Twilight’s phenomenon Robert Pattinson and Lost’s Emilie de Ravin
drop the fangs and the fear in a new love story.
By John Powers.
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy.
Ask Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin
about shooting their new movie, Remember Me, and they instantly start talking
about the throngs of Twilight fans and pushy paparazzi who swarmed around them
as they filmed on the streets of New York.
”It was the most ridiculous
experience,” says Pattinson, flashing the sweet, shy smile those crowds hoped to
see. ”You’re trying to stay in character and you’re trying to walk down the
street, but all those people keep reminding you that you’re not this character,
you’re—”
”A show pony,” cracks de Ravin, and the two burst into
laughter.
Although this duo could hardly be more different—de Ravin, 28,
boasts the easy physical confidence of a onetime ballerina, while the slouchy
23-year-old Pattinson is all self-effacing bemusement—their effortless rapport
is the emotional anchor of Remember Me. Pattinson stars as Tyler Hawkins, an
alienated and confused young man from a wealthy family—”It’s not too Rebel
Without a Cause,” he jokes—who gets involved with Ally (de Ravin), the daughter
of a cop who arrested him after a street fight. Where Twilight treats him as the
object of desire, a role that requires as much posing as acting, this
character-driven drama brings out his most emotionally complex performance so
far. Whether Tyler’s raging at his distant father, Charles (played by Pierce
Brosnan), or charming Ally, he has a surprisingly deft comic touch; Pattinson is
now the one doing the chasing.
”Rob and Emilie are gifted actors who really
like each other,” says Remember Me’s director, Allen Coulter. ”And the movie
reveals them in a whole new way.”
Which is precisely what both of them
wanted—to show what they can do outside the juggernauts of Twilight and
Lost.
Remember Me may well prove the big-screen breakthrough for de Ravin, an
Australian still best known as the new mother, Claire, on Lost, a role that was
often undemanding. ”I was always holding the baby in every scene,” she says,
”while everybody else was going off shooting people.” Here, she throws herself
into the conflicted passions of Ally, a young woman who, eager to escape an
adoring but overprotective father, struggles to break through her own veneer of
toughness.
For his part, RPattz (as he’s known to his teen worshippers) is
eager to start playing complicated human beings and not just heartthrobby
vampires. Not that he doesn’t relish being Edward Cullen or feel loyal to his
fans, but he still hasn’t figured out how to cope with being an international
icon in an era when it seems impossible to escape the public eye.
”Everybody
knows where everybody is,” he says. ”The Twitter thing is unbelievable. I went
out a couple of times with Pierce. He’s totally recognizable, and he makes no
effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant,
and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates
all the attention.”
So, does Pattinson use this trick?
”Me?” he says,
shaking those famously tousled locks, ”I just crawl under the table.”
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