Reviews and Interviews: Robert Pattinson for Remember Me

MSNBC has posted their interview with Robert Pattinson where he talked about his need to break out from his Twilight personna. He also talked about what attracted him to the role as well as the plot of the story. Here is an excerpt of the article:

“That’s one of the main reasons I wanted to do it,” Pattinson says of the film. “I had never played a normal guy. I’ve always done period stuff or fantasy stuff.”

“I had read so many scripts at the time and [this film] was the only one that didn’t fall into the same formulaic pattern,” Pattinson said. “There was something about Tyler I just connected to, much more than I’d connected to a bunch of other male characters I’d read around that period.”

While he has no plans to follow “Twilight” co-star Taylor Lautner into the action movie genre, Pattinson enjoyed getting to roughhouse a bit in his newest movie. In one memorably brutal scene, Cooper bounces him off the walls of an apartment.

A big boxing fan, he cops to crying when he saw “Rocky Balboa” and dreams of starring in his own film about the Sweet Science. “I’d love to do a boxing movie,” he says, although he realizes his younger fans may not want to see him unleashing his inner Cinderella Man.

Boxoffice.com has also published their review of the film:

Anyone longing to watch Pattinson do his best James Dean will see it in this deliberately paced story set in the summer of 2001. Pattinson plays Tyler Hawkins, a rebellious young man still haunted by the suicide of his older brother and constantly in battle with his wealthy, Wall Street lawyer dad (Pierce Brosnan). Dividing time between dealing with family problems, acting as big bro to 11 year old half-sister Caroline (Ruby Jerins) and living with his smart aleck roomie Aidan (Tate Ellington), Tyler is searching for a sense of himself. He supposedly goes to NYU but seems more intent on playing than studying, especially when he manages to hook up with a classmate, Ally (Emilie de Ravin), who just happens to be the only child of widowed police officer (Chris Cooper). The film’s opening flashback sequence shows an 11 year old Ally on a subway train platform as her mother is suddenly, brutally murdered and, like Tyler, she carries her own painful memories and demons into a new relationship that will change both in profound ways.

Pattinson portrays the moody Tyler with admirable reserve and Dean-like ease. Despite wearing his demons on his sleeve he’s oddly likable, you root for him but don’t really know why. He’s matched perfectly by de Ravin as Ally, a girl who clearly has her hands full with this guy. It takes a little while to get used to Brosnan’s Brooklyn accent but he’s fine in his few scenes. Ruby Jerins is quite a live wire while Tate Ellington seems in for some ill-considered comic relief, at least in the first half. Chris Cooper is solid as usual, actually quite touching as a dad trying to hang on to the only family he has left.

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