Robert Pattinson made his Late Show with David Letterman debut last night, and his choice of anecdotes will no doubt encourage Twihards to Twiharder. Though he couldn’t explain why he elicits such a strong response from fans wherever he goes — ”I don’t know, maybe it’s like a kind of scent or something” — he shared a story that shows devotion can have its rewards. Back in 2007, when he was in Spain filming his role as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, there was a girl who waited outside his apartment every day for about three weeks. “I was so chronically bored that just one day….I said, ‘Hey, do you want to just go to dinner or something? I mean, no one else wants to hang out with me.’” The girl’s parents had a restaurant, where she took him. “I kind of complained about everything in my life for about two hours, and then she gave me the bill at the end. I had to pay for it, and then [she] was never back outside my apartment ever again.”
Discussing how both daughters and their mothers are now Robsessed, Pattinson said it doesn’t stop there. He’s noticed that a few more guys are into the Twilight series now, including a 230 pound man who asked him to bite him at Monday night’s premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. “So I did. And the surprising thing was, I kinda liked it afterwards,” he said, tongue firmly in cheek. “And then I’ve been out to dinner with him a couple of times since.” But seriously, how does he respond when someone asks him to bite her? “Well, it depends on your mood, really,” Pattinson said. “And it depends, you know, what you want to get out of it in the end. There’s variations of biting.” (Watch the clip after the jump.)
As for the rest of the interview, Letterman was on a fact-finding mission, and, I believe, almost got Pattinson to answer the big question: Are he and costar Kristen Stewart officially dating? Dave played dumb holding up the duo’s Harper’s Bazaar cover. “This is you and Kristen Stewart, is that correct? You’re actually dating her. Am I right about that?” Letterman asked. “I’ve been so kind of cryptically avoiding this question throughout the entire press tour…,” Pattinson answered. It sounded like he wasn’t finished, but Letterman heard a pause and filled it with a joke. “Ah, bite me. What do I care?”
Letterman also wanted to get to the bottom of the vampire craze: “The novels and the young girls and the vampires, can anybody explain that?” he asked. Pattinson couldn’t — he said he always looks at the negative aspects of a character he’s playing, so he never saw Edward as the ideal man or his relationship with Bella as the perfect romance. Luckily, Dave had a theory of his own to float by Rob. He was alone once in a house out West when a bat woke him up. ”I thought it was creepy that a bat was flying around, and I can imagine what a 16-year-old girl would think of a bat flyin’ around in her bedroom. I would think she would think that would be creepy as well. So, you know, add that up for me,” Letterman said. Again, Pattinson had no answer. Can you blame him?
What did you think of Pattinson’s appearance? Which do you believe will be more effective selling New Moon tickets: His saucy charm or his slo-mo fight scene with Felix?
Bonus: Here’s a clip from The Ring of the Nibelungs, the film in which Pattinson said his entire performance was dubbed over by another actor.
More New Moon:
EW’s Twilight HQ with the latest photo galleries and news
New Moon morning TV roundup: Kellan Lutz won’t take his shirt off for $5,000
On the scene at the premiere with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and inappropriate fan signs
Taylor Lautner talks Team Taylor panties with Jay Leno
Kristen Stewart: ‘I think it’s weird that we have underwear with Taylor’s face on it’
New Moon: Which late night studio audience will behave the most inappropriately?
Photo credit: Jeffrey Neira/CBS
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Ha! Even Rob dislike bella and edward’s relationship.
I hate Pattison!!!! He is a sucker for my girlfriend!!! YUCK!!
Tweet his asssssshole!!
Your girlfriend is Kristen Stewart?
I don’t get it. He’s so annoying and such an idiot.
He’s always a great guest on chat shows. Letterman is so dithery these days.
Yes and I’m sure the girl he brought to dinner learned her lesson! You always comp celebrities! Or else face their wrath on national television. I can only shudder as I dare to imagine the beating she took in the girl’s room of her junior high school today.
If you don’t have anything intelligent to say…oh, nevermind. Then you wouldn’t be able to speak.
I think Rob has been trying to avoid the question not only because of him wanting to keep his privacy, but also because Summit probably wanted him to talk more about the movie itself since he’s doing this for New Moon promotion, not RobSten promotion..
thought he was funny. had several stories, him and kristen are handeling themselves SOOO much better than last year, i gotta say. and i agree with ninaluxxe, they arnt there to promote their relationship(or possibly the lack there of) they are there to promote the movie.
Most Actors or Actress..would say either yes or no..what is the big secret..is it because half the fun want them to be together and the other half doesn’t that way by saying nothing no one is disappointed ..it is still strange to me…
I can’t blame the guy. Even you Twitards have to admit that’s it’s overkill with the amount of Twilight crap that’s posted on this site!
The only thing that came out cool from the original was the best song Paramore ever recorded.
