Sam Bradley, co-author of Twilight soundtrack, an exclusive

Sam Bradley, brilliant lyricist, guitarist and vocalist that he is, is also quite the conversationalist. Long-time friend to Marcus Foster, Robert Pattinson, and Bobby Long, Sam Bradley can only be described as a gentleman and a genius.

Bradley, who Twilight fans know as co-author of the soundtrack’s hit “Never Think” (co-authored with friend Robert Pattinson; video of Sam’s resplendent performance of this song is available below) said that he has been spending the “last couple of weeks . . . working really hard on [his] album.” Says he, “I’m doing the mixing process,” at present.

Bradley, who draws his inspiration from a number of sources, long-term friend with “history,” Marcus Foster, being one of them, has had his hands full working on the “fine details” of his up-coming album.

I asked Sam what inspired him to become a musician. Quite candidly, he stated that he draws a lot of his inspiration from his close friend Marcus Foster. Says Bradley, “It was a few things . . . Marcus Foster is a big inspiration because he was always, he started playing music really young, and I’ve sort of admired him. . . . I started late, but I always love listening to him and watching him.” Adds Bradley, there was a, “and kind of, in the healthy sort of way, competitive thing as well. I wanted to be as good as him. I wanted to be able to do it with him.” Another very personal source of inspiration to Bradley, says he, is “also my mum. She’s a singer/song-writer as well.”

This healthy “competition” between Sam and Marcus Foster is not really competition at all. Says Sam, “it’s not competition. It’s just, we want to be the best we can be. And because I rate Marcus so highly, it makes me want to strive to be better. I think that’s a better word for it.”

Besides Marcus Foster, Sam Bradley also draws inspiration from Ray Charles, he says. In addition, “Stevie Wonder,” says Bradley, “has written some just amazing songs.” His favorite of Wonder’s works? “Blame it on the Sun,” he said, followed with a delightful snippet of his own singing to ensure he had the right title. What does Bradley like about Stevie Wonder’s music? He says, “You know, he can make you feel happy and sad in the same song…” Besides Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, Sam also “really like[s] Babyface as well…” When asked which artist, dead or alive, he’d choose to play with, Sam Bradley says “I’d really like to do something with Johnny Cash.”

Of his relationship with Bobby Long, Sam Bradley says that “we’re close when I’m there . . . but everyone basically got to spend more time with Bobby than I have . . . but when we get on, we get on really well. But we’re all very close, there’s no doubt about that.” Sam will be appearing with Bobby Long in Nashville, Tennessee this April 22nd and 23rd.

As for his friendship with Robert Pattinson, Sam says that “I’ve spent a lot of time with Rob over the last couple of months, and [notoriety] hasn’t affected him at all.” Says Bradley, “when we go out and when someone approaches him . . . he gets a bit nervous, I think . . . that’s his first reaction, and then, once he settles, which takes a second or so, he is . . . thankful.” Robert Pattinson is, says Sam, “quite . . . proud, you know, that he’s achieving something, and people are always appreciative. Like, I rarely have I ever seen, never actually, . . . anything negative, and so it’s a good feeling when someone comes up to you and sort of just says nice things to you, and, you know, he always says nice things back. So, you know, he’s the same guy. He just talks to a lot of people.”

I asked Sam if there was a point that he might be able to think of when he could take a step back and say “I’ve done what I wanted to do.” Beautifully put, Sam said
You mean, when I’d feel accomplished? In my life, I don’t really. I’d really like to think or hope that that day won’t come, especially musically… I mean, on a personal level, when I have a beautiful wife and children and a great family, you know, then I will, maybe then, on a personal level, have everything I’ve dreamed about, but I don’t think musically that day will ever come. I want to just keep creating, and I don’t think I’ll ever write my best song.

Though Sam Bradley may never write his best song, he does have a favorite, thus far. “Pretty Boy,” which “noone’s heard . . . yet,” says Sam, will be on the album he is currently completing.

