I don't even know how to classify these videos anymore :-) But here is another FOX news piece. AND for me the most exciting part is Stephenie FINALLY confessing she is not done with the Cullens yet and there will be more books! Best news ever since Rob was cast as Edward !
I have a massive headache and am not reading the comments. So drop me an email at robsessedpattinson@gmail.com if anything comes up :)
The Vampire of The Mall
The New York Times has an article about Rob and the best description of the screams EVER.
“The connection that I am an actor playing this character is sort of skipped,” he said, laughing during an interview before the throng was admitted to the Hot Topic store here. “They are in denial. They think I am Edward Cullen.” Mr. Pattinson, 22, said he had no idea what to make of his situation, about to meet thousands of teenage girls — and many of their mothers — who were flat-out in love with him.
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — There are times when the limitations of the printed word come into focus, like when there is a need to convey how it sounded when Robert Pattinson, who stars as the vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the forthcoming movie “Twilight,” stepped onto a riser at the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia on Thursday evening in front of more than 1,000 mostly teenage girls.
In collective pitch, frequency and volume the sound would make a shuttle launching seem demure, a Jack White guitar solo retiring, a jackhammer somehow soothing. To reach into history, it may have approached Beatles-at-Shea-Stadium loud, replete with the weeping, swooning and self-hugging, and only the ambient flutter of cellphone cameras and furious texting by way of modern update. All of it was arrayed over a mostly unknown British actor who plays a character in a movie that will not be released until Friday.“What is with all the screaming?” Mr. Pattinson asked when he came out. He absently ran his hand through his hair. Pandemonium ensued. He tugged at his white T-shirt in response, ever so nervously. Oh, boy. Then he laughed good-naturedly at the absurdity of it all. The smile was just a bit too much. A girl in a “Team Edward” shirt fell into the arms of her friend. “I can’t stand it!” she said.
And when he did, the crowd didn’t see an actor. They saw Edward Cullen, the perfect boyfriend who just happens to live on blood.
Gozde:Skipping the parts about Twilight that we all know...“The connection that I am an actor playing this character is sort of skipped,” he said, laughing during an interview before the throng was admitted to the Hot Topic store here. “They are in denial. They think I am Edward Cullen.” Mr. Pattinson, 22, said he had no idea what to make of his situation, about to meet thousands of teenage girls — and many of their mothers — who were flat-out in love with him.
“It is bizarre,” he said. “People come from three states away and walk up to you trembling. I feel that I am at a disadvantage here because I can’t provide this mystical thing that they came for in the two seconds we have.”
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“When he comes to our store and meets with these fans, he is becoming Edward,” said Betsy McLaughlin, chief executive of Hot Topic, adding that “a license like this comes along once every few decades,” mentioning Harry Potter, SpongeBob SquarePants and “South Park.”
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The last movie the “Twilight” director, Catherine Hardwicke, made, “The Nativity Story,” also depicted unconsummated love between a mortal and a nonmortal, but that’s where the similarity ends. Ms. Hardwicke also directed “Thirteen,” a very different take on teenage sexuality, and “The Lords of Dogtown.” She was at the Apple store for an appearance with Mr. Pattinson and was ready for a frantic response, partly because she had seen young fans showing up to observe the frigid “Twilight” shoots in the mountains of Oregon.
“You have the story of a young woman falling so deeply in love that she doesn’t care if she dies or becomes a vampire,” Ms. Hardwicke said. “There is something so dangerous and alluring about it, and it all goes off in this very lush mountain backdrop. It’s an obsessive love that’s not that far from ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ or ‘Titanic’ for that matter.”
Back on the stage at the King of Prussia Mall, Mr. Pattinson continued to stand awkwardly but, somehow, fantastically beautifully at the same time. A local radio D.J. fed him written questions from the audience, but his answers were buried by screaming.
“Do you guys care about the questions, or do you just want to talk about nothing?” Mr. Pattinson asked.
A young woman in a shirt emblazoned with the Cullen family crest spoke for many: “We just want to look at you.”.
Seriously?
Perez Hilton has a poll, I probably shouldn't even dignify it by posting here but... well I am...
Who do U think is hotter right now????
Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron
Seriously? If that comparison doesn't make Rob run for the hills I don't know what will...
Who do U think is hotter right now????
Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron
Seriously? If that comparison doesn't make Rob run for the hills I don't know what will...
A year ago I couldn't get a date
Toronto Star Interview with Rob:
For someone at the centre of an ever-escalating fan frenzy that is now bordering on the hysterical, Twilight star Robert Pattinson seems very much at ease. (Gozde: BORDERING? :-)
The British actor's self-deprecating sense of humour and refusal to take the phenomenon seriously is helping him deal with the besotted adoration of millions of teenage girls around the world who are enraptured by the tortured romance between a brooding, beautiful vampire and a mortal schoolgirl.
"It's absolutely nuts," he says, shaking his head in bemusement and laughing. "It's just crazy. A year ago I couldn't get a date and now the whole world's turned over and I can have any 14-year-old girl I want."
He is joking, but the fervour will only increase when Twilight is released on Friday. Assuming it is the success it is expected to be, Pattinson is already signed for two sequels, ensuring that for the next few years he will be one of the world's leading heartthrobs.
He had been torn between an acting career and going to university (Gozde: he was going to university?) but the Harry Potter roles convinced him to stick with acting, although he spent the best part of the next two years unemployed.His agent persuaded him to visit Los Angeles to audition for several films, one of which was Twilight. He performed a love scene with the already-cast Stewart and she persuaded Hardwicke that he was the right actor to portray Edward.
Pattinson was no so sure.
"I'd read the book and I couldn't really picture myself in the part as this handsome, perfect guy," he said.
"I thought it would be impossible to play him because he's basically an enigma. I didn't want to play a stereotype vampire so I sort of broke down every vampire element of him and tried to relate to it in a human way. I tried to humanize it as much as possible."
It seems ironic now, but when he was announced as the actor who was to portray Edward on screen, fans were furious.
