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Here’s an interview Robert Pattinson did with MTV
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:492115
By Larry Carroll
By now, you’ve probably watched the “Eclipse” trailer a half-million times, eager to catch every last glimpse of Robert Pattinson. But don’t forget that this weekend brings the chance to see the trailer on the big screen when it plays before showings of RPattz’s new drama “Remember Me.”
Still not enough Rob for you? Well, before you go see the movie this weekend, read on for an interview RPattz did with our friends at MTV Radio. In it, he spills the beans on playing a “Remember Me” rebel without a cause, his reasons for being brooding and wounded in real life, and why people like hitting him.
MTV: How do you like not biting someone?
Robert Pattinson: I bit people in this! [Laughs.] No, I didn’t. It’s different. I feel like I’m missing out on something, but it’s a relief not having all that makeup on.
MTV: What attracted you to this role?
Pattinson: I read it after the first “Twilight” film, and I always liked it. It was always in the back of my mind. And then the opportunity came up between the second and third ones, which was a small period of time, so you can only do a certain type of movie. I was trying to remember all the little things I’d read, and this was perfect, and it didn’t need any real prep time or anything. There was something different about it. It didn’t fit into a typical teen movie, and it seemed quite realistic.
MTV: People say you remind them of James Dean. Do you count him as an influence?
Pattinson: I think James Dean was one of the most influential people on young guys — especially actors — definitely in the last 50 years. I’m not ashamed to say I am very much influenced by him.
MTV: This character bears many similar traits to Edward Cullen. Are you worried about being typecast at all?
Pattinson: Maybe I am brooding and wounded, and I’m just realizing it. [Laughs.] No, I’m not. You take little steps [as you go from role to role]. I’m always quite aware of how people are going to view things, and you have to go halfway. If I did something playing a 400-pound woman, people are going to judge it a bit more harshly than other people who’ve been doing character parts for 20 years. All the projects I’m doing, I’m not doing in a calculated way, but they seem like little baby steps towards other things. What I’m doing now is intensity — I like that. It’s what I like in characters.
MTV: This film deals with some violent, random acts. Is there something you were able to bring from your past to this role?
Pattinson: It was more about the reactions after, about how [my character] dealt with random events. … He has a blasé attitude, even when it’s him who is harmed. I always related to that; looking back in the past and having grudges and things, I don’t really do that. But the violence and things, the way his violence comes out, it’s illogical and it’s not against legitimate targets. I related to that — when you have a spasm of rage, it goes almost every time through the wrong target and causes more problems. It’s better to keep it chained up.
MTV: There’s a scene where you go pretty crazy in a schoolroom, opposite a young actress.
Pattinson: There was one take of that they had to cut out, because it looked like I’d not only be in jail for vandalism, but for child abuse as well! I spun the desk around and the desk fell over, and she literally ran away out of the classroom! I was supposed to continue on with the scene, but I was like, “Oh my God, I’m actually going to get arrested!” She looked absolutely terrified afterwards.
MTV: You’ve said that you have been beaten up a few times. Who beat you up?
Pattinson: A lot of people, when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, always unprovoked — in my eyes, anyways.
MTV: Was it a school-bully thing?
Pattinson: No, it was after school, generally. Like, after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor — or what I thought was an actor — it generally provoked a lot of people into hitting me.
Source: MTV thanks RobPattzNews
Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin shine in a film with a profound message.
As I look through the six pages of hurriedly scribbled notes I took while watching Remember Me, I’m struck by the overall ambition and courage of the film. Massive themes are considered here: love and loss, the role parents should play, sibling support, fledgling relationships in college, the role of blunt trauma in the building of character. True, that’s a lot of emotional weight, and the key for enjoyment here is to buy into the overarching sincerity of the film. By taking a risk, and actually being about something, Remember Mebecomes vulnerable to those who would lash out against perceived melodrama in movies. But we’ve got to take back the streets on this one; we need writers and directors out there taking chances, we’ve got to get away from the paint-by-numbers industry that has become modern cinema.
What is the film all about? At its core, relationships, and the popular misconception around them — that is, that they are all “happily ever after” in their most fulfilled state. We often think of love and relationships in the “dancing around with joy” sense, but the other side of the coin, a side that’s just as true and realistic, are the relationships forged by two hurt people in mutual pain. We turn to our loved ones for happiness, yes, but we also turn to them for support, for comfort, for the shared sense of anger and injustice at the world. Not all of love is happiness, and much of it is compromise and a real loss of self.
