When director Allen Coulter set out to film his own homage to New York, Remember Me, little did he know his lead actor, a certain Robert Pattinson, would suddenly go massive.
“It was just before Twilight, so it was bizarre,” says producer Nick Osborne. “He read the script before he really had any, I suppose, ‘juice’ or real name recognition within the industry.”
Set in the summer of 2001 in New York, the film stars R-Pattz as a rabblerousing student with daddy issues who falls for Lost star Emilie de Ravin.
Pattinson sudden fame meant that the film met with some unexpected difficulties when shooting in the Big Apple.
“We didn’t want to shoot at ridiculously iconic places, but at the same time we wanted to give it a real New York feel,” Osborne says.
“Naturally, there are certain obstacles you have to navigate when you’re shooting in the city but it was particularly difficult this time because of the enormous popularity and notoriety of Rob.”
Remember Me is out on DVD and Blu-ray on 26 July.