"People sent me hate mail and the Internet was full of messages from Twilight fans who didn't want me. They said I looked like a bum," he recalled with a laugh. "But Stephenie Meyers helped me out by giving me her seal of approval, then the trailer came out and everything turned around. I started getting love letters and fan mail instead of hate mail.
Pattinson was talking in suite at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. He was sporting a several-day stubble and was casually dressed in jeans and an open short-sleeve shirt over a T-shirt.
He talks quietly and modestly and has a twinkle in his eye and a mischievous smile, which makes it easy to see the attraction he holds for teenage girls.
After filming Twilight on location in Portland, Ore., he returned to Los Angeles and has been there for the past seven months, learning to drive, exploring the city and attempting to adjust to the cultural differences, particularly the American attitude toward alcohol.
"It's a very different culture," he said.
"There really isn't a pub scene in L.A., and people here don't understand how it's such a normal thing to drink in pubs in London.
"They think it's very strange and there's such a stigma attached to it here, but it just seems normal to me."
An accomplished musician, heoccasionally takes his guitar to open-mike nights in L.A., although it is becoming more difficult now that he is recognized wherever he goes.
"I did a couple of gigs, which people filmed and put on the Internet and it kind of ruined the whole experience for me," he said. "So I've kind of stopped now and I think I'm going to wait for all this fuss to die down before I start doing live gigs again."
(Pattinson's song "Never Think," appears on the best-selling Twilight soundtrack.)
Scripts are pouring in and he will soon be seen as the painter Salvador Dali in Little Ashes and in January will begin filming the romantic drama Parts Per Billion, portraying Dennis Hopper's son.
In the meantime he is becoming more famous as the build-up to the release of Twilight reaches its peak.
His only previous exposure to fan frenzy was after he appeared in the two Harry Potter films.
"I was a bit surprised that people recognized me and wanted my autograph but it didn't last very long and was nothing like this," Pattinson said.
"This is just bizarre."
Twilight Movie Premiere Ticket auction on eBay
Right now the ticket is at $760 + 100 shipping but hey if you got extra cash lying around and you want to donate some for charity here is the auction for a ticket to the premiere :)
Pattinson finds 'Twilight' is his Dawning Moment
New article about Rob. Here are the parts that are new/semi-new :-))
He "obsessively" read and re-read the Stephenie Meyer novel on which the movie is based. And he spent five hours a day in the gym, trying to chisel out a six-pack before the cameras rolled.
"Afterwards, my friends gave me such a hard time because, literally, I had never set foot inside a gym before that," he said.
During a phone interview from Los Angeles, Pattinson does his best to downplay his status as a heart throb in ascendance. While admitting that his mom gets a big kick out of all the hullabaloo surrounding his first starring role, the 22-year-old actor insisted the attention hasn't made much of an impact on him.
"I can separate myself from it," he relates. "I can go into a room of screaming teenage girls but my mind doesn't absorb it."
Stephenie Meyer said casting Edward was the one of the filmmakers' trickiest challenges.
"(Edward) has to be everything," she said. "He has to be beautiful and dangerous and angst-ridden and intelligent. A lot of guys were pretty but they weren't dangerous. Other guys were dangerous but not pretty enough. Rob Pattinson has both sides."
Meyer's books are full of the kind of dramatic mood swings which are often difficult to capture on film. Pattinson, for his part, was committing to giving Edward a transfusion of humanity.
"When I read the book, I did notice the extreme emotions all the time," he said. "But I liked that. I like movies that are operatic. That said, I did try to make Edward as un-cheesy as possible. I tried hard to stir him in a more realistic direction."
Music was another big motivator for Pattinson. On the eve of the movie's more romantic moments, he revved himself up by listening to CDs by British newcomer Laura Marling ("She's very young but she has a desperate quality to her voice") and Gyorgy Ligetti. (Gozde: Here is a video from Laura Marling, it's bautiful_
Pattinson rose to a different kind of challenge when he was required to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
"Wire work is so hard," he groaned. "You have to look like you're controlling your movements when you're not. It's incredibly painful, too. You're hanging there all day from two straps on your crotch. Not the most comfortable experience in the world."
He "obsessively" read and re-read the Stephenie Meyer novel on which the movie is based. And he spent five hours a day in the gym, trying to chisel out a six-pack before the cameras rolled.
"Afterwards, my friends gave me such a hard time because, literally, I had never set foot inside a gym before that," he said.
During a phone interview from Los Angeles, Pattinson does his best to downplay his status as a heart throb in ascendance. While admitting that his mom gets a big kick out of all the hullabaloo surrounding his first starring role, the 22-year-old actor insisted the attention hasn't made much of an impact on him.
"I can separate myself from it," he relates. "I can go into a room of screaming teenage girls but my mind doesn't absorb it."
Stephenie Meyer said casting Edward was the one of the filmmakers' trickiest challenges.
"(Edward) has to be everything," she said. "He has to be beautiful and dangerous and angst-ridden and intelligent. A lot of guys were pretty but they weren't dangerous. Other guys were dangerous but not pretty enough. Rob Pattinson has both sides."
Meyer's books are full of the kind of dramatic mood swings which are often difficult to capture on film. Pattinson, for his part, was committing to giving Edward a transfusion of humanity.
"When I read the book, I did notice the extreme emotions all the time," he said. "But I liked that. I like movies that are operatic. That said, I did try to make Edward as un-cheesy as possible. I tried hard to stir him in a more realistic direction."
Music was another big motivator for Pattinson. On the eve of the movie's more romantic moments, he revved himself up by listening to CDs by British newcomer Laura Marling ("She's very young but she has a desperate quality to her voice") and Gyorgy Ligetti. (Gozde: Here is a video from Laura Marling, it's bautiful_
Pattinson rose to a different kind of challenge when he was required to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
"Wire work is so hard," he groaned. "You have to look like you're controlling your movements when you're not. It's incredibly painful, too. You're hanging there all day from two straps on your crotch. Not the most comfortable experience in the world."
