Robert Pattinson: Success, Karma and not living forever

Earlier this week, we have posted an interview of Robert Pattinson by the New Zealand Herald. In that article, Robert talked about his rise to fame, handling the constant media attention and his future film projects.

Today, the New Zealand Herald has released another interview of Rob where he talked about his heart throb status, coming back as Edward, karma and not living forever. Here is an excerpt of his interview:

“Every time I go out, no matter where I am, people just go completely nuts! It’s unreal,” he says, shaking his head in disbelief. “When I started doing this, I knew the books were big in America but it keeps surprising me how much bigger everything’s getting! Every time I see physical manifestations of it, like fans going wild, my brain can’t process it, because it’s just too weird.

“One of the weirdest days was when we started shooting New Moon at this high school, in Canada. The school was still open, so there were kids everywhere,” recalls Pattinson. “We did this scene, where we were just walking around the corridors but, after every take, all the kids started applauding. It was the same whenever a class came out after a lesson: they’d all clap. That was really bizarre – one of the strangest days ever.”

On taking the heart throb mantle for Leonardo Di Caprio…

“When I heard Leonardo DiCaprio had said that, I just thought; ‘Wow, that’s so cool,’ because that guy’s had the best career of any young actor,” enthuses Pattinson. “You can virtually guarantee anything he’s in will be good. That’s the type of career I’d like to have too.”

Going back to New Moon…

“Yeah, I’ve done a couple of other films – working straight through, without a day off, for a year – so it was great to get back to this [New Moon]. It’s actually been kind of fun,” he smiles. “That was a surprise, because the first film was really difficult. I actually found it hard trying to portray the profundity of him finding love and having those kinds of intense feelings, as he goes from feeling absolutely nothing – from being fossilised – to suddenly feeling everything, because he meets this girl, Bella. It was really hard to show that. I was always stressing myself out [about it].

“But with this one [New Moon] I felt really relaxed and found it easy to get back into it,” Pattinson grins. “I think it’s because I always connected more to the second book, than the first. I just understood the story and his motivations a lot more, because there are all these emotions in it that I can relate to in my own life, like when he feels himself making the wrong decision about leaving Bella behind, but he does it anyway.

“I think you do that a lot, as a guy, in relationships. It’s like you’re compelled to mess it up,” he suggests, sniggering involuntarily at the premise of Edward literally abandoning Bella to the werewolves when she turns to Taylor Lautner’s character, Jacob Black, for solace. “I can understand him doing that, because I’m always messing up. It’s real life – it’s what happens!”

On Karma…

“I think it’s karma. I really do, because karma’s bitten me on the arse so many times, like with this,” he suggests, seriously. “They’d been doing castings for it for over a year and they’d even asked me to do a tape for it, in London, at least six months before, but I just didn’t bother because I thought; ‘Well, I’m not going to get it anyway.’ I was actually quite blase about the whole thing, but then I went over to LA, walked in the room and did the audition, something clicked and I got the part a week later! I actually think I was the last person they saw.

“It was kind of the same with Harry Potter. I’d never have auditioned for it, because I don’t like the way they cast those big movies,” he explains. “They do group auditions, where you have to pretend to climb a tree or something like that. There’s no way I’d do that; I’d be too embarrassed. Luckily the casting director from Vanity Fair – a movie I’d previously done – was also casting Goblet of Fire and asked me to meet [director] Mike Newell before they’d cast anyone. It’s probably because she felt guilty after my part got cut from Vanity Fair!”

On wanting not to live forever…

“When you think about it, being a vampire means you have to kill people and feed on their blood, but all you get in return is you can run really fast, or throw things around. That’s kind of a lame trade-off,” he surmises.

“It’s the same with living forever. I wouldn’t want to, under any circumstance. I don’t think anyone would want to, would they? It’s like my great aunt.

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