NEW RPATZ INTERVIEW!

Pattinson, who composes and sings, performed two songs for the Twilight soundtrack. He has been playing the piano since he was 5. Raised with two elder sisters – Lizzy, a musician, who’s in the band Aurora; and Victoria, who’s in advertising – Pattinson grew up in comfortable family surrounds.

His mother, Clare, used to work in a modelling agency, but it was his father Richard who suggested he become involved with amateur productions at Barnes Theatre Company. “That was only because he saw a bunch of pretty girls who were going there, and he said: ‘Hey Rob, you’ve got to go do that.’”

Pattinson’s parents are now both retired and live vicariously through their son’s fame. “It’s funny; I think they expect me to be reacting differently. They think it’s more impressive than I think it is. Ultimately everyone in my life knows what’s real – apart from my mother, who seems to believe every negative thing that’s written about me.”

Such as? “Oh, it was about sleeping with people and swearing and I wasn’t even in the city at the time. She’s like, ‘No, I don’t believe you; I bet you did say that.’ She believes a gossip magazine over her own son. “My sister Lizzy just finds it bizarre. She was in America in May and sent me a text saying, ‘It’s ridiculous how famous you are!’ It’s weird, the mags print stuff every week even if I don’t do anything.”

Initially the fanaticism was stronger in the US, he says. “I came back to the UK at Christmas and was mostly left alone. Now it’s everywhere,” he shudders, laughing. “I keep waiting for the day when I wake up and I’m just an asshole to everybody.”

The security is so tight around Pattinson now that he leads his life in a kind of bubble. “I’m usually half-carried in and out of buildings by bodyguards,” he says. “It was driving me a little bit nuts at first, but you just learn to deal with it. If you keep being negative, if you keep saying, ‘I hate this, I hate this’ then you’d go crazy.”

If only he could come up with an answer to the burning press pack question: “What does he look for in a girl?”
“Errr, money,” he replies, “and an unbelievable amount of patience.” Is it true that famous women try to hit on him? “That’s all bullshit. Maybe I don’t even realise that they’re doing it …”
He says he doesn’t have a perfect girl, though admits, “she would have to be down-to-earth.” So is there a celebrity he’s adored? “Um,” he stutters, struggling for an answer to yet another trite question. “I like Patricia Arquette in True Romance. She was always my pin-up. I like Linda Blair [from The Exorcist] as well.”

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