Bad boy Robert Pattinson reveals mean streak

Tell us about your bad boy character in Remember Me...

He's called Tyler. He is a young guy who is a little lost. He meets this girl and she shows him how to live and how to mature and know each other and how important it is to find someone you can know.

When did you know Emilie de Ravin may be your leading lady?

My first experience of Emilie was when I was shooting the end of one of the Twilight movies — New Moon — in Italy and we were going through casting for Remember Me. We were going straight on to it and Allen the director said: ‘I have found this girl you might probably find quite interesting'. He sent me an e-mail with her audition tape.

My internet was so slow that I could only get the beginning bit, which was her messing-up act for 35 seconds and she was really funny and quite charismatic. But I didn't know she was messing up. I thought she was just doing the scene and improvising and making it up. I was like ‘Wow! She's got b****, she just comes in and makes up the whole thing.'

Working with Pierce Brosnan...

It was funny because in the script Charles, Tyler's father, comes across as a bit of an uncaring, unthinking person. And what Pierce brought to it was a much more compassionate side and he made Charles seem sympathetic. So that's good. It was cool to work with a James Bond too!

Why did you choose this role?

I remember reading the script and initially I liked the flow of the dialogue. It seemed different in a lot of ways. In other movies when there's a young guy he always has to be so naïve and ridiculously innocent so that the audience can identify with him. Tyler didn't feel like that. He felt like a very specific character.

Remember Me is emotional...

In a lot of ways the film is about Tyler's journey. I connected to it in a very personal way. I found it interesting because it chronicles the time in a young guy's life where you begin to trust your own feelings more. If you are like Tyler, or if you are sad, you start to trust your mind more.

The Twilight franchise has made you a bankable actor. Has it changed your career?

I don't know. I've only done one movie outside of the series, which is this one. But even that I've done with the same studio. I'm still a bit blind as to what my actual economic viability is outside of the series, but it's definitely different.

You get offers that you never may have imagined, but that's scary as well because you don't have to audition for anything. You're like, ‘I don't want to do a movie just because it gets made.'

Before Twilight, I did any movie that I got and tried to make the best of it afterwards. Now, when I do a movie, I'm seen not just for economic viability but also for performance. People are like, ‘You can't just mess around. We're employing you to be a star and an actor.'

Tell us about your life..

It's a blur. There are random moments which stand out, but I've been working so much this year that it's almost like living in an alternate reality.