When I asked Sam to pick one word to describe his personality, he said “hopeful. I like hopeful.” I also asked him if there was a question he’d yet to hear in an interview that he’d like to, he said “What’s my shoe size?” The answer? “Twelve,” he says with a clever chuckle.

Sam Bradley’s plans over the next couple of years, he says, are “to keep playing and writing and to share it with as many people as I can.” “My only commitment at the moment,” says Bradley, “is to finish his album, and then once it is done, to get out in the world and just play, play, play.” His subtle confidence, his eagerness and “hopeful”ness, and his verbal affluence are but a few of the many characteristics of this artist that one can gather from a single conversation. The world, I suppose, will get to know soon enough.

As Sam Bradley’s album makes its way through the “processing” stages it is in at present, his music can be enjoyed through his MySpace page , and Sam has also put together a Twitter page as well, which he encourages his fans to join.

In the meantime, also, Sam Bradley has a couple of shows coming up in the very near future in Canada. His current schedule can be seen as and below, but, as Sam said, he is one hundred percent interested in furthering that schedule once his album is done, so fans should look to his up-coming website for those details (and the MySpace/Twitter sites for now).

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Bobby Long: New Single available on ITunes

Bobby Long’s new single “Let it Lie” is now available on Itunes. Here’s a quick message that was posted to his My Space page.

LEFT TO LIE on Itunes

Left To Lie is now availible on Itunes and is my first ever release.
It was recorded in my bedroom with Jan Blumentrath Producing it with a n old mic and Jans German humour. The Mic broke soon after and Jans humour has never returned.
Buy it and give it to your friends.
I hope you like it, i do.
Take Care,
Bobby

And a quick Video Interview

Kristen Stewart: Some people think they know her, but …

You could leave home, disappear from the radar, have different circles of friends, and spend that hidden time figuring out who you are. Now, every move, every mistake, every shift in personality is Twittered, Facebooked, MySpaced, texted and tracked via an elaborate network of cellphones and websites.

That’s how Kristen Stewart sees it. She became entrenched in the electronic babble when she became a superstar last year playing lovelorn good-girl Bella opposite smoldering vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) in Twilight, the blockbuster adaptation of the best-selling novels.

The actress, 18, gets to explore what her life might have been like laying low a generation ago in Adventureland, opening Friday. The coming-of-age comedy about a girl and a guy who fall in love while toiling for the summer at a run-down amusement park is set in 1987 — three years before Stewart was born.

The teenage characters drink, smoke weed, lie to everyone (especially members of the opposite sex) and try their best to avoid abstinence (usually a reason for the lying).

“Movies like Adventureland remind you of a time my parents talk about when they were younger, when it seems like they were so much more independent,” says Stewart, sitting in a beachside restaurant, her back to the ocean. “My dad was living on his own when he was 18. My mom was out (of the house) before she even graduated high school.” Sometimes she wants to ask them: “God, do you guys realize —”

Her folks both got into show business, working behind the scenes. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script supervisor, and her father, John, is a producer and stage manager. She also has an older brother, Cameron.

Parents today, she says, “are incredibly hands-on.” Then she is quick to clarify: “Not that my parents are overbearing or anything. … Now it’s a little different because I’m getting older, but a few years ago, if my parents didn’t know where I was at a given time, that’s sort of unacceptable. And it’s very easy to track you down, considering.”

It’s not just ever-present parenting that makes growing up harder. It’s your friends — and yourself, she says. Everyone is complicit in their own surveillance, especially young people, who chronicle their lives obsessively, maybe seeking validation, which is still no easier to find.

‘Everyone knows who you are’

“You’re so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It’s like, ‘You really think you know me? I don’t know me! How do you know I’m not different around someone else?’ ” Her voice gets a little loud, and she slumps back in her chair.

“It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself,” she says quietly.

Right now, Stewart may be Hollywood’s only real teenager playing girls who are moody, reckless, cautiously sexual but still awkward, and more self-reliant than many parents would like to acknowledge.

Other stars her age tend to fall either into the fantasy realm of the squeaky-clean Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers variety, or play teens who seem more like they’re established jet-setters, as with the campy-fun Gossip Girl.

