> Episode 002 "America's Hat"

Isabel: Welcome to our second official Podcast at Pattinson Online. We are now officially calling it the “Pattycast.” It’s going to be a regular feature at Pattinson Online. We’re going to try and do it monthly; if we have more news we’ll try and do it every two weeks, or even every--every week, you guys let us know if you like what we’re talking about, if you have things you want us to talk about I want to introduce you to my best friends and co-webs: Joy--

Joy: Hi!

Isabel: And Tara--

Tara: Hey guys

Isabel: And my name’s Isabel and we hope you enjoy our Podcast today. So how is everyone today?

Joy: Sleepy

Isabel: Sleepy? Well that’s because you’re all the way in Asia.

Tara: Well I’m wide awake because--

Isabel: --I’m wide awake too. Oh happy happy thanksgiving for those Canadians listening to us ! Happy Columbus day for those Americans listening to us, and happy…happy Monday for everybody else. Okay guys, getting into the Rob. That’s what we’re here for! Let’s start with Rob’s music…any ideas on opinions, or what you think about his music? We’ve heard it all on Myspace, I think. Have you guys heard it all?

Joy: Yeah

Tara: Oh yeah

Isabel: And we can also talk about this article that came out in the LA times where he talks about music being his backup plan. Why don’t we just start with you, Joy. What did you think about it?

Joy: you know at first I think I was really surprised by his voice, and I know everyone’s saying that because it’s definitely not what I expected to hear from him. I don’t know what it is but it just didn’t seem like the singing voice matched up with what I expected. Plus, the quality of the actual recordings, at first I was like, “Well it’s good,” but I didn’t really want to listen to it. But today I was just listening to his songs on a loop. I keep hearing just the really good…like melodies or you know--and just the quality of it music-wise is really good. I like his style a lot. I can’t think of who to compare it to at the moment, but you know what I mean? He’s got--

Isabel: I feel the same way I feel like--

Joy: It’s got a really good melody.

Isabel: --Yeah I feel like I can’t really categorize it into any sort genre that I listen to frequently or have heard, you know I’m into a lot of the Brit rock, but I just--I haven’t really heard a lot of his style of singing before and you’re right, his voice is really distinctive. Like, to be honest when I first heard it I was like, “Well you know it could go either way,” because there are these predecessors like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. Not that I’m saying he’s anything like that but everybody who’s an actor seems to want to get into music. But I don’t think that’s his aim I just think he’s…we’ve known from the beginning that he’s enjoyed playing before. What was that band that he was in? Girls?--

Tara and Joy: “Bad Girls”

Isabel: “Bad Girls.” So yeah he’s--he’s been doing music for a very long time go ahead

Tara: It seemed like even before he was always doing music, so it’s not really something that just developed through his acting. You know like Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. So it was something that he was into from the very beginning I mean like he said he’s been playing piano since--ever since he can remember and--

Isabel: He obviously plays pretty well considering that they thought something that he just threw together could be Bella’s lullaby I mean they’re not just going to pick that up if he can’t play an instrument He’s--

Tara: Sure.

Isabel: He’s pretty proficient.

Joy: I’m really excited to hear the official recording that’ll be on the soundtrack because so far we’ve only just had, you know, peoples’ cell phone recordings from clubs and things, so I think the actual recording that’s going to be on the soundtrack is going to be amazing.

Isabel: I think so too

Joy: It’ll be clean, he’ll be able to retake it, and obviously the sound recording will be better, and it’s just going to be really, really, good. And I think it’s going to get him a lot of --a lot more fans for his music and not just, you know, “Oh my gosh, Rob’s so hot!” It’s going to be, “Wow he’s an actual musician.”

Isabel: Yeah well that’s always a bonus because there’s so much more to this guy than being good looking I mean, and that is a bonus for everybody involved, but there’s just a lot of talent there and I’m really glad that he that he’s able to showcase that talent in an arena where there’s going to be so many people watching. What do you guys think about the article about him having it as sort of like a backup plan or whatever. I think they did really well with that article they he said that he said what he wanted to say which was that he’s not using it to become more famous he’s doing it because he likes to do it

Joy: Yeah I really liked the article. I thought it was interesting that Catherine Hardwicke had actually put some of his songs like in the rough cuts, you know in the early footage, and he was just like, “Wow I can’t believe that was in there!” I think that was just really cool. Catherine Hardwicke seems pretty awesome.

Isabel: I--I was just going to say like I know I fan-girled her like the entire pod cast last time but I’m still totally a Catherine Hardwicke fan girl

Joy: She’s awesome.

Isabel: She’s so amazing, she’s so enthusiastic, she really wants to tell everyone about this project. It’s like something she really believes in and I love her. I think she’s really cool.

Joy: I love how in the past she’s said that Rob is really very soulful, especially with the music, because it’s so easy for people to think of him as ,“Oh this heart-throb who’s just come on the scene,” you know, he did harry potter, now he’s doing Twilight, and all of these things, but he really just is a normal guy, and you can really hear that in his music that he really gets into it. You know it’s not just, “Oh, here’s a song and I’m going to sing it.” And personally, as someone who sings a lot, to be able to write your own music and be able to put your own feelings into it, that’s a really good talent to have. And I hope he continues with it and I like that he’s saying, “Hey it’s a back up plan if the acting thing doesn’t work out,” which I’m sure it will, but it’s good that he’s not just another Lindsay Lohan or…you know what I mean?

Isabel: Yeah and I really appreciate that, too. Not that I didn’t expect that from him , but of course you’re a little wary when you think, “Oh an actor’s put out some music.”

Joy: Right.

Isabel: But I completely agree with you it doesn’t sound commercial, it doesn’t sound anything like that anything mainstream at all but it’s still really gripping to listen to him sing

Joy: I think I would’ve been really upset if he had just like come out with some pop song or whatever and it was on the Top 40.

Isabel: I think--

Joy: --Like. “No, Rob! Don’t do that!”

Isabel: I think I might resign my membership to the fan club.

