I'm putting this here because the reporter from The Scotsman had interviewed Rob during all the Twilight craziness, and she paints a compelling portrait of the difference:
Pattinson hasn't changed since last time we spoke. He just seems more comfortable in his own skin and he remains unfailingly polite.
The contrast between the last time I met Pattinson couldn’t be more stark. Then, he was sequestered in a suite in the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. There were security guards at the lifts, a phalanx of women wearing headsets striding noiselessly along the plush carpeted hallways. They all looked like they were having a ball and at the centre of it all sat Pattinson like a rabbit in the headlights. He was polite, but jittery. He seemed utterly baffled and bemused by everything that was going on around him.
On a sunny morning in East London, the atmosphere couldn’t be more different. When I arrive at the private members’ club where we’re meeting, I do the usual recce looking for where I might be going. What I don’t expect to see is Pattinson sitting in the corner of the bar with his girlfriend (singer, FKA Twigs), finishing up breakfast and looking for all the world like your average pair of trendy young things in a trendy, young club. There’s no entourage. No one’s paying them any attention at all. Pop star and movie star sitting in the corner.
It might sound a bit absurd, or patronising maybe, but I feel pleased for him. I remember the feeling I had when I left that LA hotel after speaking to Pattinson. It was as though I could breathe again. And I was there for about an hour. Pattinson lived like that. As one half of the most scrutinised relationship in the world – he was going out with Kristen Stewart, co-star of the Twilight films, then the biggest movie franchise in the world – Pattinson’s life was hardly his own.
Everywhere he went he was photographed. Even the movie sets he worked on were besieged with fans. He had moved out of his house to get away from photographers and fans and was living in hotel rooms with the curtains drawn. I know the hardships of being a movie star isn’t quite the same as doing a 12-hour shift in a call centre, but it seemed like a pretty unpleasant existence.
“I’m a lot more settled,” he says. “I moved back to London. All the things that made me nervous in LA – and I was going to move to New York for a while – just don’t exist in London.” -- Claire Black, The Scotsman, Sept. 12, 2015
http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/film/robert-pattinson-opens-up-on-new-film-life-1-3884901
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