Stewart has earned both praise and criticism for being a kind of sulky girl on-screen — the kind you can see sleeping until noon, getting into a fight with her parents and running away, only to try sneaking back in just past curfew.

Crooked games, misfit friends

In Adventureland, she’s a bit of a rebel playing Em, a quiet but tough girl who works one of the crooked games at the theme park. Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) stars as uptight James, a fellow lost soul and minimum-wage slave who tries to work up the courage to win over Em as they both grapple with fractured families, misfit friends and hostile parkgoers.

As James draws closer to her, he discovers that there are as many different Ems as there are giant stuffed pandas in his games booth. “For Em, no part of her lives are connected,” Stewart says. “She is a different person in every one of the circumstances.”

Adventureland was written and directed by Greg Motolla (Superbad, The Daytrippers), who based it on his own experiences working at a theme park of the same name on New York’s Long Island.

He says the girl in the story “needed to be complicated and needed to be truly conflicted. We needed an actress who can convey a really believable sense of strength,” he says. “I knew with Kristen that character wouldn’t just be a brat. With Kristen, you can’t dismiss her that easily. She’s no pushover.”

Em maybe isn’t much of a role model, but the actress says there is something true about her, and beautiful, in a way the character doesn’t even realize. “They are both unaware of how cool they are; they don’t feel worthy,” she says of the main characters. “I feel like it’s a pretty common thing.”

Stewart could be a case study. Feeling worthy of media attention appears to be a struggle. At the start of the interview, she says she’s bad at this — talking about her movies, and herself.

“Really, I’m incredibly disjointed and not candid,” she says. “Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don’t necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find, like, the linear path. But it will take a second. That’s why these interviews never go well for me.”

It’s why she has been slammed by some reporters and why she had what some considered a disastrous interview with David Letterman for Twilight.

She has a reputation of being cranky, or a bit aloof. But over the course of about two hours, she reveals a kind of insecurity. She tries to say something, thinks it’s coming out wrong, stops and starts again, then finally gets frustrated — and clams up.

Another thing that makes her stop in mid-sentence: teenage girls. A group enters the restaurant, and Stewart abruptly shuts up until they pass. She apologizes, a little embarrassed, and whispers: “If those type of girls saw me talking about Twilight, you don’t understand. If I said ‘Jacob’ too loud, they’d be like —” She makes her eyes wide and sticks her hands out like claws.

“More than three girls of that certain age — run away,” she says, laughing as the threat settles in a distant part of the patio. “Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the (crap) out of me.”

She says Pattinson gets it worse. “They covet him. I think half of them are so jealous that they hate me,” she jokes.

It doesn’t help that many Twilight-ers want her and Pattinson to be a real-life couple. She’s actually dating Michael Angarano, 21, whom she co-starred with in the 2004 drama Speak.

“It doesn’t make my relationship harder. It’s not like, ‘Maybe I should be with (Pattinson) to make them happy and it’ll make me more popular!’ ” Stewart laughs, adding that her real boyfriend “is totally not a threatened guy. But, dude, it sucks.”

Why the adoration?

But Stewart is mostly grateful for Twilight — though she doesn’t think she did anything special.

“I’m really proud of Twilight. I think it’s a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don’t take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there’s literally like a thousand girls and they’re all screaming your name, you’re like, why? You don’t feel like you deserve it.”

One person who thinks Stewart did contribute a lot to Bella is Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. The character is regarded by some as overly passive, letting her vampire paramour take control, but Meyer says Stewart, currently shooting series sequel New Moon, gives the character an inner forcefulness.

“Kristin does a version of Bella that’s very strong. And you can see that what she’s doing is maturely thought out,” Meyer says. “In a lot of ways she’s a little bit impetuous, but you get the sense that she’s very adult about what she’s doing. She comes across as a girl who’s very serious and who happens to know what she wants.”

That also describes Stewart as she navigates her way to adulthood, on-screen and off. Unlike her Adventureland character, she’s not able to hide any of it.

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PopSugar is being very naughty!

