Friday, March 12, 2010

Cinemablen Interviews Rob - GREAT Interview!



I admit, I wasn't expecting all that much out of Robert Pattinson. He's become very, very famous for playing men of few words, be it prettyboy Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter, the icy and wary Edward Cullen in that vampire thing, or the brooding Tyler in Remember Me, which is by far Pattinson's biggest role yet as a non-vampire. I was waiting for him to walk into the interview room in a cloud of smoke, hair tousled back and scowl on his face, simply daring us to ask any questions.

Saying I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement-- Pattinson was a funny, generous and totally relaxed interview, willing to laugh at himself and admit when his questions veered off into nonsense, and doing his best to answer Twilight questions even when the publicists hovered in the background to make sure we didn't get off track. The hair was totally normal too-- I guess his stylist had the afternoon off. Read below for our conversation with Pattinson, about what drew him to a romance like Remember Me, how he sees his character Tyler as an extension of himself, and the perils of unexpected fame. I was really impressed with how open he was in talking about what he does and doesn't like about the craziness that surrounds him on a daily basis. Really, I was impressed in general. Find out why below.


On Remember Me and how he relates to his character



What surprised you about being an executive producer on this film?
I wasn't a proper producer. I only came on at the end. I always liked what Allen and Nick's idea for the whole movie was, and at the end, I didn't want it to be messed about with, by the studio or by whoever. Whatever I could do to help protect that.

What led you to take this project?
I read it just after Twilight, in the summer, and there was just something about it. I liked the way it didn't fit into any formulaic structure, and it didn't seem like a teen movie. The period in-between the second and third Twilight films was only two months, and you can't shoot that much stuff. It seemed like the perfect movie to put in there.

Do you agree with Tyler's worldview?
I don't think Tyler really had a worldview. That's kind of what I liked. He's sort of rebelling against nothing. He doesn't have any particular desires, no one's taking anything from him. It's almost the reason why he wants to rebel, because there's nothing to rebel against. I felt relatively similar to him in a lot of ways, just being desireless. Especially when I first read it. I wasn't doing anything when I first read it.

Are you a chain smoker like Tyler is?
I'm now chain eating Nicorette gum. I'm furiously addicted to that now, which is very annoying. On planes and things, it does not help at all. It just makes you desperately want a cigarette.

[Director] Allen [Coulter] and [screenwriter] Will [Fetters] were saying it can be hard for young people to play young characters and see beyond that age. How were you able to do that?
Maybe it's bad, [but] I think the only way to make anything truthful is to try and relate as much of it as you can to yourself. I think I related tons of it to how I thought I felt about stuff. I was saying to people before I started shooting that it's the closest to myself, and I'm trying to play myself in it.

How was working with Emilie and dealing with the challenge of the fans outside on the set?
Emilie was really understanding about all that stuff. She had a bunch of people come out for her too, for Lost. Once they realized we were both there it became double craziness. She was always cool about the crowds and stuff. That was the first time she'd been on a film in a while. Both of us, I don't know if we were trying to break away from anything, but it's kind of a relief after you've been doing the same thing for ages. You want to give everything to this one project, and she really did.


On filming in New York with fans coming to the set every day.



It sounds like filming in New York was stressful, but what was enjoyable about it?
It's the fantasy idea of living in the East VIllage. It's the kind of life I would have wanted to have if I was a student. It's a very active culture-- even the extras in New York, everybody's got an opinion about everything.

How much of that did you get to experience yourself, though?
My sister used to live here, for five years, and I'll be honest, I experienced a lot more of New York then. I was kind of stuck in a hotel room a lot of time [filming Remember Me].

Was it hard to act with all those people around the set?
Just at the beginning. It's strange, in New York you can't shut down streets. It is weird, you've got like 40 people taking photos on the other side of the street, and there's nothing you can do.


On his music career and his musical contributions to Twilight


What can people expect from you musically in the future? Do you see yourself doing a music movie?
Yeah. I'd really like to. I've been talking to people about stuff for ages, about various different things. it's quite difficult to do. I think it's a bit risky as well.

Has your songwriting process changed for you in recent years?
I used to write a lot by just doing gigs, and just turning up to open mics with two lines of a song, and the pressure would force you to make something up. And I can't really do that anymore. That was my main process of writing songs, get songs that are totally uninformed by self-consciousness. When I sit down and try to write some lyrics, it just looks like rubbish. I can't function with two things at the same time. I don't even listen to music when I'm doing [films]. I think after doing another movie after this movie now, then I'll try and write some music, hopefully at the end of the year.

Have they asked you to do any more songs for the Twilight movies?
No. They'll never ask me ever again!


On his career, the downside of fame, and where he wants to go from here.



Are you enjoying your career right now?Are the acting opportunities worth the craziness and the fame?
It's annoying not being able to meet people, thinking that someone's going to sell something or Twitter things. You need that, just to be a person, just to be able to talk to someone in a normal way. You see all these actors holing themselves up and not doing anything ever because of that. That's the only frustrating thing about it.

Do you see this movie as an important step to show people you're more than Twilight?
I think it's an important step. I don't think it's to show people I'm more than Twilight. I have the same mentality about [the Twilight sequels]. I try to make a Twilight film to show I'm more than Twilight, whatever that means. You try and improve, you try and take things from each job you get. I've just sort of fallen into it. I'm just trying to figure out how to do things.

