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/
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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.
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