'Remember Me' Stars Robert Pattinson And Emilie De Ravin Explain How Not To Be Self-Critical Actors

In the years since "Twilight" first hit the big screen, Robert Pattinson has catapulted from being a small-time actor best known for his role of Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" to being one of the most recognized faces around the world. He has had the opportunity to be offered a variety of mainstream film roles since, and with "Remember Me" hitting theaters March 12, they are finally making their way to the big screen.
MTV had a chance to catch up with Rob while he was promoting "Remember Me" and he said he had learned some major acting lessons over the past few years.

"You can never be a character, that's the one thing I'm sort of starting to realize," he said. "I always thought that, you know, you look at 'Raging Bull' and stuff and think, 'Wow, [Robert] De Niro, he's become someone else.' And I was completely convinced that there is some way that you can actually become someone else for three months."

During the time Rob was filming "Twilight," there is a story that says he was taking the role of Edward Cullen so seriously it was making him depressed, and the producers and crew on the film had to tell him to lighten up. It seems now that lesson has sunk in.

"I'm gradually starting to realize it's more about performance rather than actually some kind of physical [transformation], and it's taken me quite a long time to realize that," Rob said.

His costar, Emilie de Ravin, went through a similar transformation to unknown to widely recognized thanks to her character Claire on "Lost." She said she also found it hard not get too wrapped up in her characters.

"I'm always quite self-deprecating, I suppose," she said, stealing the word so often used to describe Rob. "I'm trying to get out of that and trying to look at something from a removed point of view."
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