JoBlo Interviews Robert Pattinson
What’s the overview of the character? I know he’s a vampire but what’s important about him to you?
What’s important about him to me? I guess as the book is written from Bella’s perspective and she’s massively obsessed with him, well thinks she’s in love with him or probably is eventually in love with him and he sort of seems to be the hero and he kind of has these superpowers… it’s, you know, a turn on and everything but I guess kind of the thing which I found interesting is that he is essentially the hero of this story but violently denies that he is the hero. Like at every point even when he does heroic things he still thinks that he’s a complete, selfish, like the most ridiculously selfish evil creature around. Which I kind of like that. He refuses to accept Bella’s love for him but at the same time can’t help but just kind of needs it, which is kind of what the essential storyline is. But I liked it because there’s not many stories which have .. he’s always walking the incredibly fine line between someone.. an object being in love with your life and also the thing you want to destroy the most… which is rather nice and he can never really and everything in his life is falling apart around him whilst he’s kind of trying to create some kind of relationship with this girl which just seems to end completely and utterly impossible but it happens.
The character is definitely one of, probably the most complex character in the book. Kind of like even a split personality.. in going one second he can be cold and menacing and the next second mean and… how is it playing a character like that?
Well it’s good. I mean it’s difficult to figure out the, you know the ark. I guess one scene initially he realizes that he’s got more control than he thought. It kind of fluctuates between him accepting the fact that he’s like this all powerful being and the same time.. it’s like he cant even.. he forgets who he is, like all the time from the various different influences. I mean he was so stale for 80 years. He was just… all he wanted to do was either die or become human again. When this girl comes, and he kind of .. it kind of reawakens senses that haven’t been around for ages. And so it kind of… It keeps fluctuating all the time and he doesn’t even know what’s going on half the time. And like.. even if that somebody finds him attractive it’s just like absolute bizarre to him. And then when.. he’ll sometimes embrace that and sometimes he’ll hate it.
