Episode 009 "Edward and the Sparkles"

Isabel: Hello and welcome to the PattyCast, I’m Isabel.

Joy: And I’m Joy.

Janna: And I’m Janna.

Isabel: So who are you, mysterious person who is here?

Janna: I am the Director of Awesome for PattinsonOnline Network.

Joy: That is true.

[Laughter]

Isabel: So Janna is our media--what is it? Media Archive Archiver. So.

Janna: Media Manager , but thanks.

Isabel: She’s our Media Manager, but I really like Media Archive Archiver. Tell us about yourself.

Janna: I am super awesome, and I’m joining you guys tonight from Valencia, CA, which is just outside of Los Angeles, for people who don’t know where that is. And that’s about it.

Isabel: Well, as you guys have noticed, Tara’s not with us again today. She is actually on hiatus, so she won’t be with us until--we don’t know when but we really miss Tara--but we’ve got Janna to sort of tide us over until.--

Joy: --Ease the pain.

Isabel: Ease the pain of Tara’s loss.

Janna: Ease the pain and entertain you. That’s what I do best.

Isabel: Alright, let’s hop into the news. Joy, I think you really wanna start this topic.

Joy: I do. I have been waiting for this. This is gonna be good. Cuz, I know you guys have all watched the DVD commentary for Twilight by now. Hopefully.

Isabel: Yeah, we’re just the ones that are late.

Joy: I didn’t think I was gonna get to see it until June, so I was really excited. My friend’s mom came and she brought us the DVD, so we all watched it with the commentary. It was so hilarious. I can’t even explain how awesome it was.

Isabel: It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever listened to. Yeah.

Janna: Yeah, it was definitely one.

Joy: I was just crying with laughter. It was so great. I mean, Kristen was just kinda like, “Whatever.” You could hear her rolling her eyes.

Isabel: “What the hell am I doing here?”

Joy: Seriously, she was like not amused. And Catherine was all like, “Let’s talk about the cameras,” and we’re like, “Okay, whatever,” and Rob was just like, “I hate myself, and I hate my acting.”

[Laughter]

Joy: It was so funny.

Janna: It was awesome. He was so funny. And Catherine was just so super-fun happy that it was the most interesting balance of people.

Isabel: It was Catherine who was actually trying her best, and then she wasn’t even trying, I don’t think. I think she was actually doing the commentary, she’s probably done many commentaries before, so she was actually doing her job, while the other two were just like, “What are we watching?”

Janna: Well, that’s gotta be awkward, though, to watch yourself, cuz I know Rob has mentioned that he hates watching--that he can’t stand watching--any kind of videos or movies that he’s done. I was like, “How in the heck is he gonna do this?”

Isabel: Well, that was the first time he saw the whole thing through, apparently; when he was doing the commentary, cuz he only stops where--

Janna: Yeah, didn’t he walk out of the theater?

Joy: Yeah, he did. His comments about his eyebrows were so funny.

[Laughter]

Janna: The man is obsessed with his eyebrows.

Isabel: The thing is, though--cuz we were talking about that. We were talking about that when they first cast him as Edward, we were like, “What is he gonna do with his eyebrows?” And it’s kind of funny that they talked about it on the commentary.

Janna: I absolutely live by that now in los Angeles. There’s always something, you know, suspicious about people who pluck their eyebrows. It’s totally true. You can’t trust a man who plucks his eyebrows.

Isabel: No, you can’t trust a man who plucks his eyebrows. Has anyone watched the special features yet?

Joy: Love the special features. We got the Target DVD with the three discs?

Isabel: Yeah, that’s the one I’m gonna buy eventually.

Joy: Yeah, I don’t think we watched everything that was on there cuz it was like two in the morning, but we watched the extended scenes and the deleted scenes. They’re really good, and I had seen most of them on the internet, so I wasn’t really surprised by them, but they were all really good. I watched part of the like, “Making of…” featurette--or whatever it was called--but I didn’t get to finish it, cuz we put it on my friend’s iPod and we were watching it on the plane, on the way to the beach, and they were like, “We’re landing!” And we were like, “Nooooo!” So we didn’t get to finish it.

Isabel: Getting to the beach in Thailand. It wasn’t that far.

Joy: I know, right? It was like an hour flight, and we were like, “Okay, let’s watch part of this.” But it was good; I really liked what they had done, and I thought it was good to kinda see more behind-the-scenes cuz, to be honest, we didn’t get a lot of behind-the-scenes before the DVD. They did some. It was mostly like, “Here they are on set,” but we didn’t get a lot of like, “Making of…” kind of things, and I love those kinds of things, cuz those are just like nerd paradise for me. I love it.

Janna: Exactly, it’s so interesting to see.

Joy: But I don’t know if there were other really good features on the different DVD’s cuz there was like 47 versions. I dunno.

Isabel: Yeah, there’s no way anyone could’ve bought all of them.

Joy: Someone asked if there were any blooper reels on any of them, and I don’t know if there were. Were there?

Isabel: I haven’t seen any.

Janna: I think the entire commentary is a blooper reel.

Isabel: A blooper reel. That’s basically what it is. Well I wanted to watch the outtakes of the commentary, basically.

Joy: Well, I was really looking forward to--Oh, that would’ve been funny.

Isabel: Well, I can’t really say anything too specific about the commentary. I know people want us to analyze it and to talk about it, but it’s basically the same thing, over and over again. I mean not the same thing--it was funny the entire time, but the themes were the same. Rob was just laughing at himself, Catherine was actually doing a commentary, and sometimes Kristen couldn’t like, I guess she--it seemed like--she couldn’t believe that she found herself like, in that movie.

Joy: Yeah seriously, she was just kind of like, “Why did I do this?”

Isabel: I think she was ashamed to be there. She was like so embarrassed.

Joy: I have to say my favorite part was when Rob made a Ren and Stimpy reference. I about fell off my chair.

Janna: Yes! That was awesome.

Joy: It was like, “Ren and Stimpy,” and all of the 12 year old girls are going, “Who? What?”

Janna: Yeah, exactly.

Joy: All of us who remember Ren and Stimpy, we’re like, “yes!”

Janna: When he flies out of the car and he’s like, “Ok, guys!”

Joy: Yeah!

[Laughter]

Janna: That was the single greatest moment of the freaking’ commentary.

Joy: So funny, so funny. The whole thing was really just awesome, I was just so glad it lived up to the hype, cuz we were all looking forward to it and we heard early reviews about how great it was, so I was like, “We have to watch the commentary!” And some of my friends were like, “No, we hate commentary!” But I was like, “Seriously, we have to watch it--”

Isabel: Oh no, no, no, no. Not this one!

Joy: So, I totally talked it up and everything, but I was like really nervous it wasn’t gonna live up to it, but it totally did. It was so funny.

Isabel: I listened to five minutes of it, and I was really laughing my ass off. I was laughing almost the entire time. I think I was talking to Janna while I was watching it. It was really funny.

Janna: I have to say though, he’s ruined gray pea coats for me though. I have the cutest gray pea coat, it’s like identical to the one that Edward wore in the movie, and he’s talked so badly about it-

Isabel: You can’t wear it now, can you?

Janna: I can’t wear it, I cant do it. Every time I put it on I’m like, “Stupid pea coat!”

Isabel: I just love the fact that he keeps making fun of Edward. It’s the best thing ever. Every time he makes fun of Edward.

Janna: What a great pea coat. Laughter

Isabel: And I like how he always makes fun of Edward like how--oh no, my favorite was how he says “bouffant.” It’s like my favorite.

Janna: And Kristen was like, “Wow I really like the way you say that.” All I could think of in my head was “bouffant” and “pea coat.”

Joy: His little customized pea coat.

Isabel: Customized pea coat.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Anyway, more Edward in New Moon

Joy: Ashley Green totally confirmed what we’ve been saying; that they’re gonna do, like, little images and flashes.

Isabel: They’re gonna stick him in there, yeah.

Joy: It’s not gonna be like, Edward walking down the street, but it’s like, clips of him; which I think is great, that’s really the best way to do it, especially for people who haven’t read the book, you can’t just cut him out. Entertainment Tonight was actually on the set of New Moon and it’s really one of the first things we’ve seen from the set. I mean, honestly, there wasn’t a lot. It was just like, “Yeah, remember Twilight? It’s this awesome movie” But we did get to see some cool shots of Taylor Lautner, who has seriously bulked up, man. He’s gotten some muscles.

Isabel: Yeah

Joy: I was like, “Woo! Good job, Taylor,” but there was just a couple things of Rob. It was pretty short, but--

Janna: I thought Rob looks like he’s been hitting the gym, too. He looked a little buff-er than he did in Twilight.