Of course, I’ve told you nothing about Remember Me in that paragraph, and I’m going to keep that going as much as possible. Knowing less about this film will definitely help you enjoy it more.
There are no less than four tremendous performances in the film.Robert Pattinson is excellent as the brooding and wounded Tyler Hawkins. At his worst Mr. Pattinson is a James Dean caricature, but as the film progresses he gets more comfortable, and we’re left with a realistic guy we can pull for as the culmination sweeps in. Tate Ellington hits all the right notes as Tyler’s quirky but sincere roommate. He’s not a bad guy, he’s not a good guy, he’s just a normal guy you meet all the time in your own life. Emilie de Ravin is perfect as the potential love interest for Pattinson. She mixes a softness with a scorched world-weariness to create a compelling woman. Finally, Ruby Jerins is dynamic as Pattinson’s little sister. Really tremendous dialogue helps each of these young actors, but they deserve a lion’s share of the credit.
I have two smallish complaints about the film, neither of which is a deal breaker. My first issue comes near the middle of the film, when there’s a contrivance that seems out of place for such a cleverly paced film. The second issue is that the film, in going for iconic characters, probably relies on visuals too often near the front end of the movie. For instance, there’s a bit of an overly stylistic sex scene. But none of this is a huge issue, just tiny annoyances, sand in your shoes.
As I’ve previously mentioned, the themes considered here are both broad and complex. Controlling fathers, selfish fathers, the emotional wreckage that lies within each and every family. But modern love is considered too, that fantastic and scary initial connection, the rare treat of lusting after someone you find immediately captivating.
Why see Remember Me? Because you know when you’re watching a drama, you know when you’ve purchased a ticket to a romantic comedy, you’re completely aware of what a date night film is. Movies have been segmented out to every demo, and you never have to see anything even remotely surprising or challenging. The marketing is your warm blanket, soothing you into a life of complacency. Remember Me isn’t any of that noise. The film, while maintaining a sense of the dramatic, also has many well-placed and wry laughs. It pulls at your heartstrings, but it also makes you ponder your own life and actions. Remember Me is challenging in all the right ways, a prime example of the courage directors, writers, and actors should bring into the arena.
There’s a scene in the film where Robert Pattinson attempts to blow out some birthday candles. He’s an avid smoker, but we can’t know if he blows out half the candles with one breath to be a jerk or because that’s simply all the breath he has. We’re asked to consider the motivations of each person, and where we land probably holds a mirror up to our own temperaments. Little moments like that are prevalent in Remember Me, moments when we’re slightly off balance, moments infused with a deeper meaning the audience needs to stretch for, moments of true artistry in filmmaking. We get many pretenders, but Remember Me earns every scene. The point of the film? To care about the ones you love. It’s a profound message, but it often gets lost in the noise of “real life.”
Grade: A-
Source via RobPattzNews
Great Remember Me wallpaper made by @halvir09
Twilight is part of this movie even if you didn’t intend it, in the way it brings attention to the movie and just the fact that Summit is releasing it. How has that worked for you?
When we cast him Twilight wasn’t out, and I didn’t know who he was. That was an advantage, because I cast him just because I liked him. We hope people will go to this movie who might not have pursued it otherwise. If he wasn’t this phenom, you wouldn’t automatically assume that tens of thousands of teenage girls would show up the first day. We hope that is the case. But this is a movie I made for adults.
When did you realize you had the biggest star in the world in your movie?
Certainly the first day, when we had the thousands of girls standing outside from dawn until dusk. We realized what we were in for. It was not easy, believe me.
We understand there was one day where you snapped at the paparazzi?
We found ourselves in a situation with the movie that we never expected to be in. No one had an idea that basically we had unleashed Elvis. It was tough from the very beginning. All of us were a little gobsmacked by this. We just struggled the best we could. That was just a day that I felt the sense of entitlement the paparazzi had, that they had the right to demand certain kinds of shots. We were just trying to make the day, the sun was falling, the last shot that we did, that was it. They were angry they couldn’t get a shot of him. They felt it was their right, that we should accommodate them. I lost it, and they deserved it. They deserve worse. That was the one time I couldn’t hold back.
What inspired you to cast Rob to begin with?
We needed someone who could embody a certain kind of angst that one feels at 21, and the complications and complex relationships that grow from the confusions of being 21. And Rob seemed in our initial meeting to understand that and grasp that, but have enough distance on it to be able to act that.
Read the full interview at the source
via RPLife
Emilie de Ravin is caught between two worlds.
