Bringing this forward today for obvious reasons. I originally posted this on 2 April 2012. It’s from Rob’s Meet the Directors & Actor Q&A for Twilight with Catherine Hardwicke on 3 November 2008. It’s still available on iTunes if you want to listen.
Apple … Rob at the Apple Store in 2008 of course. I loved listening to that interview. I remember it was where I heard Rob say that Hollywood needed to change – to make films not because they were going to make tonnes of money, but because the story was worth making. His idea was that this change needed to come from within Hollywood. I’d love to know what he thinks about that now seeing as he’s on the inside of the machine. I mean I guess with his film choices it shows he hasn’t really swayed from what he believes, but it’s a shame the gossip hacks don’t bother doing any research so they can ask him questions like that. Anyhoo here’s one of my fave photos from that day
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Love the pic choice!! I think I might have to revisit that interview, it has been too long!! Thanks Maria.
Thanks for the re- visit and devilish pic! Putting it on my list of Rob joy for a weekend listening session.
Aww, AppleRob was very special. Thanks so much for sharing this pic and I love the reminder of his interview. Must dig that out again to listen. 🙂
Beautiful choice Maria. I’m feeling a bit nostalgic now
Apple = forbidden fruit. (Sorry, I saw the Eric post first and my mind is still being sinful)
Just watched this interview again ~ he was so adorable (and young) back then. What a crazy few years it’s been for him. Lucky for us he gets more beautiful by the minute. Thanks for posting, Maria ~ I must admit it’s Rob’s interviews that are my very favourite thing!
Maria, he is echoing some of his philosophy if you will, of art for art’s sake in this clip. This is from 2010 and he still had not made a big killing with the Twilight franchise. But Twilight gave him the luxury to follow through on what he valued, art for art’s sake.
https://twitter.com/MTVNEWS/status/1392867386601086976
Maria, iTunes didn’t load for me but found the video on YouTube and what Rob says about him wanting to help push the industry from within back to where it was in the 70s, I suppose making good quality films, starts at @4:30. Great job connecting what I said on the previous page with this, you are like an encyclopedia on Rob. I had seen this video in my ‘research’ but had skipped it because the audio is pretty bad. Remarkable that he said this in 2008! and now it is actually happening.
I remember him saying it back in 2008 when i first watched this interview and it stuck in my head. He was always so different in not wanting it to be about the money – which is why money no doubt came quickly to him. I am a huge fan of 70s films so it’s probably why it stuck.
I need to be at home relishing in this rather than at work lol.
Oh hey WordPress why am I showing up as Admin lol???
ok I think I’m back to being Maria
Maria the Admin with the root password, LOL. It is night here for me and I can bask in this all night long.
In fact, that is what attracted me to him that he didn’t care about money or fame. In the video when he says that, people applauded – so even then not all of his fans were just screaming girls or secretly crushing moms.
OMG I love these old interviews! I just watched the video you posted PM – Rob is definitely a one-and-only. CH struck gold finding him for the role of Edward.
Sue, yes, CH struck gold and I bet she knew it from the start. But a certain someone at Comic con wanted credit saying she ‘convinced’ CH (I bet CH didn’t need convincing) – the tone was a bit off like ‘I made you’. Rob looked at that person pointedly (maybe with disbelief like ‘really you want to go there’) when she said that.
Sue, here is a better audio version; the part about changing the industry from within starts at 7:30. It also continues on the next part (Part 5/5). It was great listening to this interview with a good audio.
Thanks PM!
Rob has such a stillness to his performances that any director who witnesses that would be crazy not to give him a role.
No problem, Maria. Glad you tweeted it! Hope people realize it is from Nov 2008.
David Michod said in one interview that any video however brilliant but without a good audio is worthless (paraphrasing), talking in the context of testing it in Cannes(?) for the premiere – he said audio sounded good and that is all he cared about. Watching that video with bad audio above was painful and I was very happy when I found the 5 part audio.
Maria, what do you mean by “stillness to his performances”?
What I mean by stillness is that Rob often pauses with a palpable beat emphasising either the emotion he is trying to convey or the importance of what he has just said or is about to say. It’s just something I noticed early on. It’s not an easy thing to do but to me conveys so much more in his characters. I’m not sure if people are aware of it.
I am not sure I am aware of it. I know he has said he balances his dialog delivery to suit how it is written and how the audience will receive it (don’t know how exactly, but …) we certainly feel/see the effect/fruits of it. I wonder if it is his musical training, pauses, rhythm, cadence are all important. Someone was noticing how he altered his pitch in DAT.
You might be right PM re his musical training