The ‘Twilight’ Trinity Does ‘Entertainment Weekly’ Magazine
We are just about one week away from the worldwide release of the much-anticipated sequel film The Twilight Saga: New Moon which means that the media hype for the film is ready to kick into frantic high gear. New Moon’s trinity of stars, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, are all featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. Here is their EW coverphoto and some excerpts from what EW calls a “wild, uncensored 3-way interview”:
“I swear to you I’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s every single day,” says New Moon star Robert Pattinson of the constant on-set fuss surrounding his character Edward’s signature mane. During a break from shooting Eclipse, the next film to be adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels, Pattinson — sitting alongside costars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — recounts the continuing saga. “In Twilight, they wanted me to have extensions down to my hips.” (“He’s a liar,” Stewart interjects playfully. “He doesn’t remember. He’s remembering how they made him feel, but they were just, like, down to here [pointing to her shoulders].”) Pattinson continues. “So I told them ‘Look, that’s just not going to happen.’ I said, ‘It looks like this already, I’ll come to set like this.’” “I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance,” the 23-year-old actor admits, his locks now comfortably hidden under a Yankee’s cap. “So in the second one I said, ‘Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let’s make it a little more real, a little bit more…Method,’” he says with a laugh. “And then in the third one, I’m doing fight scenes and there’s a strand going down my forehead and they’re like, ‘We need to do it again because no one will recognize you! No one will know who it is!’ I have to look like the poster at all times. Just in case they want to use any clip for the trailer. Any clip at all! There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.”
Geeze … how is it that a “wild, uncensored 3-way interview” turns into a treatise on Robert Pattinson’s hair? I mean … really? Has the fever pitch of Twilight hysteria led to … this? Well, yes it has. I suppose it’s silly to expect that the topic of conversation, as it pertains to The Twilight Saga, will ever reach an elevated and intelligent level … I mean, just look at the source material. But intense fandom and teenage hysteria is a huge money-maker … I suppose we can’t fault them for milking the madness for as much money as they can. The Twilight Saga: New Moon will surely make more money at the box office on opening weekend than Twilight did … you can bet on that. In fact, I don’t see how the crazy hoopla will ever slow down … not until each book has been made into a splashy movie and ever last tween on Earth grows into maturity … OR until something more silly comes along to steal everyone’s attention.
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Tags: Entertainment Weekly Magazine, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
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November 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am
hahaha yeah not to mention its not 3 people, that paragraph only quotes Rob and Kristen….The fans have always treated Rob’s hair like its an entity of its own, but with him talking like that about it…..little creepy.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Everytime I see K with her hair like that I can not wait to see that Joan Jet movie!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:46 am
That was the tamest three-way I’ve been involved in.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Why does Robert do that with his head and eyes?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:24 am
If Twilight is silly to you, then why do you post about it?
Hypocrits.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
God, EW is sucking the teets of Twilight dry…..
speaking of dry= Kristen’s facial expression.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I guess I know I am old because imo Robert Pattison looks vacuous in most of his pictures and I am so OVER all of this Twilight crap. Sheesh.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:30 am
This article sounds funny, and I think some people are taking it way too literally. I think it’s pretty obvious that he’s being wildly sarcastic here and taking a jab at his own celebrity. It’s very self-deprecating, as he usually is in interviews, which I find quite charming.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I find it incredibly insulting that you would say due to the content of the books interviews could never reach an intelligent level. Obviously that is only one small part of the interview that was released and there are other questions that they all answer. Get over yourself, Trent. Maybe it would be more intelligent to you if the interview had more gems like “methinks” “deffo” “IMHO” and “unforch.” You sound like a complete tool when you post crap like that. And you’ve had like 10 Twilight posts in the last week. If you think it’s so mindless and for young, immature tweens, then what must you think of your readers?
November 13th, 2009 at 8:57 am
@V — C’mon, Stephenie Meyer’s writing is atrocious but I contend that the movies are different and much better. I stand my assertion that the source material is really bad, ‘Breaking Dawn’ just laughable. I’m sorry you feel insulted but if you think Meyer is a good writer then I don’t even know what to say. On the other hand, the movies are much more fun and make the most of the book source material. I find your silly attacks on me humorous but I appreciate the feedback :)
November 17th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Ugh, these are the most boring “celebs” out there. The disaffected gaze they’re all trying to work is so silly.