Alright — the people over at Popsugar will cause a lot of hearts to drop with this one.  Shame on you PopSugar this could cause mass hysteria!

OMG — Robert Pattinson Drops Out of New Moon!
We were disappointed when Robert Pattinson was a no-show at the Kids’ Choice Awards last weekend, and it turns out that we’ve lost our Edward Cullen permanently. Robert has suddenly dropped out of filming New Moon, saying that all the fan attention was too much for him. He went on to say that he’s very grateful for the opportunity and success of the first Twilight movie, but has decided to shift his focus to smaller indie movies like Little Ashes.

His costar Taylor Lautner has already volunteered to take on the role of Edward, but there’s no word yet on what will happen. Enraged fans have already started sending costume vampire teeth to Robert as a plea to get him back, but it looks like he’s sticking to his decision. To see what Kristen Stewart and director Chris Weitz had to say about Robert’s departure, just read more.

APRIL FOOLS!!!! Rest assured, Twilight fans — Robert Pattinson isn’t going anywhere, so take a big sigh of relief and enjoy the first day of April.

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“Little Ashes” A Side of Rob we haven’t seen.

Warning: Image is revealing and considered Rated “R”

I think it’s safe to say we are about to see a side of Robert Pattinson that we hadn’t seen before.   While most of his films have been — let’s just say– in a certain comfort zone.  Little Ashes pushes Rob to a completely different level of acting.   He’s taking risks and shedding that “bubble gum wrapper” that tends to hold back most of the younger stars today.  Rob  himself  has said he studied more during this production than any other and with the recent reviews and clips that are coming out it seems to have paid off.  With this little Indie film Rob may be moving himself into the mainstream of Hollywood and closer to that celebrity level only achieved by those very few actors.

Twilight soundtrack’s Marcus Foster exclusive interview

Marcus Foster, co-author of the Twilight soundtrack’s hit song “Let Me Sign,” recently gave this examiner an exclusive interview.

Foster, who co-authored “Let Me Sign,” a song sung by Robert Pattinson on the Twilight soundtrack and film, was clever, yet direct. His music (which can be sampled on his Myspace page) was heard by many fans in his recent show with Long in East London’s Brady Center (see here), and will be featured on many exciting upcoming shows in the very near future.

To the talented and smooth-sounding singer, guitarist, and pianist, inspiration came when he “started out by playing piano.” Says Marcus, “[at] about six or seven, I would learn songs my parents were playing me like the Beatles and Nina Simone. Eventually I began to learn guitar and started playing in blues clubs near where my dad lived. I discovered Tom Waits and he inspired me to write my own songs.” It is some those same artist that continue to influence Marcus Foster to this very day. Says he, of his most prominent current influences, “[i]t changes all the time but Tom Waits and [Bob] Dylan are a constant influence.”

Though, if Foster had to narrow it down to one artist, dead or alive, to play with today, he says he’d “probably [choose] Sister Rosetta Tharp or Nina Simone.”

As for his relationship with long-time friends Bobby Long, Sam Bradley (who co-authored “Never Think” from the soundtrack as well), and Twilight star Robert Pattinson, Marcus says “I went to school with Rob and Sam, and I have known Bobby for a few years now,” and “they are my boys!” Clearly, their friendship still runs deep amidst the swarm of goings-on that would threaten to separate even the closest of friends.

Despite all of the Twilight stardom that has come upon Rob, Foster says “it’s pretty crazy. It hasn’t changed him at all. I’m proud.” To hear this from Foster is quite comforting to us fans of Robert Pattinson, who like him and his personality just the way it is.

Marcus Foster’s friend Bobby Long, who I recenty interviewed as well (see here) is just beginning embarking upon a tour in the U.S., and I asked Foster what he thought of Long’s up-coming tour. He said, “I am really excited for him and look forward to doing some shows with him in the summer.” Translation: Marcus Foster’s fans should be preparing for a potential pairing of this melodic duo very soon (very exciting)!