You've made a lot of distinctly independent films to kind of counterbalance Twilight. Do you plan to keep seeking these out?
Not necessarily. I just liked the script of this. The next few things I'm doing, I just liked the script. I'd be way more nervous doing a big kind of blockbuster which would go into the marketplace saying, "This has to be huge." I like doing ensemble things with established actors who are really good, and scripts that are kind of different, and hope people will be interested in them.


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Patrick Stoner talks with Rob and Emilie about 'Remember Me'


Patrick Stoner, aka the guy with the best name ever, interviews Rob and Emilie

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MTV's 'Remember Me' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know!



After wrapping filming on "New Moon" in May 2009 and before beginning the shoot for "Eclipse" that August, Robert Pattinson headed to New York to shoot his first major post-"Twilight" role: the lead in the romantic drama "Remember Me" opposite Emilie de Ravin of "Lost." He plays Tyler, a headstrong and slightly lost kid who falls in love with de Ravin's Ally, a college student from a much different cultural milieu.


Anticipation is high for the film (out Friday, March 12) as fans look forward to seeing Pattinson not only as a human rather than a vampire but also as part of an onscreen couple that doesn't include "Twilight" co-star Kristen Stewart. MTV News has been following every development of the production — from casting moves to footage from the film to interviews with the stars — and we've gathered it all together as part of our "Remember Me" cheat sheet. Here's everything you need to know before hitting the theater this weekend.

The City Never Sleeps Pattinson arrived in New York just days after leaving the "New Moon" set and immediately caused a media frenzy. The craziness didn't stop until the shoot was over. Filming on location in the city streets, Pattinson was routinely mobbed by fans. There was even the wild story — unfounded, as it turned out — that he'd been hit by a taxi while crossing the street.

"There were a lot of crazy moments where you're filming on location and you're waiting for people to get out of the shot," de Ravin told MTV News. "You're taken out of your work mentality with hundreds of people watching you when you're just trying to figure out your scene."

Look At Me Months later, as the hoopla surrounding the November release of "New Moon" ramped up, the first "Remember Me" trailer dropped online. This was Pattinson like we'd never seen him before: out with the golden eyes and the pale skin, in with an emotionally honest portrayal of a young New Yorker in love.

February brought yet more peeks at the film's central couple: An exclusive clip of Pattinson and de Ravin at a fair and one of the two of them having dinner together, plus exclusive photos of the couple in bed and soaking wet in the shower. Of that shower scene, Pattinson laughed to MTV, "It's pretty forward for a second date!"

Never Forget As the film's release rapidly approached, Pattinson and de Ravin returned to New York, giving MTV a chance for multiple chats with the pair. In an extensive sit-down interview, Rob and Emilie spoke about their loves scenes, being self-conscious about their acting, their similarities to their characters and much more.

Finally, the entire cast hit the frenetic red carpet for the film's gala premiere, where the paparazzi were going mad and Pattinson was doing his best to play it cool. As de Ravin explained, though, her co-star has no problem doing that both on- and off-camera.

"He's amazing," she said. "He's fascinating to watch because he's so naturally subtle and interesting."

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iVillage Interviews Robert about Remember Me

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I'm a Huge Fan: Robert Pattinson and Remember Me Exclusive Interview!

Remember Me is finally out today and here's our last installment of I'm a Huge Fan: Robert Pattinson! Our winner Tracy has been amazing ever since she first heard the huge news and here's a peek into her big day. She was surprised with a complete red carpet makeover! Tracy was styled head-to-toe in H&M's new Garden Collection (which isn't available in stores until March 25!), had her hair done by the Sally Hershberger Salon dream team of Rodrigo Padilla and Erin Bogart, and her flawless makeup was achieved by Benefit's global trend artist Maggie Ford Danielson— so clearly she looked incredible! Then, it was time to hit the red carpet and interview Robert Pattinson and the rest of the cast. Watch her exclusive Robert interview here and see the whole series as well!

Rob and Emilie about Ruby: "She's phenomenal" "She's incredible"



Kristen Stewart doesn't quell Robert Pattinson's self-conscious, hair-pulling tendencies.

Neither does Peter Facinelli, Taylor Lautner or Emilie de Ravin. That honor goes to none other than the actor's 11-year-old Remember Me costar, Ruby Jerins.

"She's so easy to act with," Rob tells E! News. "It's the first time since I've been doing acting that I've felt completely un-self-conscious because I could feel that she wasn't at all. That completely rubs off on me."

That's not the only superlative the Twilight hottie had for the girl who plays his little sister.

"She's phenomenal," he continues. "On the first day I met her, me, Allen [Coulter, the director] and Emilie were sitting around discussing our scenes together and she hadn't really said anything. I kind of asked just to be nice. I was just like, 'So, what do you think about it?' And she's sitting there and goes into this whole diatribe about her character's backstory in the most interesting way. And she'd been writing notes on all the stuff we were saying and was quoting what we were saying to us."

"She's incredible," Emilie agrees, admitting that she and the child star have remained pen-pals over email. "She's just amazing in the film and she's a very, very smart girl. You can just watch her and you can forget what you're meant to be doing."

So could she be the next big child star like Rob's New Moon pal, Dakota Fanning?

"She's going to be a massive actress I think," he says. "She's the best improviser I've ever met. You can literally say anything to her and she'll completely stay in character."