Part 2 of Good Praddle Interview w/ Rob
'Twilight' actor Robert Pattinson [Part 2]
Well, it sounds like you’re drawing mostly from Midnight Sun in terms of your interpretation of the role, but at the same time I imagine you’re also drawing from Twilight because clearly Bella doesn’t perceive him the same way that he perceives himself. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, I only got Midnight Sun about two thirds of the way through the shoot. I had already—but when you read Twilight, Edward just seems like—I mean, unless you want to play it as a cardboard cutout, and just pose in every single scene, it seems like an almost impossible character to play. I mean, Bella just refuses to see any flaws in him at all, and as it’s from her perspective, there are no flaws. He has no flaws in the book. At all. Because she doesn’t see them. And that’s just impossible to play that, because it’s not a real character. And everybody who reads the book obviously kind of has their own interpretation of it, and because he is so enigmatic, I guess, people interpret him to be whoever they want him to be. But I don’t know, I guess I was also thinking, the whole time, if a girl really loves you that much and at the core of it you just won’t commit to her, then you’re really weakened by that. You can’t ever fully be satisfied… in multiple ways, obviously.
[laughs] But I was talking to Stephenie Meyer about that, saying, “The guy must be chronically depressed,” and she was saying, “No, he’s not, he’s not, he’s not.” [pauses] But I still maintain that he was. [laughter]
That would be an interesting spin. I mean, it’s not like depressed, but just this sort of loneliness. I mean, when you see him at school he doesn’t really talk to anyone. He must get bored after a while, only hanging out with the same four people in his life.
So not depressed, just perpetually angsty? Yeah, kind of angsty! [laughs] I don’t know, that’s another thing, because I was trying to establish whether he would stay at the mentality of a seventeen-year-old, and I think that’s kind of what he did. You can have as many experiences as you want, but if you’re still in the mind of a seventeen-year-old, it must be very frustrating. Or having the world still see you as a kid when you’re not a kid any more. Things like that. I think that a lot of how people mature is just the rest of the world treating you like an older person, not just living a long time.
Well, I think if he matured too much beyond seventeen years, then the central love story would take on an entirely different dimension. [laughs] Oh, yeah, definitely. That would be creepy! [laughs] I mean, that’s kind of as I saw it—that’s pretty gross! I mean, at the same time, the way I sort of saw it is that he is amused, in a way, by that. Because he knows he essentially is still seventeen, in most ways, and at the same time he’s not. So it’s kind of funny that he falls for the girl he sits next to in his high school biology lesson— [laughs] And it is kind of interesting that they end up having a conventional teenage relationship in a lot of ways. Like, dating and stuff.
Yeah. Does either of them bring that up in the movie or the books? Like, “Technically, I’m 103 years older than you”?
I can’t remember if they bring it up in the book… I don’t know. I mean, I tried to incorporate something of that air. It’s when she’s kind of getting angry with him, or giving him advice, and like— [laughter] It’s kind of like, “...Oh, shut up!” [laughter] But he doesn’t actually say it, yeah.
At the core of the series the two of them are essentially playing a duet, so to speak, so the way one character is portrayed would really be heavily influenced by the other, right? How did Kristen Stewart choose to portray Bella? Well, that kind of changed my whole idea of it, because I really had no idea how to play the character. I mean, he’s so strong and kind of omniscient in the book that it’s very difficult to… it’s just kind of difficult to portray this aura of this guy who is anywhere at all times and can do anything. But when I met Kristen I did the screen test with her, and she is very strong. Just naturally, she’s not the kind of damsel in distress at all. So just reading it without comparing that at all, it kind of made me realize the kind of a balance that Edward has with her, not being able to have these relationship and all these frustrations he has beside him. It made it easier to portray. It makes much more sense, when the relationship is with someone you can rely on, and the girl is much stronger than the average—I mean, I guess that’s kind of what changed. I mean, I really didn’t expect the girl who’s playing Bella to be that strong when I went in.
Okay. I actually wanted to ask you about another role, in Little Ashes, where you play Salvador Dali. How did you become familiar with the subject matter? Well, I was attached to that for about, I guess, about two years, and I was initially going to play [Federico] García Lorca. And somehow… I don’t know what happened. They asked me to read for Dali, and that was about a year after I—it took ages to get this film made. It was a really interesting script, and about a year after I was in mind for Lorca I read for Dali, and about a year after that they suddenly said, “Oh, we’ve got money, we’re doing it in Spain, and it stars in four days!” [laughter] So I came and I just thought it would be kind of fun—I mean, you know the stuff Dali makes, kind of crazy—and I thought it would be quite fun to do. And I went to Barcelona to shoot this, and I was rehearsing with the guy who was actually going to play Lorca, who’s a Spanish guy who didn’t know how to speak English, and pretty much the entire cast and the entire crew were Spanish. I think we had one English person in it. And I can’t speak Spanish.
Oh no! [laughs] I couldn’t speak to anyone the whole time. And so I just sat over this Dali stuff. I just read and read and read, and it was one of the most satisfying jobs I’ve ever done because it was the one time that I really had zero distractions. It really changed my whole attitude toward acting. And it was a tiny, tiny, film, which— [laughs] I don’t think anyone will ever see it, probably! But it was very interesting. Especially since I don’t look anything like Dali.[laughs] But at the end of the job, I kind of did look like him…
Well, he’s got a very distinct look. He’s got the mustache, and—did you wear the mustache? Well, I only played him when he was about 26, and he got the mustache in his 40s, I think.
Aw… Yeah. [laughs] So… I do have a mustache, but it’s a little bit shorter. Not quite the character one. The story of the movie is basically what led what was essentially this chronically shy kid who was massively talented—Dali had already mastered every style of painting by the time he was thirteen—he was an astonishingly talented guy. And he was virtually incapable when he was growing up, he was so chronically shy, and he grew into this caricature of this guy who had absolutely no fear of anything. And the story of the film signifies the time when he became that caricature.
Well, he’s a fascinating guy. I didn’t even know that there was going to be a film about him until I started preparing for this interview, and when I found out I was excited because I—while you were shooting and while you were in Spain, did you get to visit his home? Yeah, I did. I did. And it’s incredible. I mean, I went to the place where he had his childhood house as well, in Cadaques. There are loads of little interesting things—there’s this beach in Cadaques that has these really weird volcanic rock formations.
