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 Robert Pattinson doesn't suck

By Louis Peitzman

Question: How do you stop a mob of unruly tweens?

Answer: You don't.

On the morning of Nov 10, 3,000 Twilight fans tried to rush their way into the Stonestown Galleria, all for a chance to meet Robert Pattinson. In the ensuing chaos, several young'uns got trampled, one girl allegedly broke her nose, and almost everyone was turned away. (I'm guessing that last bit hurt the most of all.)

For the uninitiated, Pattinson stars as vampire heartthrob Edward in the film adaptation (out Nov 21) of Stephenie Meyer's ludicrously popular book series. The actor's previous credits include a (spoiler alert!) tragic turn as Cedric Diggory inHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), but his OMFG-level success seems to have popped up overnight.

"Hey, is that the Lost Boys soundtrack?": Robert Pattinson with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart. (Photo credit: Peter Sorel)

When I met Pattinson in San Francisco later that same Monday, the mood was substantially more subdued.

It turns out that, in many ways, he's a lot like Edward. No, he doesn't sparkle in the sunlight, but he is pretty damn charming. And like his vampiric counterpart, Pattinson's just trying to be a normal guy. Maybe Twilight wasn't the best project to choose, but back when he signed up for the role, the actor didn't quite know what he was in for.

"I went into it having absolutely no idea what it was," he admitted, "and then shot it having pretty much no idea. I mean, some people turned up to the set occasionally, but I kind of expected that. I knew it was a popular book."

What Pattinson didn't know was the level to which certain Twilight fans have devoted their lives — nay, their souls — to the series. They're called Twilighters, and they descended in droves on this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. It was the actor's first encounter with the fandom.

"The word 'twilight' got projected on the wall and they just screamed for a 45-minute press conference, the entire time just screaming and screaming," he recalled. "Up until that point I wasn't really expecting anything."

Ah, supernatural romance. (Photo credit: Peter Sorel)

Even after the eardrum-killing experience, Pattinson's still adjusting to life in the spotlight. Speaking to him, it's clear his down-to-earth demeanor is the real thing. He's doing his best to be no different than the rest of us — and he swears the same goes for Edward. That whole vampire thing, it's merely incidental.

"I never saw him as a vampire," Pattinson said. "You just have to commit to saying, OK, [you're] going to live forever, you're a thousand times stronger and faster than a human being, and then you have to drink blood in some form or another — and just ignore the fact that it's a mystical thing, and imagine you're a human who had to live like that."

Fair enough, if not a bit unconventional. Though gaining popularity, the idea of a normal vampire — Joe the Vampire, if you will — is a relatively recent phenomenon. Pattinson concedes that his Edward isn't the mirror image of Meyer's.

"Elements of the character in the book, I thought, girls wouldn't find that attractive," he said. "Being too polite and being too much of a security blanket is just not sexy at all. And so, I kind of strayed a little bit in the movie away from being too gentlemanly."

A sexier, more uninhibited Edward? I doubt the fans will mind. Besides, he's still a vampire, regardless of where Pattinson decides to take the role. What is it about bloodsucking fiends, anyway? Why did Buffy fall hard for the eternally brooding Angel? What does True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse see in the uber-dull Bill?

"It's all to do with being seduced," Pattinson posits. "It's not really to do with brute force. Plus, there aren't that many supernatural things that can be attractive. You can't really have a sexy zombie."

Zombie Strippers excluded, that's probably true, but I'm still not sure I'm satisfied. Oh, well. I don't have to understand the vampire crush to know that they're hot, just as I don't need to be under Pattinson's mystical thrall to get his appeal. I mean, seriously, have you seen his hair?

SOURCE

FOX News

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.

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.”

...skipping...

“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.”

....skipping....

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.”

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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...

A year ago I couldn't get a date

Toronto Star Interview with Rob:

Twilight star takes a bite out of fame

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."