The biggest film release this week is without a doubt The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1. First News chats to Robert Pattinson, who plays the famous vampire Edward Cullen, who finally marries his human girlfriend Bella Swan!

Edward and Bella finally get married in this film and go on a gorgeous honeymoon. What was it like to film that scene in Brazil?

It was really amazing the day we got there, beautiful and warm and everything you’d expect. Then, for the remainder of the shoot, it was not only raining, but there were hurricanes. It was like having a honeymoon in England, where we were playing board games instead of hanging out on the beach. Instead we were wrapped in blankets inside.

How did you prepare for Edward and Bella becoming parents in this film? Did you draw on anything from your own childhood?

Not really. No-one really knows how to be a father when you first begin – there’s no way to prepare for it. And it’s very easy to react to holding a baby, especially when the baby looks like a newborn. It is strange when Mackenzie (Foy) starts playing our daughter Renesmee, as you suddenly have to think: “My daughter is now 11. It’s two months after she is born and she can speak.” So that was a complicated thing to play. But it’s a fantasy movie, so I guess you just go along with it.

What was your favourite scene to film?

I think probably the birth scene. I never get to play Edward in that way. Literally he is soul-baring his own helplessness and is very frail and human. Normally he is either controlling himself or is totally in control of a situation – or pretends he is. He has no-one else around. He’s trying to help Bella but he has no idea what he’s doing and he’s just desperate. And normally when that happens in all the other movies Bella comes in and saves the day, but someone else has to save the day. He’s totally annihilated by the situation.

How about the most awkward scene to film?

Embarrassingly, the thing I was most worried about was taking my shirt off. So much of the books are about Edward’s body… I’ve managed to avoid taking my shirt off for the whole series, whereas in the book it’s almost every three pages. I was thinking: “How can I swim in a T-shirt?!” I don’t even wear a T-shirt when I’m in the sea, I wear a onesie! I look like an inflatable frankfurter!

You’ve finished filming the series now. How did you find your last day on set?

The last day in Canada was semi-miserable. We did two weeks of night shoots and it was freezing cold and it was horrible. But the actual last day in St. Thomas, in the Caribbean, was pretty amazing. The very last day was really nice. In Canada, on that last day, there were 120 people on that last scene, so it was stress right up until the last second but, in the Caribbean, it was just me and Kristen. We had done everything, we hardly had anything to shoot. It was just a couple of extra bits, and so it was really nice and everybody just stayed and watched the sunrise. It was really beautiful. It was a nice end to it.

Are you sad that it’s all over now?

I don’t know yet. I feel like I have been in a whirlwind for so long that I don’t really know. I feel like I have been doing it for years constantly, even though I have done other movies in between. Whenever you do and promote or talk about another movie, you’re always talking about Twilight, so it is kind of constant. Maybe in a year or so. I know when the last one has come out, it will be, but I know right now I have another year of basically doing Twilight stuff.

Do you look forward to the hype all being over and you can get back to doing other things?

Yes, but it’s always a good thing to have a bit of hype, especially nowadays. But I don’t know. I will be interested to see how people perceive me in a couple of years, because it seems as though people have been talking about the same stuff about me for about three years now, so I am wondering how long that will go on for. But I don’t really know how to predict anything.

What is the best thing that fame has brought you?

You just get to go down a completely different road. I am living a life that I never really knew existed. You can delay being an adult for quite a while. But it’s fun. You get to meet really interesting people, and there are very few jobs where almost everyone in the industry loves their job. It’s nice to go to work every day when people are really excited about it and think they are making something great.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is in cinemas now, rated 12A. Some scenes may be unsuitable for very young children.