Yeah, that town is beautiful. And further into the town, ninety percent of the postcards are of the Dali house. Oh, everything. It’s like Dali town. [laughs]Everyone’s met him. Everyone has a story about him. It was really strange. And they were so upset that there was an Englishman playing him as well! [laughs]
Oh no! [laughs] I know. Yeah, but it worked out quite well. I hope the movie does well; I actually haven’t seen the movie yet, just the trailer for it. It looks quite good. Wait, have you been to Cadaques?
Oh, yeah, I have; I’ve been a couple of times with my family. Oh, that’s really strange! We were shooting in this old—somebody had tried to make a Club Med or something—
[laughs] Oh god! Yeah, on that beach, that weird beach. And it obviously didn’t make any money, because things come on that beach and they just die![laughs]
I think I might even know what you’re talking about, actually! [laughs] Yeah, like a ghost town! It’s so strange. Yeah, we shot a lot of the stuff there. Yeah, I really, really liked the town a lot.
Yeah, it’s so beautiful there. And it’s so intimate, because everything is within walking distance and the town is so small and everybody’s so friendly. I love the little coves along the beaches. They’re like your own little private beaches.
Yeah. I mean, there are so many of them that you can pick and choose. You can find one to your exact specifications if you like! [laughs] Yeah, exactly.
So you mentioned doing a lot of research to find out about—I mean, how much did you know about Dali before getting involved with the film?Nothing at all, really. I kind of… nothing. I wasn’t even really that big a fan of his art. And even now, I kind of really love the guy as a person. I mean, I find him fascinating, and in a really weird way I kind of related to him a lot. And I appreciate his art a lot more—as with a lot of artists who are painters and stuff, I enjoy their art more once I know the sort of backstory behind it! [laughs] I don’t know why, really.
No, no, I sympathize.
Yeah, I mean, I always kind of like—and the way he writes prose. He wrote three or four biographies, each of which totally contradicts the last one. They’re, like completely opposite. Which I thought was a really great idea. But, yeah. I didn’t know anything about him before. But now I know… a lot about him.[laughs]
This concludes the second half of our interview with Robert Pattinson. Twilight opens November 21st, and in 2009 you can keep an eye out for his upcoming films Little Ashes and How to Be.
More cute pics from Much Music
Just one more reason to stop screaming..!
His hair is noticeably darker...wonder if that is for Parts Per Billion?
Rob in Kiss Magazine
Click the pic for a closer view.
The 'Edward' hair is a bit out of control in this pic.
Nothing new in the magazine scans other than this pic. If you want to see all the scans go HERE.
Robert Pattinson's 'Twilight' brings the dawn of a deadly new dreamboat
NY Daily News has a bit about Robert. You can find the whole thing here but it's pretty much a repeat of what we know and some wrong info. I am posting the parts that are new :-))
The role wasn't his first attempt at fang-bearing - "I remember when [HBO's] 'True Blood' was first starting out. I auditioned for it and didn't get it."
Pattinson wasn't fazed once he was cast in "Twilight" (which opens Friday). He easily mastered an American accent without a dialect coach. "Every actor I like is American - I mean, I always say I've stolen things from James Dean's voice, the way he slurs his words, just for chatting up girls and stuff."
But it's Hugh Grant, not Dean, he most frequently calls to mind. So much about the two upper-class Brits is the same: wide-set eyes, schoolboy baffledness, a bumble-and-mumble manner - even an equally floppy thatch of hair, which Pattinson said he hasn't washed for six weeks.
He has Grant's aw-shucks modesty, too. "I still don't understand why people love the character to this obsessive degree, the chivalrousness and opening doors and stuff. Don't understand why a teenage girl would care."
Reaching this level of fame is a strange experience for Pattinson. He started as model in London, working for Nicole Farhi, among others. "I was doing it at 12, the youngest person in my agency out of the girls or boys. I was so ridiculously skinny I looked like a girl, but that was the period where they loved androgynous-looking people."
Then he joined a drama club simply because all the pretty girls went there. He and best friend Tom Sturridge - whose father, Charles, is a well-known British director - were soon auditioning together, often for the same part. "We go up against each other every single time, even though we look completely different."
Both Tom and Robert were cast in the Reese Witherspoon remake of "Vanity Fair," but Pattinson's part didn't make the final cut.
"But that's why I got 'Harry Potter' - the casting director felt guilty," he laughs. You'll remember Pattinson as the doomed Cedric Diggory. "I wouldn't mind doing more 'Harry Potter' because you get paid in pounds."
From there, he got the equally doom-laden role of Edward. And now, only teen dream Zac Efron, the fleet-footed icon of "High School Musical," can rival Pattinson's star trajectory.
He and Efron met behind the scenes at MTV's Video Music Awards, and the world didn't implode when 'tween matter and anti-matter came together. "He's such an iconic face, the embodiment of the modern face of celebrity," Pattinson muses about Efron. "But he was the opposite of how I thought he'd be - completely upfront and honest. You'd think people will be really media-trained and he's really not."
But Efron can relate to that distinctive brand of fame both will experience - hormonally powered devotion. "The fans are very judgmental - they have very specific ideas of how you should live your life," says Pattinson. "Who would have thought teenage girls would be the most moralistic?"
He recalls how his sleepy-eyed expression has been mistaken for drug-taking. "Yeah, right, I'm going to my Disney interview smoking crack," Pattinson says sarcastically.
Although Efron has juggled singing and acting with aplomb, life-long musician Pattinson (who even croons one of the anthems on "Twilight's" soundtrack) shrugs off the suggestion he could record an album now. "I wouldn't do it at the same time as acting. I mean, the whole thing I find quite embarrassing. I don't like the idea of saying, 'You're in the public eye, now is the time to release an album because people will buy it.' I don't care if people buy it or not."
He's sanguine about success.
