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THE WILD BOY
He tried to work as model, then he decided to do the musi cian until a 109 year old vam pire came into his life. Since then Robert Pat tin son became Edward Cullen and his life has changed. And it has gone so far as he can’t even go out of his home.

THE LAST NEW-ROMANTIC HERO
Get ting closer to the 3rd mil len nium, among blind dates on Face book, scan dals on Youtube, mil lions of peo ple stand in line to watch a movie where girls are courted like in the 1800, rela tion ships are chaste and pla tonic and love is for ever. Almost like in a Jane Austen’s romance. What if this is real rea son of the Twi light suc cess?
A step back in time. Sep tem ber 2008, 60 days before the release of Twi light: blogs of the fans are full of com ments on the actors cho sen to play Edward and Bella on the big screen. The kind est adjec tive on Robert Pat tin son are “inad e­quate”, “dull” and “ridicu lous”. <> Robert jokes today. He went from the Oym pus of Hol ly wood celebri ties to the unstop pable Pat tin son ma nia move ment and secur ing the 50th place on the Forbes 2010 list of most pow er ful peo ple. <> , Pat tin son explains, and he looks, if pos si ble, even bet ter in real ity than on the screen: low voice, ele gant bear ing and deep gaze, the actor is charm ing, nice and hum ble. Noth ing of the star. When he talks he looks into your eyes, he is very con cen trated when he lis tens to the ques tions and always waits a moment before answer ing. His life has com­pletely changed in less than 6 months: after the Twi light release he had to armour-plate him self, fil ter news and change hotel 3 times a month because of con tin ual leaks, like it hap pened in NY dur ing film ing “Remem ber Me”, where he was also run over by a taxi because of the pres sure of the twi lighters.
Lon doner, the youngest of 3 chil dren (his sis ter Lizzie is a singer), his father imports vin tage cars, his mother works for a mod el ing agency, Pat tin son moves a lot of money today, just think about he played in 5 block busters (ther’s also HP and the gob let of fire and HP and order of fenix) and that Eclipse, filmed with just 68 mil lion dol lars, grossed 400 mil­lion dol lars in just 2 weeks (the equiv a lent of the tak ings of Twiligth). <>, he taunts him self. <>.Mmmh, yeah, but 2 years ago twi lighters of all over the world weren’t happy of the choice of him as Edward, and today the same fans stop him and ask him, kindly, to bite them on their neck, lift ing posters up like “Rob bite me”. <. With out doubts, one of the (many) secrets of the suc cess of this saga is actu ally him, the cor re spond ing vam pire of the 21th cen tury, an ema ci ated, roman tic and hand some crea ture with a gothic look and some thing of the rebel james dean which brings him to a marked unsociability.

–What is like to be con sid ered a sex sym bol?
It’s a strange feel ing. I real ized that in Italy, when I was in mon tepul ciano shoot ing New Moon. I keep find ing incred i ble the fact that before twi light no one ever turned around to look at me, while now I can’t even walk down the street. But I don’t want to be con sid ered a sex sym bol, just an actor.

- Are you stressed by the fans?
Amazed, a bit embar rassed, but not stressed. The fans are a huge sup port. On set in Tus cany they applauded at every take, even if I didn’t do any thing. It was nice. I thought I was in a theatre!

–Why do you think Edward is so fas ci nat ing, not only for the female audi ence?
Because he’s a mys te ri ous char ac ter. When you read Stephanie’s books it’s easy to project what you want onto him.

–Does being a vam pire help him?
It makes him more intrigu ing than a human being, like being immortal.

–Would you like being immor tal?
Hon estly, It doesn’t appeal to me. I would end up get ting bored.

–How much are you sim i lar to Edward Cullen?
He often has feel ings he can’t han dle. That’s a com mon behav ior. It hap pened to me, too: I’ve always had weird rela­tion ships and also in the movies I like messy love sto ries, not the clas sic roman tic love.

–So noth ing like Romeo and Juliet?
I’m more like “last tango in Paris” by Bertolucci (laughs)

–In Eclipse you divide the scene with another male actor, Tay lor Laut ner. Does it bother you?
Not at all. I feel more free.

–Did you know Kris ten Stew art before Twi light?
I had seen her in “Into the wild” by Sean Penn. She’s a respon si ble actress. But I had already real ized it by read ing her cur ricu lum: she always made moti vated choices. I know her very well by now and I knew she would suf fer from all this mania after Twi light, with all the paps and photographers.

–What about your singer career?
It has stopped now. But I keep play ing. I wanna do a record in 2 years.

–Your hotel in Mon tepul ciano was mobbed by fans, you were almost run over by a car in NY because of them. How has your life changed?
When I go out I more wor ried about where to go, because I always meet some one who stops me and ask me an auto­graph. Every body rec og nize me by now and I got para noid about it.

- Your career has changed, too. It seems like every body wants Pat tin son.
This scares me, too. I can’t under stand who really wants me for who I am or who wants me in order to have the Twi light fans.

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