Joy: He needs to, bless him.

Isabel: Do you remember what he said in the commentary, another one of my favorites, he was like, “That was when I had pecs for like three days!”

Joy: So cute.

Janna: Poor dear. What do they feed them over there?

Isabel: But they’re not doing a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff because they’re keeping the set relatively closed. Like, before Twilight, everyone knew what was coming out, everyone knew the scenes before it came out--

Joy: That’s a good idea.

Isabel: Like, everyone saw them in the baseball costumes and that. So, it seems like they’re having the set a lot more secure.

Janna: Yeah, and they had the MTV Twilight Tuesdays, and they just had so much with Twilight to hype it up, but I think like, New Moon--

Isabel: And now they don’t need to hype it up anymore.

Janna: Yeah, exactly.

Joy: Yeah, for real.

Janna: Cuz I agree, I watched the ET thing, last night it was on, and it really wasn’t that informative. It was just kind of, “Hey, this is Twilight.”

Joy: Yeah, it really was just like, “Oh don’t forget, we’re making New Moon.” It wasn’t really super informative. I’m sure we’ll get more, but I thought it really was neat to see a little bit of it. I love that kind of stuff.

Janna: I think so, too.

Joy: So, I’m excited, it’s a good idea that they’re keeping it more closed because now that the fandom has grown by leaps and bounds, they would just be mobbed. So it’s good that they’re being a little bit more secretive about it.

Isabel: People were asking me when they first announced where they were casting, or not casting-- where they were going to film, it was going to be in Vancouver, people were asking me, “Are you going to go to the set, like people did in Twilight? Are you gonna meet people?” And I’m like, “No.” That’s not how they do things in Canada. A lot of things are super closed, like the sets, especially the TV shows they shoot up here.. Plus it’s just kind of stalking, at this point.

Janna: Yeah, absolutely. It’d be like somebody following you to work, waiting for you outside.

Isabel: Do you want people to--yeah, go into your office? There’s like ten people standing in my doorway, cheering me on. Like, do you want that?

Janna: “Write that memo! Yeah!”

Isabel: “Yeah! Write that e-mail! Get it sent! Woohoo!”

Janna: “Look, I have my own audience!”

Joy: Seriously. That’d be a lot of pressure.

Janna: It would get old. After like, about two seconds, you’d think, “Okay guys, really.”

Isabel: I’m sure they appreciate it too, I’m just really snarky. But I’m pretty sure they appreciate when they get to talk to fans, or when fans show up, and things like that. I just think it’s a bit strange, because yeah, it’s like someone going to your work, and bothering you.

Janna: Yeah that’s the thing. I feel bad because, you don’t want to upset the fans, and you of course would want to talk to every fan that you had the opportunity to, especially the ones that took the time out of their day to come see you, but it’s constant for them, and I don’t think that people understand that.

Isabel: They can’t accommodate everyone, no.

Janna: Exactly, exactly. And if they did it for one person, they would feel bad about doing it for the next.

Joy: Well, Lauren e-mailed us and said that she thought that New Moon might be rated R. There are some rumors about that because of the violence, I guess. And a few inappropriate--in quotes--scenes between Bella and Edward. I just really think that this is a rumor and nothing else, I mean, there’s no way that they’re gonna rate New Moon ‘R‘. If anything, Breaking dawn will be rated ‘R.’

Isabel: It’s alienating half their fandom, they can’t do that.

Joy: Because what was Twilight rated? ‘PG‘? ‘PG-13‘?

Isabel: It was ‘PG-13‘, I think.

Janna: ‘PG-13,’; I think.

Joy: I think they’ll do anything that they can to maintain the ‘PG-13’ rating. It was kinda like when Harry Potter was moving up in the ratings. They started off all kid-friendly ‘PG,’ and then when they finally went to ‘PG-13,’ everyone was like, all shocked, and there was like, all this ridiculousness about it. If they went with ‘R’ with New Moon, I mean, that would just be ridiculous. And she even said in her e-mail--she was like, “This really just makes me mad, because, [they] should know who their fan base is by now.” Talking about Summit. ‘Cuz then you’re gonna have like, all these little 12 year olds who wanna go see the movie and will have to go sneak in to go see it, or like--

Isabel: Dress up really sluttily to get in.

Janna: Bring their mom to get in.

Joy: Yeah, bring their mom. Come on, jeez. What 12 year old wants to go to the movie with their mom?

[Laughter]

Janna: I mean, come on.

Joy: I totally used to go to the movie with my mom.

Janna: I went with my dad. I don’t think my dad would wanna go see Twilight or New Moon with me.

Isabel: No. Doesn’t seem like a thing that dads would like to go watch.

Janna:

Isabel: I bet a few of them have taken their teenage daughters.

Joy: We’re gonna get e-mail from dad’s who are like, “I love Twilight,”

Janna: I love Twilight!

Joy: Sorry dads, in advance.

Isabel: Hey, if there’s Twilight dads out there, e-mail us.

Joy: If there’s Twi-dads out there, e-mail us and tell us how much you love Twilight. We wanna put that on the show.

Janna: And send pictures, too.

Joy: Send pictures. Especially if you’re single.

[Laughter]

Joy: Anyway, moving right along, Amanda e-mailed us and wanted to know if Stephenie Meyer was still getting as much input into New Moon as she did in Twilight. I don’t see why not.

Isabel: They talk about her all the time. They mention it a lot.

Janna: Yeah, she was on the set, she was.

Joy: Yeah she’s always on the set. There’s no way that she’s gonna let this outta her sight. You know what I mean? I’m sure that was part of her contract when she sold the rights to them, that she had to be able to have all this input. She’s not an idiot; she knows. Plus, with directors changing and everything--yeah if I were her, I’d be like, “I need to be able to have some input.” Yeah. I don’t think that she has complete power, but if you piss off the writer, you’re kind of gonna piss off the fan base, and then you’re just shooting yourself in the foot. So they’re smart. Even though Summit makes some bad decisions, they know that Stephenie Meyer is their ticket for sales, you know what I mean? Cuz if she ever comes out and says, “I’m very upset about this,” or “I’m displeased about this,” The fans are gonna go nuts. So they’re not gonna alienate her, they’re gonna let her say stuff, they’re gonna let her have input. I’m not worried about that at all.

Isabel: No, not at all.

Janna: That’s completely true, it’s kind of like what happened with Rob when everyone--it was kind of the beginning--when he said he had a lot of backlash and there was that petition of 70,000 signatures or whatever and then she gave her approval of him and all of a sudden everyone was just in love. “Oh this is perfect Edward!”

Joy: So director.

Isabel: New director for Eclipse. Why do you think they’re doing this? Are they just not happy with whoever they get? I don’t understand.

Janna: I don’t know, I think it’s kind of odd because you would think that the actors wanna get used to at least working with one particular person and they keep switching them around.

Isabel: Yeah, and they announced it before New Moon was done filming.

Janna: I wonder if that puts any kind of pressure on Chris--I can’t pronounce his name--Weitz.

Joy: It’s probably pretty rare to find a director who’ll stick with four films, you know? I mean. I dunno what I mean. I shoulda shut up.

Isabel: None of us really know anything about the business, P.S.

Joy: Yeah, I was just really surprised when the announcement came out, cuz I didn’t even think that they were looking for directors. Although, I wonder if they have to do it so quickly because aren’t they gonna be filming Eclipse like right away?

Isabel: They’re gonna be filming it right after the summer.

Janna: Right.

Joy: Yeah because New Moon is out in November, and then Eclipse is supposed to be out in--what? June or July? So, yeah, they’re gonna be having to plow through, so I guess they were probably asking Chris Weitz, “Are you gonna sign on for the third one? Give us an answer now,” and maybe he just didn’t wanna commit that far in the future. That’s very possible. Cuz that’s a lot of time to commit, and he might have other things on his plate. He might have other things that he’s promised to work on, and that’s not a big deal, and it could be that maybe after New Moon, everyone will be like, “Yay! We’re getting rid of Chris Weitz.” I dunno. I’m just kidding.

[Laughter]

Janna: Yeah, exactly. We’ll see how it goes.

Joy: I’ve only seen one of his films, so I dunno. But to be honest, this new guy,--I almost said David Spade-- David Slade. That would bee awesome if David Spade and did Eclipse.

[Laughter]

Janna: Could you imagine Rob and David Spade?

Joy: That would be frickin’ hilarious. That would be a good commentary, come on.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Director David Spade.

