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Post by Renee on Nov 10, 2008 11:08:30 GMT -5
Twilight on Fox 11 news:
Twilight on KTLA Morning News:
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Post by Renee on Nov 11, 2008 22:38:30 GMT -5
Twilight Hollywood 411 segment:
Twilight on E! News!:
Rob on CBS11Dallas:
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Post by Renee on Nov 11, 2008 23:07:28 GMT -5
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Post by emilynmonroe on Nov 12, 2008 15:04:41 GMT -5
these interviews are amazing  they never cease to amaze me. |
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Post by Renee on Nov 12, 2008 19:40:05 GMT -5
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Post by Renee on Nov 12, 2008 22:30:49 GMT -5
Rob on Extra:
Rob's Movieguy interview:
Kristen's Movieguy interview:
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Post by Renee on Nov 15, 2008 0:39:03 GMT -5
Rob on Access Hollywood:
Part 2 of Rob's Access Hollywood Interview:
Kristen on Access Hollywood:
Part 2 of Kristen's Access Hollywood interview:
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Post by Renee on Nov 19, 2008 23:03:08 GMT -5
Here's a short snippet of Rob on the Ellen DeGeneres show. More clips to come as they become available. He's single! Marry me, my love!    |
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Post by babsenchanted on Nov 20, 2008 0:00:02 GMT -5
I don't scream! And I'll commit! He just needs to meet me! |
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Post by Renee on Nov 21, 2008 17:04:09 GMT -5
Rob and Kristen on the Today Show:
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Post by Renee on Nov 22, 2008 17:10:05 GMT -5
Full clip of Rob on Ellen:
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Post by Renee on Nov 26, 2008 22:27:20 GMT -5
My baby in Rolling Stone:  "Twilight is a metaphor for the virtues of chastity, but it's had the opposite effect," a chagrined Robert Pattinson told us shortly before the goth blockbuster slayed audiences in late November. "I get letters that say, 'I'm going to kill myself if you don't watch High School Musical 2 with me.' " It was a little nuts: girls rampaging through malls for a glimpse of a relatively unknown 22-year-old British actor who played a brooding bloodsucker named Edward. But so far, the London-raised Pattinson (whose breakout was a memorable part in the Harry Potter series) has stayed humble. In his next film, Little Ashes, he will play a young Salvador Dali, as his advisers mull a trusted plan for plucking an actor from the tweenscape: Get him a role that puts a gun in his hand. But, Edward-mania will be hard to forget. Says Pattinson, "A mother recently gave me her baby and asked, 'Can you please bite his head?' " eTalk interview: |
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Post by Renee on Nov 26, 2008 22:47:56 GMT -5
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Post by Renee on Nov 26, 2008 23:33:08 GMT -5
TeenHollywood.com:
Kristen Stewart: Not Just A Vampire's Paramour
Bella Swan doesn't fall in love with overly-gorgeous guys across a crowded room. "Totally wrong" you say? "Not according to the books" you say? Talented 18-year-old actress Kristen Stewart who plays Bella in the upcoming Twilight film based upon the mega-popular novels, wasn't into vampires growing up and has never fallen for a guy immediately just because he's beautiful.
Kristen is strong, opinionated, sure of what she wants and is fast getting a rep as one of Hollywood's most creative and capable young, hard-working actresses. Even in a space adventure film like Zathura, she left an impression as a fed-up older sis. She wasn't the typical screaming crazed killer-bait in the frightening The Messengers or Cold Creek Manor and isn't planning on letting her casting as the much-loved Bella, stop her from taking on radically-different roles. She'll play a damaged, 16-year-old stripper in an upcoming film. What she does have that closely compares to Bella is spunk. After meeting and talking with Kristen, I'm sure that Hollywood will never crush her spirit or typecast her.
