Monday, May 17, 2010
Rob and Kristen's Laguna Getaway
E!OnLine Ever wonder why Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are so good at playing hide and seek from the paparazzi? Big duh: They do it on purpose.
"I don't know if this is the actual reason why, but we have gotten better at hiding over the last year," Rob tells USA Today.
"That's totally the reason," added K.Stew. "They just make up a story to go along with the pictures. If they never get the picture, there's no story. We are just good hiders now."
Chalk a win up to Team Robsten because they totally made it out from their Laguna Niguel, Calif., love vacay practically unnoticed...
The couple holed up at the swanky Ritz Carlton in south Laguna (about an hour and a half south of L.A.), successfully avoiding paps and media alike.
As for the Laguna love trip, a spy witnessed Rob and Kristen at the hotel's outdoor patio and bar around 11 on Saturday night.
"You could tell they were a couple," says our source who also noted that they both looked "very relaxed" talking and laughing closely.
Rob and Kristen supposedly kept to themselves and looked like "normal kids their age," as our spy put it.
"They didn't stand out at all. They were dressed very casual—Robert with a baseball cap, jeans and sneakers, and Kristen was casual as well," our insider tells us.
Our source recognized Kristen right off, but didn't realize it was Rob for a while.
"His hair was cut really short!" adds our witness as to why sexy Pattinson went unnoticed.
"They were just sitting next to each other talking. Everyone pretty much left them alone."
Adorable!
The Twilight couple apparently stayed there over the weekend, but got back to L.A. yesterday. A freshly buzzed Rob, who was photographed running errands yesterday, starts shooting Water for Elephants soon with Reese Witherspoon (good thing she already has a public boyfriend and doesn't need to borrow R.Pattz). And we all know what happens on June 30. Yes, Eclipse finally comes out, so Robsten's insane press duties are slowly but surely starting up again.
Be sure to check out the USA Today interview with Rob, Kristen and Taylor Lautner, filled with deelish Robsten banter. Their chemistry just jumps off the page, doncha think?
Kristen is #2 On AfterEllen's 2010 Hot 100 List
Whether you are a Twi-hard who went to see New Moon on opening night or a music fan that got all revved up over her role as Joan Jett in The Runaways, it was clear to us all year that the 20-year-old we affectionally refer to as KStew is one of our favorite new actors.
Kristen is not your typical starlet, which is probably why queer women appreciate her so much. She'd rather go to a music festival like Coachella or stay home with her cat — as she recently told Oprah — than walk the red carpet, and that is OK by us.
With upcoming projects like the transexual prison love story, K-11 co-starring Nikki Reed, an adaption of On the Road and, of course, Eclipse, we can't wait to see more of Kristen doing what she does best — acting.
Olivia Wilde is No.1
via Source
Summit appears serious about moving 'Twilight' series to Louisiana
Two new developments arrive this morning related to the whisperings that Summit Entertainment is considering shooting the next film in the "Twilight" series (which may actually be two films) somewhere in Louisiana.
0517 twilight eclipse taylor lautner and kristen stewart.JPGTaylor Lautner, left, and Kristen Stewart, in an image from 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.'One of them doesn't say a whole lot. The other, however, seems to be significantly more telling as to exactly how serious Summit Entertainment is about moving the production here.
First, Summit this morning (Monday, May 17) responded to my inquiry of last week for comment on the rumors, first reported in a story in The Hollywood Reporter that relied on an unnamed source for its inside information.
The studio's statement came a few days too late for my story -- which ran in Saturday's editions of The Times-Picayune -- and it was unsuprisingly vague. Here's it is, in its entirety: "No details have been confirmed regarding 'Breaking Dawn' aside from the fact that Bill Condon will be directing."
Insert shrug here.
The second, more telling, development comes in the form of incorporation papers filed last week with the Louisiana Secretary of State's office by an agent for Summit and establishing a new corporate entity called "TSBD LOUISIANA, L.L.C." -- which would seem to stand for "Twilight: Saga Breaking Dawn."
