ROB IN SKYVIEW MAGAZINE- SCANS +TRANSLATED INTERVIEW

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Tyler’s char­ac­ter reminds us of James Dean, where you inspired by him?
Not nec­es­sar­ily. I think it’s a side that every per­son has. It’s true that this char­ac­ter has some­thing very ‘Rebel with­out a cause’ about him, but there were other sides of Tyler that inter­ested me, like his arro­gant side. He trag­i­cally lost a fam­ily mem­ber and I think that his reverly and anger towards them it’s because he stopped being the cen­ter of atten­tion. I tried to make these things very present when play­ing the char­ac­ter. There’s a big rea­son why the James Dean stereo­type is still so present to this day, espe­cially among young actors.

What was it like work­ing with Pierce Bros­nan? Obvi­ously you guys had to work with cer­tain ten­sion between you. Did it inter­fere with your relati­ship with him?
Not at all. There was no real ten­sion. He’s one of the nicest peo­ple I’ve ever met. I had no idea what to think of him in the begin­ning, but he’s very hard­work­ing, and not pre­ten­cious at all. We didn’t have a lot off scenes together but he was very kind to me. It was wonderful.

The main char­ac­ters in the movie seem to appre­ci­ate life very much, do you think there’s a les­son for the audi­ence?
One of the things that I liked about the story is that nei­ther of the main char­ac­ters had the idea that love is sup­posed to last for­ever. Thy are both just enjoy­ing the happy moments they are liv­ing, and they are very valu­able to them, even if they’re very short moments.

And what makes you happy?
The lit­tle things that are not very com­mon. What I tried to com­mu­ni­cate in the movie is that there’s lit­tle things that in life that sneek up on you, and sur­prise you.

Are you try­ing to mark a dif­fer­ence between your char­ac­ter in Twi­light and the char­ac­ters that you’re doing now, so that peo­ple know you’re more than Edward Cullen?
No, I’m not focused in that. I’m still choos­ing my roles the same way I always did. At least I still think I do. There’s very few things that inter­est me, so it’s easy for me to choose what I’m going to do next. All the projects that I’ve cho­sen have been very dif­fer­ent from each other. I’m going to play soon a guy that was raised by abo­rig­i­nals, and all my dia­logue is in comanche. Right now I’m doing Bel Ami, which is very ironic because all these women fall for this guy but he just wants to steal their money. I thought it was a fun con­trast from Edward Cullen.

Because he’s such a roman­tic?
Yes, and he’s the total oppo­site of that. But it wasn’t inten­tional. I thought it was a very fun movie, and my role is very inter­est­ing. I had never done such a sim­ple role, and by sim­pleI don’t mean shal­low, I mean nor­mal. He’s a relief in many ways.

Can you still have a nor­mal life?
Only in Lon­don, where I go to low-key places. There’s so many places there that I can go to and nobody knows who I am. I’ve gone to a pub where the bar­tender tells me every­time she sees me how much I look like the guy in the Twi­light movies. It’s funny because she tells me the same thing every sin­gle time. For­tu­nately, peo­ple aren’t think­ing in movies all the time so if they see me in the streets they’er embar­rassed to say any­thing. Fame has its good side. I’m not strug­gling to get work now, and I can go from one movie to the next. To be hon­est I have the best posi­tion that any actor my age would want.


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