Twilight's Robert Pattinson Speaks

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The "Twilight" craze hit New England on Friday, November 14. More than a thousand fans lined up at Square One Mall, in Saugus Mass., to buy one of 500 wristbands and shirts at the mall's Hot Topic store. The purchase qualified buyers a short meet and autograph from one of the movie's lead stars Robert Pattinson. The movie, "Twilight," is based on the books by Stephanie Meyer and tells the love story of a 108-year-old vampire and a teenage girl. It will debut on the big screen on November 21. Pattinson who plays Edward Cullen, the heartthrob vampire of the book, has been touring the nation promoting the film. While in Boston talking to the press, Color Magazine got to ask the new star some questions.

Color Magazine: What is the reaction to the entire worldwide craze you've received and do you realize how this is going to change your acting career?
Robert Pattinson: I can't really tell, even though there are these huge crowds like two thousand people at stores and three thousand people or so like in Mexico at the airport, I think I still don't know how it translates for the wider audience of the movie; I do not know what the realty is. When you see three thousand people you still don't know what the rest is or could be.

CM: How is it back at home and what's the difference coming from the UK and seeing the reaction of the world?
RP: Its funny you know because I'm not from America so when I see something like this I can try to turn it off because it doesn't really feel real to me. But, I keep talking to these people and they tell me "no you can't turn it off'' (laughs). So it's just weird to have this reaction all the time, you know the "Twilight" thing. I am riding on the hope that when I get back home to London I can really turn it off so we'll see.

Q: What was the best thing that came out of working in this movie?
RP: (After a long silence) Everything, but I think that its a really good experience to get to work with Kristen [Stewart]. I think that she's the one actor I've worked with whose been willing to go, you know, as far I was willing to go in anything.

Q: Is there anything that you would've done differently now that you see how crazy the reception to the film and your character has been through the promotional tour?
RP: If I was doing it now, knowing it was going to be this large audience, I think I probably would have done [the tour] differently. I think, at the end of the day, it's a good thing, I went into it thinking it's a small thing because it essentially is. It's a small story, it's an intimate story, and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing, which I think no one would have really appreciated. I think it looked very organic when you looked at it. It's very personal and the book is very personal. Hopefully, hopefully, you know, it will live up to its hype.

Q: You played the supporting role of Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter" and now you are a lead actor playing a vampire, you also worked in "Little Ashes as Salvador Dali" and in "How To Be," an indie film project about a twenty-something having a mid-life crisis. How did you go from the fantastic into other genres and what will you get involved with in the future?
RP: I guess I don't know. I've never chosen my projects at all I've just, you know, been very much doing almost everything I got offered. Every text I get, it just so happens that I end up in really random stuff (chuckles). I always like to read scripts not concerned if it will stay with the fantastic or such and I don't really care about the people either; just as long as it is a good script and I like it I'll do it.