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As I continue to indulge my fascination with Twilight the movie -- yes, the same fascination that led me down the primrose path to reading the book -- I spent a portion of last night watching interview footage on You Tube. Why would I do such a thing, you ask? Well, I had read somewhere that Rob Pattinson (aka Cedric Diggory and soon to be Edward Cullen) was rather disdainful of the novel and the character he's playing.
Well, turns out all is true. It also turns out that Rob Pattinson is a complete and kinda adorable dorkus. Like, totally. Most of his interviews are totally incomprehensible. Generally, he stammers and then breaks down into giggles. WTF?! To be fair, I don't know how much of that is the pressure of Twilight and how much of that is him because there were one or two interview where he was pretty together and kinda intelligent. But as the buzz and attention around Twilight increased, so did his discomfort. He's admitted that the whole phenom is rather terrifying, poor lamb. He is, I think, totally out of his depth. Yeah, absolute spaz! And clueless.
Another point of interest is how little the cast really do think of the books. Those who have read it struggle, and I mean STRUGGLE, to answer questions about the books versus the movies and the characters they are playing. Rob, Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Peter Facinelli (Carlile) seem to have it the worse. Kristen Stewart isn't usually so thrown in interviews, but the simplest questions render her almost speechless. And they repeat the same bits over and over and over in every interview. THEY don't even find anything really all that interesting or compelling about the characters they're playing.
I wonder who's signed up for the sequels and who hasn't and what that could possibly mean to the franchise.
Well, turns out all is true. It also turns out that Rob Pattinson is a complete and kinda adorable dorkus. Like, totally. Most of his interviews are totally incomprehensible. Generally, he stammers and then breaks down into giggles. WTF?! To be fair, I don't know how much of that is the pressure of Twilight and how much of that is him because there were one or two interview where he was pretty together and kinda intelligent. But as the buzz and attention around Twilight increased, so did his discomfort. He's admitted that the whole phenom is rather terrifying, poor lamb. He is, I think, totally out of his depth. Yeah, absolute spaz! And clueless.
Another point of interest is how little the cast really do think of the books. Those who have read it struggle, and I mean STRUGGLE, to answer questions about the books versus the movies and the characters they are playing. Rob, Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Peter Facinelli (Carlile) seem to have it the worse. Kristen Stewart isn't usually so thrown in interviews, but the simplest questions render her almost speechless. And they repeat the same bits over and over and over in every interview. THEY don't even find anything really all that interesting or compelling about the characters they're playing.
I wonder who's signed up for the sequels and who hasn't and what that could possibly mean to the franchise.
