Here’s an interview that Movies Online had with Robert Pattinson, about the�Twilight�series and his character Edward.

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Was it difficult to master an American accent for the part?

Not really to be honest. All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It�s weird I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in America, because I liked it. It�s completely bizarre and everybody would ask: �Where are you from?�� And I would say: �Oh, I�m from London!��

Has being British given you something extra to play a vampire?

I don�t know if being British helps! (Laughs) It�s weird because there were a lot of British people up for this part. The author�s choice was an English guy which was really strange. She wanted all English guys to play Americans. I think there is something about this myth in America of British people being classy.

Were there many people up for this role?

Apparently yes. I know they were casting for ages and I was one of the last people they saw.

Read the rest of the interview after the jump.

Was there something that you did to convince them you were the one?

I don�t know. I just went in and I had a connection with Kristen. I think it was because I so expected it to be different to how it turned out and expected the girl who played Bella to be so different to Kristen, that I was so genuinely shocked when she did her performance. I just thought it was going to be a real damsel in distress actress. And I couldn�t pretend to be the Prince Charming to some dippy girl! Not that that is how the book is. But I thought that was how the film would turn out. And of course Kristen is tough, smart and a good actress, and so it completely changed my opinion and so I ended up playing him as a kind of a wreck. That was how that happened.

What makes Edward different from the conventional vampire?

He doesn�t have fangs. He doesn�t die in the sunlight, but he does have pale skin. I dyed my hair a bronze colour. He�s completely reluctant. Most vampires don�t want to be vampires because there�s a moral issue involved and Edward has that belief. He doesn�t kill people anymore. But at the same time, he doesn�t really know if it�s right not to kill. And he can fit in with normal society.

Did you have to go to a dark place to play the role of a vampire?

Sort of. The way I wanted to play him was more of powerlessness, like he�s a kind of helpless character. He was unconscious when he was made into a vampire. He didn�t have a choice.� He woke up three days later and he has to kill people and he doesn�t know why. He finds out that he�s never going to age and he�s going to live forever, and he�s like this Superman guy but he never asked for it. But before that night he was this normal seventeen year old and now he has to go off and kill a bunch of people and it�s all his surrogate father figure�s fault � he�s like an eternal adolescent. He�s very frustrated.

In the book, Edward is depicted as gorgeous, do you see that in yourself?

Not really! (Laughs) I put off doing the audition for months because of that. I read the book and I thought, well, there is no point in going in. I thought that the w hole point of the part was just to be a purely physical performance. Like a modelling job. And I thought, I�m not going to go to the gym for one thing and so I�m already ruled out because he�s meant to have this amazing body too.

Did you go to the gym for the movie?

I did do it for the�movie�in the end. I did it for a different reason. I didn�t just want to have a six pack. I wanted to have no fat at all.

Did you get to do your own stunts?

I tried to. Some of them were pretty extreme and also my stunt double looks exactly like me. The scariest one was when I run and I put my hand out to stop this car which is racing towards me. I had practiced it a bunch of times but the car is like coming at 30 miles per hour. And I was sick on the day of shooting. I had taken antibiotics and I was really dozy and the car went off its tracks. So there I am, holding Kristen�s stunt double and my timing was off because I wasn�t feeling too good and the car like hit me in the face. Then I dropped her and I couldn�t stop laughing.

Any injures?

I didn�t have any injuries but Kristen�s double could barely walk for a like a month. I felt so bad!!

You have a couple of songs in this film right?

Yes, I did them before the movie. But it�s amazing how they fit. Like I would never have said, I really want to get my songs in the movie. I thought it was kind of funny. There�s a song which two friends of mine wrote in about three minutes and I sang it in my old apartment. I kind of made it into a song and now it�s in this big movie. I thought it was kind of amusing. I had to sing it to the�video�of my face (laughs). It was the most bizarre experience, but I think it really helps the scene. It makes the scene better.

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He’s suddenly become a major star, and he’s just thrilled about it.�

Source: Movies Online

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