Christina Ricci Warns: Prepare Yourself for a Different Robert Pattinson

Movie­go­ers are used to see­ing Robert Pat­tin­son onscreen as the most-stand up vam­pire around. But Christina Ricci warns that’s going to end very soon.

Pat­tin­son and Ricci both com­pleted “Bel Ami” which Pat­tin­son plays a young man ris­ing to power in Paris using the city’s most influ­en­tial and wealthy women.

“The world is used to see­ing him one way, and he’s very, very dif­fer­ent in this movie,” Ricci tells Pop­corn­Biz from the Black­berry Torch from AT&T launch party, “But he’s an actor, that’s what it’s about. And he’s really great in this.”

Pat­tin­son, who some­how has man­aged to stay a faith­ful and sex­less through three “Twi­light” films, works his way through Parisian soci­ety in “Bel Ami.” At the press con­fer­ence dur­ing the “Eclipse” release, Pat­tin­son glee­fully talked about his “Bel Ami” char­ac­ter Georges Duroy who he called “a com­pletely amoral, evil character.”

“He seduces his wife and seduces absolutely every sin­gle one of his wife’s friends. Any influ­en­tial woman he can get he has an affair with,” said Pat­ti­son. “And then ends up screw­ing over the entire soci­ety and ends up mak­ing mil­lions and mil­lions of francs.”

Pat­tin­son taps into some seri­ous actresses in Ricci and Uma Thur­man. His Duroy is such a cad that he not only dumps Ricci once, but sev­eral times as he rises to the top.

“We have an on-off rela­tion­ship through the whole movie and I get my heart bro­ken a few times,” says Ricci.

And does she han­dle her onscreen heart­breaks with less drama than Pattinson’s co-star Kris­ten Stew­art who famously went through vam­pire with­drawal dur­ing “New Moon” in a big way?

“Yes, I do,” she admits. “But there’s a lit­tle scream­ing, but that’s par for the course for a relationship.”

While film­ing is com­plete, no offi­cial release date has not been set for “Bel Ami,” — though it looks to hit US screens in the spring of next year.

Folks who pre­fer the nice Rob won’t have to wait long. Pat­tin­son will be back to his film­ing his faith­ful vam­pire char­ac­ter, Edward Cullen, in the fall for the final two “Twi­light” installments.

Source via ToR