Picture the beautiful, long-haired brunette in a casually-elegant outfit consisting of brown pants and cropped jacket over white tee. Accessories were her usual gathering of leather watch, metal bracelets and silver rings. A delicate, long, crystal and gold necklace femmed-up her look. Her make-up person should get an award for making her look breathtaking with very little "goop" on her face. We're in a room at the Beverly Wilshire hotel right off Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. We found Kristen's answers to our Q's to be less the media-trained spiel many actors give and more her own well-thought-through take on the film, guys, love at first sight, her reaction to fans and her next projects. Pull up a chair......
Kristen: We were just in Madrid and Rome and when I come in (to chat) it's very quiet and you sit down and you start. You're more like "hey!"
TeenHollywood: Yep, we're just the friendly gurl-chat type. We're gonna ask a question you are sooo sick of answering. Had you read the books? Were you familiar with the "Twilight" novels?
Kristen: No. I wasn't. I was sent a synopsis of the story. I was working on another project and I wasn't interested in looking at other things yet because I was really close to the end. I was like just like 'give me two weeks to finish my movie and I swear I'll read all the scripts that exist in the world'. I read this thing that summed up the movie, and I was like, 'wow, that's not what I'm into doing. I don't want to be a part of something that's presenting this ideological ideal of what love is to such young girls'. I just didn't like that. It was very shallow and vain to me. So she's in love with this guy because he's the hottest thing she's ever seen? That's not what I'm into.
TeenHollywood: But, at some point, you had to have changed your mind.
Kristen: Then I read the script. (After that), I had no choice and I begged for the audition. I didn't know about the books. I go to used bookstores.
TeenHollywood: What did you see in the script you didn't see in the synopsis?
Kristen: That Edward isn't perfect at all, which is always the perfect thing for a girl to have because we're saviors, maternal beings. It was a really, really unhealthy, difficult, impossible love that should be ignored if possible. But it can't be. I'm interested in unhealthy, neurotic people. That's what I found in both of the characters. The power balance between the two is interesting because you have this one really perfect, competent guy but he's the one who's really afraid and tortured and not confident. He really thinks he should protect this girl and just go away, and she's the strong woman who at the same time is willing to subject herself and give up power. That's the most powerful, strong thing you can do is to relinquish that, and I think it's an innately female quality is to say 'Okay, I don't need this but you can have it big man'. (we laugh) So I just found it interesting.
TeenHollywood: Ever have that moment where you looked across the room and saw a guy and went, 'whoa, I'd like to meet him'?
Kristen: I'm just 18-years-old but I've never gone out with someone or been interested in anybody I ever thought was attractive when I first looked at them, not ever. It happens like a second later. Also, if they're not looking at me, I'm like 'pshh (who needs 'um?)'. When somebody looks at you a certain way, it's indescribable, especially if you're both doing it at the same time. But, I've never been the type of girl who has looked for this unattainable thing/guy who isn't aware of you. I've never been fixated on anything that wasn't fixated on me! (another laugh)
TeenHollywood: Good for you! There has to be a ton of fan pressure in playing this role. Have you already experienced that?
Kristen: It's really important to me. I don't want to upset people. People are so passionate about the book. But, it's something that I've got to put down now because I'm done with the movie. I've done my job and all of the responsibility (I felt) was self-inflicted; it had nothing to do with people who loved the book. I had tunnel vision in Portland when I was making this movie. I didn't even know. Then I come home and go to Comic Con and it's like 'wha? People care about this as much as I do. Why?' I know why but its funny when you become this little figurehead. I don't take it personally because I know how they feel. I would put the same amount of pressure on a character I held in (esteem).
TeenHollywood: Is there a particular impression you take away from being around the zealous fans?
Kristen: The crowds of people screaming. I know Rob's been quoted infamously. He said something about going through 'the Gates of Hell'. Yeah. But it makes you want to cry. It's like a natural instinct. Energy pushed at you like that is really overwhelming. It's loud and blinding. I've also had girls move down autograph tables and look at me with the most severe amount of disdain. That is a little unnerving. (They say) 'Just your name. Can you not write anything besides your name'? I'm like, 'yeah, sure'.
TeenHollywood: You're signed on for two more of these so the fan base is only going to get bigger. Are you prepared for cult-like status?