As of right now, for a tour in the United States for Foster? He says, “I am working things out with my manager and sorting out a booking agent, the dates will be up on my Myspace as soon as possible.” In other words, it is in the works, American fans, so be ready. One known stop will be Twi-Con 2009, which will host the “hauntingly beautiful and entirely addictive” pair during their band sessions this late July/early August!

Of all of his wonderful and poetic songs, “I Don’t Mind” being one of my personal favorites (a video of which is available below), I asked Marcus what, if he had to choose, would be his favorite. He said that he “always enjoy[s] playing ‘Tumble Down.’”

Foster, who has a sense of humor akin in genuineness and solidarity to that of Pattinson, Long, and Bradley, said that his biggest dream is “to catch a really big fish.” Clever, that one. When I challenged him to describe his personality in a word, Foster said, “I can’t think of one word,” and then finished by suggesting “indecisive?”

Marcus Foster closed with a warm message for his fans, saying that he hopes that they enjoy his music, to watch out for an up-coming EP to become available on iTunes and the web, and that he is “looking forward to [his] American tour.” We are, too, Marcus Foster. Adding thanks, Marcus Foster proves to be as gracious and pleasant as anyone in the practical foursome.

As of now, Foster has events booked all throughout London (listed below), and we should expect to see even more from him as his number continues to rise with the same eloquence and deservedness as his friends!

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Rob, Nikki and an overnight?

Since the beginning Rob’s name has been attached with just about every female he’s come in contact with.  The one name that seems to come up more often than others is his Twilight co-star Nikki Reed.  Pictured out together several times usually with a few other people the two have always seemed  to get on quite well.  Lainey adds to the gossip mill with her latest post and hints to an overnight stay for the cozy friends.

Love Nikki Reed. So whatever he’s doing with Nikki Reed, it’s almost making up for the open-mouth posing. Almost.

Attached – exclusive shots of Nikki Reed on Sunday afternoon. Shortly after these photos were taken she took off for Rob’s place. Later that night (Sunday) they met up with friends, then ended up at one of the label parties after the Junos with Kristen Stewart and her boyfriend Michael Angarano. Am told Rob and Nikki spent much of the time talking to each other, heads bent close together.

My sources tell me exclusively that at the end of the evening, or early morning depending how you see it, the four of them left the event, hugged before parting ways (a weird 4-way group hug), Kristen and Michael hopped in a cab, and Nikki and Rob walked further up the block… arms wrapped around each other on their way home.

She stayed with him overnight, was supposed to be back in LA on Monday….

But never showed.

Perhaps she couldn’t get up, or perhaps she couldn’t leave? Cute, right?

She makes him cute. It’s his best quality, being attracted to Nikki Reed. Robert Pattinson has good taste.

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Free Magazine (Greece)

Here’s scans and article to an interview featured in the latest issue of Free Magazine from Greece.  Thanks and credit to Robsessed.  Be sure to visit them!

How do you feel about getting the role, while there were casted so many actors? The fans of the book got 75.000 signs because they didn’t want you. How did you feel about it?

When you are going to an audition for a role that many consider as the perfect man, you expect people to be suspicious. But I don’t really care.

There are many girls that would like to go to bed with you. How do you handle it?

I don’t know. I don’t have enough time to stay in a place. I only meet journalists. But it’s really weird that 10-years old fellows come to me and say “Please bite me!” .

Speaking of biting, who you’d like to bite?

I don’t think I’d like to bite anyone. I don’t like biting.

Have you ever had lessons to manage your profile? Your fans are young people. Was there anyone who told you what to do and how to be?

Yes! They sent me in a centre to learn how to manage my profile for the media. I thought that it’s very stupid. Probably I can do whatever I want because I’m a vampire in the big screen. I was supposed to have the profile of the “bad” guy. It’s hilarious. I remember that when I went to that centre, I was having humor to their questions and they looked annoyed. They accused me of opposing to learn how to manage myself for the media.

What is most important to you? To be an actor or a musician?

Both are really important to me. I think I take them seriously. I mean that I haven’t written music for a long time, I don’t want to be another actor who played in a successful movie and then released an album. I want to compose a really good album, but sometime that it won’t be comparable to acting.