And yet, much to Rob's surprise and chagrin, the Nurse Jackie starlet is still totally a kid.

"She's this hyper-intelligent, hyper-mature kid but I saw her play, and she's like a little girl when you see her with her friends. I don't understand how that happens at all."

"There's something about her—one of those indescribable things," Emilie says.

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Newsday: Remember Him?



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Rob talks about Emilie and the cast of 'Remember Me' talks about working with Rob

Rob talks about Emilie



The Cast of 'Remember Me' talks about working with Rob - cute video



Rob Talks About Filming 'Water for Elephants' This Summer

ITN: Robert Pattinson to sink his teeth into music

Someone rescue Robert Pattinson



Looks like there may be a good actor lurking behind the pretty face, but he needs a mentor

Robert Pattinson, the smouldering star of the Twilight franchise, is the most besieged heartthrob on the planet, and you can’t blame him for being embarrassed by the adulation. He acts as if he’s been confused with someone else—which is true, in the sense that his fans seem to have him hopelessly mixed up with his Byronic character, the vampire Edward Cullen. He can’t leave his hotel room without being mobbed by teenage girls. Last week, when he showed up for a taping of The Daily Show, the screams from the teenage audience reduced Jon Stewart’s high altar of smart satire into The Ed Sullivan Show waylaid by Beatlemania. Which Pattinson seemed to find no less ludicrous than his host. But the more he sloughs off the attention with that twitchy, self-deprecating English charm, the more charismatic he seems. He’s Hugh Grant trapped in the body of a young Brando.

In an age of carefully groomed celebrity, Pattinson is a rare thing: the self-effacing superstar. The 23-year-old actor has good reason to feel sheepish. All we’ve seen him do is pose as an oddly chivalrous vampire in a couple of jejune vampire movies. There’s no denying his screen presence, and it looks like there may be a pretty good actor lurking behind the pretty face. But as his fame outstrips his work, he must feel pressure to prove it.

Now we can see Pattinson tackle a (somewhat) more serious role in Remember Me. Directed by Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland), it’s a more mature movie than Twilight, and his character is painfully mortal, but it’s still a romance. Despite some promising romantic comedy that bubbles up as boy meets girl, it soon gives way to earnest drama. With a backstory rooted in tragedy, the film is set in New York in the summer before Sept. 11, 2001. Which means someone is on a collision course with destiny: tears before bedtime.

But Pattinson gets to relax into the role of a leading man who seems a lot like himself, if celebrity interviews are to be believed—a shambling overgrown adolescent with a messy room and a big heart. As Tyler, the estranged son of a callous tycoon (Pierce Brosnan with a Brooklyn accent), he’s a harmless wastrel. And he spends the first act with his Adonis features cut and bruised from a nightclub brawl. On a dare from his roommate, Tyler tracks down the daughter of the policeman (Chris Cooper) who arrested him, and talks her into a date without revealing the connection. Ally (Emilie de Ravin) is a college student who has her own issues with her dad, a hard-boiled cop from Queens. Tyler and Ally meet, cute and romantic repartee ensues, and for a while the movie comes alive—until family secrets emerge and the, uh, healing begins. Pattinson and his frisky co-star have good chemistry, but they’re stuck on a narrowing road to cheap sentiment.

Pattinson may seem cut out for an iconic role as a rebel without a cause, but these days it’s not easy for a heartthrob to find that kind of heft in a Hollywood movie. Brando exploded out of the gate fully formed, as a matinee idol with gravitas in A Streetcar Named Desire (1954). James Dean led a revolution in ennui with his film debut, East of Eden (1955). And Warren Beatty ignited his career as a leading man in the potent melodrama of Splendor in the Grass (1961), his first film. All three movies became classics and all, coincidentally, were directed by Elia Kazan.

So what’s a renegade heartthrob to do in an era where romance, not just sci-fi, is ruled by formula, and where the actors are so much better than the movies? Like Brando and Dean, Pattinson is an insouciant sex symbol with an alluring sensitivity, but Twilight is no Splendor in the Grass. Until he won the Hollywood lottery, he felt like a misfit—ever since landing his first serious stage role in London’s West End, and being fired before opening night. He tended to get cast as weirdos, from the vile Alec in a stage version of Tess of the d’Urbervilles to the young Salvador Dali in the film Little Ashes. Now he’s like a rock star without a band.

While he waits for a mentor to rescue him from the teen hordes—the way Martin Scorsese adopted Titanic’s Leonardo DiCaprio—Pattinson is making some bold choices. Co-starring with Uma Thurman, he’ll indulge in some dangerous liaisons as a Paris womanizer in Bel Ami, a film saturated with steamy sex scenes. A virtuous vampire needs to rough up his image. He’s also starring in Unbound Captives, a low-budget western in which he speaks mostly in Comanche. That’s one way to leave your fans in the dust.

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Rob Says Ruby Will Be “A Massive Actress”



Two weeks ago, TheFABLife scored an invite to the Remember Me press day, where we sat down with Robert Pattinson himself to discuss his latest departure from Edward Cullen. As we focused on not fainting in his presence (and yes, RPattz is just as beautiful in person), our ears perked when he raved about his onscreen sister, 11-year-old Ruby Jerins, of “Nurse Jackie.” The interaction between the two of them was undoubtedly our favorite part of the film. When asked how he channeled that chemistry with such a young actress, Pattinson said:

“She did everything; I mean completely. … She’s phenomenal. She’s going to be a massive actress. She’s the best improviser I’ve ever met. … She’s kind of like one of those weird, hyper-intelligent, hyper-mature kids. … She’s so easy to act with, you don’t have to do anything - just look at her. It’s the first time since the day I began acting where I just feel completely unselfconscious, because I could feel that she wasn’t at all and it rubs off on me.”