Kristen: Yeah. Because it doesn't touch you. It doesn't feel like anything. You can go online and cry about what's posted on IMDB or you can just not read or read it and get a kick out of it. When I go out for things like this (interviews) and know that I've been exposed, then I go online and I'm like 'yo, is anything weird happening? Are people outraged about some stupid little thing I decided to say?' I have to say genuinely it doesn't bother me. Like last night, I had to go to this mock red carpet thing where there were like 100 fans outside and a theater full of people and the 'Gates of Hell' noise. That's very fleeting. It happens very rarely, and then I go back to work.
TeenHollywood: Do you get why fans are so rabid and emotional? Have you felt that way about anything?
Kristen: I understand the phenomenon. I'm moved by the story as much as they are. I've never been obsessed with a celebrity. I've never had that. I think it's either in you or it isn't. It makes sense that this movie is attracting that, I guess. I really have to say I don't think anything about it; it just is. It's just there.
TeenHollywood: Can you talk about the rumors that you and Robert were so dark and into the characters that that's all you talked about even off set; getting obsessed with Edward and Bella. Did you have fun?
Kristen: Yeah, but we had fun doing that. That's why we were there.
TeenHollywood: So, as an actor, that should be what you want to do.
Kristen: Yeah, it is and it's fun. It absolutely is.
TeenHollywood: Catherine Hardwicke is an interesting director for this. Can you talk about working with her?
Kristen: She is incredibly smart (but) she expresses ideas in the simplest way. It's hard to explain this. What I'm about to say is going to sound negative. She's almost childlike in a way. Kids are (she gets super intense and leans in close) skyrocket overpowers when it comes to not over-thinking things and taking it for what it is and understanding it, just on a fundamental level. 'I just feel it and so believe it'. She is very wise. There's something wise about her. There's something trusting of fundamental human emotion. I wanted to overcomplicate everything in this movie and take it apart and say 'you'd never say this and it's corny and it's crap, and I'm not going to say it!' And she's be like 'just give it a shot' and she would put me in the right place so it would come out right. She doesn't lack in enthusiasm. She works 24/7 and never feels like she's leaving you alone. A lot of directors set you up and sit back and say, 'okay, let's see what you've got'. She never did that. She was always right there.
TeenHollywood: Are you okay working in that "show me what you've got" mode as well?
Kristen: Yeah. Absolutely.
TeenHollywood: Which is more comfortable?
Kristen: It depends on how they do it. There are technical aspects of directing but acting is living. It's like saying 'you are no worse an actor than I am if you could just get rid of inhibition and believed in something and wanted to portray it and wanted people to know it'. You're not better at being human than I am. In the same way, it's hard to say how a director relates to you and communicates. It's hard to define.
TeenHollywood: You used to play tomboy roles; this is more feminine. Are you turning
your image around with this film?
Kristen: I'm getting older. It's not like my goal. You just have more complicated roles to play when you get older. That's why.
TeenHollywood: Talking about complicated roles, we hear that you were seen dancing on a bar in New Orleans to prepare for a stripper role. True?
Kristen: Yeah. It's Welcome to the Rileys. I play a really broken 16-year-old. It doesn't matter how old she is though. She doesn't have her say. She's a liar. Everything she says she's making it up. But James Gandolfini comes in to try to pick up the pieces, and realizes that she has to do it herself. It shows she has the capacity to be a real person and not this shut down little icebox that she's become. It's really, really good. I love it. Melissa Leo is in the movie as well and she's so good.
TeenHollywood: You're doing a movie with Nikki (Reed) that your mom is directing?
Kristen: Yeah. K-Eleven. It takes place in a dorm of the LA County Jail. It's like where you go if you can't be put into the general population. So its full of eccentric, crazy off-the-wall characters, and me and Nikki play two of them. Jason Mewes wakes up in this place and doesn't know where he is and tries to break out for two weeks. He tries to integrate himself into the community. It's a really sweet but really screwed up little family in there.