Joy: We can dream, we can dream. David Slade has only done a couple movies, like I looked at his IMDB profile and, to be honest, I haven’t seen any of his stuff. He did direct Hard Candy, which apparently had Ellen Page in it, but I didn’t see it, so I dunno.

Isabel: And Thirty Days of Night is a vampire movie, too. So. I haven’t seen any of his movies.

Janna: I haven’t seen any of his movies, either. I’m a big movie buff; I own basically everything that comes out on Blu-ray just because I can. And I’ve actually seen 30 Days of Night and to be 100% hone--I actually didn’t think it was a bad movie--I actually quite liked the effects that he had in the movie, the vampires, the crazy monster people he had in it were actually pretty cool looking. I’m a very hard critic of movies--especially movies that are supposed to be scary, and it was not. So I’m kind of looking forward to seeing what he does since Eclipse is kind of more of a --I wanna say more action-y than like, a love story, like Twilight was.

Isabel: Well the next thing we have is Katie, she asks--well, she e-mailed us--and she had a bit of questions about Breaking Dawn, Joy do you wanna read that?

Joy: This goes along with what we’ve talked about in previous shows. Katie says, “Now that the cast is talking about Breaking Dawn being made into a movie, do you guys think the original cast will (or should) jump ship for that one? I mean, Rob’s obviously got a hard-core case of perfectionism, and they’re trying to shoot all of these movies within a couple of years; if I were him, and I obsessed over playing a role, I don’t think I’d stay on for a fourth sequel if the studio was just trying to crank them out for the sake of completing the whole series and raking in the cash. But at the same time, a job’s a job, right? Do you think there’ll be any negative impact on their careers if they stay on?” We’ve talked about this before, a little bit, and Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter, has been talking about how Breaking Dawn is still kind of in talks--it’s just Summit’s thinking about it, so there’s really nothing official on it, yet. And even Stephenie Meyer is worried about it because of a lot of the scenes, so you know, it’s still not a go, but, I don’t know, what do you guys think? Do you think Rob, and Kristen, and all of them will just be like, “Forget it, we don’t wanna do another one?”

Isabel: A- I told you so, and B, I think that they’re not gonna jump ship, but I don’t think it’ll effect them negatively if they continue to do other films. I think if the only thing they’re putting out for four years is Twilight-related crap, I don’t think anyone’s gonna take them seriously. If they’re alternating like, they have to be working all the time then, because squeezing these movies is so ?????? But I did wanna talk about how Stephenie Meyer was asking, “Can they really make Breaking Dawn into a movie?” And that’s what we were saying when we got all of those e-mails about everyone saying, “Of course they’re gonna make it into a movie, it’s gonna be the best movie ever!” I mean, even Stephenie Meyer had reservations, tsk tsk.

Joy: Yeah we got so many e-mails. People were like, “I can’t believe you don’t wanna see Breaking Dawn!” It’s not that we don’t wanna see it, we’re just like, “How are they gonna do it?”

Isabel: I can’t visualize it.

Janna: Yeah, I just can’t see it. I dunno how they’re gonna put that into a movie. I just don’t--especially like talking about earlier how people are concerned if they’re gonna do an ‘R’ rating, how in the heck are they gonna keep the rating down, the same kind of fan base that they have now, and be able to accomplish the movie as the book was?

Isabel: Yeah they can’t even show any scenes--yeah, like a fade-to-black when they’re on their honeymoon-- they can’t really show anything. Like--

[Laughter]

Joy: Seriously, if they wanna keep it ‘PG-13’ there’s not a lot of leeway that they can get, cuz really that book is not rated ‘PG-13.’

Isabel: No, it’s a graphic novel.

Joy: I mean, it’s really, really graphic. So, I don’t know.

Janna: I’m curious to see how they handle it if they market more towards an adult movie and just leave it-- keep the integrity of the book or if they just leave it--don’t really show anything, just kind of give the illusion. I’m not sure.

Isabel: Well, to be honest--I dunno. I don’t know.

Janna: I think it also depends too, on how the next two films go.

Isabel: I still would like to see parts of it, I think, no matter how popular the next two films are gonna be, but it doesn’t seem like the fandom is like slowing down at any time. We were talking about that a couple PattyCasts ago--a couple months ago--about how things were gonna be post-Twilight, do you remember Joy? And news is just as busy as ever. I don’t think that we’ve lost any sort of fans, if anything I think we’ve gained more fans in the fandom.

Janna: I don’t really see how they wouldn’t make the movie though. If you think about that. If they thought it was too hard--they have to make something, because that would be a backlash in itself. Don’t you think the fans would be like, “OK, you can’t leave us hanging.”?

Isabel: Well, what they could always do is just add the, like, certain parts of the story to Eclipse, instead. I dunno. It would just really--it would definitely leave some people hanging. I’m obviously not too worried about it, but I think they might make it. If it’s already in talks, they’re probably already thinking about how to get around these things, or if they can’t, put a higher rating on it.

Joy: Well here’s another question, let’s say that Rob and Kristen--or even just Rob, or just Kristen--what if they do say, “We don’t wanna make the fourth one.” Do you think the studio would re-cast, or do you think that they would just not make it?

Isabel: No way. I would say I just think they’d say, “No.”

Janna: I don’t think they’d re-cast.

Isabel: No, it would be a total flop if they re-cast it. No one would watch it.

Janna: Yeah, I completely agree.

Isabel: Although, they have made sequels before, and maybe it didn’t matter, they just put it straight to DVD. Do you remember Cruel Intentions, they made like a prequel to it and it went straight to DVD?

Janna: Oh, that was terrible.

Joy: I think re-casting is the worst idea ever.

Janna: I think the cast is fantastic. They seem to really enjoy each other’s company, so I don’t think that they would not want to do the next movie, but I think it would just have to be really something special, I guess, I don’t know. I just don’t see how they’re gonna be able to pull it off--

Isabel: Well the things that they’re gonna ask them to do! I think that was the biggest problem that they’ve had with it. I think that Rob would be like, “No, seriously, I can’t tear open a belly with my teeth, guys.” Not gonna happen.

[Laughter]

Joy: Yeah, that’s what stunt doubles are for.

Isabel: Yeah, but it’s gotta be his face.

Janna: And apparently his stunt double is awesome!

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: They would have to do some kind of weird like, montage or something where you would just see like little snippets. Where you could just get the idea of what was happening, but they couldn’t show the whole thing because that’s really graphic.

Isabel: Maybe Stephenie Meyer should contact us and tell us what’s going on.

Janna: They can have Bobby Long and Marcus Foster start doing another song so they can play another montage during.

Joy: Love it.

Janna: Shameless plug, shameless plug, PattinsonOnline Network.

Joy: Very smooth. No one will suspect.

Isabel: Look at her doing her job already! Just got promoted and plugging it already.

Joy: Yes, Director of Awesome, indeed.

Isabel: Director of Awesome/PattinsonOnline Network

Janna: I do what I can.

Joy: Anyway, let’s move on to other movies before we go on and on about this. We actually have quite a few new Little Ashes clips, which were great. I loved watching them.

Isabel: I really liked the one where Javier Beltran was reciting as Lorca, and they were sitting by the--do you know which one I’m talking about? The one with Rob’s girly legs?

[Laughter]

Isabel: Yes!

Joy: When they first scanned up, I was like, “Whose the girl-legs?” And then I was like, “Oh crap, it’s Rob!”

Isabel: Oh God, it’s Rob. I was thinking that, too. I was like, those legs are hairy--

Joy: They make him sit in such a like awkward girly way, I’m like, “What is he doing?” I did like that, that scene, that was good. My favorite part is still when he was like, “Look at the bear!”

[Laughter]

Joy: Did you watch that?

Isabel: What? I really like when there’s definitely more dialogue in each of these clips, so you can hear him speak more as Dali and I really like that.

Joy: I think he’s doing an amazing job.

Isabel: Oh, yeah.

Isabel: Every clip I see, I’m just like, “Oh my gosh, I have to watch this.” I can’t wait ‘til the movie actually comes out.

Janna: I know, every time I watch another one, I’ve had an opportunity to watch everything, basically-- putting stuff into the media archive--and it just blows me away. He’s amazing.

Joy: The release date is May 8th, which is just around the corner, so people are gonna get to see it in some theaters, I’m hoping that it’s just gonna keep spreading out. I’m really hoping for a DVD release sometime.

Isabel: Yeah, or maybe like, a play on like an international film channel, or something like that.

Janna: Are they still asking fans to call their local theaters and request it?

Isabel: Yeah, they’re asking people to do it in the U.S. cuz it’s been--they’ve done such a good job in the UK, I think.

