Cineplex Magazine November 2012

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obert Pattinson was expecting his
life to change this year — but not as
radically as it has, of course.
With this month’s opening of
the fifth and final Twilight movie,
Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the 26-yearold
English actor was hoping for a
break from the frenzied fans and
photographers who have forced him
to calculate his every public move for more than four years.
And that mad fame brought by playing dreamboat vampire
Edward Cullen probably will ebb. But since breaking up — and then
perhaps getting back together — with his on-screen and real-life lover,
Kristen Stewart, earlier this year, Pattinson’s life has been the subject
of even more intense, and certainly more personal, tabloid scrutiny
and Twihard speculation than ever before.
Speaking in Beverly Hills before word got out of Stewart’s affair with
Rupert Sanders, the married director of her movie Snow White and
the Huntsman, the unknowing Pattinson was only concerned about
what life would be like without the film franchise that made him an
international heartthrob.
Rather than a sense of impending relief, though, he expressed
ambivalence about the looming end of the very intense era.
“It almost feels like a phase of my life is over,” says the always cordial
and uncharacteristically well-combed Pattinson. “Twilight still feels
so much like a part of me. But what’s nice to know is I can relax a little.
Like, I’ve always had to do another movie in between Twilight episodes,
and now I don’t have to anymore until I find whatever I really want to
do next, without a time limit.
“But also, that safety net of having another Twilight movie to do
every year is gone,” Pattinson says, well aware that the majority of
his non-franchise releases (Little Ashes, Remember Me, Bel Ami,
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis) have found little box-office favour).
“So it’s a strange feeling; I don’t really know how I feel about it yet.”
There was a similar sense of uncertainty while filming Breaking
Dawn (both chapters were shot simultaneously in Louisiana and
British Columbia by director Bill Condon). While Part 1 featured
the marriage and long-awaited consummation of undead Edward
(Pattinson) and mortal Bella’s (Stewart) love, it also presented us with
the weirdest pregnancy and most harrowing childbirth seen since
Rosemary had her baby.
In Part 2, Bella is now a vampire and the mother of CONTINUED
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