Girls strip off for him, fans mob his set, but the sweet little star of Twilight, and the world's most wanted man, still struggles with his sex scenes
Would I like to interview Robert Pattinson, the world’s hottest young actor? Yes, obviously — although getting close to the boy who plays the “devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful” vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight at first seems virtually impossible. Penned away in the Dorchester, like a rare Siberian tiger cub — he can’t stay at home in Barnes when he comes back from LA because the fans know where he lives — he is being firmly guarded by a brace of film execs when I arrive for the interview.A spiky PR woman for his new film, Remember Me — a romantic drama memorable mainly for the fact that it has Pattinson in it and is not a Twilight film — loudly repeats instructions that there are to be “no personal questions”. A Spanish reporter returns from the interview room claiming that when she asked him if he liked cooking, she nearly got thrown out. Another, a Brazilian, reveals that, in fact, he did get thrown out of an interview with Pattinson’s Twilight co-star and rumoured girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, back in Sao Paulo, for asking about boyfriends. “Her bodyguard asked me to leave,” he shrieks. “I said nao! And then he tosched me on the shoulder, and I said, ‘Okay, I go.’”
“Like, who the ferque is this diva?” says someone else, and by the time I am ushered next door to meet him, I’m thinking the same. But as soon as I clap eyes on him, and take in that kittenish smile, the tousled, leonine eyebrows and — of course — the lush whip of unwashed hair, all that instantly vanishes. Pattinson is calm, polite and pleasant: heaven on a stick.(Kate: Oh Yeah, what a perfect description)
Swigging nonchalantly from a large bottle of Hildon like Stoli at a Facebook house party, he is also utterly oblivious to the commotion outside. And as for being a diva, well, let’s just say his agent, a jaded LA type who sits in the room with him, is far from impressed with his attempts so far, rolling his eyes when Pattinson asks: “Nick, am I a diva?” (Kate:Gigggle) The actor furrows his brow. “I mean, I had a very diva-ish conversation with some people about some stuff in this film about a day ago...” Nick sighs and drawls: “He just said what he thought in a script meeting. Please don’t use that as an example.”
Then again, being beautiful “is quite hard”, even though he insists that 50% of people don’t get his appeal: “They’re like, what’s that all about?” Certainly, today, he is trying his best not to be beautiful, in a greasy cap and sweats. Only his eyebrows seem manicured, although he insists they aren’t. He had them plucked on the first Twilight film, but “you get to the point where you think, ‘Okay, I look like a transvestite now’”. Not that the girls — Twilight’s obsessed fans are called Twiharders, and a documentary, Robsessed, has been made about them — were put off.
Over the past 18 months, the actor has been linked to countless models and actresses, and recently appeared to confirm the rumours that he was dating Stewart, but then mysteriously claimed that he was “allergic to vagina”. Er, what was that about? Is he dating Stewart then? Or is he, in fact, gay? I heard his two older sisters used to dress him up and call him Claudia when he was a boy.
Actually, he’s “straight”, he says. (Kate: Really, now there's a shocker! Where's the sarcasm font?) He found the male-on-male sex scenes he had to perform in a film, Little Ashes, last year “strange. I played Salvador Dali. We were both straight, but he was Spanish, so much more confident about being naked and stuff, although when it comes down to it, it’s just as awkward with a girl, especially if you are straight and with a girl you don’t like... Anyway, Javier was really cool. After we had been pretending to have sex on this balcony in Barcelona, he was like, ‘We have such a strange job...’”
Poor Pattinson! Eyeing the bed in his suite, I dare a question about those sex scenes with girls. He famously had to pop a Valium to get through the audition for Twilight, in which he needed to make out on a bed with Stewart. For the love scenes in Remember Me, his co-star Emilie de Ravin “was very, very, very comfortable”, he sighs. “I’m always the one who’s the most uncomfortable. So we came into the room, and they said ‘It’s a closed set,’ blah, blah, and we got on to the bed and the director was like, ‘I got you these things, if just maybe you wanted to use them. You don’t have to use them, maybe it will make you more comfortable.’ They were these bondage things: lube and handcuffs and porn videos. It was so funny!
"And when you end up doing it, you have this little patch on your privates. I didn’t really tape it up properly, so I’d spent so long taping it round myself and then literally it falls off within one second and it’s taped to the sheet. And you realise the whole crew are looking directly at your butt crack.” He blanches.(Kate: Oh to be part of the crew) “I can’t think of anything exciting for them about this. It gives you a lot of respect for porn stars.”
