October 24th 2008

Even though he doesn’t consider himself as a vampire’s stories fan, Robert Pattinson didn’t hesitate in acting in Twilight, as long as he get to work with Catherine Harwicke and Kristen Stewart.

“I’ve never been a big fan of vampire’s stories or that kind of movies, I didn’t like them, but with this one, I changed my perspective, the story inspired me.”

I wanted to do this partly because I really liked the main actress. I remembered her role in Into The Wild, she seemed excellent,” explained the British actor.

Visiting Mexico to promote the film, which premieres Nov. 21, Pattinson recalled that when he came to the audition with Stewart, he liked the fierce that she projects.

“They’re two people that make the cinematography in a very interesting way, and not so much from the commercial perspective”

“Even though he’s one of the hottest and he doesn’t look like a vampire, people is afraid of him. It was such a challenge to portrait a character that is 108 years old and looks like a 17 years old teenager, because I got to play both situations.

“The fact that he is a vampire that likes drinking blood had to be in my head, but at the same time I had to play a regular human being”, pointed the british actor.

“The vampire’s stories are very popular, but in the case of Twilight, I wouldn’t say that it’s a vampires movie, it’s more like a love story”

“The difference between this and the others are that in the others, when the vampires are exposed to the sunlight they die, they are affected by garlics, there’re others that they’re determined to kill humans, and in this one, he just love the life as a typical teenager”

Pattinson added that the filming of Twilight was very intense because of the environment in which they had to shoot.

“What happens is that vampires during the day, must have a very specific weather, it had to be very cloudy all the time and that limited us a lot, because you could not shoot when there was much sun or when it was raining.”