The Movie Fanatic Profiles Robert Pattinson

The article mentions he was born on May 13, 1986 to Richard Pattinson who imports vintage model cars from America and Clare Pattinson who works for a modeling agency. His two older sisters are Victoria and Lizzy. His father encouraged him to join the Barnes Theatre Club when he was 15. At first, Pattinson worked backstage before he decided to audition for Guys and Dolls:

"So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and then in the next play I got the lead part, and then I got my agent. So I owe everything to that little club.”

Vanity Fair was his first film, even though he can only be seen in an alternate ending on the DVD edition. He had the part of the older Rawdy Crawley, Becky Sharp’s son. Then, he did The Ring of the Nibelungs, followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. After the excited recognition he had as “Cedric Diggory”, Pattinson chose to play Toby Jugg, an ex-World War II flight lieutenant confined to a wheelchair, in The Haunted Airman.

Chris Durlacher, writer and director of The Haunted Airman, gave this quote about Pattinson for the profile:

“I loved working with Rob. He has that rare mix of humility and an inner confidence, which means that he's both a happy and a challenging colleague. From the moment, in the first rehearsals when we put Rob in the 1940s wheelchair that he was stuck in for most of the film I could see Rob working his way into the shattered mind of his character, Toby. So as we were the shooting the film, whatever Rob did, rather whatever Toby did, it always felt honest and real. I wanted the audience to sympathise Toby but also to be frightened of him; to fear for him and to be fearful of him. It's really tricky to pull that off, but Rob did, so all compliments to him."

After The Haunted Airman, Robert Pattinson’s other films were The Bad Mother’s Handbook, How To Be, Little Ashes, and of course, Twilight.

The profile also mentions Pattinson’s musical abilities. He started playing classical guitar at the age of five, two years after he began to play the piano! He also plays the trumpet and a bit of saxophone and harmonica (which can be seen in How To Be).

As we mentioned ( http://harrypotterspage.com/news.php/2008/10/08/robert-pattinson-made-music-for-twilight123.html ), Pattinson composed a piece of music titled "Never Think" for Twilight which will be heard in the movie as well on the soundtrack.

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