Twilight: Catherine Hardwicke mentions Kristen, Robert Pattinson & their chemistry with her USA


In an interview with Elle USA, director Catherine Hardwicke mentions Kristen and Robert Pattinson including their audition for Twilight and their immediate chemistry.

You’ve said that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were perfect for their roles. What did you see in them that made you cast them? 

I thought Kristen was just amazing in Into the Wild. When I read the novel Twilight, I kept picturing her in that scene, where she’s sitting in the trailer, hoping to seduce Emile Hirsch. Her yearning was palpable, real, and intense. I thought, „This girl would be wonderful.“ So Summit flew me out to Pittsburgh, where she was shooting Adventureland. We took an actor with us and improvised a lot of scenes. To find Edward was tricky, because how he was written, he was perfect, with these cheekbones, and he was also wise beyond his years. We whittled it down from hundreds of actors to four. I’d only talked to Rob on the phone when he was much younger. He flew out on his own dime and stayed on his agent’s couch. The four actors came over to my house and we workshopped all the „chemistry“ scenes. With Rob and Kristen, it was apparent that those two just connected and had a magnetism for each other that was electric, right there on the spot.

‚Twilight Forever‘: Special edition of complete saga coming to Blu-ray in November — EXCLUSIVE


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According to Amazon this package includes: 

– The five chapters of the Twilight Saga on DVD and Blu-ray with all the bonus
– 1 senitype of each film
– 1 set of pictures
– one pendant Renesmee

DVD / Blu-ray bonus unreleased (120 ‚):
New interviews with actors
unprecedented scenes of behind the scenes
report about the Twilight phenomenon


Update: Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga debuts as a 10-disc Blu-ray set for the suggested retail price of $74.99 and a 12-disc DVD set for $64.98.


BLU-RAY & DVD SPECIAL FEATURES

• ALL-NEW special features
o Cast Retrospective with New Interviews
o “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Character” – Previously unreleased behind-the-scenes moments with the cast
o “Twilight FAN-omenon” featurette
o “Twilight Forever: Edward’s Saga” and “Twilight Forever: Jacob’s Saga” – Highlights of Edward and Jacob’s stories in the epic story

• Twilight feature film and special features
o “The Adventure Begins: The Journey from Page to Screen” – a 7-Part Documentary (PIP available Blu-ray only)
o Extended and Deleted Scenes with Director’s Introduction
o Audio commentary with director Catherine Hardwicke and actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
o Music videos from Muse, Paramore and Linkin Park
o “The Comic-Con Phenomenon” featurette
o Cast interviews with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Cam Gigandet, Edi Gathegi and Rachelle Lefevre
o Premiere Red Carpet Footage with Cast Interviews
o A Conversation with Stephenie Meyer
o “Becoming Edward” featurette
o “Becoming Bella” featurette
o “Music: The Heartbeat of Twilight” featurette
o Vampire Kiss Montage
o Bella’s Lullaby Remix
o Edward’s Piano Concert

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon feature film and special features
o 6-Part Documentary
o Audio commentary with director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert
o Deleted and Extended Scenes
o “The Beat Goes On: The Music of The Twilight Saga: New Moon” featurette
o “Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: The Ultimate Love Triangle” featurette
o “Introducing the Wolf Pack” featurette
o “Becoming Jacob” featurette
o “Edward Goes to Italy” featurette
o “Jump To Edward” and “Jump To Jacob” features
o “Frame by Frame: Storyboards to Screen” featurette
o Music videos from Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mutemath
o Behind-the-scenes Rehearsal with Muse
o “Fandimonium” featurette
o Exclusive Webcast Event footage
o Premiere Red Carpet Footage with Cast Interviews
o Extended Cast Interviews with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Chris Weitz, the Cullen Family, the Wolf Pack and the Volturi

• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse feature film and special features
o The Making Of (6-Part Documentary) (PIP available Blu-ray only)
o Audio commentary with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
o Audio commentary with Stephenie Meyer and Wyck Godfrey
o Deleted and Extended Scenes
o Music Videos from Muse and Metric
o “Jump To Edward” and “Jump To Jacob” features
o Photo Gallery

• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Theatrical Version and Extended Versionand special features
o Includes Theatrical and Extended Versions of the film and the extended version has 8 minutes of footage not seen in theaters
o “Love, Death, Birth: Filming The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” a 6-Part Documentary (PIP available Blu-ray only)
o “Jacob’s Destiny” featurette
o Bella and Edward’s Personal Wedding Video
o “Jump To Edward” and “Jump To Jacob” features
o Music Videos from Bruno Mars, Christina Perri, The Belle Brigade and Iron & Wine
o Audio commentary with director Bill Condon

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 feature film and special features
o “Forever: Filming Breaking Dawn – Part 2” – 7-Part Making Of documentary
o “Two Movies at Once” featurette
o Audio commentary with director Bill Condon
o Red carpet footage
o Music Video from Green Day
o “Tingles & Chills: Special Vampire Powers” featurette
o “Carlisle’s Contacts: The New Vampires” featurette
o “Judge, Jury & Executioner: Aro & the Volturi” featurette
o “Being Charlie Swan” featurette
o The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 at Comic Con
o Stars on the Black Carpet

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Street Date: November 5, 2013 
Year of Production: 2008-2013 

Title Copyright: 

The Twilight Saga: Twilight © 2008, 
The Twilight Saga: New Moon ©2009, 
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ©2010, 
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 ©2011, 
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 Extended Edition & 
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 ©2012 

Artwork & Supplementary Materials ™ & ©2013 Summit Entertainment, LLC. 

All Rights Reserved. 

Type: Theatrical Release 

Rating:

The Twilight Saga: Twilight: PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality

The Twilight Saga: New Moon: PG-13 for some violence and action

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1: PG-13 for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Extended Edition: Unrated; this version contains material different from the original PG-13-rated version.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: PG-13 for sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sensuality and partial nudity 

Genre: Romance/Drama/Vampire 
Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH 
DVD Closed Captioned: English 
Subtitles: English and Spanish 

Feature Run Time:

The Twilight Saga: Twilight: 122 minutes
The Twilight Saga: New Moon: 130 minutes
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: 124 minutes
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1: 117 minutes
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Extended Edition: 124 minutes
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: 115 minutes 

Blu-ray Format: 1080P High Definition 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1) 
DVD Format: 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1) 

Blu-ray Audio Status:

Twilight and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

The Twilight Saga: New Moon: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn – Part 1: English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Extended Edition: English 7.1 DTS HD-MA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Optimized for Late Night Listening and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Dolby Digital Optimized for Late Night Listening and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio 

DVD Audio Status:

The Twilight Saga: Twilight: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1: English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

The Twilight Saga: New Moon: English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English 2.0 Dolby Surround

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Extended Edition: English 5.1 Dolby Digital EX and 2.0 Dolby Digital Optimized for Late Night Listening and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: English 5.1 Dolby Digital EX and 2.0 Dolby Digital Optimized for Late Night Listening and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

Robert talks Twilight, his relationship with Kristen, skateboarding and Star Wars with The Washington Post

With the “Twilight” saga coming to an end next week following the release of “Breaking Dawn Part 2,” Pattinson, 26, can now fully focus on defining himself as an actor who appears in movies that don’t feature the Volturi. How does he feel as he makes that transition? What does he have to say about accusations that his relationship with Kristen Stewart has been a marketing tool used to sell a semi-steamy vampire romance? And is he really so up for a part in the “Star Wars” franchise that he would willingly play a live-action version of Jar Jar Binks?

During a recent phone interview, I did my best to get the answers to some of these questions. Here’s a transcript of our conversation.