Tara: I wouldn’t let you.

Isabel: That’s true we do go way back. So, do you guys have anything else to say about his music before we move onto other things?

Joy: I’ve just been really enjoying it. I’m glad that I have been listening to it and I want to listen to it more I kind of want to just plug in the Myspace--

Isabel: So where can where can fans listen to it if they want to?

Joy: They can listen to it right on Myspace if you just search for Bobby Dupea. D-U-P-E-A, and it says fan operated--I mean she’s not trying to be like, “Ooh I’m Rob!” or whatever, and four of his songs are right on there. And she’s really good at posting news and things. So far I’ve haven’t really found a great source for upcoming shows. Still looking for that, but yeah, that would be great if we could find a place that’s saying, “Rob’s going to be playing at this club.” He might--he might just be doing it in his spare time.

Isabel: Well--

Joy: --And not really planning like gigs or anything.

Tara: Yeah I just--

Isabel: Well it’s such a shame though that nobody really knew about “Whisky A Go Go” ‘cause so many people would have gone. Maybe he did have a lot of people there.

Joy: And that’s the thing--

Isabel: --I mean I don’t know.

Joy: Well that’s the thing, especially with all of this Twilight stuff going on. I mean, I’m sure he’s like, “I’d just kind of be in a hole in a wall pub somewhere just playing my music. Instead of me being Edward and playing music I can just be Rob playing music.”

Isabel: And that’s probably smart of him because--you know that ties in with what we’re going to talk about later, “Where in the World is Robert Pattinson?” but I just want to say that I think that’s a really smart idea considering Twilight is out of control.

Joy: It really is.

Isabel: I’m trying to control myself--

Joy: --I know you are.

Isabel: I want to say more!

Joy: --I know you are

[Laughter]

Isabel: Shall we move on?

Tara: Yes let’s

Isabel: Little Ashes one of our staff members went to the premiere in London and she’s got nothing but good things to say about this movie. And even--not just about Rob, about his costar, and their chemistry, and just everything. Does anyone want to go on about that?

Joy: Yeah I (Cilla sent in this boot?) and she was able to go to the premiere at the Rain Dance Festival and I thought it was interesting because I think up to this point I kind of assumed that Rob’s character, Salvador Dali, was the main character, but it seems like it’s not; Like it’s Lorca that’s actually the main character and maybe I had heard that before and it just didn’t register because you know, everyone’s like, “Oh Rob, Rob is in a new movie!” But it’s actually not even really about Dali.

Isabel: No it’s not--its about Lorca.

Joy: I mean, he’s a main character but he’s not the main character, which I thought was interesting , and like you said, I mean she had nothing but good things to say about the movie; that the chemistry was amazing, that the acting was amazing, everything was just really well shot.

Isabel: Let’s talk about the homosexual content of this movie and the impact on Rob’s career: negative or positive. I see it only as anything positive. It shows his versatility as an actor and his willingness to do roles that aren’t mainstream, and I really appreciate that about his decision to doing films this way.

Tara: Yeah ,you know, I can only see it as something that’s going to turn out to be positive I don’t see any negative backlash coming from him. I think it’s just going to show how much of a great actor he really is and it just shows that he’s willing to take a chance on any role that’s given to him. And I think that is just going to be wonderful for him.

Isabel: Well I--

Joy: The only thing that I’m concerned about is, especially now that he is Edward Cullen, there’s going to be a lot of younger fans who are going to want to see this movie and I can just imagine, from the conservative point of view, a lot of people saying, “He’s supposed to be this squeaky clean teenage boy.” You know what I mean?

Isabel: Yeah I agree with you that there’s going to be backlash.

Joy: There’s always going to be someone who’s going to put up a fuss. And I can see that point of view but at the same time, there’re plenty of films out there that I won’t see--that I don’t want to see--just because of content or whatever, even if I really like an actor. So, just because Rob’s in it doesn’t mean that every Rob fan has to see it.

Tara: Yeah.

Joy [?]: I mean, I think that’s a choice that each person can make.

Joy: I’ve heard people talking on LiveJournal and everything about, “I don’t know if I’ll see it. It might make me uncomfortable,” and I think that’s each person’s personal choice. I really want to see it because I think that it’s just going to be an amazing movie, as far as cinematography goes, as far as the acting goes, I mean everything that we’ve heard has been positive across the board.

Isabel: But everything was done--they’ve said it is, but not that this should matter for everyone--but they’ve said it was done artistically and that it was done with a lot of thought to the content.

Joy: Right.

Isabel: And so I think that makes a huge difference. I think it has to be age appropriate, like I’m not advocating that all his fans go to see this movie because I think that we have a lot--

Joy: Right.

Tara: Oh, neither do I.

Isabel: --We have a lot of younger fans and I think that it has to be an age appropriate movie. It’s not going to be for everyone like Twilight is or like Harry Potter was.

Joy: Yeah it’s definitely not going to be for the Twilight fans between the ages of ten to sixteen.

Tara: Yeah.

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: It’s definitely not, but I think the whole--for adult Rob fans, like us, or the mature Rob fans, it’s going to be really great to be able to see him take on Dali.

Tara: I think it’s comparative to Dan Radcliffe doing Equus.

Isabel: Although, I think that was more of a calculated PR stunt than this is.

Tara: Oh yeah, probably.

Isabel: I’m really sorry to have said that, but I really think that that’s sort of like him trying not to be pigeon-holed as Harry Potter.

Tara: Right, and I think Rob is being smart doing that early on, you know?

Isabel: Yeah.

Tara: Not just saying that he was like, “Ooh a little action thing, they won’t think of me as Edward anymore,” but obviously he’s got that in mind. And he’s said in interviews before that he doesn’t want to be typecast.

Isabel: No he doesn’t.