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MovieWeb Exclusive Interviews With Rob and the 'Remember Me' Cast

Robert Pattinson steps out of his Twilight character with a fiery performance as the angst-ridden Tyler Hawkins in Remember Me. Grieving over his brother’s suicide and furious at his father’s (Pierce Brosnan) distance, Tyler finds true love with Ally (Emilie de Ravin). She’s equally wounded by the murder of her mother and control of her policeman father (Chris Cooper). Written by Will Fetters and directed by TV veteran Allen Coulter, Remember Me is an emotional rollercoaster. To watch our exclusive video featurette with interviews from Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Allen Coulter, and Will Fetters, click on the clip below:



In the romantic drama Remember Me, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. But soon, hidden secrets are revealed, and the circumstances that brought them together slowly threaten to tear them apart. Remember Me is an unforgettable story about the power of love, the strength of family, and the importance of living passionately and treasuring every day of one’s life. Directed by Allen Coulter and starring Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, and Pierce Brosnan, Remember Me opens March 12th, 2010.

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Film Review Online Interviews Rob at the 'Remember Me' Press Junket



Set during the summer of 2001 in New York City, Remember Me stars Robert Pattinson as Tyler Hawkins, a rebellious NYU student who has a violent encounter with Police Sergeant Neil Craig (Chris Cooper), only to fall in love with his daughter, Ally (Emilie de Ravin).

Pattinson, who became a superstar as vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, spoke of his role as Tyler and the movie at the press junket for the film in New York City.

Do people judge your work differently after the Twilight films?
Yeah, I think people do judge things differently after the Twilight films; they view it differently, but there’s nothing you can really do about that. I do take that into account more now than I used to. Doing the (Salvador) Dali movie (Little Ashes), when I was doing it, I didn’t think anyone was ever going to see it. It’s a very different place to be at when you think you’re making a movie which nobody is going to see; you’re not afraid to experiment with things.

We’re dealing with random violence in this film. Was there something from your own past that you could bring?
No. It was more about the reactions after (the random violence). The way he dealt with random events. Little bits were cut out of it but I remember after the first fight with Chris Cooper’s character, his mother was saying, ‘You need to sue the police force,’ and I was like, ‘For what?’ He doesn’t really care. ‘Well, at least, get an apology,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t think you can sue the police force for an apology.’

It was kind of this blasé attitude, even when it’s been him who’s been the one who is harmed. I always related to that. Looking back into the past and bearing grudges, I don’t really do that. The way that his violence comes out as well, it’s illogical. It’s not against really legitimate targets. I kind of relate to that. When you have a spasm of rage it goes, almost inevitably, to the complete wrong target and it causes you more problems. So, it’s better to keep it chained up all the time.

A lot of that anger goes against Tyler’s dad, played by Pierce Brosnan. What was it like acting with him? And is your relationship with your own dad, anything like that?

(he laughs) I think my relationship with my dad is the opposite. With Pierce, the part was written as much more controlling. He was incredibly arrogant in the script. And, Pierce seems like a really nice guy and he read the character as, he’s not a horrible man. He’s not a monster, and that completely changed what Tyler’s relationship is with him. You’re looking at a guy where you know the audience is going to be thinking, ‘He’s all right,’ which is kind of interesting.

This guy Tyler is rebelling against nothing. He is attacking (his father) because he knows he can be attacked and he’s going to keep standing afterwards.

Pierce was great. I had no idea who they were going to cast in that part and when (they told me) I was like, ‘That’s a tough act to follow’. But I think he was perfect for it.

Did you enjoy your fight scenes; acting with fists not words?
Yeah. I loved it. It’s completely different. I never do stuff like that in reality so it’s quite cathartic in a lot of ways.

Was it daunting working with Chris Cooper as Ally’s tough dad?
Yeah, I don’t know how I’d feel if I really had any fighting back to do. I was continually beaten up by him (he laughs). But, yeah, it was quite daunting. It’s very hard being strangled. It’s really difficult to look like it’s actually happening, because if you’re being strangled nothing really happens. You just stand there.
I was experimenting with myself just before we shot it. I don’t really know what the face is to represent being strangled.

Have you been in a fight before?
Well, I’ve been beaten up a few times. I was a bit of an idiot when I was younger, but it was always unprovoked, in my eyes anyway. It was just after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor and that generally provoked a lot of people into hitting me.

Were you hurt in that particular fight scene
Oh no, not at all. The only thing that I hurt myself on was a bit they cut out of the movie where I flipped out afterwards, out of my own impotence in this fight. You walk into the big confrontation and end up getting completely destroyed by your competitor.

I was hitting myself afterwards in a little spur of the moment thing which they cut out of the movie. I hit myself so hard I was in pain for the rest of the shoot. It was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done (he laughs).

Did you have any trouble with the New York Bronx accent?
I grew up watching American movies. I learned how to act, to whatever extent, by watching American movies way more than English ones so I kind of, in a lot of ways, feel more comfortable speaking in an American accent. It feels more real to me in a lot of ways.

