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Twilight star Robert Pattinson stumbles, sucks blood, stumbles again.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

But Pattinson isn't behaving like a ruined being today. He figures that had he been a fan, he would have had the same reaction to such casting.

"I was embarrassed even going into the audition," he remembers. "You look at the synopsis. Edward is the perfect man. He has an impeccable face and body. Everything about him is amazing."

Could Pattinson live up to that image? Not by a long shot. "It was just so stupid." As for the roasting he received on the Internet: "I was happy when it was a 100-per-cent negative reaction. I was like - thank you." When he was attacked as "a bum" by one irate fan, he said to himself: "Cool! I'm going to be a character actor instead."

Now, of course, there's a been huge sea change. Pattinson has become hot stuff.
By all accounts, he wasn't the most compliant of actors during filming.

There were disagreements over how he should approach his character, some of them triggered by his desire to play Edward like a manic-depressive: as he suggested recently to Entertainment Weekly, this seemed like a perfectly sound approach, given that Pattinson is coping with the "purgatory" of being a vampire. But at the end, he seems to have emerged serenely from both the highs and the lows.

He had no trouble assuming an American accent. "It wasn't very difficult. I grew up watching American movies. All my favourite actors are American. So it was osmosis."

But he had a lot of trouble with the script's physical demands - not just a brutal fight scene with a predatory vampire but something as mundane as a family baseball game played vampire style.
"I'm completely unco-ordinated," he confesses. "I'm terrible at all sports."

In fact he considers them pointless. "Catherine was determined to make me look like a professional baseball player, and literally I couldn't take it seriously."

It seemed that whenever he was involved in stunt work, he suffered an injury.
"My hand-eye co-ordination is bad. But I have a good stunt double. He is a professional free runner. I can do something and get injured and look like crap playing it, or he can do it and make it look really good and no one notices the difference."

After walking into one too many doors, he gave up. "I managed to pick up so many injuries whenever I tried the simplest of stunts." In one scene where he was supposed to pick up Kristen Stewart in his arms, he broke a hamstring - and "that isn't even a stunt."

To read the rest of the article go HERE.

Chigaco Q&A Moderators Blog about Rob

I can't believe a fan yelled "take off your pants".
Ladies it is one thing to think it, and another to actually scream it aloud right in front of him.
Can we say creepy?

We were granted a small amount of one-on-one time with Rob Pattinson. That interview is streaming all over this website if you haven't seen it yet. Judging from the 20 minutes or so I spent with Rob, he seems like a pretty normal guy. When I told him I hardly had an idea who he was a few months ago, he laughed and said he didn't blame me. He's as taken aback by this outpouring of love as the rest of the world seems to be. The movie hasn't even opened yet and he thinks this will all be over in a few weeks. Rob - wait until they see you on the big screen, and remind me never to take you to the mall with me.

So then came the question and answer, better known by it's technical term - the time Rob and I stood on a stage and were screamed at for 10 minutes. Rob gave me a laugh when I told him I had questions from the audience ready. Good luck hearing yourself think after we step onto that stage, he told me. When we walked onto the riser, amid hundreds of flashing bulbs and a pulsing roar from the crowd, he kept looking at me and shaking his head. Every city he's been to it's been the same reaction. I think he's looking for the town where 10 people show up, and he'll probably move there.

"Take off your pants," one girl yelled from the crowd.
"Did you just ask me to take off my trousers?" Rob answered. Perplexed by the term "trousers", the crowd moved on to more screaming. Overall the Q&A lasted about 10 minutes. He mentioned that his favorite musical artist was Van Morrison, he refused to sing (he has a song on the soundtrack), and he said that he was signed for at least 3 movies.
We wrapped up the Q&A as objects began flying on stage. By objects, I mean little handwritten notes folded up like mini-footballs, most with names and phone numbers written on them. Note to fans - from a long distance on the upper deck, a harmless toss of a mini-football turns into a dangerous Chinese star flying through the air. I know you love the guy, but try not to take one of his glorious eyes out.

Overall it was an amazing experience. So much energy packed in one little space. I talked with a ton of fans about their obsession, and I'm cutting that video together as we speak. It'll be up on the site later this evening. Hopefully the ringing in my ears be gone by then!

Source

Dark Horizons.com Interview- Really good one!

This is an amazing interview, if you have a chance read the entire thing. Rob impresses me more each day with his honesty and charm. This one is a winner, or a prize...maybe both.

British actor Robert Pattinson had no idea what he was letting himself in for when he auditioned for, and won the plum role, of brooding vampire Edward Cullen, in the much anticipated film version of the best selling novel "Twilight".

Though he had exposure, to some extent, with big movies such as "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", nothing, it seems has prepared him for the fame and adulation of "Twilight", fame that has brought him to tears, as he confided to Paul Fischer.

Question: So, are you particularly prepared for the teenage female frenzy that is going to surround this movie, but you in particular? Which apparently seems to be in the cards.

Pattinson: I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know why it still shocks me. I mean, I’ve been going for the last three weeks, just going to different cities all around the world, just to get to these planned mobbing, where everybody just screams and screams and screams. But every single time, I get so nervous, and kind of cold sweats, and everything. So I doubt that I am ready.

Question: So that’s how you react to the screams and the frenzy?

Pattinson: Every single time. I started crying in Italy. Like, completely involuntarily. Question: Really?