Tara: Because everything he’s done to really--

Isabel: --Similar characters in a way--

Tara:--Fan driven roles--

Tara: Cedric Diggory was a huge role, even though it was just a bit part, you know? I mean he didn’t even have that many lines, but how many fans did he gain just from that? And so obviously he’s smart early on in his career to choose things like Little Ashes and How to Be to try to get away from being typecast.

Isabel: Even something like The Bad Mother’s Handbookand The Haunted Airman, like those were really good to pick. I’m like--Tara and I read The Haunting of Toby Juggby Dennis Wheatley, which is what The Haunted Airman was based on, and when we read it I called her right up and I said, “This is him for the right role,” even though they didn’t follow the book specifically, I’m really glad he’s like, after Harry Potter he took a break completely from doing name films and stuff like that and you’re right, he’s smart with what he’s doing with his career.

Tara: Yeah, I think sometimes the media tries to portray him as being, you know, kind of flippant with his career. Just do-whatever-I-want, you know? Because he is pretty laid back, he’s not like a super intense celebrity-driven kind of celebrity. He’s not saying, “Oh, I need to take this role and I need to do this in order to make myself better.” And I think they sometimes go to the extreme and say he doesn’t care about his career. He just kind of does whatever but I think he IS really smart to be choosing these Indie roles to kind of distance himself from just being the next big heartthrob.

Isabel: Yeah, I take exception to that saying that he doesn’t really care about his career because if someone didn’t really care about his career, I think he wouldn’t’ve chosen Twilight to do. It comes with really good exposure but it also comes with a lot of things you wouldn’t want to deal with. But I think it was a good move for him and everything that. It like--this is all obviously all just conjecture because, I mean, some of us have met him but we don’t really know him--but I think that he’s not pulling this out of his bum. I really think that--

[Laughter]

Isabel: --I really think that he’s thinking about what he wants. He does what he wants to do. He’s thinking about what he wants to do but they’re real smart moves so far, seemingly.

Tara: I agree.

Joy: I agree.

Isabel: Well now that we all are in agreement--

[Laugher]

Isabel: Let’s move on to How to Be and his call in at…where was it?

Tara: New Orleans.

Isabel: New Orleans.

Tara: Yeah.

Joy: Oh, I loved it!

Isabel: Let’s talk about that.

Isabel: I think it’s--

Joy: I pretty--

Isabel: --Fantastic that he can take time out of his day to call, I mean, that’s pretty great.

Tara: Oh yeah, and then answer fans’ questions and everything. The one thing I really loved about his answers were, you know, we can see this in almost every interview that he’s in--he’s just so gracious and humble and kind and this is just one solid proof. Some of the answers he gave to these questions were so like adorable and so real. Like Isabel said before, he wasn’t pulling these answers out of his bum and trying to spout off bull. He was just really being so honest and so I don’t know the way I--I love how humble he is. It’s just so cute and like someone had asked him about how he feels about all of these awards that all of a sudden are bestowed upon him and he said: “Sometimes I find it’s easier when people trash me because I feel like I have to prove something.”

Isabel: He’s a very real person. Very real. It makes it so easy to relate to somebody like that. The whole reason why he’s got--not the whole reason, I can’t generalize like that--but a big part of the reason why he’s had fans for so long, even though he’s had such small roles, is because of his personality. I really firmly believe that.

Joy: I really liked the part of Anna’s write-up where she said that he was talking about one of the scenes where they were in a pub and how the guys who were filming it, they just got drunk and improvised the whole thing. I’m really excited to see that part.

Isabel: Me too.

Joy: I’m the kind of person who loves trivia about movies. It just really enriches the experience for me and so just to see what it was like, I cannot wait to see that scene. I mean, I can’t wait to see the whole movie but I know that whole scene I’m going to be cracking up because I know that they’re just making it up as they go. I think that’s awesome.

Isabel: I’m so excited for this movie! I’m just--I think like, out of…like forget Twilight. I said it. I’m sorry, but I said it. Isabel from Pattinson Online said, “Forget Twilight.” I cannot wait to see How to Be. It’s--I feel like he saw this role and he was like, “I really want to do this,” because it seems like the guy’s a musician and he’s going through life trying to figure out what he wants to do and it just seems so real. And the people who’ve talked about him doing the roles say that he really enjoyed doing it, so I’m excited.

Tara: Oh yeah, I’m in total agreement with you. I too am not as excited for Twilight. I’m not really that excited for it, it’s How to Be that I’m excited for because I can relate to his character in this movie. I haven’t seen it yet but just from what I’m getting from the film the reviews I’ve been hearing, I think anybody who is 20 something years old can totally get into this movie and relate to his character and I can’t wait until it comes out on DVD because I really want to see it. And I know like some people are not going to be able to identify with us because, “Twilight oh my god!” But…yeah.

[Laughter]

Tara: I’m really excited for How to Be.

Joy: The only thing that I don’t like about all of these Indie films that he’s doing is they’re never released where I am . Nothing comes to Bangkok. I’m sorry, nothing comes over here. So I’m like waiting and waiting. I don’t know when I’ll get to see How to Be and Little Ashes. I mean, I might have to wait--

Isabel: --A long time?

Joy: Ages! I mean who knows when it’s going to be released on DVD?

Isabel: And never mind Bangkok! I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hello! America’s hat! Like, we’re not that far away and we don’t get anything up here!

[Laughter]

Isabel: I have to wait as well. So How to Be Productions and Regency Releasing, we really want your movies in the cities that we’re in. They’re big cities, they’re overseas. Contact us: admin.pattinsononline@gmail.com. I will host a screening in Vancouver. Contact me.

Joy: I’ll host one at my house.

[Laughter]

Joy: People can come over. I have a nice apartment.

Isabel: You do.

Joy: Well, I’m serious, I mean even the Bangkok International Film Festival is in town this month and every time I see a promo for it I’m like, “Ooh, ooh is anything coming?” But it’s never anything Rob-related, sadly enough.

Isabel: My only consolation is that I don’t have to fly that far to get to L.A. if the premiere works out or whatever. Let’s talk about Twilight.

Joy: I’m so excited!