Janna: Okay, so everybody listening call your local theaters, it’s a really great movie.

Joy: That really is the best way to do it.

Isabel: And they really are listening, cuz it’s not just gonna be one person calling. There’s really lots of people calling, for all his showings for most of the movies that aren’t Twilight--How to Be and Little Ashes-- are selling out at each showing that they have, so he’s pretty popular.

Joy: Yeah people want this movie, and to be honest, the best way to do it is for fans to talk to their local theaters and say, “There’s a great interest in this,” and whether you start a petition, or whatever, talk to your local theaters, because, to be honest, if you just get a petition and send it to Regent Releasing or whoever, they might not have time, your letter might get lost, and plus, if you think about all the theaters that are in just the US, there’s no way that Regent Releasing can contact every single one of them. It’d be one thing if this was Twilight, like a huge film like that. But a little film, the theaters can go request it, and if they say, “We want this film,” they can buy it.

Isabel: And if there’s more people--if there’s enough people who are calling them and requesting the movie, they will get it in the theater. And it’s just also to remind you guys that you’ve got all the power in this situation. You forget that you’re fans, or whatever, and that’s just all you are, but you’ve got a lot of--

Joy: Influence?

Isabel: Influence, yes you’ve got a lot of influence as to what happens and what’s going on, but people forget, so they don’t speak up, so they don’t get a lot of input in what’s going on. So speak up! Tell the theaters that you want Little Ashes and wherever it is that your town is at, and if enough people talk about it or call in, they will get it in your theater.

Janna: Definitely, and it would be so worth it.

Isabel: So let’s move on to How to Be, the soundtrack will be released on April 28th. You can get the soundtrack preview on Amazon, it’s on our front page, I think, or if you just search for it, you can find the links to purchase it through our Amazon store. How many songs do they have on the preview? Four songs?

Joy: There’s three that you can listen to, and to be honest, I don’t think they’re the actual versions cuz they just kinda sound like someone did it with their cell phone….it’s kinda weird. But I think that’s just cuz they might not have the actual ones yet, but, I mean, when you buy it it’s probably not gonna be the weird crappy version. It was very strange when I listened to it, I was like, “What is this?”

[Laughter] That’s just the preview, just the preview.

Isabel: Well we also have the How to be Soundtrack Give Away. The details are on the sidebar. You just have to answer a really simple question and e-mail it to the e-mail that we have listed there and you can win signed copies of the soundtrack or signed t-shirts that Rob’s signed, so don’t forget to check that out. When is the date that it’s over?

Joy: Today.

Isabel: I think it’s over on the 26th or the 27th. OH it’s over today…so don’t go, anymore.

[Laughter]

Janna: So don’t go there.

Joy: Never mind. But the winners will be announced on the 28th. That’s what Ben e-mailed us from Dreamboat Records, he said it will be, so if you e-mailed in, wait for your confirmation e-mail. It’ll be coming. How exciting.

Isabel: So How to Be’s also showing on the IFC festival direct on April 29th. I think you have to order that.

Joy: Yeah, I think it’s one of those pay-per-view kinda things, if you wanna see that, order it on that channel. I think there are gonna be more showings on the schedule, so I don’t think it’s just that one day, I think they’ve been adding more opportunities for people to buy it. So that’ll be great cuz if you’ve got that channel--

Isabel: Go and watch it, then.

Joy: Then you’ll be able to buy it, yeah. Save it on your Tivo or whatever and watch it as much as you want.

Isabel: Whatever it is people do these days.

Joy: So that’ll be exciting. (To Isabel) I don’t know.

Isabel: I am so excited for this movie, like I know Little Ashes is gonna be like--the cinematography is going to be fantastic, and--

Janna: Yeah, it seems more like Rob himself, and I think that’s what I and a lot of other people are looking forward to cuz he’s such a funny person that it just gets to showcase his comedic timing, and all of that. I’m looking forward to that.

Isabel: But we also read like interviews and things like that the director and the producer do say that a lot of the stuff that’s in it is method acting and very candid stuff, and--

Janna: Like the drunk scene.

[Laughter]

Isabel: The actors really felt--yeah.

Joy: That’s true, yeah we do have a quote from Oliver Irving about the drunk scene, and we had seen it before, but it was just talking about how he just got them all drunk and said, “This is what the scene is. Go,” and they just did it, and I think that’s just the best way to film.

[Laughter]

Janna: I think too, especially with that group, can you imagine?

Joy: Just get the actors drunk, and roll tape. That would be so funny.

Janna: I would’ve loved to be a fly on that wall

Isabel: I can’t wait to see the outtakes if we ever see them. That’ll be great. Well, we also have a PattinsonOnline exclusive interview with Oliver Irving, Johnny White, and Mike Pearce. Crystal, one of our staffers at PattinsonOnline was able to interview all of them. When was it? February, I think, when she interviewed them, not really sure when she did it, but it was recent--relatively recently. But you can check it out on the website you can search for it, it’s a very, very long article with a few photos, and not--like, not really new information, but it has a lot of choice quotes about filming and how things were done, so don’t forget to check that out, it’s super long so go and read it.

Joy: I have to say that we’ve gotten a lot of new clips and stuff, some of them aren’t really new, but the one with him in the car, did you see that one?

[Laughter]

Isabel: I couldn’t see it! MTV wouldn’t play it for me because I’m in Canada!

Joy: Oh, it’s so funny. He’s apparently buying a car, and the guy’s like, “Oh you’re really gonna like this car,” and he just gets in and drives off in it, and he’s like--it’s just him like, giggling while he’s driving, it is so funny. I’m just cracking up, and then he stops, and he has like this, “Oh crap” moment, like, “What did I just do?” It’s so funny. It’s maybe like a minute at the most. It’s just like little giggly Rob--

Isabel: Well, I’ll have to see if it’s anywhere else other than MTV--

Joy: --It’s so cute.

Isabel: Cuz I really wanna see that. Or maybe someone will put it in our video archive, who knows?

Janna: Somebody might…

Isabel: Anyway, the Summer House, there’s a new trailer out. I really like it, but I wish Tara was here to talk about it cuz she went to London last year and actually spoke with Anna McDonald and the production team of The Summer House and they gave her a tour of the London Film Academy, and she’s super stoked about this movie, and I am, too, after seeing the trailer. It’s been in production for a really, really long time, so it’s great that it’s finally coming out.

Janna: It does look like a very interesting movie.

Isabel: Yeah, I wanna know more about the premise because it doesn’t really tell you, like it has like a brief plot.

Janna: It does, it kind of just leaves you hanging and wanting to understand it more.

Joy: Part of me is just like, “Why can’t they just sell it on iTunes so we can watch it already?” It’s only twelve minutes, I mean, come on.

Isabel: Well you know what? The thing is, like hey, Summer House people, sell it on iTunes cuz you’ll make a pretty penny that way. Everyone’ll wanna watch it.

Joy: For real, for real, it’s just like come on. Cuz even their official website still says, “Coming out soon!” They made this like 47 years ago, I just wanna see it!

[Laughter]

Isabel: We don’t have anymore movie news, but let’s move into articles and interviews, we’ve only got one this time around, and it’s a--it’s from Film.com and they have career advice for Rob. I think it’s pretty funny, it was a pretty witty article, and I agree with most of the stuff that they said.

Janna: I think so, too, especially about becoming a comedian. He’s hilarious.

Isabel: Yeah but the thing is, it’s unintentionally funny, which makes it even more funny.

Joy: I dunno if he could really be funny on purpose. Do you think he could do stand-up?

Isabel: No, he can’t do stand-up. He’s not funny on purpose--

Janna: --No, he’s too nervous.

Isabel: --He’s funny on like, spur-of-the-moment. He’d probably eat his hand.

Joy: Yeah, it’d probably give him a panic attack, and he’d be like, crying. Like, “Don’t make me do it!”

Janna: “I don’t wanna go!”

[Laughter]

Isabel: I find it really funny, though, that they’re still talking about his hair.

Janna: Oh, God.

Joy: I want him to shave it completely bald, so people will be like, “Oh his bald head is so sparkly like Edward’s!”

[Laughter]

Joy: They would.

Janna: Like cheese.

