Robert Pattinson and Rachelle Lefevre Interview
Ropeofsilicon.com interviews Robert Pattinson and Rachelle Lefevre, with questions regarding the sparkling, Rob's hair and chemistry on set.
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It was a few minutes before the cast and filmmakers of Twilight were to go downstairs for the big panel when we interviewed them-yes, the panel that mentally stunted teeny-boppers had literally camped outside for overnight. I have no idea how big the Twilight movie will be. My guess is not nearly as big as some people think since the film looks likes ass and there’s a general feeling we’re nearing the peak of its buzz, only half a year before its release.
Regardless, this was the cast and filmmakers’ moment to bask in the affection (or insanity) of its fans. And you could tell they were visible nervous. I would have offered Robert Pattinson a beer if I had one on me. The man has much to live up to since he’s playing the oh so beautiful and graceful Edward Cullen (author Stephenie Meyer’s wording, not mine), and he looked weirded out, jittery and smoking heavily before walking in-or maybe it was just the state of his hair giving off that vibe since it appeared styled by lighting firecrackers on his head. Who knows?
However, he had the charismatic Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria) to help him find his comfort zone during the round-table interview. The two definitely have chemistry and noticeably enjoy each other’s company. It was a laugh-filled conversation that touched on Pattinson’s hair style, the film’s special-effects, and the fans.
Excited or nervous about how nuts it will be downstairs for the panel?
Robert Pattinson: I don’t know. I don’t know. I can’t even answer the most basic, fundamental questions. I don’t know if it’s nerves. I’m just incapable at the moment. I’m too worried it’s going to be embarrassing.
RL: Twilight does come with a built in fan base from the books. So you do have this whole thing…where you don’t want to upset people-you don’t want to upset what is already pre-existing in their imaginations. And you don’t want to ruin the movie. You don’t want to ruin the suspense for them.
Robert, how do you get your hair like that?
RP : I just don’t wash it, ever. It’s easy.
The obvious question is do you two feel chemistry?
RP : I don’t think we’re suppose to.
RL : No, no we hate each other. But no, we all had a really great time. The cast is all really close in age. So we all just sort of showed up in Portland and were like ‘Yeah, Twilight! What’s up? Let’s go for dinner.’ It was kind of like this amazing experience. Yeah we got lucky.
Was it like that when it was your time to hate one another?
RL: No. There was less group dinners once we started [laughter].
RP: There’s actually only one scene where we actually confront one another. You know, the nomadic vampires, which Rachelle is one, they kind of wander around being nomadic most of the time.
RL : Yeah, we’re always like a few steps behind. So you would think we worked together a lot. But actually it would be, they’d film something where we were like just behind them.
RP : That’s a much better description than just saying ‘wandering around being nomadic.’
RL : Yeah, if you don’t mind I cleared that up a little.
What was your thought process behind creating Edward Cullen’s voice?
RP : He’s very direct in his speech. So I kind of tried to speak slowly…It’s kind of old fashioned…I tried to make it sound as smooth as I possibly could, sort of an elegant speech pattern.
What was your favorite special-effect or activity in the film?
RP : There’s a part, a big fight scene, where I get my head hit into a wall. It’s suppose to be super hard, and the pillar starts falling down and stuff. It’s quite cool when someone can be hit as hard they can into a wall and the whole thing falls down and doesn’t hurt. That was quite fun.
RL : We got to do…what we call the magic carpet. You gotta imagine a 30-foot piece of plexi-glass on the ground and you walk on it while it’s being pulled 15-20 miles per hour by a winch. So the ground beneath you is moving at top speed while you walk in slow motion. And they didn’t want to do CGI for us to look like we moved inhumanly, and so we had a full day of learning how to walk. First you start on your knees and then you stand a little more with a rope and then you let go and you walk a little on this thing. And it makes it look like you are walking at 30 miles per hour when all you are doing is taking three steps. And that was a pretty cool thing to get to learn how to do.
Speaking of effects, have you seen any of the sparkle-dazzle look yet?
RP : No I haven’t. I’m really worried about that-well I’m not worried-but that’s kind of the big reveal. And I have no idea. I know it’s almost impossible to do it without making it look kind of cheesy. I think there is a company that’s been working on that-they’ve been working on it for months. And it’s just one scene. I think it’s very difficult. They tried about 40 make-up tests. Everything is so hard. We had these little things that were like flakes of salt. It was just disgusting…So many poor ADs on set had to keep on having make-up tests. There was this one bald guy, his whole head painted blue, had an accident. He just had this blue head and he couldn’t get it off for like 4 days.
Robert, first you were in the Harry Potter film and now you’re in this other possible fan-driven franchise. Did you give any though to that?
RP : It was strange when I read, I didn’t put the two things together at all. It’s kind of dumb of me not to. Right now it’s specifically known as the next Harry Potter blah blah. Just really odd how that’s happened.
Does it frighten you at all?
RP : Yeah I guess it is. I mean, I really went into it not knowing how big it was at all. I just realized when about halfway through shooting, when at night, the crowds would come to set and just got bigger bigger and bigger. Literally, everyday doubled… On the first day there was no one and then on the last day there were 70 people waiting outside the set. One night they all just found out where it was. It’s really strange. We are shooting stuff in the desert, somewhere in California, like literally in the middle of the desert, and there’s like 6 “Twilight” Moms.
