USA: Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin walk the red carpet for "Remember Me"

Record ID: 220406

  • Title: USA: Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin walk the red carpet for "Remember Me"
  • Date: 2nd March 2010
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 1, 2010) (REUTERS) (CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY) VARIOUS OF GIRLS LINED UP OUTSIDE THE PARIS THEATER, THE VENUE FOR THE PREMIERE OF ACTOR ROBERT PATTINSON'S NEW FILM "REMEMBER ME" PATTINSON ON THE RED CARPET PHOTOGRAPHERS ACTRESS EMILIE DE RAVIN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS PATTINSON GIVING AN INTERVIEW PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBERT PATTINSON, "REMEMBER ME" ACTOR, SAYING: "Just as soon as the camera starts rolling, it makes it a lot easier. 'Cause you know for one thing, you've only got really one chance of doing it, and so it's much easier to block everything out. You realize if you start freaking out about all the craziness, then you realize you're going to be so upset with the product at the end of it. So you force yourself to do it." REPORTER ASKING: "So you were able to block out the fans a little bit?" PATTINSON ANSWERING: "I mean, the fans, not even trying to kiss their arse or anything, but the fans are always fine. They're the ones who're going to be fine, it's just paparazzi are the ones that are a nightmare. I mean, they're just like, 'cause they're making money out of it. If you're not making money out of it, they just want to watch, they don't want to break anything. So the fans are fine." PATTINSON GIVING AN INTERVIEW AND DE RAVIN NEXT TO HIM GIVING ANOTHER INTERVIEW (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBERT PATTINSON, "REMEMBER ME" ACTOR, SAYING: "In "Bel Ami" -- basically the characters are in love with each other in this, and in "Bel Ami" no one is. So it makes it very different, it's cold and horrible."
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  • Story Text: Since the tremendous success of the "Twilight" film series, British actor Robert Pattinson draws crowds of adoring girl fans, and the New York premiere of his new romantic drama "Remember Me" was no exception. Dozens of frenzied girls lined up outside the Paris theater in Manhattan on Monday (March 1) to catch a glimpse of Pattinson, who walked the red carpet along with co-stars Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin.
    In the film, Pattinson plays a rebellious and angst-ridden young man, Tyler Hawkins, who has a tempestuous relationship with his father, played by Brosnan. Tyler finds passionate love with fellow student Ally Craig, played by Australian actress Emilie de Ravin. She's best known for her role in the American television film series "Lost".
    Tyler and Craig are New York University (NYU) students in "Remember Me", so many scenes have been filmed in the NYU campus in Manhattan. During the filming in 2009, large multitudes of "Twilight" fans often crowded the sets.
    On the red carpet, Pattinson talked about how he managed to stay focused despite all the ongoing "craziness" of fans and paparazzi around him.
    "Just as soon as the camera starts rolling, it makes it a lot easier. 'Cause you know for one thing you've only got really one chance of doing it, and so it's much easier to block everything out. You realize if you start freaking out about all the craziness, then you realize you're going to be so upset with the product at the end of it. So, you force yourself to do it," said Pattinson.
    He also added that the fans were easy to manage, but that the paparazzi "are a nightmare." Paparazzi are known to hound him and his rumored girl-friend, actress Kristen Stewart, who stars opposite him in the "Twilight" series. While she didn't walk the red carpet of "Remember Me", she did attend the premiere. When asked about Stewart's presence, Pattinson said casually, "Oh, she already arrived. That's good, she's supporting it (the film)."
    Pattinson shares some intimate sex scenes with de Ravin in "Remember Me", but according to him, these are still tame compared to what's coming up in his next film, "Bel Ami". The film chronicles the rise of a young man's power in Paris through his seduction of scores of influential and wealthy women. It is believed to have some very raunchy sex scenes.
    "Basically the characters are in love with each other in this (Remember Me") and in "Bel Ami" no one is. So, it makes it very different, it's cold and horrible," said Pattinson with a laugh.
    De Ravin reflected on how she prepared for the intimate scenes with Pattinson in "Remember Me".
    "We'd be so constantly hanging out and talking, just spending a lot of time talking about our characters and you're going through scenes, and just developing sort of their journey. So that when we were on the set, it was a sort of natural, easy, instead of working on it when you get there," said de Ravin.
    As to how she handled all the fan and paparazzi frenzy around Pattinson, de Ravin admitted it was challenging but that "you just got to keep focused".
    Director of "Remember Me", Allen Coulter also admitted that it was often "tough" on the sets with having to control crowds but added that he thought Pattinson, de Ravin and Ruby Jerkins, who plays Pattinson's younger sister in the film, did an admirable job of keeping their concentration.
    While Brosnan was more flippant when asked how it was playing Pattinson's father in the film, his wife, Keely Shaye-Smith, said he'd had a lot of experience playing father. Brosnan added, "been a dad for a long time. I think we should go see the movie. I wish the guy (Pattinson) great success. All right, girls, enough of that now, enough of that."
    "Remember Me" hits theaters across the U.S. on March 12th.
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