I remember being at Comic-Con in 2008, prior to the release of the first movie, and thinking that you and Kristen Stewart seemed particularly shellshocked by the massive fan response. Do you remember what was going on in your mind then?
Pattinson:
 Yeah, I mean, it’s kind of exciting, but it just seems so separate. It’s always seemed so separate — that whole part of it — from doing the actual movies. That’s never changed for me. It’s a totally independent part of the job. You always get asked more about that aspect of it than anything else, you know, all the screaming and stuff. And I’ve never had a single lucid, analytical thought about it. It still just seems like screaming to me.

Why do you think people tend to ask more questions about that aspect of “Twilight”? Just because it seems so insane?
Pattinson: 
Yeah, I mean, it is the weirdest thing. There’s plenty of people who do movies and even big movies and stuff, but it’s weird to have that reaction for a series … but I don’t know why it happens.

So you haven’t gotten more used to than you were three or four years ago?
Pattinson: 
You kind of get used to it a little bit but you still get a good energy. I like [being] at Comic-Con and stuff, it’s nice to have that size a crowd. Especially at Comic-Con, you get the Q&A or whatever so there is some kind of performance involved. At the premieres and stuff, where it’s just screaming at you, that’s kind of harder. It’s quite tiring, because you don’t really know what you’re supposed to be doing.

Your last day of shooting on “Breaking Dawn Part 2” was in April, is that right?
Pattinson:
 Um. [Pauses] God, I have no idea.
It was earlier this year, let’s say.
Pattinson:
 Oh, no no no. It was ages ago.

Was it? I thought you did some reshoots earlier this year.
Pattinson:
 Oh yeah. Maybe.

The reason I’m asking is that I’m trying to see if you can remember the last day you were shooting on this and reflect on that. I don’t know if you can talk about the nature of the last scene you shot — I’m guessing not —
Pattinson: 
[Laughing] I forgot about the reshoots.

You forgot about it? Excellent! What was going through your mind? Although if you forgot about it, then maybe not much.
Pattinson: 
What was going through my mind? Oh yeah, we were shooting the hunt scene … when Edward and Bella hunt the deer together at the beginning. And uh, I was thinking — to be honest, what I was thinking was, this is a much better way of shooting it than how we shot it originally. And I wish we’d done it like this before. But uh, yeah, the last few shots and the reshoots were fairly insignificant. They’re all kind of movement shots. I don’t know, I remember I was learning how to skateboard, like the dorkiest 26-year-old. I thought 26 was like the last year where you could attempt to be a novice skateboarder. I just sort of realized, well that’s really weird. If a producer saw me doing this two years ago, they would have called up my agent immediately.

Why were you skateboarding?
Pattinson:
 I was just doing it for myself outside the trailer, and one of the studio executives walked past and didn’t say anything. I was like, I would not be allowed to do this two years ago.

Because of the potential for injury.
Pattinson:
 Insurance and stuff.

Now at this point, they’re like, break your head open. It’s fine.

[Pattinson laughs.]

At the risk of angering any of the directors you’ve worked with on “Twilight,” is there one film that stands out as the most meaningful to you, either because of the experience or the way you felt that it turned out?
Pattinson:
 Definitely the first one. By a huge margin. It was just an entirely different world. For one thing, it was just a really, really fun movie to shoot. It was difficult and it was crazy, but the experience was so different. Just having a really big, young cast as well — I have never done anything like it since. Everyone was kind of unknown and had a feeling about the movie. There was definitely some excitement there, that it could either be a total miss or something could happen with it.

Was part of the excitement that it hadn’t become a huge phenomenon yet, so it was sort of like you were working on a smaller film?
Pattinson: 
Oh yeah, completely. Especially because me and Kristen were kind of really, really fighting to try and — we didn’t want it to be a teen movie. We were kind of ridiculous about it. It was fun fighting against the studio executives and the producers and stuff and butting heads with then all of them all the time. But then once it gets so huge and once you’ve already dived in, basically, you can’t — it’s a strange thing. You don’t really know where you should focus your energy afterwards. On the first one, it was really easy to know.