In the Twilight saga you are working with a lot of younger actors. Other than Emilie, the actors in this film are a bit older. Is it different working with older actors?
Yeah. In a lot of ways, it’s different because when you’re working with young people it’s like you’re going on the journey together. Everything is fresh to you. If you’re working with experienced people, they’re much clearer about what they want to do or bring to the job right from the beginning, which is really good in some ways. But, at the same time, they’re very willing.

Chris and I were rewriting the scene when we fought each other during the lunch break just before. I never worked with anyone who is really tied down to what they want to do and that’s that. It’s really good either way.

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We're all going to see the movie anyway... A bunch of 'Remember Me' Reviews

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From Film.com

As I look through the six pages of hurriedly scribbled notes I took while watching Remember Me, I'm struck by the overall ambition and courage of the film. Massive themes are considered here: love and loss, the role parents should play, sibling support, fledgling relationships in college, the role of blunt trauma in the building of character. True, that's a lot of emotional weight, and the key for enjoyment here is to buy into the overarching sincerity of the film. By taking a risk, and actually being about something, Remember Me becomes vulnerable to those who would lash out against perceived melodrama in movies. But we've got to take back the streets on this one; we need writers and directors out there taking chances, we've got to get away from the paint-by-numbers industry that has become modern cinema.

Read full review HERE



From USA Today

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson seems to have found a better vehicle for his angst-ridden style of acting. Those who relish him as a lovesick bloodsucker will surely take issue, but until Remember Me, his best acting job was as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Pattinson was woefully miscast as Salvador Dali in last year's Little Ashes, but playing a contemporary, brooding and lost young man in Remember Me shows that he has more range than is visible in his one-dimensional role as a sexy vampire.

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From Newsweek

The new Robert Pattinson movie has an unexpected plot twist. Is it exploitative, or historically important?

From the ads on TV, Remember Me looks like your everyday college dramedy. (Spoiler alert: Surprise plot points discussed ahead!) It stars Robert Pattinson making goo-goo eyes at his college girlfriend (Emilie de Ravin). The film’s poster shows the sweethearts clutched in a passionate embrace with the cryptic tagline: “Live in the moments.”

Read full review HERE


From The Boston Herald

In “Remember Me,” Robert Pattinson, the producer and leading man, displays genuine acting chops as a “Rent”-related cousin of the “Rebel Without a Cause.” He’s Tyler Hawkins, a Strand bookstore worker, sometime New York University student and poetic misfit in the Jack Kerouac-J.D. Salinger mold.

Tyler, who writes and is told he reeks of “Listerine and beer,” lives a la boheme in New York City in 2001 in a hovel with a broken lock with the fast-talking, hard-drinking, fellow Strand employee and NYU student Aidan Hall (Tate Ellington).

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From About.com

Robert Pattinson's been keeping secrets from us. Pattinson, best known for playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight film series, can in fact act and can carry a film that has nothing to do with vampires or werewolves or high school romances. In the Twilight series pretty much all we've seen Pattinson do is look all dark, intense, and broody. There hasn't been much actual acting required of him thus far as Edward. But his performance in Remember Me makes you wonder where this guy's been hiding and why hasn't he shown off his talent - and not just his stylishly tousled bedroom hair - before this.

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From Chicago Reader

IIn 1991 a little girl witnesses her mother's murder on an elevated train platform in Brooklyn; ten years later, as a feisty, blue-collar student at New York University (Emilie de Ravin of ABC's Lost), she captures the heart of a brooding rich boy (Robert Pattinson). He's still mourning the death of his brother years earlier, for which he blames his father, a high-powered attorney (Pierce Brosnan, better than his material). Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay. With Chris Cooper and Lena Olin

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From Philly.com

Like James Dean smoking and brooding through Rebel Without a Cause, Robert Pattinson puffs and sulks - often, impressively, at the same time - in the intense romantic drama Remember Me.

Twilight's pale and immortal lover boy, adopting a New York accent and a slouchy demeanor (the better to reflect his directionlessness by!), is rich kid Tyler Hawkins, an NYU mopester who meets a girl from his global politics class and woos her accordingly.

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From CinemaBlend

New York City is crawling with self-serious NYU students, styling themselves after James Dean with rumpled clothes and bad attitudes, mooning over a girl they barely know and convinced that their deep feelings are the deepest the world has ever known. As a rule, we hate these kids, and the last thing any of us would want to see is a movie celebrating their youth and idealism and romantic passion-- film students make enough of those as it is. But unfortunately for all of us, this weekend we're stuck with Remember Me, a soppy and self-important story about young love in Manhattan and the "bolts from the blue" that can change lives forever.


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From MSN Movies

There's going to be a certain amount of controversy about the final moments of "Remember Me," as fairly generic young-love story plot points are given a very specific temporal and geographic location. I'm not going to spoil "Remember Me" for anyone, but I will say that the film tries mightily to earn its final moments, and while it doesn't always succeed, you can feel director Allen Coulter (of the moody, under-seen "Hollywoodland") and writer Will Fetters making an effort.

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From MetroMix

“Remember Me” certainly allows Pattinson to be a livelier, looser presence on screen than he is as Edward Cullen, but the broody star still doesn’t show much range. The role of Tyler plays into most of Pattinson’s unfortunate tendencies—overselling angst, emoting with an intensity that veers toward comical—and he doesn’t get much help from de Ravin, whose competent but unexceptional performance ensures this is a romantic pairing with muted impact. Director Allen Coulter (“Hollywoodland,” “The Sopranos”) seems to believe he’s found a contemporary “Ordinary People,” with romance in place of psychiatry, and admirably strives for emotional authenticity in every relationship.

