Rob Pattinson feels like a ‘total fake’ before filming new projects

Robert PattinsonThe key to great on-screen performance is forgetting everything he’s done before.

“I know the next time I do something I’ll say, ‘I can’t remember how to do these things,’” says the Twilight star, 37, shared in a recent interview with Barry Keoghan for Wonderland magazine. “It’s kind of fun to go into it every time as an amateur and say, ‘This is a huge mountain to climb.’ It’s like you’re a total fake again.”

Keoghan, 31, agreed The hitter costar, adding, “I feel like it’s dangerous to be familiar with this because you lose a little bit of spontaneity. Of course you lose a lot of that instinct that we love and that the directors love.

For Pattinson, the “fun” about starting over is learning to avoid repeating things that may not have worked in the past. “If something worked in a previous movie and you think, ‘Oh, everyone said that was good,’ and you instinctively say, ‘Well, everyone liked that — I want to do that again,'” he explained. “And next time everyone just says it’s st and you say, ‘What the fk?’ … You are forced to reinvent.”

Pattinson’s ‘amateur’ mentality has lent itself to portraying a variety of different characters over the years, from Harry Potter‘s Carlo Diggory and The devil all the time‘s Rev. Preston Teagardin to romantic leads in films such as Remember me And Water for elephants.

While the actor’s work has earned him multiple awards and a legion of fans, Pattinson revealed that he’s leaving a character behind after filming for a project. “I always had a hard time looking at myself,” he told Keoghan. “Now that it’s done, I feel quite disconnected. I mean, not disconnected in a bad way.

While Pattinson may prefer to leave his past work behind, his role as Edward Cullen remains in the film Twilight franchise is something fans still talk about today. Earlier this week, the director of the original film, Catherine Hardwickerevealed that the film studio was initially unsure whether Pattinson was suitable to play the 100-year-old vampire.

“They call me back and say, ‘Do you think you can make this guy look good?’ I said, ‘Yes, I do. Have you seen his cheekbones?’” Hardwicke, 68, shared the Monday, November 20 episode of the Podcast ‘Happy Sad Confused’. “‘We’ll do a hair makeover and everything and he’ll start training and he’ll be beautiful.'”

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Pattinson – who is currently expecting his first child with girlfriend Suki Waterhuis– didn’t seem too sure about his casting at first either. “I never really knew how to play a vampire, though,” he admitted W magazine in September 2017. “I mean, if it hadn’t been so successful, I think people would have thought it was really weird. It’s a very strange story. But I think once it becomes mainstream, it’s hard for people to see how strange the story is.”

He further said that the Twilight series was “really fun” to film, adding: “It was such a wild experience. And what a strange way to spend my early twenties.”