NEW STILLS + Robert Pattinson talks about his career & MORE - "I don't know if I'm any good at sculpting a career, but I know what I want to do."

NEW STILLS + Robert Pattinson talks about his career & MORE - "I don't know if I'm any good at sculpting a career, but I know what I want to do."

UPDATE: 2 more print interviews under the cut! Love what the HuffPo interviewer said about the Pretty Girl Rock scene. If you watched our press con videos and heard our questions/comments, you KNOW we take issue with how the scene is being reported. I'm soulmates with the HuffPo interviewer. And Rob of course. ;)
The second interviewer has some cool quotes about Rob's full body acting with Rey's look and more!

These gems almost got away from us! They came out during the premiere and FeistyAngel gave us the heads up about the new stills found in The Short List magazine, an extension of the Sydney Morning Herald.

Not only do we get these fantastic stills of Rob from The Rover but the interview is really good too. He talks about Life and why he wanted to play Dennis Stock. Idol's Eye and The Childhood of a Leader get a mention too, the latter said to film in September.






Check out a few more print interviews under the cut! Good bathroom material LOL

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Time magazine explores the bigotry of Twilight Haters

Time magazine explores the bigotry of Twilight Haters



Time.com posted a fantastic opinion piece about Twilight and the love we have for the story and by proxy, Edward Cullen. I thought many of you would enjoy this piece and enjoy discussing it. I was just talking about this issue to a friend over the weekend. I'm glad to see it in a credible and mainstream news outlet such as Time.

The Harsh Bigotry of Twilight-Haters by Erika Christakis:

Hating Twilight is so 2009, and with the newest installment, Breaking Dawn, ruling the box office, the juggernaut hardly needs defenders. But the virulent seriousness of the haters is surprising. Many of the reviews have heaped disproportionate and moralizing scorn on an Oscar-winning director’s fantasy enactment of a young girl’s dreams and fears. Kristen Stewart and her co-stars have been excoriated for their “sullen” and “wooden” performances despite receiving respectable and sometimes highly favorable reviews in other movies in which they have starred.

The negative reactions fall in two camps: The dismissive camp simply mocks Twilight’s incorporation of silly, “moony” elements like undying love and the surprisingly authentic portrayal of wedding ritual, honeymoon jitters and the shock of unintended pregnancy; the topics are apparently too boring and unrelatable for most reviewers. The deluded camp, conversely, takes Twilight far too seriously, faulting it for leading young girls to mistake fantasy for reality in dangerous, disempowering ways.

It makes you wonder if some people missed the memo that hundreds of millions of females, like their male counterparts, enjoy their fantasy life straight-up weird, sexy, and implausible.

Why is it that female fantasies are such a source of derision and fear? The male species is allowed all manner of violent, creepy, ludicrous and degrading movie tropes, and while we may not embrace them as high art, no one questions them seriously as entertainment, even when sometimes we probably should. (Violent imagery is, after all, associated with violent behavior.) You want to saw someone in half or put their head in a vise? Showcase naked strippers as a fake plot device? Pair a beautiful and successful career woman with a slovenly, unemployed man? Pretend you are Wolverine? Go right ahead. We know you can’t really be serious. But watch a tender wedding night between a virginal, undead superhero and his teenage, human bride, and the scolds come out in force. Are parents worried that their teenage daughter actually wants to be impregnated by a 100-year-old vampire who can crush a headboard with his hands (and perform an emergency C-section with his teeth)?

Maybe part of the reason critics deplore these movies is not only because they are so unfamiliar with kooky heterosexual female fantasies but also because they don’t really like what these fantasies say about men.

The discomfiting reality of the Twilight phenomenon is the way it strips off the veneer of détente between the sexes. For all the progress we promised our daughters, women’s bodily experiences mark them in ways not only unimaginable, but also uninteresting and even repulsive, to men. When was the last time (or only time) you saw a movie that featured menstruation? (The Runaways, directed by … a woman.)

Most mothers know the sense of their body being taken over by aliens, and more than 500,000 women still die in childbirth every year worldwide. Is it really so surprising that we would be drawn to Bella’s gruesome tribulations? For all its tremendous ick factor and craziness, the vampire-hybrid delivery captured with excruciating realism the desperation (on poor Edward’s bloodied face) that attends a birth when things go badly wrong. You could hear a pin drop at the screening my daughter and I attended. The gothic horror felt more palpable because it merely exaggerated, rather than imagined sui generis, what many women go through every day. We sure know blood.

The other thing women know all too well is the lurking danger of men. The idea of a wildly earnest romantic lead who isn’t demanding oral sex in the high school parking lot (and who happens to look like Robert Pattinson) is all very appealing, no? Yet our perfect vampire man, alas, also has the capacity to inflict serious harm — much like in the non-cinematic world, as even 5-year-old girls can intuit.

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So??? What does the dark recess think about this?? I must know :)

The British are Coming - Robert Pattinson makes it onto another list!

