Sunday, November 22, 2009

Robert talks to Cine Premiere - New Interview



Robert Pattinson - The most desired vampire in the world.

Has the character changed for you? And how so?
I’m very surprised at how relaxed I am with everything. I was very nervous before, especially with all the expectations. But since Twilight did well, I think I’m less nervous now.

What can you tell us about Edward in this sequel?
He feels like he’s lost everything since James, Victoria and Laurent appeared in his life. For him, everything spiraled out of control for him, and he’s struggling to stay afloat by pretending that everything is fine. So that’s why everything happens faster this time; he’s been considering it for a while.

And he thinks he’s doomed anyway, right?
Yes, actually from the first movie he feels that way. And in this movie he thinks he’s doing the right thing, even if later he realizes he made a mistake.

Edward is a little mean in this movie, isn’t he?
I don’t think he’s mean in this one. I think he’s mean in the next movie (laughs). He’s just lost and he takes the typical male attitude of finding a person he loves and throwing away everything because of his self-doubts. And then he realizes, after he messed up, that you only have few chances. And that’s the good thing about Bella.

She keeps giving him those chances.
Yes, but for her is not even about giving him another chance. She just knows more about the relationship than him, and he just blames himself for everything.

Have you ever been that way?
I’m always that way! In every relationship I’ve been this way, it’s ridiculous.

Do you dump them?
No, they actually dump me (laughs).

Building a Saga

Your return in the movie is very important. Are you nervous about that?
Definitely. What I was worried about was that the absence was not really going to be an absence. I didn’t want to be there at all, like in the book. I just wanted there to be a voice. I think that could’ve given more strength and power to my return. But they decided to have visions, not just my voice. She sees me. Amd that’s hard because you need the least ammount of acting, without being dead. You’re someone else’s creation on their mind. Amd I didn’t want to saturate the movie with my presence.

Was it hard changing directors?
A little bit, yes. Catherine has a very specific style, and a very defined and unique atmosphere; and in this one, the mood is extremely different. But Chris is great, and this movie will be very different. Catherine has a point of view about the world, that is completely stripped away from any cynicism. And Chris can be more cynical, and see verything from a darker point of view. This is a much darker movie.

How well do you get along with Taylor? Do you feel threatned by his presence or his muscles?
Yes, I do feel a little bit threatned (laughs). His hand shake is very strong, so yes, he’s an intimidating person.

How much did you work with special effects?
I did some scenes on green screen, mostly for my “apparitions”. What I like is that Chris is doing very subtle apparitions, you barely notice them.

What scene were you looking forward the most to shoot?
There’s a couple of dream sequences that people will not expect. They’re weird. Bella has horrible nightmares in the book, so we thought about the most disturbing and scary way to play them on film. I’m not really Edward in those scenes, I’m a version of her insecurities.

Were you worried about committing to a sequel that could’ve compromised you and make you pass on other opportunities that maybe you might not be motivated to do in a few years?
A little bit, but the truth is that it’s very rewarding to do something that people care about so much. Because you even work harder than usual. And even if they don’t like the result at times, they cared enough to worry about the outcome.

Were you excited about filming in Italy with the rest of the cast?
Yes, a lot, I think Michael Sheen as Aro is brilliant. I was reading a scene where I’m supposed to get my butt kicked, and by a little girl, no less, and I thought it was wonderful. I don’t normally care for that kind of stuff, but in this movie I think it will look great. And Chris and I found a way to writhe in pain on screen, without having to twitch all over the floor, and that was very unpleasant.

And how was the set?
It’s visually strong, very strong. And it’s so cool. It’s Saint Marcus day, so everybody is wearing red cloaks, and it looks amazing.

The Twilight Effect

What has happened to you with all the massive phenomenon?
It’s weird. I was having dinner the other day and there was a magazine with me on the cover. And it was like being on the eye of the storm: you really don’t realize what’s going on. And seeing those covers and realizing that it’s you people are talking about, saying “Robert and Kristen, this and that”, it’s so bizarre.

