OlderRobert Pattinson: Spin Doctor Dreams
Did you know that New Moon hunk Robert Pattinson wants to be a spin doctor?
The 22-year-old British actor recently caught up with Moviefone to chat about his role as Salvador Dali, other career opportunities and his pal Taylor Lautner. Check it out:
On playing Salvador Dali in Little Ashes: “A lot of it was quite hard. I guess in a lot of ways, the more I read about Dali the more I kind of liked him, and liked what he tried to make himself stand for. I guess the hardest thing was that I didn’t want to disrespect his memory, especially when I met a lot of people who he knew and stuff. People were very, very fond of him, so that was probably the hardest thing. [Laughs] I didn’t want to mess it up!”
On what he’d like to be if he weren’t an actor: “I’d quite like to be a political strategist and like a spin doctor. [Laughs] I’d really, really like to do that. I think I will end up doing that at one point.”
On the craziest fan experience he’s seen yet: “There was one quite weird thing, I was in a Blockbuster the other day, and I hadn’t realized it was the day the [Twilight] DVD was coming out, and there were these two — no one recognized me in that place — and there were these two 8-year-old girls who turned up with their parents. They were picking up their pre-ordered DVDs, and they were just shaking and crying just because they got their DVD. I thought that was pretty incredible, I hadn’t seen anything like that before … I mean, I have when it’s in person, when it’s meeting me. But just to pick up a DVD, that was kind of crazy.”
On pal Taylor Lautner keeping the Jacob Black role: “It was weird. When I came back, I hadn’t seen him in ages, hadn’t seen him since the summer and when I saw him, I saw him just before he got casted, and he put on like 100 pounds! I was like ‘Jesus Christ! If he doesn’t get it, it’s ridiculous.’ But what are you going to do? There was a video of him on set the other day doing all these kind of fight stunts. That kid is incredible; he is one of the most stunning athletes I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t know, I think it’ll be interesting. I haven’t seen any of his stuff yet, but everyone’s going a little bit crazy over him.”