[Laughter]

Joy: I know I’m the only one who’s excited. I am beyond excited.

Isabel: Your sense of Edward fan, though, is great. I love it.

Joy: I am. I am. I will not lie. Total fan-girl moment but Edward Cullen has ruined regular men for me.

[Laughter]

Joy: I admit it right here, right now, I can’t even handle it. Like hey, when the first teaser trailer came out I cried.

Tara: Oh no!

Joy: I promise you I cried. I did. I was just like, “This is going to be the most amazing movie of my life.”

Tara: Aw.

Joy: I can’t even handle it you guys, I can’t function.

Isabel: Oh my god. You know what? We are going to have to send you the Twilight Survival Pack, which includes: a paper bag for hyperventilating, smelling salts, sunglasses for the dads--

Joy: It’s going to be a sad day. I will be dead in the theater. I think they should have the paramedics on standby because it’s going to be bad.

Isabel: I want to clarify that I like Stephenie Meyer. I don’t have anything specific against her books. I they’re great. I found--I read them more than once. I read them more than once, I found them really entertaining. I’m just not over the moon for the books--that’s all and I just find it such a big production. Tara and I were both at Comic-Con and we both experienced the big onslaught of fan reactions firsthand because we were stuck in the middle of very many fans for two days and--

Tara: It took us weeks to recover.

Isabel: It took us weeks to recover and I can only imagine that it’s because--to be honest, Summit didn’t know the response until they went to Comic-Con and I’m just not that enthused as much as I am about his other productions. But I do have to add that Edward is fantastic. That’s all. I’ve said my piece. I just find that I’m more excited for his other productions and there’s so much Twilight news out there.

Joy: Yeah, and it’s overwhelming. I think there was one day where I actually posted about twenty times within you know a couple hours. I’ve been trying hard not to post just any Twilight news, you know, obviously we’re a Rob site, not a Twilight site. It’s got to be Rob-related but there’s just so much. I mean, well he is the star, so what do you expect? But its overwhelming. Some days I’m like, “I cant even handle this.” There’s just so much new information coming in.

Isabel: Well, speaking of new, let’s talk about the trailer. I did watch it, I watched it this morning--

Joy: Yes!

Isabel: I did, I watched it twice, actually.

Joy: I’m proud.

Isabel: I know, I’ve refused to watch it for--not refused, I just have avoided it--for a really long time.

[Laughter]

Isabel: I finally watched it this morning and what can I say? It’s well put together. It’s put exactly the scenes that we want to see. It’s given us a taste of what we want to visualize and I think it was well put together.

Tara: I agree with Isabel; I think it was really well put together. I was impressed by it, it was, you know, Rob-hotness overload. To be honest, I think I was paying too much attention to him rather than the whole trailer itself, but yeah, it was really well put together and I liked it. I liked it and now I will let Joy go off

Joy: I don’t know if everybody wants to hear this…

Isabel and Tara: We do.

Joy: We’ve already established that I am a huge Twilight fan, huge Edward Cullen fan, huge Rob fan, so, I mean, I literally stared at that countdown clock until it came. Although, I have to say that I was really disappointed because I was watching the countdown clock and it was like, “Ooh one hour and twelve minutes!” and I was so excited like it was coming, it was coming, and then it got to zero and nothing happened. I was like, “What?!” I didn’t know what to do and I was like, “I’m here to see the trailer and I clicked and nothing happened and I’m freaking out!” and then I realized that this stupid countdown clock had adjusted itself to my time zone, which is twelve hours ahead of everyone else and so I still had to wait like half a day just for the stupid trailer and I was so mad. I cried again. I cry a lot, so I’m a cry baby but I was so mad. I even--I got on LiveJournal, I was like, “What is going on? Where is the trailer?” and then I realized, you know, “Oh it’s not even the right time zone.” I don’t know why it didn’t register to me ahead of time but it would’ve saved me a lot of disappointment. But once I did get to see the trailer it was amazing. I mean, I know that my expectations were really high and so I could easily have been disappointed with it but I wasn’t. I was just amazed, you know, and obviously there are going to be a lot of changes in the movie you know that’s just the way it is. I’m a big Harry Potter fan, too, and of course there’s changes in every movie but I think even just from the trailer you can see how much the director and the producers just love this story. It’s not just, “Ooh, big budget production, everyone’s going to come see it!” They actually care about it. I think everyone’s been saying that. I can’t imagine anyone would disagree but they really care about this story, you know? And the fact that Stephanie Meyer has signed off on changes and everything, I think that really just makes it better for me. I think my favorite part of the trailer was when they’re up in the tree and Bella says “This kind of stuff doesn’t exist” and Edward goes “It does in my world.” I mean that is like the hottest line ever. I can’t even deny it. I was just like “Oh my gosh.” But I think it’s just going to be really amazing. I’m really excited for the movie. Number one because I’m a big Twilight fan but I’m also a big movie fan. I love movies and I think this is going to be a really good one, you know? I think that they’ve done a great job on it, even just from a two minute trailer. The cinematography just blew me away, you know? Just the scope of things, it’s really easy for me to forget that this is actually a really small production company, you know? Summit is really not a huge company and I don’t think that their budget for this was enormous. Like say something--like say Indiana Jones or whatever. It’s not that kind of budget but I feel like they’ve done so much with it and I think it’s going to be amazing. I’m really excited about it.

Isabel: Actually, what excited me about that trailer was that--remember when I went to Washington state to visit my friend over the summer? Well her high school is where they filmed and she took me to the high school. So, in the trailer I got to see the parking lot, and the school, and, obviously, like they had just left before I went down there to see her or--or I don’t know. No, actually they had left. I was supposed to go down and see her earlier in the year when they were filming but it was nice to see where they actually filmed it at her school. Which is beautiful, by the way, and that excited me about the trailer. Just wanted to add my two cents.

Tara: Well one thing--well that’s cool--but one thing it’s--again it’s Rob and his acting. One thing that I love and I still can’t seem to get over and I always go on, and on, and on about it, I love his American accent!