What kind of music do you want to make? Indie rock or folk?

Folky rock!

You have a song in the Twilight OST. Have you been asked from the director to write it?

Well, I’ve written it a long time ago. A crew member gave it to the director and she put it in a scene, without telling me. At first, I didn’t recognize it. I was happy and I suggested putting it, retaining my anonymity but they didn’t let me because of the marketing. That was my first song that was recorded officially.

How was your life before getting the role of Edward Cullen?

Last year I had a great apartment in Soho where you could go to the roof and watch the great view. I played music and I tried to record it. But then I went to Spain for the movie “Little Ashes” and everything changed. It was the first time that I was researching about something. I haven’t seen the movie yet but either if it’s bad or good, it surely changed the way I feel about acting and made me more obedient about what I can achieve of acting when I see the scripts.

How did you pay for a big apartment in Soho?

It wasn’t big. Actually, it was the smallest you’ve ever seen and it was empty. It only had two garden chairs and nothing else. No carpet, no heating, no bathroom. I had to go to my parents’ house to take a bath. But it was perfect. I thought my lifestyle was bohemian. I was sad when I left it.

Why did you leave it?

Because there are some renovations in London and the rent raised 5.000 pounds. I was in U.S.A. for a whole year because of the filming of Twilight. I was practically paying for an apartment that my friends were living in. So I left it.

Do you miss London?

Yes, very much. I was there before two days and I was surprised of how much I miss it.

Where do you live now?

Nowhere.

So you’re a bohemian guy again?

Yes, someway…

Are you excited that you’re going to be a “vampire” for the next ten years?

Yes but that’s not going to last so much because vampires aren’t getting old. So I can’t do it for more than the next two years. It will be ridiculous.

For how many movies have you signed?

For three movies. The filming for New Moon has already began.

What do you think makes people so much interested in vampires right now?

I don’t know. It’s like domino phenomenon. Something is successful and then everybody is filming scripts for vampires.

Do you like vampires?

Yes. But I don’t understand those who say that they like everything that is related with vampires. I liked the first Nosferatu and things like that.

Are you addicted to something?
I was very addicted to Van Morrison.

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Vogue Hommes International

I’ve added scans from Vogue Hommes Interational thanks and credit  to Pattinson Online

Object of Delirium

Robert Pattinson, first glimpsed as Cedric in Harry Potter, electrifies the screen in Twilight as the brooding vampire Edward.

In no time at all, this young British actor has become a phenomenal success, and object of desire.  We hope for his sake that he has nerves of steel to deal with celebrity.

Robert Pattinson is 22.  In the space of four months, he has become an idol the world over.  After a small part in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he slipped of the radar for a while.  But then he landed the role of the drop-dead (no pun intended) gorgeous vampire in Twilight.  The New York Times devoted an article to him, in which it attempted to explain the phenomenon, verging on hysteria, that occurs whenever he is seen in public.  Girls and women are so besotted that I conjure up images of the Beatles in 1962 and Johnny Depp in 1989, only on an even larger scale.

Twilight has broken box-office records and is also –and by far – the most profitable film for quite some time.  Vogue homes International has met Robert Pattinson twice, once at the onset of “Robmania”, then again when it had hit new heights.

Los Angeles, early November 2008.  That morning, Entertainment Weekly, the world reference in the business, published its third Robert Pattinson cover in less than three months.

Have you seen the cover this morning?

[Surprised] Not yet.  It’s completely crazy.  I hate looking at my mug.  Yuck! [He throws the magazine aside.] I hate seeing myself in print.  A cover like that and I won’t go near a newsstand for a week.

You are the biggest instant buzz we’ve seen for quite a while.  What is there in this story that makes teenage girls around the world go wild?
The key is that this vampire story speaks to young people about their sexual fears.  And the attraction they have for it scares them.

There’s more sexuality in Twilight than Harry Potter.
Precisely.  There’s nothing sexual about Harry Potter, whereas sexuality lies at the heart of Twilight.  The audience can see that.  The reactions aren’t the same.