Wow. That was meant for the response under me.
yeah, but they have denied being together before and folks just accused them of lying to “keep it private” so they can’t really win. I mean even now there are folks posting on various answer boards that they are engaged, secretly married, she’s knocked up etc.
so if they are and they admit it the press for the movie becomes talk about that (which would piss off Summit since this is a promo appearance not a personal interview) and if they aren’t they are lying.
I will no longer view your site and refused your resubscription notice.
This Twilight bull shit has been beaten into the ground by you.
Should they just not cover something that pertains to the market they cover?
lol – yeah right dude
Considering the number of people they’ve picked up, either via the website or via the magazine due to their Twilight coverage, I’m pretty sure they won’t miss you.
Also, considering that the traffic to the website could help to minimize how many people at EW get laid off (bye bye, Marc Bernardin), I say, deal with it.
Yup, I’m a new EW subscriber. I cancelled you out.
I hate Brits and everything that has anything to do with the British because the BBC has been busy spreading hate around the world against anything and everything American (even Sesame Street, for Pete’s sake!). It’s sad and ironic that Americans are too stupid as portrayed by the BBC to see the real British.
that doesn’t even make sense. Don’t bother sticking up for Americans – we can take of ourselves. We can also spread hate better than those Dandies across the pond.
Oh and by the way, hating people for spreading hate? That makes you a hypocrite, and an idiot.
Wow. You’re an idiot. Sorry, but the truth hurts.
Try crawling out from under your rock once in a while.
I don’t know that it is fact that Brits hate us – I do know for a fact that during WW2 they loved us for being there for them. You shouldn’t speak for ALL Brits.
What an idiotic statement.
Actually, giggly American teenagers are getting a sanitized, sterilized version of British men in Pattinson and actors like Hugh Grant. Actually having a British boyfriend and being used to his accent by now (it’s east London, very hot, ladies), I can’t help but roll my eyes at the syrupy comments from little girls who in all likelihood will never set foot on that island.
The “real” British are funny, hardworking, pragmatic and cynical, but they always manage to laugh at themselves first. Some of my best friends are British, and I’m sad that the “effeminate poof” stereotype is the one most Americans will ever encounter.
And they have bad teeth.
Actually, most of them don’t. I’m not sure if you were serious or joking. Not funny in either sense.
No, I’m serious. Most of them do have bad teeth. And your boyfriend’s are the worst.
wow your a hipocrite if i ever heard of one
. . . there is definitely intelligence behind those looks. I was concentrating too much on his every angle, but after listening to him and just looking at him talk . . . he has star power.
That made my milk go through my nose!
Twihards are creepy.
I have no doubt you’re over 30 years old. And that’s what scares me.
With all his money you would think he could afford a comb and a razor
LOL! a-men! what is with all these guys and their lack of grooming?
I think it’s ridiculous that EW is stooping to the level of their competitiors (US & People) and posting every minutia of worthless information on this severly overrated movie series. It’s enough already. I’m seeing at least half a dozen articles on this site per day related to it. I thought EW used to crow about being the “Time Magazine of Entertainment”? Now they’re as bad as those other tabloid rags.
Does Time/Warner own Summit as well as EW?
I totally wholeheartedly agree. When I opened up my mailbox to see yet another EW featuring Twilight I immediately ripped off the cover, pissed on it, threw it in an envelope and mailed it back to EW Customer Relations marked Postage Due.
Just curious if you have ever seen the movie or read the books?
What I’m getting out of this is that he obviously picks and chooses who he’s going to give the honor to of “biting”. Heck, he sure could bite me and I’d bite back! I’ve had a lust for him ever since HP&GOF.
TWILIGHT – Why the only difference between Edward Cullen & Fabio is a sun tan: http://www.thebooksthatbrockread.com/2009/11/twilight.html
I think “New Moon” tickets will sell no matter what. Pattinson had a good interview with Letterman. He handled himself well despite Dave’s usual off the wall comments (which always crack me up that time of night). I am getting tired of whether or not he is dating Kristen Stewart. It is time to come up with another publicity line.
I thought Rob was adorably self-effacing last night. I think Dave is really wierd, though. Research much, Dave? Bats? Really?
I did think that answer about the Robsten stuff was odd, though. Why does he need to answer “cryptically” if nothing is there?
L–b.c they are dating. have u seen the kings of leon concert pics of them making out? the pictures of them last week holding hands at the paris airports?? they are together….i dont blame them for not wanting to talk about it
It was kind of a rhetorical question. There’s a lot of debate in other forums I frequent. I think they are, other people SWEAR they aren’t. They look happy, that’s cool with me.
I seriously don’t care whether or not they’re dating and have no idea why you’d care either.
Geeky Pattison and chump Lautner almost spoiled it for the rest of the vampires and us Vampire lovers- if not for True Blood- now there’s some hot looking vampires. Before them we had Cruise, Pitt and Banderas, thank God.