14 DAY TRIAL // In June last year, we were telling you how Robert Pattinson, known as RPattz to Twi-hards, that is to say, “Twilight” fans, was literally mobbed on a short walk from his trailer to the set of the film he was shooting back then in NYC, “Remember Me.” The film is now due out, and Pattinson and co-star Emilie de Ravin are speaking to Vogue magazine about working together.
Pattinson, the brooding British actor who always comes across as too shy to look straight into the camera and who creates the impression that he’d rather be someplace else, doing something else than talking about himself, says he still can’t understand the “Twilight” phenomenon. While shooting “Remember Me,” every day was a genuine adventure, as he and the cast had to deal with the dozens of fans and paparazzi lurking around the set, sometimes acting out and trying to get their attention.
“Ask Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin about shooting their new movie, Remember Me, and they instantly start talking about the throngs of Twilight fans and pushy paparazzi who swarmed around them as they filmed on the streets of New York. ‘It was the most ridiculous experience,’ says Pattinson, flashing the sweet, shy smile those crowds hoped to see. ‘You’re trying to stay in character and you’re trying to walk down the street, but all those people keep reminding you that you’re not this character, you’re -’ ‘A show pony,’ cracks de Ravin, and the two burst into laughter,” Vogue writes in its most recent issue.
However, playing a real character was a challenge for Pattinson and he really enjoyed it, he goes on to say. Of course, that’s not to say that playing the brooding vampire Edward Cullen in “The Twilight Saga” is not an enjoyable experience but rather that “Remember Me” offered him the chance to do something different from what he’s done so far. And, just as he was saying in a recent interview with Details magazine, Pattinson is not in it just for the fame and the money and the girls, but rather because he aspires to become “great” at what he does, at acting.
“‘Rob and Emilie are gifted actors who really like each other,’ says Remember Me’s director, Allen Coulter. ‘And the movie reveals them in a whole new way.’ Which is precisely what both of them wanted – to show what they can do outside the juggernauts of Twilight and Lost. […] For his part, RPattz (as he’s known to his teen worshippers) is eager to start playing complicated human beings and not just heartthrobby vampires. Not that he doesn’t relish being Edward Cullen or feel loyal to his fans, but he still hasn’t figured out how to cope with being an international icon in an era when it seems impossible to escape the public eye,” Vogue goes on to say.