MTV: Your character Tyler has some issues with anger, being tormented and especially his parents. Do you have any kind of new insight into why teenagers rebel like this?

Robert Pattinson: I knew a lot of teens who were troubled, and then you meet their families and you’re like, “I don’t know what his problem is.” The families always seem really nice and supportive, and it’s just this unknown. You have this energy, and you don’t know where to place it. I think the reason why [Tyler] has a problem with his father and not his mother is that he knows his mother isn’t strong enough to take it. If he started attacking her, she’d just break. His father is still a fighter, so he’s always going to fight against him.

MTV: The movie seems very realistic in its depiction of NYU students — how much did shooting in New York with real locations help?
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