I decide to dive in and ask him about Stewart. Does he believe in love at first sight? “Yes,” he says. Has he... ever been in love? “Ah, yes, I think so.” “What’s...” Nick looks up from his BlackBerry. “Let’s keep to the film,” he snaps. Pattinson looks embarrassed, but the moment has passed, and I am to leave. He gets up and gives me a kiss on the cheek: light and soft and not at all unfresh. I read somewhere one girl’s parents paid £20,000 in a charity auction for one of those. (Kate: I do not hate you, I do not hate you, I do not hate you. If I keep saying it I might actually believe it. NAH Didn't work)
Remember Me is released on April 2Source Times Online Thanks to RobPattzNews for the tip
99 comments:
What a cute interview!
The whole crew looking at his butt crack? Yes please!
And yes Kate, I hate her too!
So cute.
I'm with you rpg, I'd actually pay good money to stare at his butt crack.
Sad but true...
Heaven...sex...whatever!
I want to be the stick.
The lady sounds very condescending, I think, borderline insulting. Oh, and she dissed Remember Me in passing
Oh for gawd's sake, Nick, give it a rest! You've got your pound of flesh off his back (is that apt?), don't be editing him or putting words in his mouth. He's perfectly capable of answering questions or deflecting them if he chooses. It's become surreal how these so-called "handlers" (ie, Summit PR pit bulls) are ready to pounce on an interviewer the second K's name is even mentioned. See Channel 5 interview on the red carpet. Really pathetic. And WTF, he can't be asked about cooking?? Rob editing himself for these jokers is really troublesome. Back the eff off, he's not a child.
Heaven on a stick, chocolate on ice cream, jam on toast, it's all good just like Rob. **sigh** And she got a kiss too? Grrrrrrr
@ lallieb
ITA - the PR types are ridiculously over-zealous. He isn't a child nor is he stupid. The unguarded comments that he sometimes lets slip all add to his charm. I'd hate to see Rob's every interview turn into some bland snoozefest like some "stars" churn out.
He is unique, funny and charming, and we love him for it!
Kate - We all agree with you!
This is new description for him. It's perfect. '"But as soon as I clap eyes on him, and take in that kittenish smile, the tousled, leonine eyebrows and — of course — the lush whip of unwashed hair, all that instantly vanishes. Pattinson is calm, polite and pleasant: heaven on a stick."
Oh yeahhhhh! Robbie P and me and his unguarded comments! god what I would nt' do to be an interviewer. And how do we get a job like that? and I agree 50-'The unguarded comments that he sometimes lets slip all add to his charm. I'd hate to see Rob's every interview turn into some bland snoozefest like some "stars" churn out.
He is unique, funny and charming, and we love him for it!' Yeh, see it's starting to happen to 'im now that he's gotten to big and the part about turning to Nick to ask if he's becoming a Diva! hahhahh soooo Rob...and so charming! So adorable he is . How can he be all that and sex on a stick on legs on what ever you fill in the blank1 Oh and ladies I finally, finally, got to watch my very own copy of Little Ashes! Loved it and thought it incredible what the did in that movie...the quote on the front says, 'Mind blowingly beautiful...Pattinson is simply brilliant!' YES! Win Robbie P, they love you they really love you! That Oscar nod is not long off you mark my words...lovey. you will win and we will all be right there with you! In heart and mind and soul we will be there with you!
oh and the butt crack thing? yeah me too...i would pay good money to go see that in person are you kidding? where do I sign up for that.... a sweet young Rob Crack addict!:? gives the term a whole different meaning now doesn't it ladies? hahahhahLOL! god I kill myself!
"Call my baby lollipop
Tell you why
His kiss is sweeter than apple pie
And when he does his shaky rockin' dance
Man, I haven't got a chance
I call him
Lollipop Lollipop
Oh lolli lolli lolli
Lollipop Lollipop
Sweeter than candy on a stick
Huckleberry, chimry or lime
If you had a choice
He'd be your pick
BUT LOLLIPOP IS MINE!"
LMAO- ANTHEM! ;D
I've talked myself into so many new professions lately - actress (obv - paid to kiss Rob) journalist, make-up artist (hey if they're filming the butt it needs make-up...) stick - ok that's not strictly a profession but whatever.
Rob is broadening my horizons LOL!!