"My attitude from the beginning has been, 'If you start failing, do not start going on reality TV shows.'"
Well, except maybe "America's Next Top Model." Pattinson breaks into a wide, beaming grin when he mentions an upcoming engagement. "I'm doing 'Tyra' in a few weeks and I'm really excited about it. I love that show. It's my favorite TV show."
The "Model" judging panel, no doubt, would tell him to vamp it up.
The role wasn't his first attempt at fang-bearing - "I remember when [HBO's] 'True Blood' was first starting out. I auditioned for it and didn't get it."
Pattinson wasn't fazed once he was cast in "Twilight" (which opens Friday). He easily mastered an American accent without a dialect coach. "Every actor I like is American - I mean, I always say I've stolen things from James Dean's voice, the way he slurs his words, just for chatting up girls and stuff."
But it's Hugh Grant, not Dean, he most frequently calls to mind. So much about the two upper-class Brits is the same: wide-set eyes, schoolboy baffledness, a bumble-and-mumble manner - even an equally floppy thatch of hair, which Pattinson said he hasn't washed for six weeks.
He has Grant's aw-shucks modesty, too. "I still don't understand why people love the character to this obsessive degree, the chivalrousness and opening doors and stuff. Don't understand why a teenage girl would care."
Reaching this level of fame is a strange experience for Pattinson. He started as model in London, working for Nicole Farhi, among others. "I was doing it at 12, the youngest person in my agency out of the girls or boys. I was so ridiculously skinny I looked like a girl, but that was the period where they loved androgynous-looking people."
Then he joined a drama club simply because all the pretty girls went there. He and best friend Tom Sturridge - whose father, Charles, is a well-known British director - were soon auditioning together, often for the same part. "We go up against each other every single time, even though we look completely different."
Both Tom and Robert were cast in the Reese Witherspoon remake of "Vanity Fair," but Pattinson's part didn't make the final cut.
"But that's why I got 'Harry Potter' - the casting director felt guilty," he laughs. You'll remember Pattinson as the doomed Cedric Diggory. "I wouldn't mind doing more 'Harry Potter' because you get paid in pounds."
From there, he got the equally doom-laden role of Edward. And now, only teen dream Zac Efron, the fleet-footed icon of "High School Musical," can rival Pattinson's star trajectory.
He and Efron met behind the scenes at MTV's Video Music Awards, and the world didn't implode when 'tween matter and anti-matter came together. "He's such an iconic face, the embodiment of the modern face of celebrity," Pattinson muses about Efron. "But he was the opposite of how I thought he'd be - completely upfront and honest. You'd think people will be really media-trained and he's really not."
But Efron can relate to that distinctive brand of fame both will experience - hormonally powered devotion. "The fans are very judgmental - they have very specific ideas of how you should live your life," says Pattinson. "Who would have thought teenage girls would be the most moralistic?"
He recalls how his sleepy-eyed expression has been mistaken for drug-taking. "Yeah, right, I'm going to my Disney interview smoking crack," Pattinson says sarcastically.
Although Efron has juggled singing and acting with aplomb, life-long musician Pattinson (who even croons one of the anthems on "Twilight's" soundtrack) shrugs off the suggestion he could record an album now. "I wouldn't do it at the same time as acting. I mean, the whole thing I find quite embarrassing. I don't like the idea of saying, 'You're in the public eye, now is the time to release an album because people will buy it.' I don't care if people buy it or not."
He's sanguine about success.
"My attitude from the beginning has been, 'If you start failing, do not start going on reality TV shows.'"
Well, except maybe "America's Next Top Model." Pattinson breaks into a wide, beaming grin when he mentions an upcoming engagement. "I'm doing 'Tyra' in a few weeks and I'm really excited about it. I love that show. It's my favorite TV show."
The "Model" judging panel, no doubt, would tell him to vamp it up.
INSTYLE Scans
INStyle Magazine scans. Thanks to Estrellas for the tip and chrissydechagny on lion_lamb for the scans.
Click on the images for larger view.
Click on the images for larger view.
I'm such a sex symbol aren't I?
Will the real Q102 interview video please stand up? :-)) This is the video that goes with the audio I posted. I have no idea what Dani is on :PP
Enjoy! Thanks to Dana for the link!
Enjoy! Thanks to Dana for the link!
Much Music Screencaps-Adorkable Rob
Okay he is just too cute, the hair has a mind of its own.
Notice the ear plugs.....good boy Rob.
He sits so awkwardly in his chair, he is completely adorkable.
Its his favorite black shirt...how many countries has it been in now?
Collider.com Interview with the cast minus Rob
MUCH Music Videos
MUCH Music Videos are on their website.
!!!SCREAM ALERT!!! Turn the volume down...
Return of the black shirt with the blue logo :-)) Watching all these seriously made my brain hurt. Nonstop screaming...
If you go to the much music site to watch the videos HERE, in the first video jump to the 9min mark, everything before that is them signing autographs. But I think the youtube videos below cover everything.
Youtube links:
And some fan videos below. Thanks Dana for the links :-)
!!!SCREAM ALERT!!! Turn the volume down...
Return of the black shirt with the blue logo :-)) Watching all these seriously made my brain hurt. Nonstop screaming...
If you go to the much music site to watch the videos HERE, in the first video jump to the 9min mark, everything before that is them signing autographs. But I think the youtube videos below cover everything.
Youtube links:
And some fan videos below. Thanks Dana for the links :-)
EW w/ Rob as a BREAK OUT STAR!!
Better quality scans than posted before.
Click pic for HQ view.
Looks like he is trying to avoid being in direct view of Russel Brands groin.
Vote for Rob
Us Magazine has a poll asking "who's the hotter vampire", and Rob is way behind Cam Gigandet. Here http://www.usmagazine.com/
TBS TV spots
TBS aired 3 tv spots, including interview with Rob and introduction of the clip by Rob. Enjoy :-)
Fandango Interview with Rob
Fandango:You’re voted the “sexiest vampire” on Fandango. What do you think it is that makes Edward so appealing?