Why do you think there’s such a level of adoration for this character?
I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. When I read the book I try to look for something that can help me relate to him, I don’t look for reasons why girls love him so much.

Could it be because he’s dangerous?
I think it’s because he’s willing to leave everything for her; there’s the appeal.

Do you still have a band?
I don’t have time for a band at the moment. But I love knowing that my friends in London, the ones that wrote the sons in Twilight with me, are getting record contracts because of their association with me and Twilight. Originally I played at a pub with three people, now they’re selling out venues for 500 perople.

How is acting any different from making/performing music?
Music puts you in a more vulnerable position, because you’re onstage and get an immediate reaction. But in many ways your more free because you’re not playing a part.

Is it weird to be known for your name now?
It is. It’s funny, I talked to Will Smith before presenting at the Oscars, and I asked him what to o onstage, and he said “Don’t try to do anything funny, just read the words. You can be funny when it’s your 4th time presenting”.

Would you like to become immortal?
I don’t know. If I had a reason to live forever I would.

Are Mexican fans crazy?
Yes, those three days in Mexico were very intense (laughs).

Source and Translation: Twilight Poison

New Robert Interview in a Greek Newspaper



Translation

Interview by Tasos Theodorakopoulos for Big Fish

How do you cope with the pressure of the hysteria that your appearance causes to young girls after the success Twilight?
The way everyone gets through when being under pressure: I focus on my friends. Look, I shouldn't be ungrateful, besides the stress it's fun to get all this recognition. It's just that some things change in your life. I can't walk down the street alone, as i used to do and there are moments that in this recognition i feel extremely vulnerable.I try to keep my mind,to distinguish the jobs offered that will help me succeed and stay calm with madness and speed that all this is happening.

They've been so many vampire movies...i believe after your trilogy the amount will increase.Do you feel there's something special you've added through your performance to the cinema persona of the "immortals"?
The idea was to bring back for the cinema and the new generation the vampire legend. So, I tried something, that was to play the vampire without following a specific road on how such a role should be played, but focusing on the after adolescent loneliness of a special character.

Well, in the book Edward's presence is relatively smaller that in the movie...
In the book Bella hears Edward's voice in her mind. In the movie we gave this voice the figure of a vision.And we added a battle scene at the end,which i really enjoyed 'cause i look amazing as a fighter(laughs..).

Have you ever felt that in the center of the Twilight success hides a well concealed conservatism about the sexual relationship of Bella and Edward?
Everyone could translate the story as they wish. Personally, I feel that this sexual abstinence works in the complete opposite way. It creates a sexual tension that makes fans scream: they have to have sex, they have to have sex.

Would you appear naked like Daniel Radcliffe did in a movie or a play?
The question is no longer if i "would" cause Little Ashes already contains such scenes .

Got me! I would ask that. from a sexually conservative vampire to Salvador Dali and whatever this means...it must have been a long run.
Salvador Dali between Lorca and Buñuel to make it harder!plus nude scenes...

How did you feel through this distance?
At the beginning i totally freaked out. The truth is that the Spanish have a completely different opinion about nudity than English ones. I think of different answers i could give like l a had my reproductive organs expanded(giggles).The truth is I did not really know what I freaked out a bit. (Kate: I really don't know what to make out of this part of the interview but I'm giggling away at reproductive organs.I think it was lost a bit in translation. Sorry mind in gutter)

At the age of 23 with all this fuss around your name,I believe it is totally normal to freak out about almost everything.
I freak out mostly by all the gossip and rumors I read on the net.You can not even imagine.Someone wrote that during the filming of "New Moon" I didn't smell nice cause I didn't shower.

I am not sure what you did back there but I am sure that today you got the time to take a shower as you seem and smell great.
(Giggles)The funny think is that filming had not even begun when this thing started circulating the net.