@ lallieb
Actually, I think Nick the manager had a point. This is not MTV or other Twilight-friendly outlet. This is Sunday Times. I´d say most ppl who read the paper would be likely to dismiss anything and anyone Twilight-related as, well, twilight-related. And this Camilla Long went out of her way to ensure exactly that. She was plainly not inerested in Remember Me except for sex scenes.
oops - I read the Sunday Times...
@Fifty to answer your question from other thread my day was great! How did you spend yours?
GEE, MY LOLLIPOP IS GREAT!
@Fifty and Imjabara, yes, that's my point. When Rob starts being guarded, we've lost him. I'm here only because of the unguarded, genuine, charming, awkward, funny, and yes, gorgeous, young British guy I heard when I would sneek onto YouTube at work. He's the only reason I got a personal laptop computer. And so the obsession began... My personal motto: Don't ever change! Grow and mature, yes, but never retreat.
@Fae
I had a good day thanks! Had family and friends round for lunch and went out with husband and kids for pizza.
Glad you enjoyed yours.
LOL @ your lollipop too :)
@Fifty I'm glad you had fun!
LOL that's my new thing!
FILLR
GEE, MY LOLLIPOP IS GREAT!
FILTM! :)
I am already bored of the same old questions and answers in Rob's interviews,Thanks Nick. When I first read Rob's interview in Details magazine I was confused and puzzled because I mistook his jokes. I was not use to a to a movie star being funny and clever in an article. Now I want more of it!
Fae:
You still up LOL!
I'm off soon...
Love your lollipop
The knicker-melting moment
OH we've all had a few of those!!
WHY the hell are they so damn protective of him saying anything personal?
He says he thinks he has been in love now, however???? In earlier interviews he has said he's never been in love and never had his heart broken soooooooo perhaps he is in love RIGHT NOW??
I LOVE that avi pic RPG.......was watching the New Moon special features on my new DVD and just paused on that pic for ages.
Do ya'll remember the story Rob told of being in a blockbuster standing behind a little girl that was about to get her very own Twilight DVD and how he said she was crying and shaking when they gave it to her ............and he was standing right behind her and she didn't notice him..........OMG she'd probably have keeled over dead if she had.
And he was so confused at her reaction to the DVD - he still just doesn't get it does he?
It was 73 degrees here yesterday and now it's freakin' SNOWING.......I have the fireplace going and about to watch NEW MOON!!!!!! yippeeee
@Dessert I'm off soon too. I can't sleep right now, I got up very late today!
Gee, my Lollipo is great! ;D
Fae:
I love your lollipop
did your Knicker melt LOL!
Goodnight ladies, I'm off to bed before my knickers melt, I'll soon be down to my last pair ;)
@Dessert I love my Lollipop too! :D
and no the lollipop melt! LMAO!
Good night Fifty!
GEE, MY LOLLIPOP IS GREAT! (get used to this :))
FILTM!
@avs, for the Sunday Times? Thanks for the inside info. However, some of what is written here is a bit suspect. Rob would really tell her he's "straight", doesn't seem like him (not that he isn't). The sex scenes in RM have been the topic on all the TV interviews he did here, and since she was restricted to what could be asked, don't think she was overly interested.
Fae:
come and twitter with me - I miss you :(((
@femroc, where the hell do you live with weather like that? I'm in New England and a beautiful almost summer like day?
@Dessert i don't even know how to use that thing! LOL
Fae:
If a technophobe like me can use it I'm sure you could. Lots of interesting stuff your missing
Ask your pal Annie!
My knickers are melting LOL!
Yeah she's sending me pics non stop! LOL!
Fae:
Me Too! She boosts my pic collection every day LOL
Dessert
Then why sould I BOHVER to go on twitter!?
Fae:
You can be NB with me and confuse me!
You ate your lollipop yet?
Awwwww that SUX that he can't go home to his folks' house. Remember those papz pics after Christmas they took at his home and how pissed off he looked.
So now they must lie in wait for him there.
Fuckin' blood suckers - I hate the Papparazzi................hate them.
Rob wants to get into politics - why doesn't he get some legislation going against pappz and get the laws changed.......so they don't invade and endanger people's lives.......it's maddening to people like him who are so popular right now.
"heaven on a stick" !!!!!!!!!!
@Fae ;)share it!!!!
@Dessert I'm saving him for later!
Annie MINE! ;P
@Fae lol Ok this time you can keep your lollipop.
Annie LOL!
Girls have you seen the full eclipse sneek peek video?
Rob working out and fighting
LMAO LMAO LMAO!
@Fae, no I try to stay away from eclipse spoilers....
