Robert Pattinson hit like a girl in 'Remember Me'
Robert Pattinson plays Tyler in 'Remember Me' opposite of Emilie de Ravin and while the movie hasn't been a box office smash hit, it has been well reviewed by most people, with some finding the ending of the movie very shocking.
However, in part of the movie Robert Pattinson has to be very angry and aggressive and has to fight and those asides from the sex scenes were some of the hardest for him to film. That is because Robert Pattinson doesn't like to fight and as some would term it "he hits like a girl".
Here’s how the finale plays out (last chance, bye-bye): Pattinson’s character, a twitchily misunderstood New York University student named Tyler, has been wrestling with his love for fellow student Ally (Emilie de Ravin) over the course of the film, and things are finally looking up. He has made peace with her cop father (Chris Cooper) and even with his own dad, an imperious Master of the Universe type played by Pierce Brosnan. We’re in New York City at an indeterminate time, although if you’ve been paying close attention, you’ll know exactly what year it is.
Tyler drops by his father’s office one morning for a meeting; dad is running late because the ice around his heart has finally melted and he’s taking his young daughter (Ruby Jerins) to school. Tyler looks at dad’s screensaver — a family slide-show — and is filled with love for the world. He steps to the window. Cut to the sister’s classroom, where the teacher is writing the date on the board: September 11, 2001. Cut back to Tyler at the window; the camera pulls back for the big reveal. He’s high up in one of the World Trade Center towers. Quick montage of shocked faces looking up, a shot of a funeral, Ally carrying on, and roll the credits. Now do you feel sorry for him?
With her new film, Emilie de Ravin has hit the jackpot. Not only does she get to cavort in steamy scenes with heartthrob du jour Robert Pattinson (OMG! RPattz!) in Remember Me, but she gets to bask in the heat of a talked-about movie that, without Pattinson's involvement, may have been another under-the-radar romantic drama.
Pattinson's first project since the unprecedented success of the Twilight films sees him as an angry rich kid – sans creepy vampire makeup – who falls in love with a ballsy young philosophy student, played by de Ravin. At 28 – five years Pattinson's senior – she is still girlish enough to pass for 21.
You'll most likely recognise the Australian actress de Ravin as the young mother Claire in Lost (currently in its explosive sixth series on Sky1), but her association with Pattinson has catapulted her into the celebrity weeklies.
When we meet in New York, where the film is set, a blizzard is raging outside the hotel window. Like Pattinson, she seems embarrassed about her success, shrugging off compliments and rolling her eyes at talk of fans and paparazzi. "I get recognised," she says with a dismissive wave, "but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that."
De Ravin is part of a new breed of celebrity – like Pattinson and his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart – who shun the glamour and adulation that many see as a perk of the job. When de Ravin slouched onto the red carpet at the London premiere of Remember Me recently, grinning awkwardly in her black Oscar de la Renta mini-dress, she and Pattinson looked as though they would rather be anywhere else.
Despite their 'I'm-so-normal' façade, journalists are warned not to ask about their private lives on pain of death. A hovering publicist peers up from her BlackBerry at the mere hint of a personal question to de Ravin (it could be worse: no less than three handlers accompany Pattinson during his interview). But this much we know: she married the American actor Josh Janowicz in June 2006 after being together for four years. The couple separated last year, but are rumoured to have reunited.
"Love is such an objective thing," she says, in a suitably vague answer to a necessarily vague question about love. "I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke," she continues, gesturing towards her Coke can. "So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love."
But in terms of relationships?
"It's different with every person. It depends if it... clicks. It's chemistry."
Either way, if she's in love when we meet, there is no ring on her finger. Of course she was romantically linked to Pattinson during filming, but RPattz could star opposite Ellen DeGeneres and there would be rumours. Having said that, the young stars' on-screen chemistry is undeniable. Viewers will be surprised to learn they met just one week before filming commenced.
"She's really cool," says Pattinson, pushing back his James Dean-esque mane, when we meet later that afternoon. "She was actually the last girl we saw and she was cast on the day of her audition, so we went straight out to a bar. It was so close to filming that we didn't have time to rehearse. But she got it right from the beginning, so it was easy."
De Ravin agrees that the best preparation was getting to know each other. "Our relationship in the film is intense," she nods. "We spent a lot of time together, talking about our characters and their relationship, because it's so important to be comfortable together. Then, when we were actually shooting, everything fell into place and felt natural. It didn't ever feel like we were reading a scene or going through the motions."
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