Pattinson: I really can't tell you, but maybe because it’s modern. I'm kind of figuring it out myself. I'm sure they said Brad Pitt was the sexiest vampire when he did [1994’s] Interview with the Vampire.
Fandango: What were some of the things that helped you immerse yourself in the role of Edward?
Pattinson: I was alone for a very long time. I went to Oregon before anyone else, about 2-1/2 months before, and just didn't talk to anyone. I worked with a trainer every day went and went running, but I tried not to speak to anyone. So when the cast came...well, have you ever tried not speaking anyone for weeks and then the first person you talk to the conversation is kind of strange. I spent a lot of time just reading the script and the books. I just want to make sure I knew as much about the character as possible.
Pattinson: It's very kind of operatic. It's like a relationship straight out of a melodrama. You have two people who think that they'll die, or one of them will die, just by being together or that something terrible will happen, so it’s just a complete melodrama. I mean the way me and Kristen interpreted it is Edward was this kind of demigod who's very reluctant. That’s played against the needs of this normal 17-year-old girl who thinks he is some perfect being, but he's really just a guy who doesn't really have a meaning to his existence.
Fandango: Girls are going absolutely nuts over you and the character. What’s the weirdest fan request you’ve gotten? Anything that freaked you out?
Pattinson: The weirdest was when I was in New York a few days ago at this event. A seven-year-old girl came up on the stage asked me to bite her and not even in a jokey way--she was serious--in a longing way! It made me think, “You don't know what you're asking. That would get me arrested.” That was very, very odd.
Fandango: Fans go crazy about your hair. Do you like it long or are you just dying to cut it?
Pattinson: I haven't changed my hair for, like, years. I've never really had a specific look in mind. It is what it is… [laughs.] I don't really style my hair. It's so funny, a friend of mine from London came over and said, “Why is everyone going on about your hair all the time?” Everyone has hair like that in London. And around the world you see people with hair like that, so I don't see it being different at all. As soon as people started saying “that's his trademark” I thought I should shave my head as his trademark. I'm trying to convince them to shave my head for the second movie.
Fandango: Seriously?
Pattinson: Yeah. [laughs]
Fandango: What was it like for you to have supernatural powers, and to do the flying scenes?
Robert Pattinson: It makes it harder to relate to an audience. For the big stunts, if I could jump 5,000 feet, why would I walk? It is makes playing the actual character very difficult. I don't know why, but I went into it not thinking about the stunts or that it was a vampire film, but about the drama.
Fandango: Tell us about the piano song you composed for Twilight.
Pattinson: I did a scene where I played a thing that I made up. It was the best piano piece I've ever done in my life but it didn't really fit. In the end, as part of the whole score, it is very different than what I came up with. The song on the soundtrack, “Never Think”—my best friend who taught me how to play the guitar wrote the lyrics for it last year and I made it into a song, and the other one (“Let Me Sign”) me and another guy wrote. They weren’t meant for the movie, but Catherine heard them and put them in the cut, and I didn't know they would be on the soundtrack. I had thought it would be quite cool to have it be a secret thing and not have my name in the credits. Like a marketing gimmick. It was nice, and also helped my friends as well.
Fandango: If you had a chance to collaborate with any music artist, who would it be?
Pattinson: I saw Van Morrison last night at the Hollywood Bowl. I've seen him five times before and he really pulled it out of the bag. He played like it was 30 years ago. I would love to do something with him now. He was my inspiration for doing music in the first place. Yes, he's still got it. He played the entirety of his first album Astral Weeks. The whole thing was unbelievable. He was just as free as he was when he was younger, which was amazing.
Fandango: Are you signed on to the other films, and which would be your favorite book to film?
Pattinson: I don't know what the specifics are. I went into it thinking it was going to be a trilogy. I think everything is dependent on how it does on November 21. Hopefully they'll do the second one and that’s the one I liked most out of the series.
Robert Pattinson Interview with Boston Globe
Well it's a slow news day so I'm posting the whole article...
Thanks to Estrellas for the link :-))
LOS ANGELES -There's no ignoring those lips, and Robert Pattinson is the first to admit it. They're red, almost blood red, and they took a lot of lipstick to create. Pattinson is not proud.
It wasn't as bad as having his naturally luxurious eyebrows plucked into submission for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." ("At first I said, 'No way, that's for girls,' " he said. "But I let them.") Though it wasn't easy, either. The lipstick was piled on so thick that no amount of wiping could erase it entirely at the end of the workday.
Still, a basically unknown actor has to do what he has to do. In the case of playing the lead vampire in the widely anticipated "Twilight," which opens Friday, that meant having a lot of white makeup airbrushed on and lipstick applied regularly. Pattinson doesn't know the exact shade. (In real life his lips are plump but a tad pale.)
"I know, it's so embarrassing; it's really embarrassing," said Pattinson, laughing, as he often does, at the incongruity of his life now. "I don't know, I never understood why I had lipstick on. I never understood a lot of things. I think I looked a little bit too dead."
Still, the 22-year-old Pattinson's career may be about to come to life in a major way. Advance ticket sales for "Twilight," based on Stephenie Meyer's mega-selling novel for young adults, are enor mous. Teenage girls can't wait. And what they want is the face on the poster - the pouty pretty boy with the oddly glowing gold eyes.
In "Twilight," Pattinson plays Edward Cullen, part of an immortal family of bloodsuckers living in Oregon, where the constant cloud cover allows them to move about freely in the daylight that would otherwise cause them to glisten like gold. But these vampires are civilized. They gorge on animal blood instead of their neighbors', which is kind but never quite sates them. Of course there's a love interest for Pattinson, a girl named Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart from "Into the Wild") who moves to Oregon and enrolls at the same high school. She's actually the main character, and the one girls everywhere have related to in making "Twilight" the book a smash.
The novel intimidated Pattinson. In no uncertain terms, it describes his character as a physical god: not quite human, almost superhuman. Six-pack abs are a given. He's not just handsome, he's heartbreakingly so. Mostly he was not how Pattinson imagined himself at the time of his audition, when he described himself as relatively fat after a year of focusing on his music (piano, guitar, performing around London with a buddy).