You portrayed Dali and Kristen will play Joan Jett.Did both your involvement in a science fiction romance influenced you in choosing roles of real people to continue on with your career?
The is this procedure in acting that is really interesting when portraying a non fiction character. You study pictures, focus on the body language. I remember a picture of Salvatore Dali pointing at something, I spent hours trying to figure out what he was pointing at and why was he doing it that way.

Is there another famous personality you would want to play?
Van Morrison,but I do not think they would ever give me the part.

Have you ever got to the point to compare your passion for cinema with your other great passion for music?
No. For starters I can not live without music, furthermore I always said that even though acting is one of my biggest passions, plan number 2 for me was to become famous via music.When I was younger I wanted to become a politician but I think it is too late now for me.

Now that you are famous does it bother you that girls might want to be with you just because of fame?
If they are pretty it doesn't matter(giggles)Even thought I am completely sure that anyone who talks to me for 5-10 min stops having any interest in me. Anyway now I do not have a girlfriend and I can not figure out why?Are you not supposed to be luckier in this field when you are famous?

Translation by Twilightholic and Twihard via Thinking Of Rob

Anna Kendrick talks about Robert



Twilight: New Moon" actress Anna Kendrick stars in films with two of Hollywood's hottest hunks -- Robert Pattinson and George Clooney -- this year. Dream jobs, right?

She starred with Robert in "New Moon" and "Eclipse" and George in the awards-buzzed Jason Reitman dramady film, "Up in the Air."

Her friends are totally impressed but she's like, "Eh, they're OK ... They're such punks, they're like such a pair of hooligans."

Still, she really enjoyed teasing George Clooney about being "old" since he teased her on a daily basis about being short.

Anna admits that she was blown away when she saw the "New Moon" box office numbers Friday night on a friend's cell phone at a party at screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg's home.

She also chatted with Taylor Lautner, who was still in New York, giving him a verbal "High Five/Hey Dude."
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Robert talks to BBC Radio 1 (Part 2)





The Sunday Mirror - Celebs Magazine - New Moon Special



Source: The Irish Twilight Sisters

It's Twilight in America - TIME Article

The story begins with a dream. It wasn't the Great American Dream — Stephenie Meyer, then a 29-year-old Mormon housewife living in Arizona, wasn't sitting at home trying to figure out how to be the next mega-best-selling author. It was a different kind of dream.

On the morning of June 2, 2003, Meyer woke up with the fading afterimage of a vision in her head, of a young woman and a vampire, talking, in a meadow. She didn't want to forget it, so she wrote it down. Then she kept on writing. Sometimes you have the dream, and sometimes the dream has you.

Everybody knows where the story ends up. Meyer has sold 45 million books in the U.S. and 40 million more worldwide. Altogether her books have spent 235 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 136 of them at No. 1. The movie version of Twilight, which came out a year ago, made $350 million. New Moon opens on Nov. 20; the third installment, Eclipse, arrives in theaters next June.

But what happened between the beginning and the end? How did the dream become the Global Franchise Megabrand? That's the part that not everybody knows.


Twilight Falls
The woman who would publish meyer, Megan Tingley, was handed the manuscript in November 2003, right before she got on a cross-country flight to California. She wasn't expecting great things. She'd never heard of Meyer. Nobody had. She wasn't a vampire fan either.

But she spent the entire flight riveted by that 600-page bundle of paper. "I kept thinking, Well, she can't possibly sustain this," Tingley remembers. "The whole book is going to fall apart. She's a first-time writer. I was with a colleague, and he was trying to sleep, and I kept pulling him awake and reading passages to him."

Even though it was an early draft — back then Bella and her undead boyfriend Edward actually got married at the end — by the time she got off the plane, Tingley was desperate to buy it. But it was a Friday, and everyone was gone for the day. "So I just left a bunch of insane messages back at Little, Brown and with the agent and said, 'Call me Monday. We have to talk!'" she says. "I pre-empted it on Monday from a street in San Francisco on my cell phone."