Isabel: There--it’s all sound advice, other than the stuff about the hair, even that, he could stand to wash it, I suppose. But, yeah, get that pretty face into a variety of films, we’ve already talked about that, and keep on with the music career, totally agree with that. So just an aside, we had an interview with Sam Bradley for the PattinsonOnline Network, and he was talking about how Rob is a very dedicated musician, he’s even making music now, making music all the time, it’s a matter of whether or not he’s gonna release anything, which is sad. I think he should release more stuff. Fans can’t wait to see it. Maybe not perform things live for a while, but releasing music. I also see why he wouldn’t want to. He wants to be taken as a serious musician and doesn’t want it to be piggy-backing on any sort of acting success. Cuz I remember him saying vaguely once like that actors end up always coming out with music while they’re still famous and everyone discounts them cuz they figure it’s just--

Joy: It’s kinda true. I mean,

Janna: It is true

Joy: I dunno. It’s one thing if you’re a Disney star and you’re just part of the empire, but I think it’s a different thing for a 23 year old guy who is not in High School Musical--it’s totally different for him to come out with an album and be like---

Isabel: “Take me seriously--I’m an artist.”

Joy: Exactly, exactly. He doesn’t want it to be like, The Edward Cullen Album, you know?

[Laughter]

Isabel: You know what? I want there--

Joy: Robert Pattinson’s new album! It’s gonna sparkle in the sun!

Isabel: --To be a TV show, like The Edward Cullen Show, that’d be great.

Joy: He should start a band, and it should be called, Edward and the Sparkles.

Janna: Oh no.

[Laughter]

Isabel: No.

Joy: I bet there already is one.

Isabel: Alright, on to network news, we’ve got two interviews that came out this week. Like I mentioned before, one with Sam Bradley and one for Bobby Long and Marcus Foster, so that covers basically the whole network. So, if you go on the respective pages, you can see them on there.

Joy: We’re very efficient.

[Laughter]

Isabel: We are very efficient.

Janna: It covers everything.

Isabel: As for the upcoming shows, the most recent one would be, I guess, Sam’s charity gig in Vancouver, Richards on Richards. I’m gonna be there, Janna’s gonna be there, and you should be there, too. Buy tickets. Earlier this week, I talked to Kelly, who’s management for Sam, and he said that they’re about 50 percent sold out, so get everyone you know buying tickets to go to the May 2nd show at Richards on Richards, it’s a really nice venue.

Joy: And it’s a good cause, too.

Isabel: It’s for a good cause, exactly. I think Bobby’s US tour is over. And they’re heading home on Sunday, and he’s got shows in London on may 7th, 14th, and June 6th, so be sure to check those out. Marcus is also in London, I don’t think he ever left.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Alright, moving on to still one of my favorite segments of the PattyCast, where--it’s the Tom Sturridge Reference of the Day. Woohoo! This is an actual Tom Sturridge Reference, I know I’ve been fudging them lately, but he’s not been around lately. Well, other than paparazzi stuff--we don’t need to talk about that. But there’s a Tom interview on tomsturridge.com. We just have to stop right now and have a moment of silence, and Joy will tell you why we need a moment of silence.

Joy: Well, there was a time, back in the day, we were young and innocent, and Isabel, in her fan girl awesomeness, started up a lovely little website, it was called, TomSturridge.org, and it was glorious. It was the best website ever.

Isabel: And it was the first Tom Sturridge site.

Joy: It really was, it was actually the first one, wasn’t it?

Isabel: Well, yeah it was one of the first ones--it was the first one. But the thing is, that you can blame it on, is the fact that Rob got too popular and we couldn’t manage two websites at the same time. Which is funny--

Joy: And so now we manage 12--

[Laughter]

Isabel: --Now we’re up to four.

Janna: Exactly.

[Laughter]

Joy: We probably could bring that back from the dead but we have too many at the same time right now.

Isabel: Yeah, and there’s already new Tom Sturridge sites that are out there that are great, like tomsturridge.com is pretty fantastic. But they did an interview with Tom Sturrdige, and it was pretty fantastic. I think the funniest part was when he was trying to avoid talking about Rob, cuz he obviously didn’t wanna talk about him, and there were a bunch of questions that they asked. “Your best friend, is the "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson? You have lived together in London. How was that?” Tom’s answer was: “That was a great time. We had a perfectly normal life, swapped our clothes, talked about women, and about the washing.” He’s--it just, the way he avoids talking about Rob is pretty funny. So if you’re a Tom Sturridge fan, and you haven’t read this interview, you should go read it. The next question they had was, “Rob and Tom, a dream team for the women's world. What actually happens when you rock a club together?”

[Laughter] I can’t even say that question with a--

Joy: That’s like such a horrible thing to--

Isabel: --a serious face. Tom answers, “I've never gone to a club. We go more in bars and pubs, and then it is quite normal: Two guys go drink a beer and babble nonsense.” And, they ask, “You're not surrounded by screaming groupies?” And Tom says, “No, fortunately not! Rob is primarily known in America, and I'm hardly recognized by anyone in London.” And they say, “It looks like "The Boat That Rocked" will change that.” and Tom says, “I cannot honestly imagine being really famous. I have seen Rob in that and it is not funny to be attacked by paparazzi. I like that I can run though London's streets undetected.” But it’s true, though that lately everyone’s been watching him, too, because he’s part of like the new Fab Five, or whatever. Alright, we have an excellent Rob Quote of the Day. I really, really like this quote. “Have you ever used the phrase, “I’m an actor” as a pick up line?” And Rob says, “No, that phrase doesn’t work here in LA - everybody is an actor here.” I think that’s really funny.

Joy: It’s so true. They’d be like, “So am I!”

Isabel: When would anyone ask him that, anyway?

Joy: I don’t know. At least they didn’t ask him about his hair.

Isabel: That’s true

Joy: There was another quote that I added in later that I didn’t send you guys cuz I just saw it where he was--I think it was with the ET interview on the video, where they asked him, “If you had a sister,” which is weird because he does have a sister, “would you want her to date Edward or Jacob?” and he goes, “Edward’s wealthier.”

[Laughter]

Janna: I love it. I loved that.

Joy: It was so funny, so funny.

Isabel: I loved that. So candid. Alright, let’s move into our features song, which is Edward’s piano concert. It’s really just an excuse for Joy to fan girl.

Joy: It is!

Isabel: So go for it.

Joy: Have you guys listened to it?

Isabel: Yes, I have, it’s great.

Janna: I actually was really interested in this, so I would love to hear what Joy’s thoughts are.

Joy: I was excited because, okay, one I really love piano music, and I feel like we’ve been waiting so long because even before Twilight came out, before the soundtrack was--before they had a composer and everything, everyone was like, “Ooh, Rob’s doing some piano,” like, “Rob’s doing Bella’s lullaby,” and all these things, and I got really excited about it because it’s one of those things where you have such a great picture in your mind, and then when I heard that Rob might be actually writing it, I was like, “This is gonna be so cool!” And then it ended up that he wasn’t and all these things, and I like the Bella’s lullaby that they chose, but part of me was like, “Oh, I really wanna hear it!” So, then when I saw the video of him just playing the piano I was like, “You have gotta be kidding me, this is awesome.” I just thought it was so beautiful because even though he was just totally improv-ing, it was so well done. It was just really beautiful. I don’t know, I just was really really impressed with it.

Isabel: I was really impressed, too, but I also liked how Catherine Hardwicke talked about it in the commentary, and how she said that they just let him play and they filmed it, and he came up with like the most haunting, beautiful, music, and it’s true, it’s great.

Janna: I would so have loved to hear--it is that actually his version of Bella’s lullaby that he’s playing, do you know? Or is it just he’s improv-ing?

Joy: I guess so, I guess it was just kind of filler, I don’t know I don’t think he ever actually recorded anything for Bella’s lullaby, maybe he did, but I think that was probably it.

Isabel: Who knows? If he did, it’s in the Summit archives.

Janna: Yeah, in the commentary, too, he didn’t--it didn’t sound like from what Catherine made a comment like, it didn’t sound like he was too happy about playing someone else’s piece, so I think he probably did have something and they just maybe didn’t use it. The Carter-Burwell song.

Joy: You might be right.

Janna: Yeah, like his improv playing was so beautiful and so extravagant, just like all over the place, it was amazing.

Joy: Yeah, well the melody is really, really simple it’s all the background stuff, it’s like the violins and the 40 piece orchestra that makes it sound so intense--

Janna: Right.

Isabel: Yeah but it’s just supposed to be a piano playing.

Joy: --but really as just a piano piece it’s very simple.

Janna: Yeah. I so wished that they would have used his own, cuz I think it would’ve been that much better.

Isabel: Yeah, but this was still great, the piano concert. I’m really glad we have that footage.

Joy: I just thought it was beautiful to actually watch him play it, too. Because you could tell he was really comfortable. It wasn’t just like--it wasn’t acting. It really was just him playing the piano, you know? And I wish we had more of that cuz I just thought it was so beautiful and it was just really neat to kinda see him being an artist and just making it up. It was amazing, I just really loved it. I: Yeah.