Some people have been critical of whether your personal lives are being used to market the “Twilight” movies, in particular your relationship with Kristen. What is your response to that?
Pattinson:
 Being critical of?

You know, people saying “Their romantic relationship is being used as a marketing tool for the film.”
Pattinson: 
[Pauses, then laughs] For one thing, it would be a terrible marketing tool, and it’s not utilized very well at all. People will say anything. I’m still amazed that people even believe anything [that’s said about us]. I mean, it’s one of the craziest things about the whole situation, where you can see the whole — is paradigm the right word? — of celebrity gossip, celebrity culture type stuff that’s literally entirely made up. There’s a story line. You have a set character and your story line is written for you. And it doesn’t matter what you do. I talked to Reese Witherspoon about it a while ago, and she was the person who really told me, you get given a character. I mean, I’ve literally tried to do things to throw people off, and it just doesn’t get printed.

Like what? Give me an example.
Pattinson: 
I was doing things like saying there were scat scenes in the first part of “Breaking Dawn.” And they didn’t fit into any of their stories. It just wasn’t printed anywhere. (Writer’s note: Well, technically, because it was something that Pattinson said, the scat comment was picked up, just not as widely as he might have hoped.) If you make a storyline for yourself that’s not going to fit into the prescribed model, it just will not happen. You know, those silly magazines.

You also have to make sure the person you’re talking to knows what scatting is.
Pattinson:
 Maybe that was the problem.

So do you pay attention to the media coverage about you or do you tune it out?
Pattinson:
 I mean, in some ways, you’re forced to. But not really. It’s not going to help anything. It’s not going to do any good.

According to my Twitter feed, you were asked during the junket press conference for “Breaking Dawn Part 2” about movie franchises, and you said you hate the word franchise. So I’ll try not to use that word. Signing on to a film series like this is a huge commitment, time-wise and to the same character. Having just completed this one, do you see yourself wanting to do that again in the near future? It seems like you’re choosing projects that are not in that vein.
Pattinson:
 A lot of the stuff I’ve chosen, which I’m doing this year, I chose a year ago. And things change — the industry changes really quickly at the moment. It also seems like the only thing being made are franchise movies.

Ah, you said the word. Not me.
Pattinson:
 That doesn’t mean I like it. [Laughs] It only worries me because you just lose tons of control. As I get older, I mean — the stuff you put out into the world is supposed to be representative of who you are. And if you don’t have control over it, I don’t know how to say, ‘This is who I am, and this is what I’ve made.’ It’s not. It’s a whole other thing. It becomes more a job than an art. If I wanted to do a job, then I’d be doing a job, however ridiculous that is to say. I probably will be doing a job soon. Cleaning toilets, or something.

I doubt that seriously. So it sounds like you could be interested in a franchise, but it would depend on what the project was.
Pattinson:
 Yeah, I think it’s a powerful thing. You look at something like “Star Wars.” No one’s going to call “Star Wars” a franchise.

Well, people do.
Pattinson:
 Just after the new ones. [Laughs] The first three, that was a series, not a franchise.

Speaking of that, if someone approached you with a part in that series, would you want to do it?
Pattinson:
 In “Star Wars”? Oh, absolutely. In a heartbeat.

What if they asked you to play Jar-Jar?
Pattinson:
 I actually kind of like Jar-Jar. I don’t understand what the big deal is about Jar-Jar.
I was talking to somebody the other day about how sometimes having all the merchandising and everything is kind of exciting. I still want to have a light saber. I want to buy the toys and stuff. I like the idea that the fandom will create the universe on its own just because it’s so huge, and there are so many things to buy into and invest in.