Once Tingley bought the book, she had to figure out what to do with it. For example, she had to give it a cover. "Should it be horror?" she asked herself. "Or should we play up the romance? But if we play up the romance, we lose the boys. A lot of the female readers found it very erotic, but it's a YA book, and it's very chaste. It's about yearning. How do you capture that?" One day the art director suggested hands. Just hands — you could show the veins, which would be nice and vampy — and they could be holding something. Something that would suggest yearning. Temptation. An apple. Bingo.

Little, Brown published Twilight on Oct. 5, 2005. It printed 75,000 copies, a generous but not stupendous number. "All the signs were there, but at the beginning they were modest," Tingley says. "The sales kept getting a little higher each week. It wasn't a gigantic phenomenon overnight — I think people think that now, but it wasn't." Lori Joffs, a stay-at-home mom in Nashville, read it three months later. Like Meyer, she's a Mormon, but she'd put off starting the book because she didn't think a Mormon writer could do vampires. "I read all night, closed the book, took a deep breath and opened it back up to reread several chapters," she says. Joffs went looking online for other people who felt the same way, but she didn't find many. So she put up her own website, the Twilight Lexicon, which now attracts more than 50,000 visitors a day.

New Moon was published on Sept. 6, 2006, less than a year after Twilight. Little, Brown printed 100,000 copies, a modest increase, but the company quickly realized something had changed. Advance copies were popping up on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Meyer's readings were turning into mob scenes. "We were outside Philly at a suburban Barnes & Noble," Tingley says. "The kids had been cutting school to get these tickets and waiting in line forever. When Stephenie came out, these girls next to me started trembling and crying and grabbing each other. It was crazy ... it was like the newsreels of the Beatles or Elvis." When Eclipse came out a year later, the publisher printed a million copies.

Beatlemania is the comparison that everybody makes, but Twilight is more like the Beatles in reverse. Beatlemania was a reaction to the buttoned-down, sexually repressed pop culture of the 1950s. Twilight is a reaction to the reaction — it's a retreat from the hedonistic hookup culture that the sexual revolution begot. Nobody hooks up in Twilight.

Meyer put sex back underground, transmuted it back into yearning, where it became, paradoxically, exponentially more powerful. "For me, the appeal of the vampire is safe sexuality," says Melissa Rosenberg, who has written the screenplays for all the Twilight movies. "It's the ultimate romantic ideal. You have the allure of the danger. And yet there's only so far you can go."

Idols of the Twilight
In retrospect, it's surprising how long it took the sound of hundreds of thousands of teenage girls hysterically keening to reach Hollywood. The first glimpse that director Catherine Hardwicke had of Twilight came at Sundance in 2007, where the founders of the newly independent Summit Entertainment showed her a script. It had been worked over so thoroughly at Paramount that it was practically unrecognizable. "It had Bella as a track star," Hardwicke remembers. "Then there were FBI agents — the vampires would migrate south into Mexico every year, and FBI agents in Utah were tracking them. They ended up on an island chasing everyone around in jet skis."
But Hardwicke saw something there, and she wanted in. She read the Twilight books. Then she threw the Paramount script away and called Rosenberg, who worked with Summit before, and they started over. She also began the hunt for her leading couple.

Hardwicke spotted Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild, in which Stewart makes a brief but indelible appearance as a roller-skate-skinny underage seductress. Hardwicke flew to Pittsburgh, Pa., where Stewart was making Adventureland.

"We spent four hours working on scenes and running after birds in the park and playing. The next day when I saw the film, I knew, yes, it has to be. She is Bella." It was a good match for Stewart too. "It was like, wow!" the actress remembers. "I want to play like this all the time!"

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 DalĂ­ 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."