Robert Pattinson comes in at Number 8 in Times Magazines Top 10 British Invasions.

As former tabloid editor Piers Morgan slides into Larry King's slot on CNN with his new talk show Piers Morgan Tonight, TIME takes a look at some other British exports that made it big across the pond.



8. Robert Pattinson

The 23-year-old actor, born and raised in London, thought he'd hit the big time when he landed his first blockbuster role playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series. But it wasn't until Pattinson was picked to play seductive vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga that he got the chance to really sink his teeth into Hollywood. Since then, he's sparked a Beatlesque frenzy among Twihard fans and written an alternative, dark and intense chapter in the annals of U.S. pop culture. Now if we could only figure out whether or not he's single.

Check out the full list HERE - I must be at #11 :-)

Robstenation via @cupidscloud

Time Magazine Talk To Eclipse Producer Wyck Godfrey About Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart

Time Magazine Talk To Eclipse Producer Wyck Godfrey About Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart

Everyone is talking about whatever is going on between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Is that good for business?
Do you want the honest answer? I haven't even thought of it that way.

That's not the honest answer.
It really is. I honestly don't think of it in terms of business. It doesn't affect our core business at all. The thing I do think about is, Oh my God, I hope they stay together. Because it could be awkward on set in the next movie if they have a huge falling out. It's like, Wow, they have to portray this love story through two more movies. God, I hope they stay together; please stay together. That's what affects my day-to-day. (Kate: Ya, Ya I bet it's the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you think of going to bed at night, NOT)

But you walk by newsstands and it's a publicist's dream: they are on every cover.
I don't feel it's out there anymore. Do people still report on it? If you look at people who have a stable personal life, the rags get tired of them. I think we're heading to that place where they are together and that's their life and we better find someone new to create drama out of.

To read the rest of the interview head over to Time.com

Robert Pattinson - "Time" Magazine's Sexiest (Bookish) Man Alive - HQ Scan

Robert Pattinson - "Time" Magazine's Sexiest (Bookish) Man Alive - HQ Scan

We had this a few days ago from the "Time" Website (so if it seems familiar that 's why) but here's the actual scan.
I'm not quiet sure why they said Sexiest "Bookish" Man Alive, to me he's the Sexiest Man Alive full stop, no question.

Thanks to mediocrechick at twilightxchange

Chris Weitz Talks About Our Favourite Subject - Robert Pattinson To "Time" Magazine

Chris Weitz Talks About Our Favourite Subject - Robert Pattinson To "Time" Magazine


I have to be careful about what I write here because it will be tweeted the moment TIME hits the stands. And if I say something bad about Rob Pattinson, I'm dead meat. (Kate: LOL Chris, how well you know us !) That's the devotion the Twilight films inspire. (Kate: No that's the devotion Rob inspires) It's certainly not how he planned it. And though I am continually impressed by the aplomb with which he handles the hysteria, I occasionally think he would take it all back if given the chance. Because essentially, Rob, 23, is a reserved, bookish sort of specimen, a guy who'd rather spend the night at the corner table in the pub with friends — a bit of a weirdo, frankly, in the best sense.

So how to write about someone who seems to answer Freud's rhetorical question, What do women want? Perhaps it's just worth pointing out that it'd be fun to have a beer with him even if he weren't Edward Cullen. (Kate: I bet it would and you know I'm willing to offer myself up to test that out for all the ladies here!) That we haven't seen a tenth of what he can do onscreen. And that important things, beyond the veil of Hollywood, occupy his time too — music, conversation, ideas, a sense of the absurd. Which, maybe, explains why he never gets to my e-mails. I love you, Rob! Call me! (Kate: I love you too Rob, Call me too :-})

Weitz directed The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Source Time Thanks to Lisa for sending us the link!

Is Robert Pattinson More Influential Than Obama?

Is Robert Pattinson more influential than Barack Obama? Well according to Time Magazine's Time 100 Poll he is and so is Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert...

I gotta say Rob is pretty influential in my life, more influential than Obama for sure but Lady Gaga? Not so much :)



Thanks to clarabolina and aimeyeteaa for the tips.

Source: TIME Magazine

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are in Time Magazine's "People Who Mattered" List

Another end of the year list comes from Time Magazine. Ben Barnenke (chairman of US Federal Reserve) is person of the year and Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart take the #15 spot in the "People Who Mattered" list. Right between Sarah Palin and Alex Rodriguez... Random huh? :)

You can VOTE for your person of the year at THIS link, also don't forget to slider at THIS LINK to rate Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart :)



It's been at least a decade since we had a pair of authentic, shriek-inducing, catch-me-when-I-faint teen idols on our hands. But suddenly, OMG, they're back. What makes the stars of the Twilight series so idolizable? It's partly that ineffable combination of dirtiness and innocence: they're sexy, but they're not sexual. They're also not generically beautiful. God knows they're hot enough, but they look interesting too. Intelligent. Slightly askew. You don't just want to look at them or sleep with them; you want to talk to them. Like the vampire Pattinson plays onscreen, you can see that once upon a time they were merely human, just like us.