The anticipation is far more hysterical, in a hormonal sense.  Even the author of the Twilight books, Stephenie Meyer, has apologized to you for wrecking your life.
Yes, that’s true, she did [laughs].  I’m not sure whether I should thank her for it.  At the same time, being labeled the most perfect guy in the world is not the worst thing that could happen to me.  In fact, it’s quite a compliment.

Your hair has become an object of fascination all over the world.  The say you never wash it.
It’s amazing that my dirty hair has become such a huge thing.  Everyone’s talking about it [laughs].  I washed my hair yesterday, I’ll have you know, and I even cut it a bit.

There are entire blogs on your hair.  Is it your way of saying that you’re not the perfect guy in the film?
It’s insane but true.  If I start to change my life to resemble what people expect of a successful actor to be, those same people will hate me for changing.  So I stay the same, as honest as possible. With dirty hair.

What do you see happening when the film is released next month?
I have absolutely no idea and I refuse to think about it.  If I start trying to work out what lies ahead, I’ll get bogged down.

I have to go now I’m about to get myself killed by the hordes of young girls waiting outside.

Good Luck!

He leaves the hotel.  A group of 13-year-olds shriek, “Bite Me!”

December 2008, Robert Pattinson is now a star.  He has just tripled his fee for the three films in the Twilight series yet to be made.  He is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly for the fourth time.  The team stops off in Paris.  In front of the Hotel Crillon, over 500 girls huddle up in the cold waiting to see their idol appear on the balcony, as if they were making “Don’t cry for me Robertina”.

The last time we met was the third time you appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly in the same year.  And this week.
It’s the fourth, its nuts.  Four EW covers in four months [embarrassed laugh].

It’s become Robert Weekly.
It has indeed!

Apparently girls in the audience are always screaming during the screenings.
Yes, they actually scream at the screen and not just the premieres.  All the time.  In certain places, two weeks after the film was released, people were still screaming every time I came on.  It’s too weird.

You’re still not used to it?
Unfortunately not. It’s actually getting worse.  There’s a place –always the same one – I love to have lunch at in Los Angeles.  But they sell magazines, and now I get panic attack at the idea of seeing my picture.  Real panic attacks, which I can’t control.  The worst thing that can happen to me is when someone says, “Is that you there in the photo? And I scream, “Nooooooooo, no, it’s not me.” I don’t know why.  It isn’t easy feeling like that.

How do your friends react?
It’s funny because my friends are all in London, and for them I just disappeared for a year.  The other day when I saw them again, they were asking: “What’ve you been doing for the past year?  Because there’s not a back of a bus without your face on it.  Remind us – what are you famous for exactly?” [Laughter]

You’re success is not just a question of marketing.  It’s a good story with a good actor.
Probably, but I’m a very negative person [laughs] – you’ll never get me to say that!

And now, they say you’re not allowed to cut your hair for as long as it takes to shoot the three films.
That’s both true and false at the same time: I’m just not allowed to go bald.

Last time we met, by chance you had washed your hair the day before.
Not bad, not bad.  But not this time.  I haven’t washed my hair for a long time [laughs].

More seriously, your next film before the follow-up to Twilight is the biopic Little Ashes, a small-budget indie in which you lay Salvador Dali.  The film depicts his relationship with Federico Garcia Lorca. Do you realize that this film will get far more attention?

It’s the teeniest film in the world.  It probably would never have got released had it not been for the Twilight effect.

And the story of a love affair between two men will pull in the gay crowds as well as the young girls!
I know! But then Twilight is already a hit with the gay community, so it won’t make that much difference [laughs].

You contributed to the music of the film, which is now at the top of the charts, so this has been a tremendous all-round success, hasn’t it?
I don’t think that I’ll have much time to compose for quite a while.  At least, I’ll be able to say that one day I had an album that made it to Number One.

Before we go, what should one wish for an actor who has the world at his feet?
I don’t know.  What type of wish do you have for me?

A good dinner in Paris, a pretty girlfriend or some shampoo, if ever you feel like washing your hair?
[Laughter] Let’s go for the pretty girl then.  A pretty girl will always do the trick.

