His name is now synonymous with screaming fans, tousled hair and possibly sparkly skin, such that Robert Pattinson may find it difficult to escape the shadow of vampire Edward. But as we found out recently, he’s largely at peace with the role these days and only slightly bemused at what the fans see in Edward. Here he is on becoming a vampire dad, behaving like a secret agent and going on guilt trips. Mild spoilers for those who haven’t read the book…

Are you happy to say goodbye to Twilight? And what has its impact been on our culture?
I guess I’m happy to move on, but it was nice to have good closure. I found Edward quite a restrictive character but in Breaking Dawn he kind of loosens up about everything. I mean, it’s almost impossible not to when you’re delivering babies and, you know, Bella is dying and all this stuff is happening. You can’t play it the same, and that was nice. It was nice to have arguments and things as Edward, which seemed very unusual. But um, what’s its contribution to the culture? Well one of the main things, which obviously the books did but the movies helped, was just getting young people reading again. Harry Potter started this thing, but anything which gets kids reading, it helps. As soon as you start reading one series then you start reading a bunch of other stuff. Just in terms of the film industry as well, I think Twilight showed that you can have a female audience for something and it does well.

What about its perception of romance? 
I think it’s a fairly traditional romance. I have never understood the fascination with vampires though. I mean, people are obsessed and I don’t know why. I know the history of it; I find it interesting to think there are true stories of things in, say, Romania. I like all the conspiracy theory aspects of it, but I guess when doing Twilight that is why all the vampire people hate us, because we didn’t have fangs, don’t get burnt in the sunlight or anything. I didn’t really have to do any research about vampires.

How was it shooting the films back to back? Was there a different kind of feel to it doing two movies?
Yeah, it felt like a long time when we were shooting it. Also, at the beginning we were a lot less stressed than we were before. It became stressful later, when we suddenly realized we were basically shooting these two films. It became even more work in the end than normal, but for the first couple of months it was like “Eh, we got 8 months! This is easy!”.

So it turned out to be rather a lot?
It’s a lot! Especially when you are splitting them up, so you’re playing scenes from like 260 pages [apart]. Sometimes we would switch between the two movies during one day, and it’s a completely different mentality from the first one to the second one. So it was kind of complicated.

You become a father in this film. Did you discover any paternal instincts? Do you get on well with kids.
Only some kids! If it’s an annoying kid, I don’t get on with them. But I like babies, I like doing the scenes with babies. There were quite a lot of them as well, so that was fun. It’s just so different from a Twilight movie, because the main problem with stage the scenes is, because we are all vampires we don’t do anything, you don’t fidget, you don’t put your hands in your pockets, you never do anything! You have nothing to do all day, so it’s very difficult to think, “How do I do this scene without just standing here?” And as soon as you have a baby involved, you have to respond. Everyone suddenly just breaks all of their standards.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.

Question to producer Wyck: There are petitions, so the next part comes earlier in the cinemas. Is there any chance for the fans?
Answer: No, sorry, this is unfortunately impossible. (Big grin)

Question to Rob and Taylor: What is your favorite song from the Twilight soundtrack?
Taylor: A Thousand Years by Christina Perry!
Rob: Oh, is there a song that (I don’t remember the title?), oh crap … (laughter in the hall)

Question for Rob: When your first CD comes out that you’re recording together with Taylor? (much laughter in the hall!)
Rob: Hmm, I do not know because I have very great respect! So far there are no plans to ..

Question to Rob and Taylor: Are you actually afraid of something?
Taylor: I’m terrified of sharks! Rob said: Well, it’s easy to avoid, right? (much laughter!)
Rob: I’m afraid of nerve invasion … No, I’m not afraid of anything (lacht!)

Question: The fans must now wait a whole year until the final part comes out. Why so long?
Reply from director Bill Condon: The production is incredibly complex, but the fight scenes. The stars are involved in other film projects, they have great opportunities to realize now.

Earlier question: Question: to Rob: What was it like to shoot someone in another movie?
Rob: that was fun (lacht!), a pretty bloody affair but …

Earlier Question: Do you expect with this huge success of the Twilight saga?
Rob: No, this is madness! We are totally surprised how great everything has become. Our fans are incredibly passionate and enthusiastic. It’s great to be back here and to present the fourth part.

Source: Via ChrisiMusic4