— Lev Grossman

Thanks to Dil for the tip :) You can check out the rest of the list at Time.com

Time Magazine Featuring New Moon & Robert Pattinson

Time Magazine Featuring New Moon & Robert Pattinson:

Thanks to KStewDevotee at Thinking of Rob for the Scans

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Time Magazine Q&A with Robert Pattinson

Seem­ingly overnight, Robert Pat­tin­son went from play­ing Voldemort’s road­kill in Harry Pot­ter and the Gob­let of Fire to being the immor­tal half of one of the hottest screen cou­ples of all time. He spoke with TIME about how he landed the role of Twilight’s Byronic vam­pire Edward Cullen, what it’s like to be a gen­er­a­tional crush and how to walk unmo­lested along the streets of Vancouver.

TIME: You took on an edgy vam­pire movie and it’s become this. Did you know what you were sign­ing up for?

Robert Pat­tin­son: I had no idea it was going to be like this. I really had no idea until… I guess I still don’t. The time that it hit me really was when we were shoot­ing in Italy and the emo­tional reac­tion — it wasn’t just scream­ing. It was like peo­ple were so intently lis­ten­ing and watch­ing. After every take there was polite applause. And it wasn’t hys­te­ria. It was lit­er­ally devo­tion to the char­ac­ters. It was amaz­ing. I haven’t felt that in any other situation.

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TIME Magazine Scans with Robert Pattinson

Thanks to Lion and Lamb, shred @ lj

Robert Pattinson Explains WHY He Wears "The Hoodie"

Time.com has an article about the Twilight phenomenon. At the end of the article Rob talks about why he wore that damn hoodie all the time in Canada and imprisoned "The Hair" :)

But what will be heard all around the world today is the part with Catherine Hardwicke. They interviewed Catherine as part of the article and she talks about casting Robert Pattinson, how it was hard to sell him to Summit and how Kristen told her nothing happened between her and Rob on the first movie....Wait....What? Yeah...read on...



From Time.com:

Edward wasn't that easy. "The bar is so high," Hardwicke says. "Every two pages there's a comment about how gorgeous he is ... I met all of these guys I felt were quite good, but they didn't have that special other quality that they were alive for 105 years." She took Robert Pattinson and three other actors to her house in Venice, Calif., to run lines with Kristen. They played the biology-class scene in the dining room. They moved the cars out of the garage and did the "How long have you been 17?" scene there. Then they did the kissing scene on Hardwicke's bed. "I played it like a guy who is beating himself up a lot about everything," Pattinson says. "I don't think anyone else did it like that. I guess I tried to ignore every aspect of the confident hero of the story." It worked. Stewart and Hardwicke were sold.

Selling Pattinson to Summit was tougher. He wasn't a star--his biggest role was Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire--and he didn't look like a star. "He was disheveled," Hardwicke says. "He was a different weight. His hair was different and dyed black [he had just played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes]. He was all sloppy. The studio head said, 'You want to cast this guy as Edward Cullen?' I said yeah. And he said, 'Do you think you can make him look good?' I said yes, I do."

By all accounts, the chemistry between the two leads was intense, maybe too intense. "After I cast him, I told Rob, Don't even think about having a romance with her," Hardwicke says. "She's under 18. You will be arrested." It was the beginning of the real-life are-they-aren't-they, did-they-didn't-they speculation that is now an ongoing subplot of the Twilight story. "I didn't have a camera in the hotel room. I cannot say," Hardwicke says. "But in terms of what Kristen told me directly, it didn't happen on the first movie. Nothing crossed the line while on the first film. I think it took a long time for Kristen to realize, O.K., I've got to give this a go and really try to be with this person."
Skipped (not about Rob)

While shooting New Moon, the cast and crew began to realize that like Jacob, Twilight had transformed. It's a different beast now: not a fast, maneuverable indie franchise but a global juggernaut. The books have hit No. 1 in 15 countries. Pattinson just got back from Japan, where for the first time he heard the same shrieking that he gets in the U.S. "No one could really speak English, but they reacted in the same way as they have around the world," he says. "Even the distributor was saying, Japanese audiences don't react like this."

At the heart of all this are Stewart and Pattinson, who have gone from obscurity straight to superstardom. People wait for them outside buildings. People try to follow them home. "In Vancouver shooting New Moon, I tried something," Pattinson says. "It's the only city in the world where hoods are not fashionable. If you're wearing a hood, you're going to mug people. So I wore a hood, and then I'd sort of spit on the ground a little bit and do a little bit of shaking around as you're walking. Everyone moved to the other side of the street."

If there's an irony to the success of Twilight, it's this: life as the idol at the white-hot center of the hottest entertainment franchise in the world isn't that much different from being a vampire. Pattinson has become the immortal object of global fandom's hopeless yearnings. What began deep in Meyer's unconscious mind has become Pattinson and Stewart's reality. They're living the dream.

You can read the whole article HERE at time.com