Interview + Transcript of Robert Pattinson on TF1 (France)

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Transcript

Twilight, the fourth movie is coming out next month. The luckiest were able to see it yesterday at the Premiere of the movie, in Paris. We’ll talk about it in a few seconds with Robert Pattinson but first Benedicte Duran and Frédérique Miniard are going to present us the movie.

I’ll spare you what said in the tiny documentary, nothing interesting.

Laurence: Robert, hello.

Rob: hello.

Laurence: Thank you for being in Paris. You come to France quite often! You have to like France to come promote the movie, don’t you?

Robert: No definitely, yeah. I love coming here; I come pretty much every three months.

Laurence: So today you came to talk to us about the last movie of the saga, which was cut into 2 movies. The shooting is over, everything’s packed. How are you feeling? Do you feel sad because it’s over or are you relieved?

Robert: I'm a little bit of both. I mean I spent four years, so eh… It was a major part of my life. When I finished one of the Twilight movies, we filmed another one. Then I did a different movie, then we'd go back and shoot another Twilight, so it’s very strange not to be in this system anymore. I gotten used to it. I’ve made some great friends but I don’t know how much longer I can play seventeen so … I’m almost 26. It gets tricky after a while.

Laurence: About your character, Edward. Does he suit you? Do you feel that you're over him now that you've gone forward in your movie career?

Rob: I guess in some way, yeah. I guess I’m filled with self-loathing. [Laughs] No, I'm not, no. I guess in some ways I am. In this new one, I sort of step away from his characterization in the book, because he’s really passive in it and I needed to do more to give some kind of energy to the character. But I don’t know if he’s like me, maybe I have just grown closer to him after all these years.

Laurence: What’s interesting, and we saw it in the news footage earlier, is that your audience has changed too. Before, you had a bigger number of younger fangirls, but now you also have the moms of those girls. They are called twimoms, the twilight moms.

Does this surprise you, this phenomenon of a generation jump, going from little girls to older women?

Rob: I think they got younger. It started off with fans in their forties and now I feel like they’re coming right out of the cradle. I always assumed it was going to be a younger audience but it’s a lot of women in their mid-twenties, almost. The ones always hanging out on set. I don’t know maybe the little girls are getting influence by their moms.

Laurence: Do you consider yourself a big Hollywood star or are you still, in your head, this English kid who likes music and rock and roll, and who sort of does this as an act of rebellion?

Rob: I don’t know. I don’t have the same life that I used to. I’ve learned to like L.A. a lot more. I was in London last week and it’s now almost impossible to live in London. There are so many people in the streets peeking out of everywhere so you have to hide. But in L.A. if you get out of your car you can probably avoid the crowd. Yeah, I don’t really know what I am.

Laurence: Let’s talk about music. You sang two songs for the first movie of the saga. Now that the filming is over, there are rumors that you’re going to record a whole album?

Robert: I mean, maybe one day. There are always these sorts of rumors. I’m always playing and recording but I don’t know... People hate when actors become musicians, so I’ve been avoiding it for the longest time possible.

Laurence: You're still making movies. You just filmed a movie with the Canadian, David Cronenberg. Do you want to take a different turn with your career after the enormous weight that is playing Edward Cullen and Twilight?

Robert: I mean, it’s not really moving away. I don’t think I can see myself doing Twilght after Twilight film for the next twenty years. But I’ve always wanted to mix it up, I mean working with people like Cronenberg, I mean that’s … I loved Cronenberg before I even started acting and especially with amazing actors, Juliette Binoch is in it, and Mathieu Amalric. There are tons of French people working with him. It’s totally different from what I’ve done before and I feel like I’m going in the right direction.

Laurence: Thank you so much, Robert Pattinson. Did you learn some French words during the filming of Cronenberg’s movie?

Robert: French words in general or about him?

Laurence: French words in general?

Rob: Just words in French. I can say... huh. What do I know in French huh? I’m gonna sound like I’m completely insane. Le cochon dinde (guinea pig). Le bibliothèque (the library). Quelle est le date de ton anniversaire? (When is your birthday ?). God, I sound like such an idiot.

Laurence: No, you sounded very charming. Thank you for coming here! Breaking Dawn comes out next month on our big screens.

Thanks to ToR