Of course, filing incorporation papers is a long way from booking soundstages and crewing up -- but as early signs go, it's a good one that there might be truth to these rumors.
"Twilight: Breaking Dawn" would be based on the fourth book in the popular vampire-romance series, and there has been talk that it could be broken into two movies. Summit is hoping to beging production this fall.
Source via Pattinsonlife
Nikki Reed Talks About Rob and Eclipse
SNMag: What do you think about the Rob Pattinson craze?
NR: I get it. Rob is a totally fascinating, amazing, wonderful guy. I get why all these girls are so in love with him. He’s super intelligent, mysterious, musical and intellectual. I get it.
SNMag: How do you guys spend your free time when you’re shooting?
NR: We get creative and make silly mini movies and do awesome stuff like that. Other times we just lay around and watch television. There are a lot of music nights because Xavier [Samuel], Rob and Jackson [Rathbone] are very musical. We eat a lot of Thai food. There’s a Thai food place close by. We hang out with each other because we’re very isolated.
NR: I get it. Rob is a totally fascinating, amazing, wonderful guy. I get why all these girls are so in love with him. He’s super intelligent, mysterious, musical and intellectual. I get it.
SNMag: How do you guys spend your free time when you’re shooting?
NR: We get creative and make silly mini movies and do awesome stuff like that. Other times we just lay around and watch television. There are a lot of music nights because Xavier [Samuel], Rob and Jackson [Rathbone] are very musical. We eat a lot of Thai food. There’s a Thai food place close by. We hang out with each other because we’re very isolated.
Xavier Samuel in June/July 2010 'Teen Vogue'
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USA Today: More of Robert Pattinson And Taylor Lautner on 'Remember Me', 'Water for Elephants' and 'Stretch Armstrong
Remember Me: "I've never played a present-day kind of normal guy in anything. And so I was kind of interested in doing that."
Water for Elephants: "It's set int the Depression era, when circuses traveled by train and this guy runs away and jumps on a train to be a hobo and by accident, he doesnt realize it's a circus train. He becomes part of this world because he has no life to go back to and ends up falling in love with the ringmaster's wife, played by Reese Witherspoon. The ringmaster just happens to be kind of a schizophrenic as well. He's a most charismatic and terrifying person. He's Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Basterds. I did a read through yesterday with him. He was sitting right next to me. It was a little terrifying."
Taylor Lautner's reported $7.5 million payday for the upcoming action adventure Stretch Armstrong has made him the top-paid teen actor in Hollywood, but he and his Twilight co-stars don't go on shopping sprees:"We're so busy and leaving all the time, there is no sense in really buying something just say goodbye to it."
Speaking of Stretch Armstrong: "They are working on the script now. It sounds very interesting. It's really cool because there isn't a story that's given to you. It's not like a super hero in those comics and you have to do this. This is the toy and you can create whatever you want, so we are brainstorming right now and creating the back story."
USA Today with Rob, Kristen & Taylor
From USA Today:
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
CHICAGO — Dashingly disheveled Robert Pattinson has an infectious, high-pitched laugh that would never do for his seductive vampire lover-boy, Edward Cullen.
Buff-and-polished Taylor Lautner is pocket-size compared with the looming stature of his werewolf counterpart, Jacob Black.
Casual yet cool Kristen Stewart can be a real chatterbox, unlike her moody Bella Swan, the high schooler in a romantic tug of war between these two supernatural objects of teen desire.
Lucky girl, right? "Yeah, but that's in the movies," Stewart says about bringing to life the modern-day Gothic heroine from the insanely popular Twilight book series (85 million copies sold so far). "I'm just the ultimate fan. If you read a story and you like it andconnect to it, it probably means you've inserted yourself in the story, and I get to do that on the most glorified level possible."
MORE: All things 'Twilight'
Hollywood fantasy regularly blends with everyday reality for these three blazing-hot rising stars. It has taken a while for a cultural navigator like Oprah Winfrey to zero in on the heat behind the literary-spawned phenom. But on this early May morning, Twilight fever is raging at Harpo Studios as the actors file into the backstage area after taping a show that aired Thursday. The occasion? Eclipse, the third chapter in an already billion-dollar worldwide franchise that arrives June 30.
