger. Of course she was romantically linked to Pattinson during filming, but RPattz could star opposite Ellen DeGeneres and there would be rumours. Having said that, the young stars’ on-screen chemistry is undeniable. Viewers will be surprised to learn they met just one week before filming commenced.
“She’s really cool,” says Pattinson, pushing back his James Dean-esque mane, when we meet later that afternoon. “She was actually the last girl we saw and she was cast on the day of her audition, so we went straight out to a bar. It was so close to filming that we didn’t have time to rehearse. But she got it right from the beginning, so it was easy.”
De Ravin agrees that the best preparation was getting to know each other. “Our relationship in the film is intense,” she nods. “We spent a lot of time together, talking about our characters and their relationship, because it’s so important to be comfortable together. Then, when we were actually shooting, everything fell into place and felt natural. It didn’t ever feel like we were reading a scene or going through the motions.”
Watching Pattinson brooding or de Ravin screaming at her on-screen father (Chris Cooper), I have to ask: did they manage to have any fun on set?
“If you’re getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you’re probably not going to be outside playing basketball,” she shrugs. “But everybody involved was passionate about it so there was a good vibe.”
Having not spent much time in New York before landing the role, de Ravin has now fallen in love with the city. “New York is a character in the film,” she smiles, either not noticing or not caring what a cliché that is. “It was great to be able to walk around the city on days off. And it’s so rare to be able to shoot in the real locations. When we have dinner, we were actually in The Oak Room and when we were doing a scene in the house Ally [her character] grew up in, that was in Queens.”
Of course, the downside of shooting around the city is that Twilight fans and paparazzi had easy access to locations.
“It was distracting at times,” admits de Ravin. “We shot 90 per cent on location in Manhattan or Queens so it was very accessible. It’s not like they can close down Central Park. So it was difficult for Rob and I to figure out the logistics of a rehearsal when you’ve got thousands of people watching. Even if you’re not looking at them, you’re aware of it. It can be hard to focus.”
So there you go: Emilie de Ravin is a study in laid-back cool. One of that frustrating breed of beautiful I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-this-is-how-I-look people. A lot like Robert Pattinson in fact. So, when she was filming scenes with RPattz, who spent the most time on their hair?
She explodes with laughter: “Oh come on! Totally Rob,” she grins, before shaking her head at the ridiculousness of the question and, more seriously, adding, “Neither one of us really did much. It was just like… ” she mimes messing up her hair with devil-may-care nonchalance.
Robert Pattinson
c/o Curtis Brown Group Ltd.
Haymarket House
5th Floor, 28-29
Haymarket
London, SW1Y 4SP
England
or
Robert Pattinson
c/o Endeavor Agency
Stephanie Ritz
9601 Wilshire Blvd. Floor 3
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA
Calendar
March 2026
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Partners
DISCLAIMER
Thinking of Rob is not affiliated with Robert Pattinson or his management in any way.
There is no copyright infringement intended on this blog. If you are the original owner of any media used and would like it removed, we will be happy to do so, please contact us.
Copyright and Trademark Notice
All original content on this site, including any manipulations or enhancements, is the sole copyright of ThinkingofRob™ and ToR™.
Thinking of Rob 