Janna: I wonder how he feels about having it on there, because he’s so selective about what music of his is played.

Joy: I’m sure they must’ve said, “Hey, we’re filming you! This might go on the DVD. And he was like, “Whatever.”

Janna: I could’ve watched that for hours.

Joy: I know, seriously.

Janna: That was like the best part for me. Seriously.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Let’s go into the Soap Box.

Joy: Yay!

Isabel: It’s one of my favorite things to do.

Joy: It’s my favorite!

Janna: I love the Soap Box.

Joy: Janna’s first Soap Box, how exciting.

Isabel: So, the topic--we’ve had a couple of e-mails about this, not just recently, but throughout the lifetime of this website or whatever. And it’s about Rob smoking. And his--it’s a discussion also about Rob’s image as a role-model, and I--he’s not a role model, that’s not what he signed up to be, he’s an actor, and that’s his job. And I think that he understands the dangers of smoking, he’s an adult, legally. I’m pretty sure he knows. And if he doesn’t, cigarette packets have lots of information to tell you about how dangerous it is to smoke, and he doesn’t need moms telling him not to smoke--moms as in people trying to coddle him. I dunno that’s just my opinion about the whole thing.

Joy: Well, you know, I think that you’re right, he does have the right to do what he wants. I really think that it’s disgusting. I think smoking is really gross. Not just for him, but for anyone. I just think it’s kind of a gross habit, and I dunno why you would want to do something that you know is gonna kill you eventually--I dunno. But at the same time, it’s his choice. I don’t have the right to say to him, “Oh, Rob, you shouldn’t smoke because you’re Edward, and that’s a bad image,” or whatever. I can understand that some people are concerned, they don’t want him to die. But at the same time, he is an adult, he has a choice, and there’s nothing wrong with people expressing their concern for him. Like I’m not saying, “Oh, you should just leave him alone.” I’m not saying that. It’s fine to say, you know, “I’m concerned about him---

Isabel: Well, the problem is people who are vehement against it, who are saying that if he really does smoke then that’s the end of it for them, and I guess that’s their personal choice or whatever, but I agree with you , I think that it’s stinky and whatever, it is about smoking, but I won’t--I just don’t think that it’s my right to tell somebody that, “You shouldn’t do that because you’re a role model for people,” and he didn’t sign up to be a role model.

Janna: I completely agree.

Joy: Yeah, I mean, like I said before, he’s not in the Boys and Girls Club of America, you know? He’s not--

Janna: Exactly, he’s not here to hold your hand, and he doesn’t wanna lead you to greener pastures, and all that, and you don’t have to do what he does.

Isabel: No, and he doesn’t wanna tell you to look both ways as you cross the street, he’s here to make movies and money, to be quite honest, and that’s what he’s doing.

Janna: He’s here for you to enjoy yourself for a couple of hours in the theater and make money and have a good time doing it.

Joy: I think it’s one thing if he was like, your friend, right? I mean, we don’t know him, he’s not--we’re not like BFF with Rob, if my best friend was--

Isabel: Yeah, that’s the thing.

Joy: --Doing something that was really detrimental to them, yeah I would talk with them about it and I would say, “I’m concerned about whatever.” But I wouldn’t be like, “Well we can’t be friends anymore because you’re doing this,” and maybe that’s just me, but I just think for a stranger--I mean, he is a stranger people, I’m sorry but, you know, he--we don’t have the right to be like, “Oh you should stop smoking cuz it’s a bad influence,” and all these things. And at the same time we are getting a lot of e-mails from people saying, “Leave him alone, let him do what he wants,” so it’s kind of like a two-sided coin, here. And I’m certainly not advocating smoking by any means, I really do think it’s gross and it’s dangerous--

Isabel: No, none of us are--just for the record, none of us are advocating smoking, just he should have a choice of whether or not he wants to do it.

Janna: Exactly.

Joy: Yeah, exactly, and like we said, there’s nothing wrong with people being concerned from him, I mean, sure whatever, you know, if I saw anyone doing something I thought was destructive, I’d be concerned. But, especially if it was a stranger, I don’t think I’d have the right to be like, “Hey stranger, stop doing this, you’re a role model!” Because it’s not true.

[Laughter]

Janna: Exactly.

Isabel: Yeah, exactly, would you just go up to anyone on the street smoking?

Janna: Here he has so much undue pressure--he has so much pressure with the Twilight, you know, phenomenon as it is, it’s just like one more thing that adds up to him. There’s something wrong with his hair, he needs to wash his hair more. It’s like, come on people, he has a choice, he can do this on his own.

Isabel: And like what Joy said, we’re not--like, we’re not saying don’t be concerned for him, and it’s stupid to be concerned for him but the bottom line is, you don’t know him, he’s not your friend, he’s an actor, and it’s his job and he’s not a role model. So just let him know what he wants to do. And I’m pretty sure he’s aware of what the consequences are.

Joy: Yeah, seriously, you’d have to be an idiot not to know. But as kind of a side-note, here in Thailand, like all of the cigarette packages they actually have a picture of a cancerous blackened out lung, it’s so gross

Janna: Oh my God.

Joy: And they’ll have like pictures of a throat that’s been like, eaten away by the--and it’s so disgusting. When I look at the pictures I’m always like [gag noise].

Isabel: In Canada, too, there’s pictures of hearts, there’s pictures of lungs, and stuff, on the cigarette packets; they’re getting really graphic about that.

Joy: They should, I mean, it’s just not good for you.

Janna: Good, it’s a very bad habit, and you know--

Joy: You have your choice and it’s not illegal, so--I mean like, if Rob was like doing crack, or something like, you know--

[Laughter]

Janna: We might have to say something…

Joy: But it’s not illegal, he’s an adult, he’s making his own choices.

Janna: He’s not Amy Winehouse.

Isabel: You know, to be honest though, I’m just saying that, yeah, if he did crack, I would have a personal issue with it, but I don’t think I’d go up to him and be like, “Hey Rob, you really need to stop this crack habit that you’ve developed,” or whatever. It’s still none of my business.

Janna: Yeah, that’s--

Joy: That’s a thing that friends do, that’s not what strangers do.

Isabel: Exactly, leave it up to his friends to tell him, and even then, smoking--we understand that it’s bad and awful for you, but it’s something that’s a big part of peoples’ lives, and younger generations, and things like that, and it’s also a touchy subject, and the whole dynamic of strangers telling artists what they should and shouldn’t do and that they’re role models--that’s just what I take offense to, I guess. Not offense.

Joy: And if it does bother you that much that you feel like you can’t be a fan of his anymore, whatever--

Isabel: Write him a letter.

Joy:--more power to you. Write him a strongly worded letter. But seriously, I don’t think you should be saying to other people, “Oh, you shouldn’t be a fan of him, either,” I mean, we’ve gotten e-mails in the past of people saying like, “Oh, I can’t believe that you would have a website dedicated to someone who smokes,” and all of this stuff, and I’m like, “What?”

[Laughter]

Joy: --I mean, it’s just weird, it’s crazy. People kinda take it into their heads that they can just say anything to anyone and boss strangers around. If you wanna do that, become a police officer, jeez.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Yeah, we’re not here to police other people, I guess is the mentality that I have, too. If you wanna help someone because you think it’s bad for them, or you’re concerned for their health or whatever, I just wanna reiterate what Joy said: we’re not telling you not to be concerned for other people, that’s not what we’re saying. We’re just saying that maybe you shouldn’t be so judgmental of strangers. Especially people--someone that you’ve never met but you think you know because he’s famous.

Janna: Very well said

Joy: Yeah, exactly.

Isabel: Well, the bottom-line with most of our Soap Boxes is just, leave Rob alone.

[Laughter]

Janna: Yeah, that’s the basis.

Joy: Let’s move on to the next part. It’s like an extension of our Soap Box.

Isabel: Yeah, it’s not new, we’re just extending--

Janna: Speaking of leaving Rob alone.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Yeah.

Joy: Good segue there!

Isabel: We’ve got this little thing called the rumor patrol, and we’re just gonna recap some rumors for you, and you can laugh at your leisure

[Laughter]

Isabel: Well, the first thing that is obviously on everyone’s mind is, who’s Rob dating? And apparently he’s dating both Kristen and Nikki, at the same time.

Joy: He’s such a player.

Janna: That’s gotta be a really uncomfortable set.

Isabel: You know what? What a player.

