Robert Pattinson talks "Remember Me" & "Unbound Captives" to MTV


From MTV


Robert Pattinson Says Heading Into Non-'Twilight' Territory Is 'Scary'
'You're expected to come into the movie and provide not only economic viability, but also a performance,' he says.



With the #1 movie in the world bear­ing his name above the title and Hollywood’s hottest scripts lin­ing his doorstep, it’s a good time to be Robert Pat­tin­son. Not that the 23-year-old star has had much chance to enjoy it, as he recently told us he only received “three days off” in 2009, and 2010 looks even busier.

Recently, MTV Radio caught up with the man beloved by mil­lions as Edward Cullen to dis­cuss his plans for the new year — from “Break­ing Dawn” and beyond.

“I’ve only done one movie out­side of the ‘Twi­light’ series, ‘Remem­ber Me,’ ” Rob said of his first true post-fame project, a March 12 roman­tic drama oppo­site Emi­lie de Ravin whose shoot was most notable for its secu­rity issues. “But even that I did with the same stu­dio, so I guess I’m still a lit­tle bit blind as to what my actual eco­nomic via­bil­ity will be out­side of the series.”

Undoubt­edly, all eyes will be on “Remem­ber Me” when it tests RPattz’s box-office clout in a few months. Fol­low­ing that and June’s “Eclipse,” his fans will have some other high-profile flicks to look out for.

“I think the ten­ta­tive time for ‘Break­ing Dawn’ is fall next year,” Rob said of the fourth “Twi­light” novel, which might be split into two films. “Depend­ing on how things go, I’m doing a movie called ‘Bel Ami’ in Feb­ru­ary, an adap­tion to a Guy de Mau­pas­sant novel. And I’m doing — I hope — a West­ern with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jack­man called ‘Unbound Cap­tives’ some­time around there as well. They’ve got to try and jug­gle things around until everybody’s sched­ules work.”

Rob said he was eager to play the “Unbound Cap­tives” role because it’s unlike any­thing he’s done before. “I’m play­ing a kid who was kid­napped by Comanche [war­riors] when he was 4 years old. And he was brought up by them, and then his mother spends her entire life try­ing to find me and my sis­ter,” he said of Weisz’s vengeful-mom role. “When she finds us, we can’t remem­ber who she is and can’t remem­ber any­thing about the West­ern cul­ture which she grew up in.

“It’s like, you can’t really be more dif­fer­ent from Edward,” he added. “I actu­ally signed on to that after I’d done ‘Twi­light,’ in the sum­mer after I’d fin­ished [shoot­ing]. It was really before any­thing had hap­pened [to make me famous]. I wasn’t even really think­ing about it.

“It’s just a cool script,” Pat­tin­son said of the film, draw­ing com­par­isons to the clas­sic final movie fea­tur­ing the star he is most often com­pared to: James Dean. “It reminds me in a lot of ways of ‘Giant,’ which is one of my favorite movies. So I think that’s why I responded to it.”

Already booked pretty solidly for the next year, Rob said he’ll con­tinue to read new scripts and look for other parts that might catch his atten­tion — even if there are some facets of his new­found fame that under­mine the process.

“It’s def­i­nitely dif­fer­ent,” he said of being a famous actor as opposed to a strug­gling one. “You get offered stuff that you would never dream of get­ting offered before, but that’s also scary. You don’t have to audi­tion for any­thing. [But] I don’t want to do a movie just so it gets made. … You have to ques­tion your­self a lot more.

“Before ‘Twi­light,’ I did any movie that I got [offered], and you’d try and make the best of it after­wards,” he explained. “But now, you’re expected to come into the movie and pro­vide not only eco­nomic via­bil­ity, but also a per­for­mance as well. You can’t just mess around. Peo­ple are like, ‘We’re employ­ing you to be here, as a star and an actor.’ It’s dif­fi­cult, and it’s scary.”

Source MTV

23 comments:

RPLover said...

I hope he's able to do all of these movies and not collapse from exhaustion! lol BA and UC both sound awesome and I will be way excited for both, but they need to let him rest, too!

Angie said...

RPL, I hope he gets to make these movies. If he does not return to a set until Feb. maybe he will get the rest he needs.