RL: There were pictures on the Internet of the vans we were traveling in, taken through car windshields. I saw one and it was like ‘Twilight cast in van!’ And you realize somebody was driving behind you.
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It was a few minutes before the cast and filmmakers of Twilight were to go downstairs for the big panel when we interviewed them-yes, the panel that mentally stunted teeny-boppers had literally camped outside for overnight. I have no idea how big the Twilight movie will be. My guess is not nearly as big as some people think since the film looks likes ass and there’s a general feeling we’re nearing the peak of its buzz, only half a year before its release.
Regardless, this was the cast and filmmakers’ moment to bask in the affection (or insanity) of its fans. And you could tell they were visible nervous. I would have offered Robert Pattinson a beer if I had one on me. The man has much to live up to since he’s playing the oh so beautiful and graceful Edward Cullen (author Stephenie Meyer’s wording, not mine), and he looked weirded out, jittery and smoking heavily before walking in-or maybe it was just the state of his hair giving off that vibe since it appeared styled by lighting firecrackers on his head. Who knows?
However, he had the charismatic Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria) to help him find his comfort zone during the round-table interview. The two definitely have chemistry and noticeably enjoy each other’s company. It was a laugh-filled conversation that touched on Pattinson’s hair style, the film’s special-effects, and the fans.
Excited or nervous about how nuts it will be downstairs for the panel?
Robert Pattinson: I don’t know. I don’t know. I can’t even answer the most basic, fundamental questions. I don’t know if it’s nerves. I’m just incapable at the moment. I’m too worried it’s going to be embarrassing.
RL: Twilight does come with a built in fan base from the books. So you do have this whole thing…where you don’t want to upset people-you don’t want to upset what is already pre-existing in their imaginations. And you don’t want to ruin the movie. You don’t want to ruin the suspense for them.
Robert, how do you get your hair like that?
RP : I just don’t wash it, ever. It’s easy.
The obvious question is do you two feel chemistry?
RP : I don’t think we’re suppose to.
RL : No, no we hate each other. But no, we all had a really great time. The cast is all really close in age. So we all just sort of showed up in Portland and were like ‘Yeah, Twilight! What’s up? Let’s go for dinner.’ It was kind of like this amazing experience. Yeah we got lucky.
Was it like that when it was your time to hate one another?
RL: No. There was less group dinners once we started [laughter].
RP: There’s actually only one scene where we actually confront one another. You know, the nomadic vampires, which Rachelle is one, they kind of wander around being nomadic most of the time.
RL : Yeah, we’re always like a few steps behind. So you would think we worked together a lot. But actually it would be, they’d film something where we were like just behind them.
RP : That’s a much better description than just saying ‘wandering around being nomadic.’
RL : Yeah, if you don’t mind I cleared that up a little.
What was your thought process behind creating Edward Cullen’s voice?
RP : He’s very direct in his speech. So I kind of tried to speak slowly…It’s kind of old fashioned…I tried to make it sound as smooth as I possibly could, sort of an elegant speech pattern.
What was your favorite special-effect or activity in the film?
RP : There’s a part, a big fight scene, where I get my head hit into a wall. It’s suppose to be super hard, and the pillar starts falling down and stuff. It’s quite cool when someone can be hit as hard they can into a wall and the whole thing falls down and doesn’t hurt. That was quite fun.
RL : We got to do…what we call the magic carpet. You gotta imagine a 30-foot piece of plexi-glass on the ground and you walk on it while it’s being pulled 15-20 miles per hour by a winch. So the ground beneath you is moving at top speed while you walk in slow motion. And they didn’t want to do CGI for us to look like we moved inhumanly, and so we had a full day of learning how to walk. First you start on your knees and then you stand a little more with a rope and then you let go and you walk a little on this thing. And it makes it look like you are walking at 30 miles per hour when all you are doing is taking three steps. And that was a pretty cool thing to get to learn how to do.
Speaking of effects, have you seen any of the sparkle-dazzle look yet?
RP : No I haven’t. I’m really worried about that-well I’m not worried-but that’s kind of the big reveal. And I have no idea. I know it’s almost impossible to do it without making it look kind of cheesy. I think there is a company that’s been working on that-they’ve been working on it for months. And it’s just one scene. I think it’s very difficult. They tried about 40 make-up tests. Everything is so hard. We had these little things that were like flakes of salt. It was just disgusting…So many poor ADs on set had to keep on having make-up tests. There was this one bald guy, his whole head painted blue, had an accident. He just had this blue head and he couldn’t get it off for like 4 days.
Robert, first you were in the Harry Potter film and now you’re in this other possible fan-driven franchise. Did you give any though to that?
RP : It was strange when I read, I didn’t put the two things together at all. It’s kind of dumb of me not to. Right now it’s specifically known as the next Harry Potter blah blah. Just really odd how that’s happened.
Does it frighten you at all?
RP : Yeah I guess it is. I mean, I really went into it not knowing how big it was at all. I just realized when about halfway through shooting, when at night, the crowds would come to set and just got bigger bigger and bigger. Literally, everyday doubled… On the first day there was no one and then on the last day there were 70 people waiting outside the set. One night they all just found out where it was. It’s really strange. We are shooting stuff in the desert, somewhere in California, like literally in the middle of the desert, and there’s like 6 “Twilight” Moms.
RL: There were pictures on the Internet of the vans we were traveling in, taken through car windshields. I saw one and it was like ‘Twilight cast in van!’ And you realize somebody was driving behind you.
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