[Laughter]

Joy: Yeah, awkward. Hello! And apparently Kristen and Nikki are like, having fights on the set about him or something, I dunno.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Yeah. Who knows what’s going on?

Joy: It’s just so ridiculous, I mean, he’s said repeatedly that he does not have a girlfriend, you know? And so it’ just like--

Isabel: And he doesn’t want to pursue anything--

Joy: And he doesn’t want one right now. It’s just--

Isabel: --Does anyone see him go out with anyone? I don’t know.

Joy: Well, like there was one interview he did, I think it was the ET one again, where she was like--the interviewer was like, “So you’re seen with a girl, or you’re talking to a girl, and automatically you’re dating?” And he’s like, “Yeah, apparently,” you know?

[Laughter]

Joy: And that’s just like--and we get tons of e-mails from people like, “Who is Rob’s girlfriend? Who is he dating?” And I’m like, ‘delete’. I don’t even respond to them. I’m sorry. But I don’t respond to them because, one, it’s in our frequently asked questions, which, if you had read them, then you would see, and two, it’s a dumb question, I’m sorry. --

Isabel: And two it’s none of your business!

Joy: And you don’t need to know.

Janna: That would be number three.

[Laughter]

Janna: None of your business.

Joy: It’s none of your business. If you really wanna know, then go ask someone else, but we’re not gonna tell you. We just don’t care.

Isabel: Oh yeah, apparently Rob was also injured on set.

Joy: Oh my gosh, people were freaking out.

Isabel: Yeah, he fell, or something, and something fell on him, and it grazed him, and he was laying down, and someone thought he got hit in the head, or whatever--

Joy: And people thought he was dead….

Isabel: Who knows. So we e-mailed Nick Frenkel, and he says, “This story is completely false. Robert has not been injured in any way and no version of the story ever occurred.” So, it’s just funny to me, how people seem to just make up anything.

Joy: There was a rumor, like way back, well not way back, but maybe earlier in the year before, that he was actually dead. Like, there was a “Rob is dead” rumor.--

Isabel: Yeah, there was, you can still--

Joy:--I was like, “What?”

Isabel: If you go onto Google page, like google.ca or google.com, you know how they bring up options for you when you start typing in something, it pulls up a list of like options that are the closest fit to what you’re searching for? Well, if you do “Robert Pattinson,” there’s still one that says, “Robert Pattinson Dead” or “Robert Pattinson--something.”

Joy: I’m gonna do it right now.

Isabel: Yeah, cuz a zillion people googled “Robert Pattinson dead”

Joy: [Gasp] I see it! Lemme look. He’s dead!!! Not.

Janna: He’s dead!

Isabel: Nooooooo!

Joy: Just kidding. It was like the same week that they thought that Miley Cyrus was dead, too. Okay, I remember, when I was in high school--well, not high school but like, elementary/middle school, how into Saved By the Bell I was, and there were rumors that Mark-Paul Gosselar was dead, and I cried for like days.

[Laughter].

Joy: I was so sad. I was like, “No, Zack, no!” And then I realized that it wasn’t true. Maybe it was high school--anyways, just had to mention that.

Isabel: Apparently Rob also smells really bad. He doesn’t shower.

[Laughter]

Isabel: But, I don’t know--he’s apparently still important enough to be guarded by Mounties--

[Laughter. Lots of it.]

Joy: That one made me laugh so hard. It was so amazing.

Isabel: It’s just so typically like, stereotypically Canadian to say that, “Oh, he was guarded by Mounties,” or whatever. Because it just seems like such an American stereotype thing.

Joy: But he was! There were Mounties there. It’s true.

Isabel: Well, they--you--

Joy: Kind of.

Isabel: Mounties--I can’t even express how silly that is.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Because you don’t see Mounties everyday, like they don’t even wear that red uniform anymore.

Joy: What?! Can I just say that it is one of my lifetime goals to have my picture taken with a Mountie?

Isabel: Yeah but you have to find one in uniform.

Joy: Damnit.

Isabel: Like, they have those for like, parades or whatever.

Joy: No, apparently that rumor was like, somewhat true, in that there were some off-duty Mounties, who were like--

[Laughter]

Joy: I can’t even say it. Who were like, “We wanna go see the set and take care of people,” and it was like, “Alright.” It just was not as cool as people thought it was, I’m sorry.

[Laughter]

Joy: I mean, it was really nice of them to volunteer their time, but it wasn’t like they were, you know, riding around on their horses and cutting fan girls, and stuff--

[Laughter]

Janna: Robert Pattinson has his own Mounties.

Isabel: We’re still getting e-mails about social networking sites like Twitter, and Facebook, and I thought we put this stupid rumor to rest already.

Joy: We did. It is also on our Frequently Asked Questions, people, please read them.

Isabel: So stop, frickin’ e-mailing us asking if he has a Twitter, a Myspace, a Facebook, you will not get an answer because he doesn’t have one. And even if he did, he doesn’t have one. So, there you go. And it’s definitely not--

Joy: And Nikki Reed doesn’t have one, Kristen Stewart doesn’t have one, they don’t have them, cuz people are like, “Oh but this one must be true because Nikki and Kristen were talking to him!” And I’m like, “It’s not them!”

Isabel: And it’s also like, “This one must be true, it says Robert T. Pattinson. That one MUST be him!”

[Laughter]

Joy: “How would they know his middle initial? It MUST be him!”

[Laughter]

Isabel: “It must be Rob!”

Joy: “This one has a picture of Rob! It’s obviously him!”

Isabel: “This one says, ‘Mr. R. Pattinson.’ It‘s obviously him!”

Joy: “It’s a pseudonym…”

Janna: Yeah, “He’s trying to be mysterious!”

Joy: “This one says, Pattinson comma Rob! He’s trying to be sneaky!”

[Laughter]

Joy: “He didn’t think I would crack his code, but I did!”

Isabel: So just to remind you guys, that Nick Frenkel actually gave us some sort of little release about social networking sites, and Rob’s not signed up for any of them. Plus, stop looking for him, it’s creepy. Talk about the fighting on the set because, apparently, they’re at each other’s throats!

Joy: Oh my gosh, yes. Okay, so I was in the airport a couple weeks ago, and I was looking for a good magazine to get on the plane, and I saw the Life & Style magazine, which, if it can even be called a magazine, please. It was like a picture of Rob on the cover, and it was all like, “Drama on the Twilight Set!” Like, “Are Kristen and Rob Really Dating? Do Nikki and Kellan Really Hate Rob?” And all this stuff. It’s just like this whole crapfest, and I was looking at it, and I’m just like, “What in the world?” So I opened it to look in the article and it’s just all these lies about how everybody hates each other and they’re fighting, and there’s rivalries, and it’s just like, “Oh no! Production was almost halted because Rob left the set!” And like all this stuff. It is so funny.

[Laughter]

Isabel: Oh my Gosh.

Joy: I was just like, “This is disgusting.” I can’t believe I even picked this up. It’s horrible, I’m like, do people not even know that this is--I mean, like there’s no common sense radar that makes you think, “Well I’ve seen them hanging out and being fun together so…they must hate each other.” you know?

Isabel: I think you’re giving some of the fan girls too much credit about the common sense thing.

Joy: You must be right. Forgive me, forgive me, I shall never do it again. But seriously, it’s just ridiculous. I was like, “I can’t believe that people are actually reading this.” I’m sorry, but Life & Style is just not a reputable magazine, sorry. Actually, I’m not really that sorry. No, like I’m looking at the Life & Style website, and they’ve even got like, “Tension Between Rob and Nikki Because He Has His Sometime-Love With Her and It’s Creating Awkward Moments,” I mean--

Isabel: Yeah, awkward moments. Sure.

Joy: Who comes up with this crap? Oh they even have a picture of the one I was looking at, the title is, “Twilight in Trouble.” and it was all about how Rob stormed off the set because he was mad at everyone, cuz they hate each other.

Isabel: Yeah cuz that really makes sense as to the way Rob is and the way he portrays himself. He’s just a big ball of anger who likes to stalk off.

Joy: Ooh, here’s another one: “Twilight Heartbreak: A Huge Fight Erupts as Robert Ends His Affair and Turns to Kristen--the Girl He Can’t Have!” I’m not even exaggerating you guys, that is the actual cover title. I want to cry it’s so---

[Laughter]

Isabel: You know what would be best like, “Rob has affair with Loch-Ness Monster,” Like it’s the same frickin’ thing. But even when he addresses some of the rumors like in the Moviefone.com interview thing or whatever, but even when he does say, “Oh the rumors aren’t true,” the rumor mongers say will he’s just denying it because he has to keep it really secret and really down low because Kristen has a boyfriend.

