PhilStar Interview

You are an actor who is still waiting for a break. You are hardly living on the paycheck you received from your last acting appearance. You drive a second hand car and live in a crumbling apartment. But you are not complaining.

Then the biggest break of your career comes along. The biggest role a young actor could ever get — almost like getting that plum “young Indiana Jones” role that went to then unknown Shia LeBeouf — lands on your lap. Would you trade your rather blissful anonymity for the expected craziness that inevitably comes with a role as hugely popular as the one you are offered?

For Robert Pattinson, being cast as Edward Cullen — the most devastatingly handsome vampire in the whole world, the answer is quite obvious, “it feels like my own opinion is completely validated now,” he jokes.

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