TeenHollywood: Did you vote since you're 18?
Kristen: (excited) Yes! I'm really f**king proud of it too!
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Post by Renee on Nov 26, 2008 23:39:58 GMT -5
Teen Hollywood.com:
Robert Pattinson: King of the Night
We might have first noted Twilight's cinema version of the beloved vampire Edward Cullen when tall, gorgeous Robert Pattinson played doomed Cedric Diggory in the 4th Harry Potter film. Of course, when news leaked that he was chosen by director Catherine Hardwicke and "Twilight" novelist Stephenie Myer to play the perfect Edward, fans, who wanted everyone from "Smallville's" Tom Welling to Johnny Depp for the part, were mostly furious....but the actor is growing on them bigtime! We've met him and can see why.
Let's get to the dish! Perhaps even something you haven't read before. We met Robert, we chatted with him, we learned that, before he was cast as troubled painter Salvador Dali in the indie-film Little Ashes, Rob was disillusioned and ready to give up acting for a possible music career. The actor is also friends with another uber-hunk Prince Caspian's Ben Barnes. We interviewed Ben the day before chatting with Rob and were asked to pass on our greetings and good wishes. We also learned that Ben used to groove to soul music in high school with Rob's older sister. Small world for these two hunks, evidently.
Let's set the "you are there" scene; a room at posh hotel Beverly Wilshire right next to famed Rodeo Drive. The lighting...low. Rob's outfit... casual black, snap-close jacket over white tee and jeans. His famous tousled brown/bronze hair had finally been trimmed, according to Rob, but it was still long enough that we didn't notice. A shadow beard added to that "dangerous" look and you can't miss those huge blue eyes. Rob is comfortable slinking down in his chair as he speaks... now on to the good stuff!
TeenHollywood: I just spoke with Ben Barnes and he says hello.
Rob: Oh cool (he laughs).
TeenHollywood: He said good luck with this media blitz.
Rob: Yeah, he's been doing it for months! Cool.
TeenHollywood: Can you talk a bit about the "entering the gates of hell" comment you made at Comic Con about the massive shriek of the fans?
Rob: People are reacting to that? I think of it as a great noise. I just thought that, when you're entering Hell, you've got 7,000 girls screaming. It sounds exactly how you'd imagine the sound would be. I think that's what I was thinking.
TeenHollywood: I guess that's part of becoming a star. When you were starting out in acting what was the appeal for you?
Rob: I don't know what it was in the beginning. My first job I was playing Reese Witherspoon's son (in Vanity Fair) and I hadn't done any acting in school. I wasn't in a drama school or anything. I'd done one amateur play and you end up doing a film with Reese Witherspoon and you have a trailer and stuff. It was the most ridiculous thing. And I was thinking, 'I should be an actor. I'm doing a movie with Reese Witherspoon. How is this happening?' I never really thought about it for the audience. It's the one job where you can do whatever you want and people have got to accept it. If you were going to an office, (got upset) and said 'I need to go punch out some windows because I have to do this database' (laughs) you'd get fired! But you get a lot of slack as an actor. You can just go nuts all the time.
TeenHollywood: Stephenie Meyer was saying you had a disagreement about how to play Edward. Can you talk about that?
Rob: (laughs) I've heard that and I don't know what it is. I have to ask Stephenie what it is. I think it has to do with (me asking) why Edward treats Carlisle as a father when he's a 108-year-old guy and he knows he is not his father; and she said that he treats him as a father because he deserves to be treated as a father because he wanted Edward to be his son and Edward believes Carlisle is such a good person. He will ignore his age and treat him as a father, which initially I thought was absolutely ridiculous. And then I thought, 'that's actually a really bizarre character trait' so I kind of started to agree with it by the end.
TeenHollywood: These two filming experiences: "Harry Potter" and Twilight, must have been quite different for you?