The bright-eyed Australian actor is in Toronto for a round of interviews promoting her new film, Remember Me, a romantic drama that pairs her with Twilight throb Robert Pattinson. From here, she’ll fly into a snowbound New York for the press junket.
After that, it’s back to tropical Hawaii to finish the sixth and final season of Lost, where she plays Claire, who’s returned this year with a mysterious homicidal mania.
“We’ve got three hours to shoot, or maybe three and a half at this point,” de Ravin says. “So about six or seven weeks left. Not much. And I have no idea how it’s gonna end, I really don’t.”
That’s okay, I say. I’m enjoying the mystery and don’t want to know how it wraps up.
“Well, I do!” She laughs. “But at the same time, I’m kinda used to getting surprised each week when I get my scripts, so I like that now.”
Remember Me offered a change from Lost, though its storyline also features characters struggling with father issues and traumatized by the loss of a close relative. (De Ravin’s Ally loses her mother to a subway mugging; Pattinson’s Tyler found his suicidal brother’s body.)
But the biggest difference was shooting on location in Manhattan, surrounded by hundreds of screaming Twi-hards, all jockeying for a glimpse of their favourite sparkle vampire.
“It’s fascinating, the amount of screaming – young women and girls and older women, and the occasional male,” she laughs. “Women just came out in general. They can just pop out of nowhere at any given moment. I mean, god, some of them were, like, eight years old! How do you even know what a good-looking guy is? You’re eight!
“But you know, it was interesting to navigate that – to stay focused on what you’re doing, when you’ve got so many people just glued to every movement you make. You’re just trying to figure out a scene and be in that moment. I tried to look at it as a challenge, as opposed to a problem.”
De Ravin found her way through it by developing intricate backstories for her character with Pattinson and Chris Cooper, who plays her father – the better to know where Ally was emotionally in any given scene.
“With Chris,” she says, “we spent time together but also spent time really developing our backstory, basically talking about ‘Okay, what do we talk about on a daily basis? Who cooks? Who does this?’ I think that really helped, and hopefully it comes across.
“There was a similar situation with Rob because, you know, there’s a lot of things that are not happening on-screen. We’re going to get to the point where we basically know everything about each other, but you can’t obviously have the audience there for all of that. It’d take months!”
Remember Me gives de Ravin her largest film role to date – and not just because she’s starring opposite Pattinson. The bulk of her big-screen appearances have been smaller supporting roles. She’s dead before Brick even begins, and her screen time in last year’s Public Enemies amounts to a handful of shots in an early robbery sequence.
“You can develop a three-scene character,” de Ravin says, “and it can be great, but the audience doesn’t know as much about you. So they’re not as comfortable with that character, or they don’t feel like they know that character as much. You really get to know the people in this film.”
At the source there are audios of her interview.
via RPLife
From MTV.CO.UK:
R-Pattz will be there, and you could be too…
Calling all Twi-Hards, Robert Pattinson is coming to London, and YOU could be there to see him!
To celebrate the release of Robert Pattinson’s new movie Remember Me, which is released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on April 2, we have FIVE PAIRS of tickets to give away TO THE PREMIERE!
SEE MTV’s EXCLUSIVE REMEMBER ME CLIP HERE
The premiere takes place at London’s Odeon Leicester Square on Wednesday, March 17, R-Pattz will be there – and so could you and a friend.
Just click on the link at the top of this page to enter our comp, then keep everything crossed…
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Robert Pattinson’s instantaneous and often overwhelming star power is fantastic for the moment. But what happens when “The Twilight Saga” comes to a close and his herds of adoring fans find another up and comer to fawn over? If Pattinson has anything to do with it, he’ll have moved on from simply being a Hollywood heartthrob and have established himself as a reputable actor. Not only does Remember Me provide him with the opportunity to be remembered long after his claim to fame has come and gone, but it allows him to deliver a similarly important concept to moviegoers: the value of moving on but never forgetting.
Pattinson stars as Tyler, an NYU student struggling with a vast amount of demons he’s not quite sure really exist. It’s fortunate that Pattinson can’t relate to his character in two respects: he didn’t have a troubled youth and that disconnect made the role much more intriguing to tackle. During a roundtable interview he explained, “All the people who I’ve met who are troubled teenagers, you meet their family and their family is like, ‘I don’t know what to do. He’s just – I have no idea what his problem is.'” Tyler definitely has problems to work out, but a recent family tragedy further exacerbates the situation causing him to get unnecessarily heated and even violent.
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