Isabel: I do too!

Tara: Just--

Joy: Me too, me too.

Tara: Oh my god, it is amazing. Like, I can’t--it just blows me away because some actors have an English accent and they do--they try to do the American accent and it’s--

Isabel:--Awful?

Tara: Yeah! You can still hear that little piece of Brit in them and he is just amazing; for his first film that he’s putting on a different accent, it’s absolutely perfect. I can’t--I just, I love it.

Isabel: Do you remember this really old article that we had? It was maybe two years ago. It was one of those quotes that he had that we’ve put on the site but he said that his American accent was fine but if he ever tries to do any other accent, it turns out into this like, Russian-Jamaican hybrid or whatever.

Joy: I remember that. I remember that.

[Laughter]

Isabel: And that’s why it just makes me laugh every time I think that he’s doing an American accent now. That’s really funny.

Joy: Well, I totally agree with everything that you just said because his accent is just incredible.

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: And I think when we first saw that trailer all three of us were just blown away by the accent.

Isabel: Yeah, I totally was.

Joy: And anytime I watch a movie, and if I know that a person is doing a fake accent, I really try to like listen to see if I can catch them messing up. It’s just a weird thing that I do but so far I haven’t really heard anything that makes me say, “Oh that’s so fake!” I think he’s really got it down and it’s kind of a non-accent. It’s not like Northern, it’s not Southern, it’s not Midwestern, or whatever. It’s just like a straight-forward accent because I was a little worried. In the books, Stephanie Meyer equates Edward’s accent as being kind of antiquated and not necessarily like Old English or anything but, you know…

Isabel: His words.

Joy: More formal, more formal, and I think that comes across. I mean even just in the few things that we’ve seen, I think you can really get that and also I think it really helps me imagine Rob as Edward because it’s not like, “Oh it’s Rob’s cute little British accent!” You know? Which I love. I enjoy his British accent. But it makes it more real for me. Instead it’s like, “Ok, this isn’t Rob anymore, this is Edward.” Because, the whole time in the movie I was like, “Ooh Rob, Rob, Rob!” It would mess me up, you know? I want to go to the movie, not just to see Rob but to see Edward and that’s totally --

Isabel: You know what though--

Joy: That is true.

Isabel: I was--No, no, I was totally thinking that while I was watching the trailer this morning because--I obviously am not such as much of a fan as other people--but I was watching the trailer wanting to see how well put together it was, was going to think “Rob” or was I going to think “Edward?” And I honestly was drawn into the fact that I’m looking at Edward. He looks and sounds like I thought Edward would look like. Actually, I didn’t think he would so much look like Edward because everybody has in their head what they thought. I actually thought his friend Tom Sturridge would look more like Edward but after seeing the trailer, they captured who Edward is in the books and I think that that’s why I agreed with you when you said that the people who make this film really enjoy this story is because they paid such attention to detail with those sorts of things. It’s not just a really good looking guy playing somebody who’s supposed to be really good looking. He sort of is kind of Edward now in a way.

Joy: Yeah.

Isabel: Well we’re all watching the movie anyway, and his accent’s fabulous. You know what though, I have to make an observation, Tara can agree with me or not, but when I met him his accent--his British accent--was a little bit fainter than it used to be. Like I think that spending so much time in America, his accent has slowly kind of mellowed out a little bit. Like he’s not so British

Tara: Oh, I agree. Oh yeah. In recent interviews, like when he started filming Twilight throughout the MTV interviews I noticed, too, that his accent wasn’t as British or thick as it used to be when he was in England. So I think it has become somewhat Americanized.

Isabel: Rob we miss you in London!

Isabel: But, yeah, it’s definitely faded a bit. I think it’s just all these Americans around him. Yeah. It works. It works. So, does anyone have anything else to say about the trailer? Should we hop in and let everybody know about the Twilight tour?

Joy: Yeah let’s do it.

Isabel: Go for it, you know the dates.

Joy: Yeah apparently during the week of November tenth, Rob and the other cast-members (Kristen and Cam and Rachelle and Eddie) will be part of a tour for Twilight and they’ll be attending screenings around the United States. The information we have is not really extensive but so far what we do know is that the screenings are going to be really small. And its says that tickets will be, “More than impossible to obtain.” So it’s going to be really hard for fans to get tickets, ,if, you know, they’re going to be such small screenings but it’s going to be insane and I can just imagine people lining up. It’s going to be like Comic-Con all over again--

Isabel: Well everything’s been sold out with his other appearances like in New York it’s already sold out.

Joy: Well, exactly. And he wasn’t even there. He wasn’t even attending--that was just a screening for his film, so can you imagine one where he’s going to be actually attending? It’s going to be insane. I mean, I hope he’s ready for it. But he will be touring in San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

Isabel: Those are the confirmed places he’ll make appearances in.

Joy: From what it seems from the information we have, there’s going to be fifty screenings--am I reading that correctly?

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: It says the studio will only host one advanced screening per market in top 50 markets nationwide. That’s a lot.

Isabel: That is a lot of screenings.

Joy: So, I’m assuming because they’ve only got him confirmed for those five, Kristen confirmed for two, and the bad vampires confirmed for six--

Isabel: I think he’s doing more because from the news that I’ve received from people that we speak to, he’s touring until the premieres. So, I’m pretty sure he’s going to--don’t quote us--but there might be more dates that are added. That’s all.

Joy: Right, and we are trying to get more information about this.

Isabel: We also have news on that later at the end of our show, stay tuned for that. We’ll tell you where he’s going to be. Well, not specifically of course, but--

Joy: Yes, we’re not stalkers.

Isabel: No!

[Laughter]

Isabel: I think we’re pretty far from it. If you do get into the screenings, if you end up getting tickets, please email us, and yeah email us, represent us, let us know you’re going. Okay something I really want to talk about. Fan frenzy with Twilight and the impact on Rob’s career and celebrity status. It’s huge. It’s huge. He’s gained…we could say at least five times the amount of fans just by him being announced as being Edward, easily.