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Magazines: Glamour (Sp)

Here’s the interview/scans from Glamour (Sp) where Rob talks about love, life and girls.  Thanks and credit to Twilight Poison! Be sure to visit them.

They say this British guy started to work in the industry because he wanted to meet girls. What he didn’t know is that his life was going to change forever once he got cast as the teenage vampire Edward Cullen, heroe to millions of teenagers thanks to the famous Twilgiht saga written by Stephenie Meyer. We’re in the city of Los Angeles and we speak with this peculiar actor that will become our Salvador Dali very soon.

Does Twilight remind you of your real life and high school, when two people are attracted to each other with such energy?

Yes, although I had really bad luck with girls, the ones I liked hated me and the ones that liked me were not my type. But that’s something that I still go through, I like girls that I shouldn’t like. But I’m learning and now I take my time before I let the girl know.

Do you believe in obsessive love?

Yes, but only from a girl’s point of view. I don’t think men are like that. Not many men read Stephenie Meyer books anyway.

You’re right. That’s what I was going to ask you. Do you believe this story was tailor made for young girls?

Yes, it’s so weird and funny. Afte reading the books I’ve been asking myself why do women act like that, why do they behave like that, especially younger girls. They turn into freaks when it comes to boys. I like nomal girls who don’t pretend to be anything else.

Would like to live forever?

No, although it does have its advantages.

Do you understand the attraction and mystery around vampires?

I’ve never been insterested in vampires, although I understand why they’re so appealing to some people.

How are you handling being the new It Boy, being in so many covers of magazines now all over the world?

I don’t mind, my character is so good and he deserves to be admired. From the moment I signed up for this I knew what I was getting myself into. Edward is a vampire, he’s not a hero like Superman, he’s a vampire in love who wants to be normal.

It took him 90 years for him to find love. Do you believe in love at first sight?

That’s so boring! I think we all have the right to fall in love several times. The conventional idea of love, the idea of being with somebody for the rest of your life and love her forever sounds so silly to me, and so unrealistic. I think you can love ten people at the same time (laughs).

What are your bigest passions?

I’m boring. I like reading, watching movies and playing the piano.

People say you’ll leave Orlando Bloom without work pretty soon…

I don’t think this will happen to me. I don’t want to lose control of my life, I don’t care how much money I’m offered. Well, I’m kidding, actually. Because if I had massive ammounts of money and success, I’d still reach for the same goals and I’d be able to hide better. (TwilightPoison note: his answer sounds very strange, we think he missunderstood the question, or the interviewer’s question was not formulated properly, because it sounds like he thought the interviewer was saying that he’d be the next Orlando Bloom and not find a job after having so much success, not that he would leave Orlando with no other roles. Oh Rob… it was probably not your fault lol.)

What would you be capable of doing for love?

I don’t know, climb a mountain?

Would it scare you to fall in love like the characters in Twilight?

Yes, because it’s an obsessive love, a sick love. When you fall in love and you lose yourself like that. Imagine falling in love like that!

Do you get hit on by difficult women?

I’m crazy about independent women who don’t require too much attention.

Have you ever used the phrase “I’m an actor” as a pick up line?

Not, that phrase doesn’t wok here in LA – everybody is an actor here.

Are you planning on going to college?

Yes, but I’m planning on taking it slowly, probably when I’m 28. As an actor you have to take advantage of the opportunities you get and not letting them pass by.

How did you feel at 17?

I felt increadibly awkward all the time. I’ve always been a very edgy person, especially in those years that I didn’t find my place, everything scared me. I just started reading again my journals from when I was 17….

Do you talk about love in them?

Actually, no. I’ve only been attracted to two women in my whole life.

Do you remember the first time you loved someone?

Yes. It’s weird to enjoy your first love, especially if the relationship lasts a long time. Our relationship was really beautiful, but we didn’t have an obsessive love like in the movie. Her presence in my life made me very happy for three years. Now it’s kind of hard to talk about it.

Tell me about that hair…

I always have weird hair: Harry Potter, this one and Dali.

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