Rob talks to ‘The San Francisco Chronicle‘ about ‘New Moon’ and playing Salvador Dali. Here’s an excerpt on what he said about shooting ‘New Moon’ on the article:
“It’s strange because it already feels much more of a slick machine,” Pattinson says of the film, which is being directed by Chris Weitz. “The first one we had such a young cast. Everybody was friends. It was fun. There was nothing like what it is now. Now there are people waiting outside the hotels all the time. We have security. It’s crazy.”
His character, Edward, never ages, so he has to look like an undead teenager through the three sequels he’s contractually obligated to appear in.
“I think all of them will be done within a year and half,” he says. “The whole thing is about change and aging. So it would look ridiculous if I’m playing 17 when I look 35.”
Which is another way of saying that Pattinson is unconcerned about being locked into author Stephenie Meyer’s franchise in the same way that the Harry Potter cast has been in theirs. It won’t last that long.
To read more and find out what Rob has to say about becoming Salvador Dali, please click here.
Turning the calendar page to March.
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Posted on May 02, 2009
Thanks Cilla! This is another great one!
“So it would look ridiculous if I’m playing 17 when I look 35”
That made me laugh… but it’s so true! Thank goodness, it will be over soon…
“I try to choose things which are something that I’m going through in my life,” he says. “Jobs that will help me realize or add something about myself.”
That is quite interesting… acting as therapy (hahaha!)… Well, I guess it’s what movies do, to a certain degree: it’s inevitable, at least for me, when I watch a film, to relate/compare it to my life experience and I agree that you can find in it some insight that can help with sorting out your own stuff. It has certainly happened with me (and about some serious stuff, too).
I guess that for actors it must be even more so, with the level of research and analysis that I imagine goes into playing a character.