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From Hollywood.com

With every non-Twilight role he chooses, Robert Pattinson seems determined to wipe from our minds the popular image of him as Edward Cullen, the sensitive, chivalrous teen vampire in the blockbuster adaptations of Stephenie Meyers’ bestselling young-adult novels. Last year, he played a decadent, bisexual Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, Paul Morrison’s drama about the artist’s formative years in Madrid; in his latest film, the romantic drama Remember Me, he smokes, drinks, has premarital sex, and engages in variety of other unwholesome activities would surely appall the saintly Edward.


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Rob Talks About 'Remember Me' and Fame With NewsOk



NEW YORK — Robert Pattinson is understandably a little fidgety and distracted these days. Everywhere he goes, it seems, he’s followed by lightninglike flashes and shutter-clicking hordes of paparazzi. When word gets out that he’s in town — and, somehow, it always does — screeching gaggles of young female fans gather nearby and swoon over his every move.

So it is that the hunky, 23-year-old British star of the hot teen vampire films "Twilight” and "New Moon” seems a bit preoccupied as he is ushered into a midtown hotel suite to discuss his new movie, "Remember Me,” during a recent press event hosted by Summit Entertainment.
Flanked by a team of stern, clock-watching publicists who admonish everyone around,

"No pictures; no autographs,” Pattinson looks slightly sheepish as he’s handed a bottle of Fiji water and settles into a chair.

His hair tousled and his face fashionably stubbled, he’s decked out in gray shirt, gray wind-breaker jacket and rumpled dark jeans, appearing every bit the successor of moody-broody heartthrobs in the James Dean-Johnny Depp lineage.

"Remember Me,” a contemporary romantic drama about two young lovers struggling to deal with family relationships damaged by untimely deaths, was shot on location around New York City, and Pattinson admits through a series of rueful laughs that his red-hot celebrity made the production a chaotic ordeal. Everywhere they filmed, groupies and paparazzi crowded in and created turmoil.

"It’s weird,” Pattinson said. "I did this film, and I hardly knew anyone on the crew because I couldn’t get out of my trailer, especially the first month. I mean, I didn’t know anyone on the set. It was really odd.

"But at the same time, it’s really a quite nice lesson in discipline because you literally have to do it,” he said. "You can’t say, ‘I’m not performing until all these people go away.’ It was way more intense than any of the ‘Twilight’ films even.”

Director Allen Coulter said he knew going in that Pattinson’s feverish celebrity would require extra layers of security around the filming.

"I knew when Rob was going to the bathroom accompanied by about 14 guards that we had real security issues,” Coulter said. "I mean, we expected something, but not what we got. Joe Reidy, a masterful assistant director who’s been with DiCaprio working with Scorsese and others, even he was staggered by the intensity of it. It was tough.

"The first few days in particular, when we had to get our footing, Rob and the others managed to perform intimate scenes when we had 30 to 50 guys on the sidelines with cameras, that we were barely able to control, not to mention 700 to 1,000 young girls all vibrating. It was not easy for the cast to act, and it was not easy for us to do our jobs.”

Despite rigorous security efforts and lots of burly production assistants to keep crowds at bay, "you simply couldn’t defeat it,” the director said. "They (groupies) had inroads and ways of finding out where we were going to shoot. And we’d show up somewhere at 5 a.m., and there would be girls standing there waiting for us so they could see Rob walk from his trailer to the set. They’d see him for maybe 15 seconds. They’d wait all day for that.”

Still, Pattinson, who went from a supporting role in two "Harry Potter” movies to international stardom as sexy vampire Edward Cullen in the first two films of "The Twilight Saga” series, said he’s learning to deal with the daunting distractions of fame.

"It really is just about blanking it out,” he said. "I mean, at the beginning I was having loads of problems with it because it was really crazy. When we were filming around Washington Square Park, it was just complete mayhem. There was this one moment where one of the security guys saw me getting more and more and more angry with the paparazzi guys, and he said to me, ‘Imagine like going up and trying to hit one of them and missing, right there in front of 40 cameras.’ And that was enough to break my rage. It didn’t really bother me after that.”

The noisy commotion of celebrity, however, did detract from his performance, Pattinson admitted.

"It makes you a little more self-conscious. I mean ... yeah. You can’t really experiment with things. You can’t really do silly things to get yourself comfortable. So it did in a way detract. But at the same time, there is a certain quality to Tyler (his character) that’s a little bit clenched, that’s about suppressing his emotions, so maybe it helped.”

Pattinson said he received a valuable lesson in handling the demands of celebrity with grace from co-star Pierce Brosnan, who plays his emotionally withholding, business tycoon father in the film.

"Pierce did one thing the first night I went out to dinner with him before we started shooting,” Pattinson said. "We were in this place, a sort of old-fashioned French restaurant, and all these sort of banker-looking guys were there. They didn’t recognize me, but they obviously recognized him, he was probably like their idol, and Pierce said he noticed these people looking over.