Pattinson: Yeah. Like, do you know when you have the wrong reaction to something? It was really embarrassing. I didn’t even know I was. Kristen, I think, turned around to me. And she’s like, “Are you crying?” I just found out there’s a whole pile of stuff. So. Yeah. I started crying when people are screaming at me. I really didn’t think that would happen.

Question: Conversely, did you pay any attention to any of the on-line complaining? “Oh, he’s not right. It should have been this person or that person.” Did you pay any attention to that?

Pattinson: I did at the beginning, for a little bit. I was expecting it, but I kind of – I agree with them.

Question: Why?

Pattinson: I don’t know. I completely expected it. That’s the reason I didn’t want to go in for the part initially, because it’s really putting yourself out there. You say, like, “Oh, yeah. I think I can play this part, the perfect guy. Best-looking guy in the whole world.” It was like – even going in for the audition, I felt like a bit of an idiot going into the audition. I felt pre-judged by anyone who turned up to the casting. It’s like – I mean, I just thought even having the gall to go in means you’re a bit of an arrogant prick.

This is a long interview too much to post all of it so go HERE to the source and read the rest.

Amy thanks for the link too..great minds do think alike.

TomStu love/reaction

Access Hollywood Interview-longer version

Shaun Robinson interview with Robert Pattinson :-)) The part about the text message with the marriage thing is hillarious.

Chicago Breaking News video

Chicago Breaking News has a piece about the craziness that's surrounding Robert Pattinson. You can watch it HERE

"Bite me."

It's a request British actor Robert Pattinson gets almost daily as star of the new vampire film "Twilight" (opening Nov. 21).

"It's crazy," said Pattinson, 22, waiting inside Orland Square's Hot Topic store. He has to laugh, pretend he hasn't heard it before.

"Even if you say, 'No,' they just wait," he says. "They just stand there."

Tonight, more than 500 fans waited outside -- some since the night before -- to ask him the same question or something in that vein. One fan, Orland Park's Abby Johnson, wore a self-made T-shirt that read: "Edward Cullen Make Me Immortal" (Edward is Pattinson's fanged alter ego.)

As the clock reached 6 p.m., the time he'd start signing autographs, the crowd started screaming, counting down, "Three; two; one;" Chaos.

"Oh my God," said Pattinson, laughing nervously at the uproar. "Are they going to blow [the place] up?"

Mostly, they just filed in peacefully, gushing and smiling -- though for the public Q&A session later, the crowd seemed to have swelled to a frenzied mass.

In what follows, Pattinson talks about his new movie, immortality and Doctor Who.

Q - What does Edward, a 108-year-old vampire, see in a 17-year-old girl?

A - He's lived for 108 years, but he still has the same brain as a 17-year-old. He experiences the world as a 17-year-old. He's kind of mature in some ways. But if you were in the body of a 17-year-old, I don't think you'd go for a 108-year-old woman.

Q - But why high school? For you personally, wouldn't 80 years of high school be hell?

A - Definitely. I would hate it. That was one of the most difficult things to figure out. You think he'd stay in college, or be a street kid. It'd be way cooler. But I think the whole concept of it is: He's like an addict. I think he wants to make his life really, really, really boring.

Q - This question is from Jennifer Armour, a fan waiting in line. David Tennant, the current star of "Doctor Who," is quitting in 2010. Would you consider taking up the mantle?

A - The Doctor is great. ... Yeah, maybe. I did grow up watching it. I loved it when I was a kid. In fact, I met one of them the other day, Sylvester McCoy [the seventh Doctor]. He's one of the few people I've asked for an autograph.

The way the event was handled brought criticism from some fans.

Promoters of the event had said they would sell at 7 a.m. 500 admittance wristbands to the meet-and-greet.

The only problem was that by midnight the crowd waiting outside the mall in the wind and cold rain had far exceeded 500 and a decision was made to distribute the wristbands about seven hours early.

"The crowd kept growing and growing and growing," said Darrell Kinsley, a marketing representative for the Hot Topic clothing store chain that is sponsoring Pattinson's tour to promote his upcoming movie based on the "Twilight" series of books adored by young girls.

"We were worried about the welfare of the people standing out here. We didn't want people to stand in line for seven hours and not get in."

The first three in line--Stacy York, 26, Jennifer Popplewell, 26, and Armour, 22--left their home town of Indianapolis at 10 p.m. and got here at about midnight to be the first in line for the star.

"It isn't just 'Twilight' that brought us here,' said Armour.

"It's his previous work," said Popplewell.

Armour continued, "We like his other work, such as 'The Bad Mother's Handbook' (a TV drama in the UK) and 'The Haunted Airman' (another TV drama in the UK)."

Disappointed fans who showed up later this morning, only to find they had been shut out, protested.

"It's false advertising," Vanessa Vasquez said. "They said 7:30 today. I would have been here to get tickets on time."

NBC Chicago Interview

He still thinks its just Edward, no Rob its just you.

Vid cuts off a little at the end, but there is no follow up posted on the news site so maybe more to come?

Rob in Chicago leaning in to hear the crowd.

He is so accommodating it is ridiculous, look at him trying to hear the fan questions.

No wonder we adore him.

Source-www.southtownstar.com

CLTV interview with Rob

So charming! And he thinks he is going to go back to his "normal" life. Poor boy!

Oh and his agents should get him an endorsement deal with Coke. You know you want to be that can of Coke:)

Don't know if we posted---don't care

This is some seriously high quality picture. click on the image and make sure you don't drool on your keyboard.



Thanks to amy for pointing it out and robertpattinson source for sharing.