Tara: I walked into a video store just to pick up a DVD and it is Rob-fever in there. I mean there’s posters and like, unbelievable. I just stood there in the middle of the store with my mouth like open wide. T-shirts. And I can’t believe a year and a half ago when I would mention, “Oh I’m, you know, I’m a fan of Robert Pattinson.” People would go like, “Robert-who-a-sin?” And now…

Isabel: We talked about this, our previous Podcast about how Comic-Con was just a taste of what the fan frenzy was going to be like but I also wanted to speak about how things were before Rob got really famous. We noticed the impact straight away on our website. Our unique hits--

Joy: Oh, they skyrocketed. I think before Twilight, you know, a couple thousand hits a day it was, I mean we were doing pretty well, but now it’s just astronomical. Just unique hits, we probably get over 20,000 a day.

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: You know, and that’s not to mention returning visits and all the--

Isabel: --And page loads.

Joy: Our stats are off the chart.

Isabel: Pleasantly up.

Joy: I mean, people want to know about this. People want to know, I mean--

Isabel: But it’s so different--

Joy: We’re getting all the Twilight fans because that’s a huge fandom right there. It’s ridiculous. It’s just been overwhelming.

Isabel: It is overwhelming for our site, specifically, because we’re not a Twilight site. We’re completely a Rob site and the impact on his career from our eyes has been astronomical. I can’t like imagine what the actual impact is. Like, not just being on our staff or people who come talk to us are the more emails that we’ve gotten over the past couple of week and there are now paparazzi photos of him all over the place. Well, not on our site because we don’t post those photos, but his celebrity status has risen. I remember when we first started the site the IMDB, internet movie database, has a chart for the stars. It sort of charts their popularity, I suppose. And his was really low. When we first started the site I remember taking a screenshot and I think it might still be in our gallery. His rating was really low. And now he’s number one on internet movie database. It’s completely insane. Joy and I were actually reminiscing about the site the other day. Joy started it. She’s the brainchild, she came up with everything, it was really small. I joined…what was it? Three months later? I don’t remember.

Joy: Yeah, I think so.

Isabel: I joined pretty soon after. Our lifetime hits at that point were 35,000. We get maybe that much--we get more than that in two days now.

Joy: Oh easily.

Isabel: Easily like that in two days, and I remember when like, the--just talking about the paparazzi photos, how we have so many now and how he’s become such a huge celebrity. I remember when we would get photos maybe every four weeks, if we were lucky. We’d get photos maybe every three months.

Joy: News was slow back then.

Isabel: News was really slow. We had to make up news sometimes.

Joy: “Okay, let’s dig deep into IMDB and see if we can find some little tidbit of anything that mentions Rob and post it on the site like it’s a huge deal.” I mean, we really had to dig.

Isabel: We worked so hard to just try and do anything to find photos and to put information out there but, you know, we kept at it for a couple of years and we loved it. It was great, it was fun. We went to one of his first conventions. It was a convention in England called Collect Romania, it was Collect Romain G-mex, it was a little bit right after Harry Potter so he was there with Stanislav Ianevski, who was Krum and he was --wasn’t he there with the twins? I’m not exactly sure. I don’t remember specifically.

Tara: Yeah, the twins were there as well.

Isabel: And they did signings and I remember when we sent staff members to interview them--by the way we still have that interview in our media archive, if you want to go take a look at it from when even before Rob became Edward--I remember he had so much free time because nobody, like nobody really went up to him. They were able to get up to him right away and have an interview with him by pointing a camera at him and speaking to him and he they said that he sat there for a while while other people went to the Phelps twins and it’s just so different now. And I just want to highlight the fact that he’s basically exploded overnight because of the Twilight phenomenon.

Joy: It has, it’s been amazing.

Isabel: I also, like, I find that it’s fantastic for his career and it’s great but there’s some detractors being such a huge overnight success. I don’t want to generalize, like I said, but no one can be vastly pleased with the amount of attention they’re getting from complete strangers, especially like being what we saw at Comic-Con.

Tara: It has to be like, completely overwhelming. One girl got arrested at Comic-Con to try to get to him.

Joy: Seriously?

Isabel: Yes, she did, she got arrested outside.

Joy: I did not know that.

Isabel: That’s a small microcosm of his fans. Well, do we want to say small? There were like six thousand people in that theater. But regardless, It’s completely exploded. We just, even in our little world of fan sites, when we first started there were two fan sites: us and another site. And now there are at least three other sites, not to mention multiple LiveJournal communities about this actor. We talked about his celebrity status and the frenzy. Let’s talk about the impact on his career. I think that Twilight is something huge and positive that he’s doing for his career but I think he needs to also be smart as to the next big role that he’s choosing.

Joy: Oh, I agree, I think after this he’s going to get a lot of offers for big blockbusters, you know, and he’s going to have to choose what direction he wants his career to go in. I mean, obviously it’s not like he can just turn back and say, “Just kidding, I wasn’t really Edward Cullen.” It’s not like he can just erase what’s happening, especially if they carry on and do sequels but he can choose to keep doing Indie films if he wants or he can choose to go that huge blockbuster route and take that road to superstardom. It’s really a choice and I think he’s very aware of that. I don’t think he’s going to be just all of a sudden, “I’m trapped.” You know? I think he really knows what he’s doing.

Isabel: No, I think it started to dawn on him at Comic-Con, like, we were in the front row at Comic-Con and we were watching him and I think his face said it all. Like he was completely floored by it and so I think he’s starting to think, “What are the repercussions?” and he knows. He knows. He has to know.

Joy: I don’t see how he couldn’t know. I mean, just from the interviews we saw after Comic-Con. Just about every single, one you could just see the shock on his face, you know, he was like, “I was completely blown away. I can’t believe how huge this is.” You know? I think he knew to an extent like, “Oh, there are a lot of Twilight fans, this is going to be great.” But I think that was the moment where he was like, “Oh my goodness, this is huge.” And I think maybe part of him was probably a little like, “What did I do?”