More often than not, Pattinson has been cast as the geek rather than the guy who gets the girl. As a model from ages 12 to 15, he says he couldn't book a job. While he was in one of the Harry Potter movies - wizard-in-training Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007) - he was, he says, in it "for about five seconds."
"I just sort of thought this is stupid going into this casting to play like the best-looking human thing ever created - and that's the whole point of his character," Pattinson said. "My only idea for the role was to go in pouting, intensely pouting, and that was it. Then I met Kristen and she really played it unexpectedly and it kind of shocked me into thinking of something. And then I wanted to do the part afterward."
What he did not like, however, was the need to transform his body into some sort of unnatural fighting machine. For the first time in his life, the Brit started a fitness regimen (which, for the record, he hated every single second of and has long since stopped): kickboxing three hours a day, running another two, rarely eating. But instead of bulking up, his body wasted away. Director Catherine Hardwicke ("Thirteen," "Lords of Dogtown") demanded he regain the weight.
"In the book it's talking about him having this rock-solid body and blah blah blah and I didn't want to just do that for aesthetic reasons," Pattinson said. "I was trying to think how he can have a six-pack without it being like I sold out. . . . I want to lose every ounce of fat and have these long muscles, this sort of weird body, so it really looked like you could quite likely be seen as a monster."
Hardwicke, however, was looking more for male-female chemistry, even if it's of an inter-species sort. And she says she saw it almost the second she looked through the lens during Pattinson's screen test with Stewart. She went home to edit the footage, just to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her.
"He had a completely different look but I could still see it," Hardwicke said. "He immediately got with a trainer because we wanted his body toned, to be able to be physical and accomplish all the stunts.
"Robert really put everything into this," she continued. "He learned to drive. He learned to play baseball, which he really took to great. We wanted to be true to the source material, and his Edward is Edward."
In person it's clear he was the man behind all that makeup, although no doppelganger. He's lankier and still pale, with gray-blue eyes that most likely don't glow in the dark. The smoldering squint is the same, though. His hair is messy, and he's got the all-but-required scruff of beard.
But he's also got that self-deprecating British wit (the American accent in the movie is a put-on), laughs at himself often, and is in fact a bit awkward. More accustomed to period dramas or fantasy films, he says he's only now getting to play normal. He says he's better suited for that than for the Adonis he plays in "Twilight" (although the word sequel comes up hopefully more than once).
Big sigh. "The funny thing is I've been trying to get pretty boy roles for the last four years and nobody cast me," Pattinson said. "It's like the world has changed its mind this year: 'Oh yeah, you're attractive, now we've decided.' I'm like, 'OK.' . . .
"But the pretty boy thing isn't easy for me," he added, looking embarrassed at even using the term to describe himself. "I literally have to be filmed from the right angle or I look deformed. I'm not just one of those guys you can shoot from any angle and they look perfect."
Pattinson, whose dad sold cars and whose mom handled bookings for a modeling agency, at first looked at acting as a way to help pay for his private school education. But he says he never cared if he got a part or got rejected. Still, he loved movies, particularly American movies, and particularly American movies starring Jack Nicholson. Now he's temporarily living in Los Angeles (rented everything) and he's set to star with Dennis Hopper and Rosario Dawson in "Parts Per Billion," in which he plays an absolutely average American, he says excitedly.
But normal has ended for Pattinson for now. He's got girls asking him to bite their necks. Cameras snap unexpectedly. Friends step away when fans approach. He was recently recognized by the staff at his local In-N-Out Burger, where he prefers to read scripts over what he considers the more pretentious Starbucks.
"Hey, aren't you . . ." the staffer started out, and suddenly Pattinson couldn't concentrate anymore. "I was like, 'Sigh, now I've got to find another place. I've got to go to Fatburger.' "
Hollywood Outbreak Audio of Rob/Nikki Reed at KOL :-)
You can hear Rob talk about a customs lady, who he claims was 70, telling him she was going to the midnight showing of Twilight :-) It's HERE.
And Nikki Reed gave an interview to film.com. Here are the parts she talks about Rob:
LL: I feel like in the first book especially both you and Rob's characters are held up to be the absolute embodiment of beauty. How do they pitch that to you? I mean, does someone just come up and say "Well, you need to be the most beautiful person EVER."?
Nikki ReedNR: I always feel like I answer this the wrong way. I'm not that, I don't know if anybody is. I can tell you people I find beautiful. I don't know really how to deal with it. It was really hard for me in the beginning. Really tempting to read blogs and the mail from the Twilight kids. Now I am Rosalie but there was a time when I was still Nikki and people still had the option of criticizing that. Just because I don't look like her in my other films doesn't mean I don't get it.
There's a lot of pressure. It's very odd. When it comes to beauty, when it comes to perfection ... nobody is ever going to be the definitive, beautiful queen. It's an impossible task. That was the most difficult part for me when I was approaching the part. You have to let that go. There's a lot of little girls out there happy to say Rob is the most beautiful guy in the world, but there aren't 650 boys out there behind the ropes screaming for me.
LL: So, what are your thoughts on the soundtrack?
NR: I was a really big advocate to get something from Rob on. I have a big musical connection with Rob. Just for the sake of it I'm not going to say where he plays, but they are just little shows and he plays for us. He's amazing. Jackson Rathbone is amazing as well. I play a little guitar, but I'm not as good as Rob is.
LL: What sort of music do you listen to?
NR: Rob and I went to see Kings of Leon and they were really good. He's gotten me interested in that whole world, Van Morrison too. I went and saw The Raconteurs with him as well. Oh, and Aretha Franklin! I like a lot of old Bluesy singers.
Moviefone Unscripted Bonus Clips
AWKWAAAARD with the cat comment...Rob, let me introduce you to filter, filter meet Rob or don't! We love the unfiltered Rob :-))))
More Rob @ signing in Philly
He looks like she asked him to bite her, and like maybe he is considering it.
Keeping the ladies tongues wagging as usual.
Scarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry
Okay HERE is a piece from Fox. It has really become quite the hysteria hasn't it?