Rob: It's different. When I was doing "Harry Potter," there already had been three made. It was already a slick machine by the time I got into it. Whereas with Twilight, people didn't realize really what it was, the extent of what it was, and it kept growing and growing. We kept having to reformulate how to make it as it got bigger. You start off thinking you're making an independent movie, with a small or medium sized studio. We definitely weren't making it as a blockbuster. There are no big names in it or anything and then more and more hype starts happening.
TeenHollywood: I guess the fans really got wind of it eventually.
Rob: Luckily, it didn't happen when we were shooting it. It happened towards the end of when we were shooting. It's funny. We had to change little ideas. The whole time we were sort of scrambling to figure out how do you set this thing up for a franchise? How do you make the characters interesting enough for three movies? They don't change. He doesn't age. Because it's a supernatural thing, you've got to lay down the ground rules of how the vampires move and where you can shoot and stuff. There had to be tons and tons of thought put into it. It was really just off the cuff. And the weather kept changing as well. We had to reinvent whole scenarios with another two or three movies in mind.
TeenHollywood: We heard that you had a little difficulty when you first read that Edward was supposed to be the perfect man. Also, you got a horrible initial fan reaction. How did you feel about all that?
Rob: Yeah. I was embarrassed even going into the audition. I thought I'd be judged. Anyone who turns up, you look on the synopsis (of the character) and you see "Edward is the perfect man. He has an impeccable face, body. Everything about him is amazing' and like even turning up for the audition is like 'hey, here I am' (he waves). It's so stupid so I was quite happy when the reaction was a hundred percent negative. I was like 'thank you. I'm not perfect. I'm like rugged' (laughs). All the blogs were like 'he's a bum'. I was like 'Cool!. I guess I'm going to be a character actor.
TeenHollywood: Well, that's all changed now. How familiar were you with the Potter or Twilight books?
Rob: I wasn't familiar with either. Well, obviously I'd heard about "Harry Potter," because everybody had heard of "Harry Potter." But I'd only read the one that I was in because I knew I was going to do the audition. And Twilight, I hadn't heard of it. I was living in England. I hadn't heard of it.
TeenHollywood: Your "Cullen" cast members said that you weren't too swift on playing baseball either but you picked it up?
Rob: (chuckles) Everybody's been saying that! I'm terrible. I'm completely malcoordinated. I'm terrible at all sports. Also, I don't see the point as well. I even had a baseball coach. Catherine was so determined to make me look like a professional baseball player, and literally I couldn't take it seriously. They were like, 'you've got to have a ready position'. So for the rest of shoot, every single time, there's like confusion with the blocking or anything, I'd say, 'look, I'll do it in my 'ready position', no matter what the scene was. Like the sex scene or whatever. I'll come out in my 'ready position'. (we both chuckle)
TeenHollywood: Hilarious. How much of the stunt work did you do?
Rob: My hand-eye coordination is bad but I did quite a few of them. But I had a good stunt double as well. He's a professional free runner. I can do something and get injured and look like crap playing it or he can do it and make it look really good and no one notices the difference. After a while, I tried to do the Tom Cruise thing (his own stunts) but I eventually gave up. But I did a whole bunch of it. I managed to pick up so many injuries whenever I tried the simplest of stunts. I went to pick up Kris and I almost ripped my hamstring. It's not even a stunt.
TeenHollywood: So you're saying that Kristen Stewart is heavy?
Rob: (laughs) No. She weighs like 50 pounds. I literally did one squat. And this was after three months of training. I don't know what it takes.
TeenHollywood: Are you accident-prone?
Rob: Yeah. I think I probably am.
TeenHollywood: Is this your first brush with an American accent?
Rob: Yeah.
TeenHollywood: How difficult was it?
Rob: To be honest, not that hard. I didn't have a dialect coach or anything. I had a very specific voice with which to do it. I only had a standard American accent to fall back on. There were certain elements of other different characters voices I wanted to put into it. But it wasn't very difficult. I mean, I grew up watching American movies. All my favorite actors are Americans. So it was osmosis.
TeenHollywood: When you were a teen or kid, was there a movie you couldn't wait to see just like many fans can't wait for this one?