The actors are unfazed by the shrieking adoration of a largely female audience, many in black Twilight T's — Team Edward and Team Jacob are duly represented — and all handpicked for their passion for the epic movie series based on author Stephenie Meyer's four-part saga.
"It's so nice sometimes, preaching to the converted," says Pattinson, 24, the London-born overnight sex symbol and primary reason for the screams. Thanks to his devoted worshipers, he has been elevated from a little-known Harry Potter supporting player to one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world in less than three years. They were out in force the night before at a Winfrey-sponsored screening of an unfinished print of Eclipse. Afterward, a firestorm of fan Tweets rife with "OMGs" gushed about the much-anticipated sequel to 2008's Twilight and last year's New Moon.
Once Stewart, 20, painstakingly signs Winfrey's guest book and Lautner, 18, stops practicing his grape-tossing parlor trick, the castmates settle into a buttery leather sofa to talk about such topics as the iconic moments that are re-created in Eclipse, run-ins with other celebrities and what the post-Twilight future holds.
The fame game
But, first, the pain of fame that comes from being on the paparazzi's most-wanted list is addressed. When New Moon opened last fall, barely a day went by without seeing a headline about Lautner and country cutie Taylor Swift or speculation on whether Pattison and Stewart are a real-life couple.
Although, lately, the frenzy has calmed somewhat, judging by the number of Twilight-free magazine covers at grocery checkouts. "I don't know if this is the actual reason why, but we have gotten better at hiding over the last year," Pattinson says.
"That's totally the reason," Stewart concurs. "They just make up a story to go along with the pictures. If they never get the picture, there's no story. We are just good hiders now."
Such subterfuge includes neither confirming nor denying that they are in a relationship. Yet there clearly is some sort of special connection between the two, what with their playful teasing and personal asides. Let's just say it wasn't Lautner who placed a hand on Pattinson's leg during a portion of the interview.
But all three take their Twilight-related duties to heart, whatever they might require. Stewart even leaps up in a panic at one point, fearing she misspelled a word in her salutation to Winfrey. She checks the book: "Believe — ie or ei?"
"I before e except after c," Pattinson responds. She checks. "Oh, yeah," she says with a triumphant fist pump.
Pattinson laughs. "I almost spelled Oprah wrong. I almost wrote Opera."
The actors are keen to know how Eclipse played to the crowd at the screening and are pleased to hear that every element has been heightened: the horror, the romance, the three-way interaction among their characters, the touches of humor that often come at the expense of Edward and Jacob's rivalry — especially after they forge a testy alliance to save Bella from a roving gang of rabid newborn vampires.
Stewart says of Eclipse's positive early reception: "It is a well-oiled machine at this point. We have had a lot of time to establish what this thing is about and a lot of time to consider it. And they gave us so much more money this time. So that is exciting."
Pattinson, looking bemused, quickly clarifies her statement. "For the film. The budget."
Stewart is chagrined. "Oh, my God. No, no. That didn't even occur to me. They gave us so much more money to make the film look good!"
The leads did get raises — Stewart and Pattinson are taking home a reported $7.5 million each plus a percentage of the gross, Lautner gets $5 million — while the production's price tag grew to $65 million, still modest compared with similar franchises.
Yet the few extra bucks seem to have paid off, especially with the effects. Even Lautner's CG wolf alter-ego is more adorable than in New Moon. "Yeah," says the actor, sheepishly. "It was very cuddly. I don't know if that's what we were aiming for."
He waffles over the wisdom of sharing an anecdote about the scene in which the vicious horse-sized beast sweetly nuzzles Bella and she scratches his ear. After a little coaxing, he relents.
"That day I came on set and put on this tight gray spandex suit ..."