Summit gave Hardwicke 48 days and $37 million to make Twilight. That's not a lot, especially in retrospect, but nobody knew whether the book's popularity would translate into box-office success. "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, that was successful," Hardwicke says, "but it made $30 million with this kind of fan base." That led to some improvising. In the book, the crucial scene between Bella and Edward in the school parking lot happens on a snow day, but snow is expensive. "So the snow became the rain. And then I had to cut the rain out and show that it had rained with some fake patches of plastic ice."

As it turned out, she could have sprung for the snow. Twilight opened at $69 million — the biggest opening ever for a movie directed by a woman.

New Moon
Rising


But when it came time to film the sequel, Hardwicke balked. Summit was pushing hard to get the new movie done fast, to keep up the momentum, and she was burned out. Enter Chris Weitz, who was not, by his own admission, the obvious choice. "There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie," he says. "I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too." But after a 2½-hour phone conversation with Meyer — a fan of Weitz's About a Boy — she gave him her blessing.

For New Moon Weitz had more money to play with, about $50 million, but in some ways he had a more difficult assignment. Not only did he have to stay true to Meyer's books, but he also had to follow the tone of Hardwicke's Twilight. Up to a point. "I wanted it to look more old-fashioned than the first movie," he says. "Hardwicke's film was very contemporary, very stylish. Very immediate. That was great. But not me. I'm a bit of an old fogy. What I wanted was wide-screen epic."

Another challenge: Edward is AWOL for most of New Moon. Instead the movie focuses on Bella's relationship with Jacob, the Quileute Indian werewolf played by Taylor Lautner. It helps that Lautner has transformed his abdominal muscles into something resembling armor plate for the role. "I wonder if I might have gone one shirtless scene too many," Weitz says. "Of course, once they turn to wolves, any clothes they're wearing split apart. It's an economic incentive for the disadvantaged Quileutes that they not have to keep going to Target to buy new T-shirts."
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."

It's Twilight not just in America. The shadow has fallen over the entire globe. "It didn't really get out of hand until Italy," Weitz says — he filmed scenes in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano. "The streets were filled with fans. The nice thing was that they weren't interested in hampering the filming at all. When you asked the crowd of 1,000 people to be quiet, they were absolutely silent. But then when you finished a take, there would be a round of applause, which doesn't happen on a film set."

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.

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Robert on Today Show and NY NM Screening

 



Wondering what was in the 'Bing' Bag at the LA premiere in the "Ryan Seacrest Trailer"?



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Robert and the Cast talks to Yahoo


Robert Pattinson wants to play Frank Sinatra

Robert Pattinson has revealed he wants to play Frank Sinatra.

The 23-year-old actor shot to fame playing vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, but now has his sights set on portraying the legendary Rat Pack singer.

“I would like to play Frank Sinatra in Martin Scorsese’s film, but so does everyone. I’m a little too young, I can sing but I can’t do his voice,” Robert told Grazia magazine. “There is a lot of competition. I’m not into competition.”

Robert is the latest in a long line of Hollywood stars who have expressed an interest in playing Sinatra in Scorsese’s upcoming biopic. Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx and George Clooney have all been linked to the movie.

Sinatra won 11 Grammy awards and also appeared in a string of movies before he died aged 82 in 1998. The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) reportedly had a huge file on the star surrounding his links to the Mafia.

Robert still can’t believe he is seen as a Hollywood heartthrob and insists his fans would soon lose interest if they ever met him.

He explained: “I don’t feel sexy at all. I know that other people say it, but I’ve never thought like that. I never got any of the good-looking guy roles before Twilight, so it is all just hype anyway. If you talked to a fan for five minutes, the illusion would be gone.”

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New/Old Pictures from Robert on "The Today Show", Letterman and The Ellen Show

Robert on David Letterman: 11/18


Robert on Today Show: 11/19


Robert on Ellen: 11/20
 

Some caps from New Moon: WARNiNG! Spoilers!

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