"But what happens when the fans get to a Robert Pattinson-level where it’s just insane?
Well, it’s crazy because with all this attention, all of us are handling it extremely well. We still have our head on our shoulders and our feet on the ground. Rob’s handling it so well. I can’t fathom being in his shoes. I believe I could handle it, but being cooped up in Vancouver and not being able to leave the hotel room or the apartment without having a driver and having to hide out—especially when he was shooting Remember Me, I talked to him a lot in New York and those fans were just crazy. I can’t imagine trying to act when you have all these people yelling your name and you’re doing an emotional scene."
“AnOther Man speaks to the ‘other’ man, a man not being catered to currently by fashion magazines. AnOther Man mixes credible modern icons with art, music, high impact fashion photography and strong opinionated writing by key cultural voices. A magazine for men who like their lifestyle rocked with passion and intelligence, luxury and a sense of adventure.”I've read in many interviews that Rob didn't know how big "Twilight" really was before he took on the role of "Edward Cullen"...he has revealed his expectations were that the film was another indy movie, so my question has always been; If Rob would have know how big and phenomenal this series really was, would he have taken the role of "Edward Cullen"? I have a feeling he wouldn't have...he just said he is not an attention seeker, and nothing brings more attention to the screen (or magazines) than "Edward Cullen". But then again, this role did lead him to something he probably does want and would have never gotten if he wouldn't have been "Edward Cullen"...what that might be? I'll say that once Rob reveals all his little secrets.
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Here is an excerpt from the Robert Pattinson feature written by Dave Calhoun.
Was Pattinson aware of the loyalty of fans of the Twilight books? It looks like the sort of obsessive fandom that can turn into anger and even hatred when an adaptation isn’t to their liking. Did he know what he was letting himself in for? “It’s strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn’t even buy them in London. I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren’t available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all. I’d seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke’s other films, and that’s all I thought it was, something really small.”
His manner is very laid back. He doesn’t sound thrusting or ambitious, more like he’s just going with the flow and enjoying things. Is he going to harness his newfound fame and box-office appeal to approach the kind of filmmakers he wants to work with in the future? He’s not so sure. “Annoyingly, there are so few parts I feel I can add anything to, or that I want to do.” But he knows what he doesn’t need. “I don’t want to be an actor for the sake of it. I don’t find any particular pleasure in being an attention-seeker.” ... read rest of article here
"George Clooney is a giga-star. An Academy Award victor. Th e man women desire and men desire to be. But for sheer, ear-piercing squeals, he's no Robert Pattinson.
Anna Kendrick should know. Th e 24-year-old actress has been in the rare -- and, for many females, enviable -- position of having worked alongside both actors.
Even as she swung through the Toronto International Film Festival to promote Clooney's Up In The Air, she was preparing to wrap work in Vancouver on the second Twilight sequel, Eclipse, in which she reprises the role she originated in 2008's phenom. The first sequel, New Moon, opens in November, weeks ahead of Up In The Air.
"I've never seen anything like it in my life," she says of the hysteria surrounding Pattinson, who stars as the Twilight's brooding blood-slurper Edward.
"People were asking me 'Can you believe how crazy this premiere (for Up In Th e Air) is?' And I was like, 'You ain't seen nothing.' Most people have never seen anything like the Rob Pattinson phenomenon."
How do the two leading men, albeit of different generations, compare? "They get different sides of it. Rob gets a lot of screaming and alot of prying and a lot of intensity, which doesn't necessarily feel good when it comes from a hysterical place. And then I see people talk to George, because he's so established, people try to trick him into saying something and it's interesting watching him sidestep that stuff so gracefully and never lose his cool; I don't know how he does it." ..." Read rest of article here