Annie it's just the shooting, you have to see him training in black socks and a beanie and trying to punch a guy! LMAO!!!!! I'll tell you which minute and you can see just that!
2:40-2:59
awh--my knickers have melted
@Fae ok, I'llwatch it!!
@Fae,a stupid question: Where is it the vid???
@Annie LMAO! few posts below, the 7 minute one
Hi wens!
@Fae lol,thanks.I'm lost in Robstudio ;)
FAE!!!
come twitter w/us
how was bday?
@Annie Without me???!!!!! Don't make me come to you in a black socks and try to punch you!!!!
YES FAE....
twitter....
you know you want to....
@wens no, I don't like twitter! :P
Is that a trick question? LMAO! you asked me that yesterday! aha! and I told you it was good! :)
@Dessert I'd never give in... never! :)
@Fae, lol If you were on twitter you would know ;)
@Annie what would I know?
@Fae--it was--you did good LOL
@Fae now,don't make me come there and punch you!!! don't resist!!!
Fae;
What if I stopped commenting on ROBsessed! You would miss me :(((
@wens LMAO! see I told you I won't forget!
@Annie Rob doesn't need a black belt, he's got black socks! LOL!
That's a new category! It's better than a black belt! :D
GEE, MY LOLLIPOP IS GREAT!
@Dessert you won't stop! :P
@Fae--what's with the black socks??
@Fae mail ;)
avs
I hear you on what she said about REMEMBER ME. I think she was clueless. Look at her comments --
"Remember Me — a romantic drama memorable mainly for the fact that it has Pattinson in it and is not a Twilight film"
However, there is one review that totally gets it. It is awesome. The comments are equally amazing.
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/19/post-movie-coffee-remember-me/4#comments
@wens you haven't seen him working out??? LMAO! see the video "full eclipse sneek peek 7 minute"
2:40-2:59
@Fae--ok, i did see that--i really liked the harness thing--didn't notice the socks so much LOL
@wen lol,I did the same ;)Such a NB's we are
wens LOL socks were the first thing I noticed and I'm glad they're not white!
wens @ annie
Fifty shades LOL!!
Ur kidding me right?
@Fae mail :D
About Fifty Shades someone would have to sign me up to twiligthed, I tried 3 times with different names and e-mails and never got an account activation!
@Fae, do you want me to try?
Fae;
Signing up was the easy part - looking for the stories is a nightmare. LOL!
Angie says you got to come on twitter...
@Annie maybe one of these days
@fae mail
@Dessert I just need my Fifty Shades!
Me too Fae!!!!
76 chapter now LOL!
is ch 76 diff on Twi--i read it on ff
I'm still on 69 :(
wens,
I have no idea - I read it on twi.
Still reading I'll Be.. on ff though!
I'm off to bed now!
Sweet black belt dreams! LMAO!
Laters!
Gee, my Lollipop is great!
FILTM!
night Fae--sweet lollipop dreams
Night Fae
Sweet black socks Rob dreams
Laters...
Ok I've just watched ALL the special features, deleted scenes, etc. on the 2 extra discs for New Moon. And.........while good...........there is just not enough of Rob. It's almost like Rob told Chris to just 'barely put me in' and he did. They don't leave him out but he's just not the main attraction like I think he should be. True this is more of Taylors movie but I'm just selfish enough to want to see Rob, Rob, and more Rob.
And when they do interview him - he seems too serious, not joking around like he did on the Twilight set and wow I wish we could have heard him on the commentary of NM - he was so hilarious on Twilight.........."I'm just not scary, with the little baseball outfit and the bouffant and sculpted eyebrows"
So funny.............just loved hearing him talk about it and put it down .....in his own endearing way.
@femroc, I'm surprised to hear he is on the DVD at all! That's a gift considering how little he was in the movie. Beggars can't be chosers.
I know - I considered not buying the DVD at all cause Rob's in it so little. I only care about Rob!
just saw RM again and guess what? the theater was sold out for an 11:30 show... just sharing the good news.. carry on
this was a deep conversation actually like it rob you are so perfect as much as you cant wait from a human
This reporter's tweets were posted on here by Kate on 1 February - when she proclaimed she was now a Rob fan - must have been when she did the interview:
http://www.robsessedpattinson.com/2010/02/camilla-long-sunday-times-uk-is-now.html
@ Georgie
I KNEW that this interview rang a bell...
@AVS: I agree with your comment about the interview. She had her own agenda. Think this has been said many times but Nick is a personal manager, not a PR lackey, and Rob is an adult. Nick's on Rob's payroll. If Rob didn't want him around, or in the room, then he wouldn't be.