Joy: Oh, and apparently Kristen made this quote that Rob is very worried about his status as a fading superstar, and he’s like being all diva and everything, and now like he and Taylor are fighting because Taylor is taking over his diva-mantle or something. And I’m like, what the heck?

[Laughter]

Janna: Oh my God.

Joy: I mean like this is just ridiculous, it’s like, I could seriously write, “Rob has an Affair with the Loch-Ness Monster,” and they’d be like, “Pictures, where are the pictures?”

Isabel: But the thing is also, people will listen to this and be like, “Oh my God, they confirmed it on the PattyCast!” Guys, these are just rumors.

Joy: Yes, we’re making fun of you, so get over it. Anyway, Rob has discussed some of the rumors, yeah like with Moviefone he’s been like, “No these are all ridiculous,” you know, Alice Hartman who’s the publicist for Sam Bradley and Bobby Long--she’s great, we’ve got a great working relationship with her--she even gave her feedback. She talked with Amanda Bell, who’s written a lot of good stuff for the Twilight Examiner, and basically just saying, part of it is that Rob just makes these comments and people run with them cuz they just don’t get his sense of humor, not that it’s his fault, but it’s just she says, “It’s important for talent to be genuine. It beats artificial and contrived any day, but being transparent with the press is risky.” So it’s true, because Rob is not--he doesn’t hide. He’s very honest about who he is, but at the same time, he’s sarcastic, he’s got a dry sense of humor, and he makes these cracks, and people are like, “Oh my gosh! He doesn’t shower!” You know? And it’s like, he was just kidding, and we’ve talked about this before but Alice is just saying, it doesn’t hurt to be guarded, and she says that her advice to him is just to ignore them, to ignore the rumors. Because honestly, if he had to refute every single rumor that came across the table, he’d never get anything done.

Isabel: It’s like what they say, it’s basic PR, if someone says something bad about you, ignore it, if someone says something good about you, go after them. Even with our stuff, like when people send us hate mail, we do respond, somewhat, but some of them are just so ridiculous that they don’t get any response whatsoever.

Joy: Last show we had our big Soap Box about Rob’s management and how they need to manage him better.

[Laughter]

Joy: And we’re not the only ones who think so, we actually got some good feedback, some bad feedback, too. People saying, “Do you really wanna alienate his management?” and it’s not really our goal, but anyway, we’re not the only ones who think that and again, the Twilight Examiner, Amanda Bell, she writes some really good stuff, she linked to a site called the Twilight Sisterhood, and they said exactly the same stuff that we’ve been saying like, “Where is his representation? What are they doing? He needs to get a good publicist to handle stuff like this so that we don’t have to hear these stupid rumors about his body odor. I mean, it’s just become such a mess you can’t believe anything. And I don’t want people to come to our site with the mentality of “This is all just lies, it’s all just rumors,” because we work really hard not to post rumors.

Isabel: And we post specifically saying, “These are rumors,” when we feel we need to bring up that there is a rumor going around.

Janna: Right.

Isabel: Okay, so let’s get into listener e-mails. We didn’t get many this week. We got a lot of people saying that they love PattyCasts, and things like that, but actually like, specific questions, we’ve only got two. One from Bri, and she asks, “Which of all of Rob’s movies is your favorite?” Joy, which one of Rob’s movies is your favorite?

[Laughter]

Joy: You know, you think I’m gonna say Twilight but I’m actually not gonna say Twilight. You’re shocked, I know.

Isabel: Oooh, what’re you gonna say?

Janna: Oooh, throwin’ a curveball!

Joy: I do love Twilight but I don’t think it’s the best of his movies. I really think that the Bad Mother’s Handbook was his best one, and I know Tara would agree with me--she’s like the biggest fan girl--but so far I think that’s his best acting that I’ve seen. I mean, I love Twilight, I love Harry Potter, but--

Isabel: --Definitely his best acting has been in Bad Mother’s Handbook.

Joy: --his best acting one, the one that I could just watch him do it all the time, that’s the Bad Mother’s Handbook, I just love it. And I have a feeling that How to Be is gonna be right up there with it, because I’m so excited for that one.

Isabel: Yeah How to Be is like my favorite already.

Joy: I just love it when he plays little nerd, crazy--

Janna: I am mostly looking forward to How to Be to be honest, that’s my favorite one, and I haven’t even seen it yet. Just from all the clips, I keep watching.

Isabel: The clips that we do have, yeah. I would have to agree, the movies that he has out already, would have to be the Bad Mother’s Handbook. But the movie that probably is going to be it, would probably be--

Janna: --see, I haven’t even seen the Bad Mother’s Handbook.

Isabel: What?

Joy: You have to see it.

Isabel: You have to see it, it’s so--

Janna: I haven’t seen it, that’s why I didn’t know the answer, cuz I was like, “What’m I supposed to say?”

Isabel: Next question, or next e-mail, anyways, Deanna asks, “I would like to know if you all have actually met? I hear you saying your from different parts of America and.. Beijing I think? And how you record the show? Over the internet with microphones?”

[Laughter]

Isabel: She’s not in Beijing, she’s in Bangkok.

Joy: Yeah, and I’m not actually from Bangkok, I just live here. I’m not Thai. Sorry.

[Laughter]

Isabel: No, she just teaches there.

Joy: Yeah.

Isabel: Tara and I have met, I think those are the only two people from the website, I think, that’ve met. I mean, the admins, anyway, who record the PattyCast, but Joy and I have been friends for a really long time.

Joy: Yeah.

Isabel: We’re planning on eventually living together, so--

[Laughter]

Isabel: We’ll meet, eventually.

Joy: We’re coming to London, get ready! London is not gonna be ready for us, it’s gonna be awesome.

Isabel: Like slowly staff members are meeting. I’ve met a lot of staff members. No, Janna’s supposed to come May 2nd for Sam’s show and we’re trying to get her passport renewed, but yeah--

Janna: We’ll see if it happens.

Isabel: Yeah, we’ll meet her then. See if it happens. But we’re mostly really good friends cuz we have to keep in close contact with each other to run a website this big, and we definitely have to talk to each other everyday, if we can, anyway.

Joy: Yeah.

Isabel: But, yeah. I dunno. How do we record the show? We use Skype, and we use mics and over the internet, indeed. That’s about it. Any other technical stuff?

Joy: I used to have like a whole big process written down on the PattyCast website, but then I deleted it by accident--

Isabel: Oops.

Joy: Yeah, but eventually someday I’ll get it back up there, but basically, yeah, microphones and Skype, that’s how it works, and then I edit it for like 8 hours, and then I upload it, so we’re good.

Isabel: Yeah, then we have a program that actually tapes the discussion over Skype, and Joy takes a long time to edit it, and then we put it up on the website. Alright, I think it’s time for some wrap-up items. Just a reminder again about our sponsors. We’re actually writing up a little summary about all of our affiliates and sponsors, and partners, and we’ll have that up on the site soon so everyone can see how far we’ve progressed in that. Our biggest sponsor is still this natural skin care company that’s coming out, so just wanted to remind everyone who’s thinking about becoming a member, on the website, or anything like that, that it’ll really benefit you in the end when it comes to our sponsors, because when you sign up for memberships it gets you discounts on the skin care and you get involved in some raffles like with Fandango and things like that, but as for the skin care website and everything, we will be releasing all that information relatively soon, within a week to a week and a half, so just stay tuned for that if you’re really interested in all-natural products, chemical-free things, and that’s about it, look forward to that within the next two weeks, probably sooner.

Joy: Our Birthday Project is coming up to the deadline, Rob’s birthday is May 13th, and we’re doing the same project that we do every year. Our traditional birthday page, where our fans can go in and submit a birthday message to Rob and it goes directly to him, we gather them all together and put them on the site, and then we send him the link, and he’s expressed appreciation for it in the past. This’ll be our third year doing it, so May 1st is the deadline, so if you haven’t done that yet, please do. We have almost 1500 messages so far, which is great, I think that’s the most we’ve ever had for this, so It’s s really exciting. It’s gonna be a lot of work putting it together but we know that Rob is really appreciative, so check that out, there’s a little button right on the main site, or you can just go to Robert-pattinson.co.uk/birthday and that’ll take you right there where you can just put your information in the form. And your message will get delivered to us, and we’ll make sure it gets on the site. So get that done, you’ve only got about a week.

Isabel: Well that’s it for the PattyCast. Bye from Isabel.

Joy: And from Joy.

Janna: And from Janna.

Isabel: We’ll see you guys next time.

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