‘Strictly Rob’, right? Well, here you go. Just Rob, cropped. If you want to see the full images, go to TwiBritneyFan or RPAU to see higher quality ones.
I remember we talked before the first movie came out and you said that fans didn’t like you at all, and it was all very interesting and new to you because the adventure was just getting started. Now we’re close to the end. What are your thoughts on this experience? Because you’re more than accepted by fans now.
Yes it’s always very interesting. I guess they accept me now, sort of.
It’s much more than just “sort of”!
I guess. What happens when you do these things is that you become the image of what people are reading in the books, and what they’re in love with is what they see in their own imaginations. I remember when I did the Harry Potter movie, I read the book, and without even seeing the movies first, I already pictured Daniel, Emma and Rupert. So performances don’t really matter, it’s enough that the faces are appropriate enough, and that’s how people get accepted by fans. It’s almost like brainwashing. Looking back, I try not to think about it too much or make more of it than it is. I’m very lucky and I want a career out of this, so I have to be smart and make the right decisions.
Analyzing Edward, do you think he’s a weak guy? Is he too passive at times, even though inside he feels this great passion and love? He’s very romantic too, how do you see him?
I think he’s helpless. I’ve always thought – and if you pay close attention to the character you can see it too – that he’s a guy that has been so lonely for so long that he goes crazy, and that’s why he is the way that he is. That’s all I can think of, whenever I think about him in the first three movies, and how he finds himself more in each movie. It was interesting reading the fourth book, because I didn’t agree with most of his actions. I didn’t like the way he behaved. In the previous books you could understand the reasons behind his actions, and even sympathize with him, but I was not getting him at all in this movie “Why are you doing this?! You’re a whimp!” I really didn’t understand him, and it was fun trying to legitimize those weird actions, and it was an interesting way to close the saga for me. I guess he becomes more of a hero in Part 2 for the first time, though it’s Bella who saves him all the time, for once. But it’s interesting how he’s more impulsive and selfish in Part 1, which makes him go crazy. And in the first movie he’s always orchestrating everything.
And he still marries her! He wants to marry her!
I know! It’s the only thing that matters to him, he’s obsessed with it. Like that’s the answer.
Can you talk about what happens in Part 1 and Part 2?
It’s a little unusual, because it’s almost as if this story is about getting married, and I’m playing the girl. I’m the woman obsessed with getting married, and the guy doesn’t want to and she wants everything to be perfect and everything ends up being crap, and she’s disappointed… I’m playing the disappointed bride! It’s so weird, it’s the same thing; in his mind he has a contingency plan for every situation, and he’s going to marry the love of his life and everything is all planned out. She will become a vampire after. But then they have a baby and everything is turned upside down, and he loses his mind. It’s weird playing that version of Edward. He’s so confused and crazy, because in previous movies he’s always collected and in control, he restricts himself, blah blah, and now he’s got nothing, and he goes crazy because he loses that control, he has sex and that shocks him so much to the point that he blames himself for everything, and it’s bigger than everything else that has happened in the saga.
Have you observed a lot of married people? Sounds like you’ve seen too many desperate brides and reluctant grooms.
I know the clichés! I’ve only been to one or two weddings in my life. I’ve been to so many funerals though.
You’ve had many old friends then.
I just have bad luck.
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I don’t know. It’s weird because you get to know people that have always wanted to be famous. They need to feel that satisfaction of having people be obsessed with them. And when they are finally famous, they feel judged. They walk into a room and when everybody looks at them they say “I just knew one day people were going to look at me like that,” but when it happens by accident, if you’re a normal person that walks into a room and everybody looks at you, you feel like an animal. That happens to me anyway (laughs). But you have to deal with it because out of all of this, the only thing I want to get is the chance to make more movies, and luckily, be remembered. So you have to accept the implied circumstances, even if you hate them.
With this fame you have and your relationship with Twilight, do you think it will be harder to get the type of work that you really like the most?
Of course. Before Twilight I did castings for so many things, and I was always left on the top 3. They gave the role to someone who was already more famous than me, and I kept thinking how unfair it was, so I thought the only way was to become more famous. But when you’re super famous, you get offered tons of bad stuff, in movies where they’re not even concerned with the cast. And if you haven’t done much work, directors look at you like an unknown and there’s not stigma attached to your name. It’s harder to get some roles sometimes. It’s weird.
So you’ve had doors closing to you…
If you’re a complete unknown, you have more chances. After Twilight, things are very different, depending where the money comes from. If there’s not a star attached, there’s no way that you can sel a movie, so that forces you to make a good movie. But if you don’t, it’s like “Since he’s involved, we need to get teens interested,” so they change the story, and you end up having that pressure. A good director will prefer not to deal with that stuff. But it’s true that if you find the eprfect role, everything will fall into place. But there’s less options. Now that I have a very specific image, it’s hard to find roles that fit into it.
