Robert Pattinson – who may or may not be single? – is still promoting Good Time, his little indie film where he plays a dirtbag criminal. It’s said to be his best work to date. To promote the film, Rob has been doing a full swing of American media, something he hasn’t done in years. I had forgotten how much fun he is on the promotional trail, honestly. I genuinely like his interviews, and he’s neurotic and funny and probably a lot smarter than people realize. Rob chatted with Entertainment Weekly about fighting his urge to self-sabotage, how Donald Trump used to tweet about him, and how he wants to own a theater chain. Some highlights:

What it’s like being on a promotional tour after a few years: “It’s difficult because I feel like I’m wearing a lot of different hats at the same time. I’m editing a lot in my head as the interviews go on. I think that’s why I get so anxious. And then I end up saying some dumb stuff. It’s always dangerous if I’m trying to make a group of people laugh. That’s when I say the dumbest stuff.

It’s been nine years since his first Comic-Con for Twilight: “I do remember that actually. And it’s quite weird because I remember saying that [it sounded like ‘the gates of hell’] and it was literally the exact wrong thing to say. It’s crazy. But it’s funny that even as I’m promoting stuff now, I’m gripped by this perverse urge to say the opposite of what I’m supposed to say. It’s like a goblin dancing in my head and it keeps happening to me in interview after interview after interview. I’ve just had a week of giving bad, wacky answers about things. And I just keep thinking, “Play it cool, don’t say anything crazy.” I think I just keep wanting to pierce this fantasy bubble. I was on Stephen Colbert’s show yesterday and I could really feel by the end of the interview that there was this little demon, telling me, “You’re boring, boring, boring! Say something crazy, say something crazy!”

How Donald Trump used to tweet about him: “I think there’s so many different levels of it. Your identity exists on many different planes at the same time and they all can be quite different from each other. When he said that, it didn’t really mean anything. But I guess now I’m sort of thinking, like, “Well, I guess that is related to me.” But how does that fit in with all the other things going on in my life? And sometimes you think, “Can I use this in my acting? Or should I be putting it away.” It’s kind of interesting, I guess. I don’t know — this could be why people get annoyed with me.

The new rise of experimental, independent film: “If that is encouraged and fostered, then that’s amazing. You can literally see it coming alive again, which is so wonderful. It’ll only die if we let it die. We were at the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn last night, doing a Q&A. I’m really loving what’s going on with a bunch of different theaters. I think actors should get together and do a United Artists kind of thing and just have their own movie theaters. Just decide. I think there’s such a wider spectrum of what people will go to if something was promoted right and made available. It’s like if you went to a theater where you didn’t know what was playing. You just knew that the quality control was fine. I would love to be involved in that kind of thing.

[From EW]

That Trump-tweet answer is interesting because Rob doesn’t say much of anything. He could have unloaded about politics, unloaded about how Trump is an unhinged moron, anything, something. Instead, Rob got all reflective about what it means to be a celebrity in this day and age. As for the idea of a celebrity-owned chain of movie theaters… that’s not a bad idea at all, actually. I too would love to own a movie theater.

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