Isabel: Yeah, I’m sure that was going through his head because at the end of the Comic-Con day--

Tara: --Oh yeah.

Isabel: We heard that some fans had…stalked them, followed them, whatever you want to call it--to where the cast was going to gather, I guess for their-- their meal, or debriefing, or something of the like, their get together after everything, and fans found out where they were. They camped out waiting for them there and, you know what? He didn’t give them photos or--or anything. I think he knows what the impact is already

Joy: Rob is not really attention driven, you know? Like he’s not like an attention whore.

Isabel: No, he’s not an attention whore. He never has been and I don’t think he’s ever going to be. And he doesn’t like too much attention. Well, just want to say to the fans, like coming from somebody who you don’t have to listen to, so take or leave what I’m saying: Well, I think I’ve seen a lot of what’s going on with the frenzy and everything and I think that everybody needs to take a step back and breathe, and remember that all these people are also humans. And so we don’t want people constantly in our faces all the time and they probably don’t. He probably doesn’t, so he’s really nice, he’s grateful. Highly grateful, for every single fan that he has out there but maybe in a public setting we want to be mindful of how we approach celebrities. That’s all. Your public service announcement from Isabel.

Joy: Bravo!

Joy: Yeah, we don’t want to scare him away into seclusion and all of a sudden he disappears for five years and we never see anything from him, you know what I mean? There are a lot of actors who do that. They get maybe one really great role and then disappear because they maybe just really can’t handle it. And Rob’s kind of--I don’t know if I would use the word shy--but he’s more reserved. Reserved, I think that’s the word that I’m looking for. He’s more reserved and I think, I mean, we saw from Comic-Con that, I mean, that kind of stuff is going to freak him out.

Isabel: Well, it did freak him out.

Joy: And we don’t want that. I mean, we want him to stay around, and we want him to continue acting, and we don’t want him to be afraid to come out in public because he’s going to be stalked, you know?

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: So, I mean that’s not, like you said, it’s not to say that, “Don’t be his fan anymore.”

Isabel: No, no, no, please be his fan!

Joy: It’s just that if you are lucky enough to meet him or be near him in public, just consider the fact that he is still a person. He’s not just this God that we’re worshipping, by any means. He’s just a person who is trying to deal with this new celebrity status.

Isabel: And also be mindful of what you ask him. Because some things you really want to know but sometimes are not appropriate to ask strangers because regardless of the pictures that you’ve seen, articles that you’ve read, things that you know about him, when you meet him, he’s still a stranger, so you have to really keep that in mind.

Joy and Tara: That is true.

Isabel: Speaking of “Where in the World is Robert Pattinson?”, we’ve got a couple of really thought-provoking articles that we’ve read this week. One of them is the lack of Rob appearances that Jennifer Cady did on E-online. I think that’s just so him. He doesn’t want to go out there, he doesn’t want everybody to know what he’s doing, and where he’s going, and I think Bravo for him for not going to party after party to being on the red carpet, and Bravo for him to just being with his friends that he’s grown up with, basically

Joy: Still hangs out with Tom Sturridge and all of his old friends. He’s not like, “Ooh, which awesome celebrity can I hang out with today?”

Isabel: No most--

Joy: --He’s not like that at all

Isabel: No, and he doesn’t like, bring like, a supermodel or anything. His date to most appearances is Tom Sturridge.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Do you guys have anything else to say about Rob just not catering to being a celebrity? I enjoy it…keep it up.

Joy: Yeah, me too.

I think that’s one of my favorite things about him, is that he’s still just himself. Like, he doesn’t seem to have let it change him. Which, is--that’s just an amazing thing--I mean it’s so easy for celebrities to just kind of cave in and just go with the flow, but he’s still like, “Whatever, I’m going to do what I want, I’m still me,” and I think that’s a really important thing, and I think a lot of the fans really appreciate that about him.

Isabel: No, I was going to say we’ve been around in the fandom for quite some time and we’ve met people who’ve been his fans since he was Cedric and they--everybody whose very much a Rob fan--really appreciates how down-to-earth he really is. I mean, he still wears those lace-less shoes he was talking about three years ago. He wears them out. He doesn’t care. Well, let’s talk about his clothing. But he has a very distinct sense of style, I think--

Joy: --Or lack thereof.

Isabel: Or lack thereof!

Joy: He refuses to go shopping, I’m convinced. I’m convinced that he’s just like, anti-shopping.

Isabel: You know what? I’m okay with that. He wears really interesting things. I can tell like we--because we’ve seen the photos from the beginning to the end--I bet you we can do like, “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” but like, “Six Degrees of Rob’s Beanie” or something like that, because it’s been like--

Joy: Do you remember the red velour jacket he wore to the Goblet of Fire premiere? Hello! Awesome! He was such a * in that jacket. It cracked me up.

Isabel: Didn’t he wear leather pants?

Joy: Yes! He did!

[Laughter]

Joy: Oh my gosh.

[Laughter]

Joy: Not to mention the flannel shirts, I mean, come on.

Isabel: The green one. Classic.

Joy: The plaid, yeah.

Isabel: The green one.

Tara: I love it.

Isabel: The green one he still has! He lent it to Tom Sturridge a couple weeks ago!

Joy: Wears it constantly, I love it. And there’s the blue one--there’s a blue one that’s appeared recently.

Tara: Oh my god, yeah!

Isabel: He wears that blue one constantly.

Tara: Oh that’s right yeah.

Joy: You sound like stalkers, you guys.

Isabel: We’re so funny.

Tara: We could cut the clothing out…

Isabel: We’re cutting part of this out. Back to articles. Rob on set. Joy pointed out this blog that a fan did about watching Kristen and Rob’s preparation to start filming and I thought it was really interesting. Joy do you want to talk about that?