"And I’m sitting there getting more and more self-conscious and ready to leave. And he goes over and introduces himself to everyone at the table. And at first I thought, ‘You are completely insane.’ But it worked so well. I mean, he talked to them for about a minute. And people did not look around afterwards, and you can tell that they’re going to go home and say, ‘Yeah, he’s such a nice guy.’

"And after that there was nothing weird about us being in the restaurant,” Pattinson said. "You’re no longer a kind of freak. But, of course, he’s got enormous confidence, so he can do that. If I did that, it would probably look like I was trying to start a fight or something.”

Finally, Pattinson said he is trying to maintain a calm sanity about his dizzying fame and to be aware that it could go away as quickly as it came.

"I think it’s all really simple,” he said thoughtfully as handlers swooped in to wrap up the questioning. "I mean, you look at how people are judged in the public arena, and I think the majority of people kind of get beaten by it, the people who are seen all the time. I mean, the less you’re seen then you’ll be all right. As long as you keep attempting to make quality films, then eventually your name stands for something other than meaningless celebrity. It’s a kind of difficult battle, but you have to make the work mean more than your celebrity. I think Johnny Depp has done that, and that’s what I’d like to do.”


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Important critics quite positive about Rob

New York Times:

The star, as if you didn’t know, is Robert Pattinson, the moody vampire heartthrob from the “Twilight” series, a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention.

Mr. Pattinson shoots Mr. Brosnan a lot of dark, hurting looks, but does his best work with Ruby Jerins, an appealing child actress who plays his sister, Caroline. When they’re together, Mr. Pattinson actually seems happy to be on screen: better yet, he doesn’t pull a James Dean Lite, he delivers.

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LA Times:

There's only one thing that loves Robert Pattinson more than his legions of hysterical teenage fans and that's the camera.

But this is a movie, not a magazine spread, and therein lies the rub. What the actor hasn't yet found is a way past those soulful eyes into the soul itself. If he does, Pattinson could have the makings of a brilliant career, something more than the hot streak he's got going as the "it" guy of the moment.

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Variety:

Then there's the matter of Pattinson's opaqueness. No one could deny that the actor is very watchable, but he's also either incapable of or coy about letting anyone get inside what he's feeling.

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Rob Talks About Remember Me, Fight Scenes and Directing

Rob's Remember Me Press Junket Interview in Polish TV

Movie Review from EONLINE: Remember Me Should Be Quickly Forgotten

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GRADE: D


Review in a Hurry: A rich student attending the James Dean School of Brooding (Robert Pattinson) falls for a shaggy girl from the other side of the tracks (Emilie de Ravin). The result: Tear-jerking histrionics squarely aimed at the high-school set, with turgid pacing, a borderline offensive ending and performances ranging from overblown to vaudevillian.

The Bigger Picture: Remember Me is the story of Tyler (Pattinson), a brooding New York college student who smokes cigarettes on his fire escape, shaves intermittently, writes tortured thoughts to his dead brother in a leather-bound journal, and has a tattoo of said dead brother on his chest. In other words, Tyler appears to have been created by a focus group made up of lovelorn 14-year-old girls.

After our hero gets into a scrape with an officer from Queens, roommate Aidan (a hyperschticky Tate Ellington) suggests that Tyler romance the cop's daughter, Ally (de Ravin). Ally has her own baggage, having witnessed her mom's murder on a subway platform. The two of them eventually hook up, but only after both Ally and Tyler happen to have suffered minor facial injuries. (They're both bruised souls. Get it? Get it?)

Everything in this movie is hyped as a mega-major deal. When Tyler's little sister, Caroline, (Ruby Jerins) gets her hair cut by mean schoolmates, the musical score dips to the tragedy level of a fatal car accident; estranged father Charles (Pierce Brosnan) rushes to be near Caroline, and Tyler will not leave Caroline's side until she falls asleep.

Finally, real tragedy comes around.

Given all the marketing surrounding the flick, it's no spoiler to say it involves Sept. 11. But the use of those history-changing attacks—as, essentially, a vehicle for tear-jerking romance—feels cheap and manipulative. It's very telling that during the film's heaviest scenes—including the couple's first kiss and the climax—the audience members as a press screening didn't cry. They laughed.

The 180—a Second Opinion: If you thought New Moon was genius, this movie will be your Casablanca.




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Movie poll | Who’s most likely to succeed beyond ‘Twilight’?

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Sure, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have supernatural careers, thanks to the “Twilight” saga. (“New Moon” comes out on DVD March 20, and “Eclipse” hits theaters June 30.) But will they continue to find success after “Twilight” fades?



They’re all trying other projects:

• Muscle-bound Taylor Lautner showed up with his ex, Taylor Swift, in last month’s star-studded “Valentine’s Day.” And he landed the lead in the upcoming “Stretch Armstrong,” based on the Hasbro action figure.

• Robert Pattinson stars in the new “Remember Me,” playing an angry rebel who falls for Emilie de Ravin of “Lost.” And he’s signed on for another love triangle in “Water for Elephants,” a circus drama with Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz.

• Kristen Stewart plays teen rocker Joan Jett in “The Runaways,” opening this month in some cities and expected in KC in April. In another indie project, “The Yellow Handkerchief,” she plays a lonely teen who takes off on a road trip through the South. And she earned strong reviews for last year’s “Adventureland.”

Of course, the three will reunite to film the final “Twilight” installment, “Breaking Dawn,” expected in theaters next year. But what then? Which hottie will maintain the hottest career? Vote at right.