Now that “Twilight” is over, I’m sure you feel some sadness. But is there also a bit of relief?
Pattinson:
 Yeah. It’s just so huge that it feels like it moves quite slowly. It’s like a juggernaut. It is quite exciting to be thinking from now on, you’re not going to go back to — I’ve done movies in between and that’s kind of been a gradual progression of my life but you’d go back to doing a “Twilight” movie [after each shoot] every single time. So you’re always starting from basically that point. Once you start doing, you know, random movies every single time, you progress into something else.


Washington Post

Preview of Rob and Kristen’s Interview to Ciak Magazine (Translation)


ETA: Added scans. We’ll add translation of Rob’s inerview when available.


And a new (?)/old picture from 2008 

when Rob and Kristen were promoting Twilight in Rome

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Preview

Transation thanks to Robert Pattinson Moms
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson say goodbye to the saga ‘Twilight’. “Now there is no ‘more’ stress: Bella does not belong to me and I don’t belong to her anymore,” said Stewart to Ciak magazine (directed by Piera Detassis), on italian newsstands this week. Although she added: “In reality ‘ I never really say goodbye to my characters I take them all inside of me. Her relationship with Bella was more ‘long and complex,’ cause I lived with no other character than her for five years” . And about her role in ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′, the actress adds: “It ‘s as I expected her to be from the first movie. I Could stand no more’ to watch others as they faced the dangers. Bella now is ’powerful and brave. Perhaps the spectators will identify less with her, but for me it ‘was more’ fun. ” And Robert Pattinson would play in another film in the series? “Only if Stephanie Meyer write it – he answers – But at this point I wonder what would happen differently? Maybe if Edward becomes a bad guy? Now, that would be the news …”.

Pattinson takes his stock of the past five years: “A revolution: I never thought I’d get this type of career, neither to live in America. The bad side : It would have been better if it had happened ten years ago, before the era of pictures from the phone and Twitter. you can not even do fights,just saying, or even raising your voice, ’cause everything is likely to be reflected also at your work. “

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Transation thanks to @CSI_Robsten

– Would you make another movie of the series?
„Only if Stephanie Meyer wrote it. But at this point I wonder what could possibly happen. Maybe Edward could turn into a bad guy? Yeah, that would be something.“

 What was the weirdest experience you’ve had with a fan?
„At the last Comic Con in San Diego, I was with Kristen who was also promoting Snow White and the Huntsman, and a girl approached me to ask if I felt comfortable being Prince Charming. I wasn’t able to convince her that it wasn’t me…“

 Wasn’t it a blow to your ego?
„Not really, it only made me laugh. There was another time during a road trip, I found myself in a small village in an Indian reservation in New Mexico. As soon as I got off the car, I was surrounded by a group of kids who started calling me by my name. This should compare with story of Comic Con.“

– Which was the hardest movie of the series?
„Breaking Dawn. It’s two movies but we shot them back to back. Which means a 2 hour in the make-out trailer every day for 8 months.“

– What will you miss next year?
„The 3 months in Vancouver. I grew attached to that city.“

 Do you think that Bella becoming stronger somehow represents today’s society and women’s more and more important role? 
„I don’t know, but it would be a good thing to be honest.“

– Do you like the archetypal strong woman?
„I grew up in a house full of women, my mother, my sisters, my father even. No, no, it’s a joke, don’t write that, I wouldn’t want my dad to get hurt. I’m sorry, my sense of humour is a bit weird.“

– What have these 5 years been like?
„A revolution. I never would have thought I could have this career or I would live in America. The downside is that it would have been better if it had happen before twitter and phones with cameras.“

– What do you think of this job?
„We have become the most conservative people in the world. You can’t even raise your voice, because everything will affect your career.“

– Do you ever feel alone?
„It’s hard to make new friends because you always think they actually want something else.“

– The wrongest thing people say about you?
„That I’m like Edward. People tend to forget that Twilight is a movie.“

– An actor you like?
„James Franco. He’s intriguing in eveything he does, and he seems to have so many interests that he never does the same things.“


Source (in Italian) | Scans/Via