The pres­sure from the ‘Twi-hards’ must be much less now, because they clearly all love you?

Robert Pat­tin­son: “There’s never been any pres­sure from any­where I don’t think. Other than right from the very begin­ning, before the first film came out. I think they like being part of ‘the club’ as well, they kind of mobilise against the peo­ple who crit­i­cise the whole series. They like it being ‘their thing’, so they’re very sup­port­ive of any­thing to do with ‘Twilight’.”
Is your life as ‘trapped’ as the media makes out? Do you con­stantly hide out in hotel rooms?
RP: “No, it’s funny because in these inter­views I never have a tremen­dous amount of fore­sight. So I end up describ­ing my day rather than the sur­round­ing months to it. So when we did that inter­view (for Van­ity Fair) I was kind of trapped in my hotel room, but there’s always ways, there’s always places where you can dis­ap­pear to. It just involves a lit­tle more thought, I can’t just wan­der around will-nilly. It’s such a nov­elty to me still, I mean if I’m still stuck in hotel rooms in tens years and I haven’t fig­ured out any other way to deal with it other than hid­ing, it prob­a­bly would annoy me a lit­tle bit. But if you’re just work­ing the whole time you don’t even think about it. I guess I’ll see what it’s really like in the next two or three years.”
You’re very inter­ested in music, is an album on the cards?
RP: “I do miss it. That’s why I haven’t done any gigs or released any­thing– it does set your stan­dards higher, because you have to eclipse this mas­sive thing! You’ve got to be win­ning Gram­mys and stuff before you do another open mic night.”
Is there any­thing ‘nor­mal’ you miss doing since becom­ing famous?
RP: “Um… I never really did much in the first place (laughs)! When your work­ing it doesn’t mat­ter what your sta­tus is out­side of the job, you’re wak­ing up at five thirty and too tired to doing any­thing when you get home, you just want to go to bed. It doesn’t make any dif­fer­ence really, what’s hap­pen­ing out­side of the hotel. I guess I miss open mic nights. I miss dri­ving– I never owned a car in Lon­don, I only got a car in LA last sum­mer, so I only ever had three months’ dri­ving with­out hav­ing ten cars fol­low­ing you. I’m too scared to drive now!”
Finally, you take your shirt off a lot in this film, how did you get in shape for the top­less scenes?
RP: “You get a lot of nip­ple shots in this movie! I hadn’t worked out at all until I saw Tay­lor at the begin­ning of the year, it was quite good for the movie as I felt very inad­e­quate next to him!”