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Robert Likes The 'Intensity' Of 'Remember Me,'



RPattz also dishes on James Dean, being typecast as Edward and the scene that nearly landed him in jail.

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By now, you've probably watched the "Eclipse" trailer a half-million times, eager to catch every last glimpse of Robert Pattinson. But don't forget that this weekend brings the chance to see the trailer on the big screen when it plays before showings of RPattz's new drama "Remember Me."

Still not enough Rob for you? Well, before you go see the movie this weekend, read on for an interview RPattz did with our friends at MTV Radio. In it, he spills the beans on playing a "Remember Me" rebel without a cause, his reasons for being brooding and wounded in real life, and why people like hitting him.

MTV: How do you like not biting someone?

Robert Pattinson: I bit people in this! [Laughs.] No, I didn't. It's different. I feel like I'm missing out on something, but it's a relief not having all that makeup on.

MTV: What attracted you to this role?

Pattinson: I read it after the first "Twilight" film, and I always liked it. It was always in the back of my mind. And then the opportunity came up between the second and third ones, which was a small period of time, so you can only do a certain type of movie. I was trying to remember all the little things I'd read, and this was perfect, and it didn't need any real prep time or anything. There was something different about it. It didn't fit into a typical teen movie, and it seemed quite realistic.

MTV: People say you remind them of James Dean. Do you count him as an influence?

Pattinson: I think James Dean was one of the most influential people on young guys — especially actors — definitely in the last 50 years. I'm not ashamed to say I am very much influenced by him.

MTV: This character bears many similar traits to Edward Cullen. Are you worried about being typecast at all?

Pattinson: Maybe I am brooding and wounded, and I'm just realizing it. [Laughs.] No, I'm not. You take little steps [as you go from role to role]. I'm always quite aware of how people are going to view things, and you have to go halfway. If I did something playing a 400-pound woman, people are going to judge it a bit more harshly than other people who've been doing character parts for 20 years. All the projects I'm doing, I'm not doing in a calculated way, but they seem like little baby steps towards other things. What I'm doing now is intensity — I like that. It's what I like in characters.

MTV: This film deals with some violent, random acts. Is there something you were able to bring from your past to this role?

Pattinson: It was more about the reactions after, about how [my character] dealt with random events. ... He has a blasé attitude, even when it's him who is harmed. I always related to that; looking back in the past and having grudges and things, I don't really do that. But the violence and things, the way his violence comes out, it's illogical and it's not against legitimate targets. I related to that — when you have a spasm of rage, it goes almost every time through the wrong target and causes more problems. It's better to keep it chained up.

MTV: There's a scene where you go pretty crazy in a schoolroom, opposite a young actress.

Pattinson: There was one take of that they had to cut out, because it looked like I'd not only be in jail for vandalism, but for child abuse as well! I spun the desk around and the desk fell over, and she literally ran away out of the classroom! I was supposed to continue on with the scene, but I was like, "Oh my God, I'm actually going to get arrested!" She looked absolutely terrified afterwards.

MTV: You've said that you have been beaten up a few times. Who beat you up?

Pattinson: A lot of people, when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, always unprovoked — in my eyes, anyways.

MTV: Was it a school-bully thing?

Pattinson: No, it was after school, generally. Like, after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor — or what I thought was an actor — it generally provoked a lot of people into hitting me.

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Ruby Jerins talks about Rob and 'Remember Me'



If your co-stars are Pierce Brosnan and Robert Pattinson, it would be easy to get overshadowed. However, 11-year old Ruby Jerins managed to hold her own in the upcoming drama Remember Me, even stealing a few scenes. The talented Jerins spoke to RadarOnline.com between a busy school day and a night filled with homework.

While she may not have been familiar with all of her co-stars' work before signing on for the film (she watched New Moon with her dad after filming wrapped on Remember Me), she quickly got to know her hunky onscreen brother and gave him two thumbs up.

"Rob’s great! He’s really just a normal guy...it was really fun for him to be my older brother. I’ve always wanted to have an older brother. He’s very goofy! He’s fun to hang out with," Jerins said adding with a laugh, "He’s unpretentious."

The film- which has a surprise twist- immediately caught Jerins' attention. "I’d only read a few pages [of the script] and I fell in love with it. I finished it in one night. It was intense but it moved me and I loved it so much."

In the film, Jerins plays the precocious dreamer (and budding artist) Caroline Hawkins. Adding a layer of complication, the sweet Caroline- who also serves as Pattinson's character Tyler Hawkins' confidante- has to deal with a distracted, workaholic father (Brosnan), a broken family ripped by tragedy, as well as a gaggle of mean classmates. One jarring scene in which Caroline finds herself the victim of a cruel prank at a sleepover tested Jerins' abilities and inevitably highlighted her maturity as an actress.

"I didn’t actually have lines [for the scene]. Allen [Coulter, director] just let me go with it," she explained. There’s a lot we don’t have in common but I found it easy to connect with her...to get me into the scene I just felt for Caroline and her worries."

Overall, the experience was one massive highlight for the young actress. "It was so fun and everybody was nice to me."

One particular moment that sticks out in her mind was one in which the smooth Brosnan improvised due to a sudden interruption.

"During shooting one of the scenes towards the end, all of a sudden from out of nowhere the phone rang and without breaking character Pierce just walked up and answered it!" she giggled.

Remember Me hits theaters on March 12.

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