Rob: I'm sure there was. Can't remember but right now I can't wait till The Wrestler (starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei) comes out.
TeenHollywood: You were once ready to throw in acting for music and you've got two songs on the film soundtrack. Are you going to have a singing career?
Rob: I don't think so. I might make an album but not through a record company or anything. I'd like to do something independent. I don't care if people buy it or not (laughs) I'd just like to have it just for myself so I can work with good musicians and stuff.
TeenHollywood: Have you written a lot of songs?
Rob: Not a lot. All my friends are musicians in London. They're very talented. My best friend wrote one of the songs on the soundtrack with another friend of mine, this guy Marcus Foster and Bobby Long. I went to school with Marcus. He taught me how to play guitar and stuff. He's an amazing writer and singer and I thought I'd help somebody out. I've got nothing to lose.
TeenHollywood: No tour planned?
Rob: No.
TeenHollywood: Are you popping in for open mic nights in LA anymore?
Rob: The last time I did one, it got put up on YouTube and ruined the whole thing for me. It kind of tainted it.
TeenHollywood: That's a bummer. You play the artist Salvador Dali in a film. Very, very different from this one. How was that experience?
Rob: I did that before Twilight and I was going to give up acting before that. I did the casting about two years before to play Lorca and they said 'we found a Spanish guy who looks just like Lorca to play Lorca'. Do you want to play Dali? Which is like the opposite part to Lorca. They told me four days before shooting. I was just so disinterested in acting at the time. I just thought 'oh, a three-month vacation in Spain, okay'. I went there and it was so intense the whole time and everybody was speaking Spanish and I don't speak a word of Spanish. The whole crew was Spanish. I was the only English person there for the majority of the time. It gave me a reason to really focus on the script and the research to a ridiculous degree. It was the only thing I did for the entire time.
TeenHollywood: So you got swept up in preparing for the role?
Rob: Yeah. I had this whole series of photos. And figuring out the way he would move his body. There's a picture of him pointing. I spent days trying to figure out 'how did he get his arm like that?' It was probably unnecessary but it was the one time I felt like slightly satisfied. But I wanted to bring that intensity to every job. And even though this was essentially a teen movie when they were talking about it, I thought 'it doesn't have to be a teen movie. Nothing has to be what it's predefined as'. So I fought with people a lot on it. I kind of relented after a while because I didn't know what I was doing (he laughs). But I was determined for it not to be a cheesy, cash-in movie. I hope it isn't. I haven't seen it yet.
TeenHollywood: Why were you so disillusioned?
Rob: Just mainly because when most films are being made now they're designing it to make money even before it's started shooting. Prejudging an audience is completely impossible to do. 'Audiences bought this so they're going to like this'. It's impossible to do. But you're going to make the same movie again and again. No one's going to break out of it. I just thought, 'I don't want to be adding s**t to the pile so I might as well complain about it and not be part of it'.
TeenHollywood: Was music your Plan B?
Rob: Well, I was doing music but my sisters were saying 'you can't make money out of music' so I thought 'why not just see what happens with acting and don't really bow down to anybody?' If you get fired, you get fired. I got fired before a few years ago. I was like 'whatever. Maybe something might come along'. You can't not do it. I really love films. So I'd like it if there was another golden age (of films) like the '70s. I don't think that will be for a while.
TeenHollywood: Is there a moment you're looking forward to in the next Twilight movies?
Rob: Definitely the second one. The second one's my favorite book and I think you can really change the character at the end. He's distraught and every ounce of confidence he has in the first one is gone by the end of the second one by his reappearance at the end when he's essentially committing suicide. He can really completely change his image, like, nothing in the rest of the books. I can create something quite special with it, I think... if they let me. (laughs.)
TeenHollywood: Would you want to be immortal?
Rob: No way! I just want to get to 32. That's the age I'm looking forward to.
TeenHollywood: Do you wish they'd let you cut your hair?
Rob: (running his fingers through it) Hey, I did cut it. (with a pouty look) No one's even noticed. (laughs)
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