RPLover said...

hey ADM! yeah, I hope so, even if we'll all be in severe withdrawl by then! lol

I'm excited for both, but I really like Rachel Weisz and I think the plot for UC sounds really good. Besides, he says he's happiest when he's working. :) I just know that I would want to crash if I had that kind of schedule!

Angie said...

He looked exhausted during the world tour. LOL

I hope he does take the time to get some much needed rest. I would hate for him to have to give up any of these movies due to exhaustion.

My prescription (not that it means anything): rest and regroup, before going any where near a movie set.

rpattzgirl survived Rob! said...

Squuueeee!

Does anyone else tingle all over when he says guy de maupassant???

Makes me wobbly....

Angie said...

RPG, I tingle all over, every time I here it. ;)

Anonymous said...

lol, I love the way he pronounces guy de maupassant with that velvety voice of his.

I hope that he doesn't feel under pressure. I like that he doesn't want to make a movie just so it gets made, that he cares about the storyline and script.

I've said it before and I'll say it again and again, I love his interviews, I love how genuine and down to earth he is.

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peeling a fig said...

Youtube anyone, for us Brits and others?

I confess I watch the Remember Me trailer DAILY. Will go watch it now in fact.

Whatever the brouhaha (sp?) about the French article, I liked it when he said he refused to wear makeup for Remember Me. It's lovely, scruffy Rob.

peeling a fig said...

RM trailer:

'What's goin' on right now?"

More velvet than even Edward. SWOON.

angie-k said...

RPG - I tingle all over just thinking about him saying anything in his own accent! :-)

Nina said...

Oh my God, when he speaks French, I just melt...I can't wait to see THAT film! Also, the film, Unbound Captives should be quite interesting...I'll bet he will be running around without a shirt on for most of it....yummmm

Marna said...

Is it just me or has anybody else heard this interview somewhere else? Like one of the press conferences? I feel like this isn't really an MTV interview, they're just using someone else's.

Unknown said...

I heard that he'll be teaming up with Uma Thurman for the Bel Ami..has that been posted here?

I would love to see how Rob would work his chemistry with a much older (and beautiful) woman like Uma. I wonder who will be the other actresses, well they sure are lucky whoever they are!

I thought he'll be doing Unbound before the end of the year?? Can we expect a release date by next year?? Hope so!! But of course I also don't want Rob to get all burned out..so I guess he definitely needs a lot of rest first. WE CAN TOTALLY WAIT ROB!!

jc(britlover) said...

Rob speaks French wonderfully. Yes, love the Guy de Maupassant thing. Saw NM again today and I love being able to focus more each time on Rob's expressions since we see so little of him in this movie. (Still not crazy about NM wardrobe-no offense)!

MMc said...

Uma Thurmon and Kristen Scott Thomas are the two I've heard will be in Bel Ami so far.........but there are about 3 other women he'll bed in that flick besides them.

Sounds like Rob is resigning to the fact that he has to grow up now.......he is being paid to produce..........join the real world of working people!!

Unknown said...

@femroc - what do you mean "he is being paid to produce", is he going to produce the film?

Shani said...

Bel Ami and UC sound like two great movies that are really going to help his career. I can't wait to see set pics. I hope we get to see a half naked Rob again in UC. And a lot more naked Rob in Bel Ami. These movies will be all kinds of WIN on every level.LOL

Unknown said...

So he'll be half-naked in Unbound, wait isn't that going to be shot in NZ? it's gonna be freezing out there atleast until summer right? Poor Rob...

So that must be another reason why he's been working out.

SluttyPattz said...

god I love it when he speaks French.

Meeno said...

why did he say " . . . I hope, Unbound Captives . . ." Isn't it in the bag already?

Oh, I do hope he makes that movie.

Anna said...

I really love how MTV let us watch their stupid pre-video commercials for 2 minutes, and then cut when it comes to the good stuff.

And I fall for it every time. Because I'm stupid. And because I really, really wanted to hear Rob pronounce French words :(

jlsentangledweb said...

Marna, I was thinking the same thing--I've heard or read this before. It was probably during one of those press interviews where select media members sit and ask questions.

 
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