Robert Pattinson is one in-demand man. He is currently the “it” boy of Hollywood with his name causing hysteria on some of the female populations. But in an interview with The Independent UK, Rob revealed that he is just an ordinary actor that is “quite lucky” enough to have found fame and success.
On having many girls screaming his name and asking him to bite them:
It’s a weird experience,” he concedes, “and you do tend to start getting a little bit paranoid about stuff. Looking around when you’re walking down the street, in case you get mobbed by teenage girls!”
“So many people have watched Twilight or heard about it, you can be sitting anywhere and the chances are someone will come up and recognise you.” This, he adds, included coming out of a sandwich shop in Yorkshire, and being accosted by the only person on an otherwise empty street and being asked for a photo. “How can you have immediate recognition in Guisborough coming out of Benjis?” he giggles. “That was very strange!”
On playing Salvador Dali in his next film, Little Ashes:
“I guess in a lot of ways, it’s the story about him putting a mask on,” he says. “In the rest of his life, a lot of the time he forgets he’s wearing the mask. Or he’s aware he’s wearing the mask but he can’t get it off. I found that the most interesting part of him. Someone who’s wearing this mask, which is destroying everything in their life… they can’t get it off and they can’t remember how to get it off. They can’t remember who they were before. And if they go back to who they were before, it’ll probably destroy them too.”
“Whenever he does touch reality, which he does when he’s younger, in brief little moments when he gets through his shyness to actually connect with someone, it causes mayhem in his life,” says Pattinson. “I think he was like that the rest of his life. And his relationship with Lorca scared him from having any kind of reality in his life at any point afterwards.”
Does he relate to Dali? Any similarities with him:
“Just hyper-consciousness and stuff… I guess I do relate to that quite a lot,” he mumbles. “What I really related to is this idea of ambition. Just being so concerned about being the best and being known for being someone important… he keeps continually forgetting that it doesn’t really mean anything at all. And I always found that idea interesting. But I think Dali has a lot of shame – and I don’t really have that!”
On the romance rumors:
Inevitably, since Twilight came out, speculation has surrounded Pattinson’s own love-life, linking him with numerous starlets, including 10,000 BC’s Camilla Belle. “I don’t really care about it,” he shrugs. “I have the same little set of friends and I don’t have anyone who would really get affected adversely [by false rumours]. Every single person who they sort of romantically link me to… I just don’t even really know anyone. So it doesn’t really affect me that much.” Is there any truth to the persistent rumour hooking him up with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart? “Er, no,” he states. “I don’t understand where that even comes from.”
To read the complete interview, click on the link above.
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