New Moon News

The New Zealand Herald has a great new interview with Robert Pattinson. Thanks to RobPattzNews for the heads up!

The Boy in The Bubble

Pattinson hopes his Twilight role will leave him without the typecasting that Radcliffe will surely face. “I worked on Harry Potter for 11 months and I couldn’t imagine doing that for all those years. I don’t know how those guys have stayed sane. I would go completely crazy, hardly being able to do anything else for so long.”

Pattinson was contracted to do the four Twilight movies and once Eclipsewraps up in Vancouver, only Breaking Dawn remains to be filmed. “They were all filmed quickly and painlessly,” he says.

The much-anticipated second instalment, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, is in cinemas next month. In the flesh, Pattinson only vaguely resembles Edward Cullen because he is far from being a tortured soul himself. A lot of the image is created through posturing, make-up and that mop of tousled hair. “I wear contact lenses for the character and in the first movie I wore a bit of lipstick but in New Moon I don’t. They’ve changed my look in this one. I don’t pluck my eyebrows so much in this one, either.”

Is he wearing make-up today? “Naaa,” he replies disdainfully, and seems pleased that New Moon is aimed more towards males. “This was always my favourite book. New Moon will be a lot more relatable for guys, whereas it was quite difficult for me to express all those emotions in Twilight. I think it’s difficult for guys to accept those kind of emotions.”

Given that expectations are running so high, he approached reprising the role with trepidation. “I was really worried I wouldn’t know how to do it again, but I have a natural chemistry going on with Kristen and doing the sequel was so easy. She always says she pretty much got me the part, but I don’t really believe her,” he says with a smile.

Pattinson seems the most unlikely heart-throb material as he really has grungy tastes and disdain for the high life. But, while he maintains he doesn’t like fast cars (his father used to sell them) and that he is single, he was photographed driving a Porsche leaving his co-star Kristen Stewart’s house. Maybe they were learning their lines or it could even be a set-up. It wouldn’t be the first relationship created to sell a movie.

Though the idea of his being single seems all the more likely given that he probably hasn’t any energy for a relationship. (Twilight cast member, Anna Kendrick, confirmed his single status in an interview last month.) Pattinson has so little time to do anything but work. “I’m working almost every day this year,” he confirms.

“I had three days off betweenRemember Me and Eclipseand then I’ve had to start learning Comanche and bareback riding for Unbound Captives. I don’t only want to do the same part. I’m doing Bel Ami, based on the Guy de Maupassant novel in January as well, and I don’t really know how I’m going to fit that in. I have to gain weight – but I don’t think they’ll let me put on much as I have to shoot the final Twilight movie afterwards. I have to look older, as the character Georges Duroy has been living hard for a good six years just getting drunk all the time. So I want to look a bit haggard.”

There’s 3 pages of  worth of reading so head on to NZH.com for the complete article!