Brit actor Robert Pattinson’s life changed the instant Catherine Hardwicke cast him as Edward Cullen, the vampire lover in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
“How old are you?” asks Bella (Kristen Stewart), a new student at Forks High.
“17,” he says.
“How long have you been 17?”
“A while.”
Pattinson has seen the way women react to him as Edward at Comic-Con and festivals. (They tend to scream.) In this flip-cam interview, he talks about how tricky it was to play this kind of swoony leading man, figuring out the makeup, his music, his upcoming films Little Ashes and How to Be, and the new movie he starts in January, playing Dennis Hopper’s grandson in writer-director Brian Horiuchi’s L.A.-set multi-generational marriage drama Parts Per Billion, also starring Olivia Thrilby and Rosario Dawson. Hollywood is sending him scripts, but everyone it seems, is waiting to see how Twilight fares when it opens November 21:
Pattinson, who hasn’t seen the movie, says he’s prepared to play Cullen in two more Twilight films in the original trilogy. (There’s a fourth, more controversial and adult Twilight novel.) Pattinson’s next movie, Little Ashes, a gay romance between Salvador Dali and Gabriel Federico Garcia Lorca, is due in March. And the bare-bones, quirky Brit coming-of-age movie How to Be debuted at Slamdance in January, where it won an honorable mention, failed to pick up a distrib at Berlin in February, and still has no home in the U.K. or the U.S. Pattinson plays a sad-sack acoustic guitar player trying to pull himself out of depression. This pic might benefit from an online release–there are countless Pattinson fans who would want to sample it. But only a micro distrib would ever release it theatrically. Here’s the How to Be website, which has a trailer.
The LAT interviews Pattinson, as does EW, as part of its cover package. UPDATE: My fave gossip Marc Malkin gets Pattinson to dish about bare bellies.
[Originally appeared on Variety.com]
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