"There is dialogue and I talk to him," Stewart explains. "I said, 'How am I going to do this without Taylor?' " So instead of the actress pretending that a massive computer-animated wolf was nearby, Lautner volunteered to be its stand-in.
"Basically, it looked like a Teletubby," he continues about his outfit. "I had this circle on the face but everything else was covered. It was weird. But, yeah, I stood there and would literally bend over ..."
"I would actually pet his head," Stewart adds.
Pattinson, meanwhile, struggled with Edward's rather formal proposal to Bella, which reflects the fact that although his vintage vampire looks 17, he hails from the turn of the last century.
"I was dreading the day it was coming," he says of the scene that was held until the very end of the shoot. "The first time I read the script, I thought, 'This is impossible.' " References to "promenades" and sharing "iced tea on the porch" as Edward explains how he would have courted Bella in the old days especially stuck in his throat. "It's so earnest. I finally convinced the producers that you can play it with a bit of awareness of not being a fictional character. I'm not trying to be part of a Gothic novel."
When Pattinson finally watched it, however, he was pleasantly surprised. "It seems different when you see it."
Their profiles have grown with each film, and celebrity status does afford them the chance to mingle with their own idols. Although, more often than not, the other stars are the ones bedazzled as they request autographs for their Twilight-crazed kids.
"I took a picture with Ron Howard last year at the Oscars," Pattinson recalls. "I thought it was the funniest thing. I asked, 'Is it for your kids?' He said, 'No, it's for me. I want to have it on my phone.' " Making the situation even odder: Howard's daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, is in Eclipse.
Alas, Pattinson has yet to run into his favorite, Jack Nicholson.
Stewart pipes up: "I have."
Pattinson: "What? When did you meet?"
Stewart: "At a screening for Into the Wild," her 2007 coming-of-age drama directed by Sean Penn. "He was exactly like you think he would be."
Pattinson, sounding peeved: "You never told me that."
Lautner joins in. "I didn't meet him but I sat next to him at a Lakers game."
Pattinson, utterly exasperated: "What?"
Life beyond 'Twilight'
Next subject. The three are actively trying to ward off post-Twilight typecasting by doing solo projects in between. Stewart and Pattinson, both bookworms and drawn to art-house fare, earned OK reviews but underwhelming ticket sales for their two recent releases, the girl-band bio The Runaways and the romantic melodrama Remember Me.
But they continue to be in demand for more mature roles. Stewart is psyched to be a part of a big-screen version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which starts shooting in August. Pattinson recently wrapped his work on the London set of Bel Ami as a 19th-century social-climbing rogue opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci. Does he bed all three?
"Yes, but they're not like typical love scenes at all," he says.
Adds Stewart: "They're all a little weird. A little edgy. And a little nude." Chuckling ensues.
Meanwhile, Lautner — a natural athlete who played a high school track star in the box-office-topping ensemble comedy Valentine's Day— seems to be angling to become the next big action hero with upcoming roles in the thriller Abduction and Stretch Armstrong, a 3-D adventure based on a toybox muscleman
Did he ever own one of the dolls, whose limbs could be pulled and elongated like taffy? "I don't remember having one at my house, but I totally remember stretching that sucker."
Then there is the next Twilight feature, Breaking Dawn, opening Nov. 18 next year. The fourth and presumably final book is so jammed with life-altering events — a wedding, first-time sex between Bella and Edward, a grotesquely painful birth — that there has been talk of doing two films back to back. And it might even be in 3-D. But the actors can confirm only their involvement.
What has been decided is that Breaking Dawn's director will be Bill Condon, the filmmaker behind Dreamgirlsand Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Chicago.
Have they met Condon, who already posted a letter on Facebook reassuring fans of his appreciation of the material and that the film most definitely will not be a musical despite his résumé?
Lautner nods yes.
Pattinson: "When did you meet him?" Lautner: "One day." Stewart: "Did you have a meeting?" Lautner: "No, no." Pattinson: "I literally met him three nights ago."
Stewart, in a mock snit: "Well, he obviously doesn't want to meet me."
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