Pattinson Nervous About Life After Twilight
By WENNThursday, December 3, 2009
TWILIGHT star ROBERT PATTINSON is terrified about continuing his career after the vampire franchise - because movie studio bosses are pressuring him to draw in huge audiences and deliver moving performances.
The Brit has been bombarded with scripts ever since he shot to fame as vampire Edward Cullen in the hit 2008 film - but he’s still adjusting to the idea of being able to reject a role after years of taking whatever parts came his way.
And Pattinson admits he’s nervous about being cast in big-budget movies - because he’s only starred in one other film, Remember Me, since the Twilight series changed his life.
He tells MTV.com, “It’s definitely different. You get offered stuff that you would never dream of getting offered before, but that’s also scary. You don’t have to audition for anything. (But) I don’t want to do a movie just so it gets made. You have to question yourself a lot more. Before Twilight, I did any movie that I got (offered), and you’d try and make the best of it afterwards. But now, you’re expected to come into the movie and provide not only economic viability, but also a performance as well. You can’t just mess around. People are like, ‘We’re employing you to be here, as a star and an actor.’ It’s difficult, and it’s scary.”
But the 23 year old can expect some good advice about the movie business from the high-profile actors he’s set to work with, including Uma Thurman, Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman.
He adds, “I’m doing a movie (with Thurman) called Bel Ami in February, an adaption to a Guy de Maupassant novel. And I’m doing - I hope - a Western with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman called Unbound Captives sometime around there as well. They’ve got to try and juggle things around until everybody’s schedules work.”