I don't want to preach... So I'm not going to...
Just be cool people :)
I don't want to preach... So I'm not going to...
Just be cool people :)
Robert Pattinson in New York Times!
NY Times has a piece about Rob very seductively named "A Night Out with Robert Pattinson"! 2 weeks ago it was just us and now NY Times has an interview with him. How 'bout that?
WHAT does a newly minted British movie star do when he hits New York?
He heads straight to Brooklyn to visit Bedford-Stuyvesant, apparently.
“I visited the Marcy projects this afternoon,” said Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, the handsome vegetarian vampire in the film “Twilight,” which opens Nov. 21. “It was great. Nobody noticed me at all.”
Mr. Pattinson, 22, said that visiting the old stamping ground of one of his musical idols, Jay-Z, brought back memories of his own earlier artistic endeavors.
“When I was 14, I fronted a rap trio,” he said late Sunday night at the Stanton Social, a dim, bustling tapas bar on the Lower East Side. Mr. Pattinson said the band was “pretty hard-core for three private school kids from suburban London.” He added, “And my mum’s, like, cramping our style, popping her head in to ask, ‘You boys want a sandwich?’ ” (Gozde's note: I swear he is making this sh*t up, it just can't be for real! :-))
Lying low in a hoodie and his ubiquitous black ski cap, Mr. Pattinson might have gone undetected in Brooklyn, but that may not be the case for long.
“In Rome there were absolute mobbings,” said the film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, who, along with Jamie Marshall — her boyfriend and a producer of “Twilight” — had joined Mr. Pattinson for dinner. Ms. Hardwicke and Mr. Pattinson had just returned from an Italian press tour for the film adaptation of the novel for teenagers, the first in a series that has sold over 10 million copies and counting.
“I don’t know how many girls with braces tried to kiss Rob,” Ms. Hardwicke said.
“They’d ask, and if you said ‘no,’ they’d kiss you anyway,” said Mr. Pattinson, who is probably best known for his role as ill-fated Cedric Diggory in two Harry Potter films.
After macaroni and cheese and fish tacos, the group ambled over to the low-key Death & Co., a lounge on the Lower East Side, where Ms. Hardwicke sipped a raspberry and soda concoction and sketched Mr. Pattinson and her other tablemates on a napkin.
“One of my favorite parts of making the movie,” she said, “was watching Rob play the music he wrote. He just lets it out, and it breaks your heart.”
Mr. Pattinson, who sings and plays guitar, has two earthy ballads, “Never Think” and “Let Me Sign,” featured in “Twilight.” But criticism brought forth by a Web clip of an unannounced acoustic set at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles last month has turned Mr. Pattinson off making music.
“I was so not ready for the scrutiny,” he said. “I haven’t touched a guitar since. When you know you have to be good every time, you never want to do it again.”
Ms. Hardwicke, who had pushed Mr. Pattinson to include the tracks in the film, said, “Now I feel guilty.” Then she pored over a set of “Twilight” trading cards. “There’s no director card,” she said, without a trace of regret.
Mr. Pattinson, nursing a whiskey and soda, examined his card. “I don’t think it looks like me at all,” he said, tossing it aside. “There’s just no connection.”
“It’s crazy,” Ms. Hardwicke said. “There are T-shirts, trading cards, a board game. They even sent samples of underwear with Rob’s head on them.”
After a moment of reflection, she added, “I hope they nix those.”
Street talkin' with Robert Pattinson :-)
Okay the guy interviewing him is SO gay and SO smitten with him, it's cute :-)
Twilight Premiere Info
They will be handing out wristbands that get fans into the fanwatch
area for the premiere on Monday, 11.17. It will begin at 12pm PT near the
Village and Bruin theater at 961 Broxton Ave. (which means people are actually lining up NOW, I kid I kid, you can start lining up tomorrow. don't forget your ear plugs:))
Update-Repost MovieFone Interview
Now you don't have to navigate to their site
someone awesome put it on YouTube
MTV exclusive clip
Updated the video, thanks to Holly, you can now hear what they are saying :-)
If you can't view it HERE is the link to the youtube video but the volume is very low on that one, try headphones.
If you can't view it HERE is the link to the youtube video but the volume is very low on that one, try headphones.
CHAGRIN :)
I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause — no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.
Soo, Kathryn designed these beautiful t-shirts and we thought we would share them with you in case you were looking for a "Twilight" t-shirt but didn't want it to scream "TWILIGHT!" :) FYI: we don't get any profit from this we just liked the t-shirts :-)
Here is the link to her "store".
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.69
Soo, Kathryn designed these beautiful t-shirts and we thought we would share them with you in case you were looking for a "Twilight" t-shirt but didn't want it to scream "TWILIGHT!" :) FYI: we don't get any profit from this we just liked the t-shirts :-)
Here is the link to her "store".
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.69
Q & A with Seventeen Magazine
Robert Pattinson Q & A, HERE. Nobody allows embedding these days :-((
Finally! "I have 2 pairs of pants"...yep, we know... :))
Finally! "I have 2 pairs of pants"...yep, we know... :))
Rob quotes from InStyle
In general: "I don’t want to look trendy, so I try to find clothes where somebody wouldn’t be able to say, 'Oh, you’re a cool guy,’" says Pattinson. The actor also admits, "I do like the 'expensive but disheveled' thing if I am going out."--(Gozde's note: Yeah right! Like he spends any money on the clothes! :)
"These are my own sunglasses, but they kind of go with it. It’s not really that different from something I would normally wear," says Pattinson for this photo:
Moviefone Unscripted!
You can watch Stephenie, Kristen and Rob on Moviefone Unscripted HERE.
SM looks gorgeous! She lost so much weight! As Joe Biden would say "God love her!"
Thanks to Estrellas for the link :-)
SM looks gorgeous! She lost so much weight! As Joe Biden would say "God love her!"
Thanks to Estrellas for the link :-)
Dark Horizons Interview
I posted the written interview yesterday but here
are the videos to go with it.
Part 1
Part 2
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