Georgie thanks for that, when I read this interview something about it felt familiar and now we know why. So apparently this is an older interview?
"Am I a diva?" that was funny and too cute. Robert is still charming/funny and adorkable. However I agree with lallieb.
This overkill control of his interviews is getting ridiculous, and it's not helping him at all. And while this is a little off-topic it should be addressed: the Twilight saga will be a hit regardless of the rumors. And those rumors have done nothing for Robert. The only one who benifited and still benifits from them is Kristen (she gets to keep her name in circulation).
Now back to what I was saying, I understand that this is a press junket for Remember Me. And I wouldn't complain if this was the first time it happened, or even if this was only going on several times. But this has been going on for several months now, consistently. It is really a shame that he went from being one of those open, charming and completely untrained stars, to now one of the most indirectly closed off/controlled interviewees around.
I mean every celebrity gets asked if they are single or not. They can't even ask him if he likes to cook! Gee, what next? It is very sad to behold.
I just have one question, when will Robert be allowed to do a real interview again? When will we get treated to his uncensored charm again? And when will we get to see him in an interview that is longer than 5 minutes?
It's just really sad to see Robert allowing this (completely unbeneficial for him) PR game to go on for so long (yes, fair is fair, he bears part of the blame too). And it is doing him no favors...
I don't blame Rob for keeping his private life private, it should not be for sale like many other stars make it to be. Nick and Rob may be playing good cop, bad cop I truly believe it is to protect Rob.
I understand the interviews should be about the movie. The problem is too many people (media) want a piece of him and they are repeating interviews and his comments over and over again. Rob commented recently that he was able to just answer without thinking during the New Moon tour because it was always the same. I think Rob is still being clever and funny in many interviews.
lallieb: Yeah, he's perfectly capable of answering or deflecting questions as he chooses. But your later comment made me so sad: "When Rob starts being guarded, we've lost him." That's true. :(
50: Yeah, they act like he's a child and stupid.
50, Imjabara and lallieb:
About the unguarded comments: He WILL balk, he will rebel, you can bet, if the PR people push him too hard. It's coming.
However, he's canny about his future as well, and if, as Nicola said in a post somewhere, he is trading his Twipower for the ability to make movies like RM, until he makes enough money and has enough influence, he'll play the game. To a point.
I think that if anyone pushes this man too far, he'll butt them in the ass. He says he's such a pussy. Yeah, right Rob, sure. Actually I think he has more balls than any of them, only they, too, are taken in by his, was it 'kittenish' smile??
Meow, Robert!
Oh AP i am so glad you wrote that! I was thinking reading all the comments, that Nick is not a PR man, and they are on pretty friendly terms. I am wondering if maybe Rob himself realizes afterwards that he says too much, or that he he says something that could be misconstrued, because he is so stream of consciousness-no impulse control in his responses, and so perhaps he asks Nick to kind of help as a guard to his words that he cannot quite yet stop from pouring out.
I personally love the realness of his responses and insight into his personality via the stream of consciousness, but I can see in afterthoughts him regretting it, or possibly hurting or embarrassing loved ones (like his family) between his impulsivity and humour.
I remember his mom on one of those shows--I thnk The View-- seeming to give him a hint to 'not go there.'
@Solas: Well, I thought it needed clarification as people seemed confused about his role in Rob's career. I should say that Rob would probably pay him commission as Nick works with 3Arts. He's been a producer, and managed other clients too - although I think Rob would now be a full-time job all on his own...lol A manager is part of an actor's team, along with agents, publicists, assistants etc. and the one who has the most responsibility. He really is Team Rob - and the relationship will only last if there is trust and respect between the two. An actor depends on his manager for guidance and direction with all aspects of his career. Nick also has also said he believes in helping to find projects that may suit his clients.
I agree that it must be useful sometimes to have someone else around to stop 'foot in mouth'-itis. In this case he definitely handed the question to Nick, as I'm sure he thought "How the hell do I answer that?" You don't call yourself a diva, or not, unless you're an opera star. lol And I'm not worried that Rob will ever completely lose that impulsivity. It might just get tempered a little...
I am not sur ehe CAN lose impulsivity, but yes, he may temper it with age and experience and security (I think some of the blurting and joking is from nervousness and insecurity). He said after the Details interview that he has learned to not joke, and to not give interviews. Obviously he has to give interviews still, at least at this point in his career and contracts, so he may want someone to guard the tongue, so to speak.
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