Welcome back, Twilight fans, for part two of my interview with Rob Pattinson, who plays dreamboat vampire Edward Cullen in the upcoming film adaptation of the popular book. Several of you noticed in the first part of my interview that his answers about the movie and his character were perceptive and articulate. Indeed, I found him to be extremely thoughtful and level-headed, considering he’s at the center of such a major project.

Did I mention that his accent is so charming it borders on dangerous? Um, anyway, on with the interview:

You’ve done fantasy before. Do you think it’s important to keep these characters grounded in reality?
Yeah, definitely. I definitely tried to humanize every element of being a vampire. I mean, luckily, Stephanie [Meyer] didn’t have vampire lore in the book. It’s very specific, and the characters in the book even kind of joke about the mythology about vampires, and so you can kind of get another element of realism there. And Edward, you know, there are scenes in the film and obviously in the book where he’s breaking down the kind of all-out clichés to Bella and says, like, “No, I know about all these kind of fictional things and they don’t do this and they don’t do that. This is what it is, it’s simple, I have this problem, and there’s nothing else really to it.” It’s just a monkey on your back. So yeah, I think it’s important to keep it grounded. I think it also makes it more frightening, and that’s what I liked about Catherine [Hardwicke] directing it, because I went into it thinking it’s going to be shot with this kind of realism and grittiness, and I thought that could work for this story. I mean, it’s trying to reinvent the vampire genre a bit.

Lots more after the jump, including a bit about his vampire sparkle, so

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