Joy: Sure. It’s from a blog called “I’m still wandering dot Blogspot dot com” and it’s from a girl who’s getting her Ph. D. in Film Studies or something to that effect and she was really lucky to be able to actually go on the set for several days and meet Catherine Hardwicke and talk to producers as a part of her Ph. D. studies. And in the blog entry that I was specifically mentioning, she talks about how Kirsten Stewart and Rob approach the acting in such different ways and I just thought it was really fascinating. Let me read exactly what she says. She says: “It was also interesting watching the preparation processes of Kristen and Rob. Kristen would disappear for a long time between scenes, spend a lot of time in her trailer, and she didn’t linger around with the other actors much. She would prepare, focus, come into the scene, and shoot it brilliantly, checking herself in the middle of takes, asking to do it again if it wasn’t right with her, etc., whereas Rob would meander, do what he pleased, and when it came time to film he would pause for about twenty or thirty seconds before action, stare at a spot on the floor or at a distance, and then he’d be in it. He would be Edward. It was just neat to witness how differently they prepared and how well each tactic seemed to work for them.” I thought that was just a great paragraph because it really just shows yeah, this is Rob the way he does it, and I think we’ve seen in other interviews and articles just how intense he’s been about Twilight and about Little Ashes and just the way he prepares. I think it was kind of neat just to see him be able to just stare into the distance and then come out of it, you know? And then in another entry somewhere in her blog, she mentions that she saw him, and she was going to go say something to him but he was staring so intently into the distance that she kind of got freaked out and didn’t want to say anything because he was so kind of scary looking because he was so intent and then he like snapped out of it and was Edward and was ready to film.

Isabel: Well, that’s fantastic. I think that it kind of ties into who we think he is, what we’ve heard of him. Like I like how he doesn’t take forever to prepare. I like how he just thinks about it and then is in it but I’ve also--what I’ve heard that ties into this, is that once they start filming, he doesn’t drop his accent from when they start and stop, when they do different segments, he keeps his accent the entire time.

Joy: That’s very smart.

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: And it must be hard to go in and out of two different accents, you know? I mean it’s probably easier just to stick with one so you can kind of I get in the pattern.

Tara: Right. Stay in character.

Isabel: That was all that we had written to talk about seriously concerning Rob-things this week but we do have some silly things that we want to get in, too. First of all, Rob’s facial hair. How about that Dali moustache? I know Joy really wants to talk about it.

Joy: I love the moustache! I don’t know what it is but there’s something about it. I’m just like, “That’s awesome.” It’s kind of creepy in a way but it’s also kind of hot. I don’t know. I can’t explain it.

Isabel: Okay, so if we’re talking about his moustache, we have to talk about his other…follicular choices. Like that article said, he has some interesting choices film-wise, so he’s got that really weird moustache. Can we talk about one of his very first films? It’s called the Sword of * or Ring of the Nibelungs, and it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I’m really sorry Rob. Well, it was.

Joy: It really is.

Isabel: It was shown on the Sci-fi channel and you know what? I saw it twice, so I’m sure other fans have seen it, too. Let’s talk about his mullet and his beard if we’re talking about bad facial hair. Does anybody remember what I’m talking about?

Joy: Yes, oh my gosh!

Tara: I totally do. His beard was like peach fuzz, though. He was only like, what--

Isabel: Seventeen!

Tara: --Seventeen so he had like peach fuzz going on and that mullet--

Isabel: It was really bad--

Tara:--oh my gosh!

Isabel: Who did the styling for that movie?

[Laughter]

Isabel: It was embarrassing.

Joy: Well you know during that time period everyone had a mullet, I mean come on.

Isabel: Yeah, you know what? It obviously shows you how not in touch I am with that sort of thing that I completely missed that medieval mullet thing going on.

Joy: Yes, they were all the rage.

Isabel: Well okay, talk about more facial hair. Have you guys seen his beard on the Daily Ten right? Was that E! News who did that?

Joy: Yeah, it was on E! News Daily Ten. It was amazing.

Isabel: Well at least we can say now that he knows how to grow out a beard, right? There’s no more peach fuzz. There’s no more--

Joy: He looks like a mountain man. I love it

Tara: For only wearing plaid, he can be like the Hungry Jack Breakfast Man.

Laughter

Isabel: Last, but not least on our silly things to talk about is the EW cover. So, I talked to his manager this week and they confirmed the date for November 7th and I specifically was talking to them about, “Oh the new EW cover!” I said, “Is it going to be nicer than the last one?” And he laughed and he was like, “Yeah.” He assured us that it would be a better cover this time around. What do you guys think?

Joy: That’s good, I hope so because like I have the Entertainment Weekly on my coffee table and any time that someone comes over to my house they pick it up and they’re like, “What is that?” Like they look at me like, “Twilight?” I mean honestly, it turns them off. I had to practically force one of my friends to read the book because I was like, “No you can’t judge the book by this magazine cover because it’s horrible.”

Isabel: But there’s been such backlash for it though!

Joy: Yeah, there has.

Isabel: Well, you know at least we know there’s a better one coming and it’ll come soon. So you can replace that one--

Joy: --I am looking forward to that

Isabel: You can replace that copy on there. Okay guys, I spoke with his management again this morning. There’s going to be a Twilight In Style magazine spread .His management doesn’t know when that’s going to be out yet. He is not going to the Las Vegas premiere, he won’t be there but as for appearing at the Twilight premiere in the UK, his management can’t confirm 100% he’s going to be there but they say that they don’t see why he won’t be. It’s just that he’s quite busy right now and his appearance or his even his travel plans--I’m not sure--nothing’s really been arranged so they don’t want to confirm, but they don’t see why he won’t be there. And that’s the end of the news that I have…if you guys have nothing else to say, we’re going to wrap it up. Thanks for listening to us. We want feedback! Please email us at admin.pattinsononline@gmail.com. Thanks for listening, we hope you have a pleasant rest of the day whenever you listen to this. Bye from Isabel!

Joy: And Joy!

Tara: And Tara!

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