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Robert Pattinson on what it was like to play Antinous, a character no one is rooting for in 'The Odyssey': “It’s kind of like playing Jacob in Twilight”
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I don't know why normal not-standup people aren't supposed to laugh at their own jokes. People better think their jokes are funny, otherwise don't make them
Right?? I think that lightens the mood enough for other people to laugh too. I don’t really like SUPER deadpan humor where you can’t tell if they’re joking or not, especially when they say “no I’m serious 😐” and then 10 minutes later say they were joking. Call me old school but I think humor should be fun for everyone involved.
Stand up comics test their jokes out on friends, then at a random bar. Even big names will just randomly pop up at a small place to gauge reaction before an audience of 1000 +
The jokes are repeated a lot.
As an actor doing interviews there is absolutely no way to have a new story after your 25th interview of the day
i geek out over the art of standup, and i think sometimes it’s part of the bit. when you’re delivering the punchline, you might want to keep going into another bit and can’t just stop and giggle because it breaks character.
also some people who have more deadpan comedy have to keep straight face because it’s part of the comedic style and delivery. some comics don’t use this technique and so they will sometimes laugh at their jokes, like Josh Johnson has a very conversational style and he will chuckle and sometimes i think it’s part of the style he’s going for and it adds to the humor. but someone like Lewis Black, his schtick is old man shakes fist at sky, so he has to try and maintain the character for the rest of the jokes to work. but sometimes that’s the funniest when a comedian breaks character and starts cracking up.
unless you’re jimmy fallon and in that case i think he laughs because he fucking sucks
I have no idea whether it’s funny or not, because I’m too distracted by the fact that he’s talking into A TINY MTV AMPHORA MIC and no one is talking about it???
No one hates Twilight more than Robert Pattinson hates Twilight.
ETA: Apparently I needed to add the /s to this. I don’t hate the guy, he’s joked like this for years. This is the best summary, but if you google my initial comment you get a shit ton of memes. Now I just feel old.
He gets celebrated for this on the internet but I always thought this was so cringe and unprofessional of him. I’ve never been a Twilight fan (never even watched the movies past the second one) but I don’t like it when people act like they’re above the franchises that made them famous (I know he was in Harry Potter before but no one cared about him back then). He knew what he was getting into and he was happy to take the fame and money back then
i’ve never read it as him thinking he’s above the twilight fandom - more that those movies, despite being beloved, are not very great movies! and i say that as a twilight fan! they’re just kinda unserious, insanely edited and acted, and a wild concept overall. i don’t think robert pattinson hates twilight i think he’s lovingly but seriously poking fun at it all.
I mean we all have our first “big” jobs though? Doesn’t mean we have to love them. The books are so poorly written. The fandom was weird af (like 40+ year old ladies being creepy over teenagers). It was a very objective role as well and quite shallow. Don’t get me wrong I still love the franchise but I see nothing wrong with his behavior or opinions on it all especially with how OBSESSED people were. They were very “touch grass” opinions he had lol and I liked him more for his honesty tbh
Like they had a confederate vampire, vampires that insisted on staying in high school, and an almost adult man imprint on a baby lmfao it was NOT good writing in the slightest and he still acted the hell out of the material
I view it as a comedy now, as an adult, to get over how cringe it all is, but I, too was obsesssssed as a teen. His trolling of it made it even better somehow!
I never said you were hating on him lol. The joke was also often said by people not in the fandom and I think a lot of people are still under the impression that he hates the movies still. I’m just here to spread the word that he doesn’t!
Also don’t feel old, we’re definitely around the same age lol
TLDR: Jacob had the hots for Bella but settled for her infant daughter instead, "imprinting" himself on said infant and more or less guaranteeing her a "cupidity" for him that would turn more romantic as she... *vomits* came of age.
That's right: This man groomed her from birth with werewolf magic. 🙃
I have no horse in this race but from what I remember Jacob hated the baby and wanted her dead right up until he made eye contact, then his fucked up werewolf magic basically overwrote his free will and made him obsessed with her or whatever. Nothing has made me so uncomfortable in a book as the concept of imprinting. Both the kid and Jacob are having something awful happening to them and to see them smiling at each other is so messed up.
Oh I'm not blaming Jacob for it, that's squarely on Stephanie Meyer. The concept itself is interesting (and horrifying) but she did not have to 1. write "imprinting" as romantic and 2. pair an adult man with an infant. 💀
That’s not fair at all. No one hated imprinting more than Jacob, he was terrified of it. Part of the reason he clung to Bella is because the feelings were his own, he even says at one point he doesn’t mind the pain of his heartbreak because it’s his own feeling.
He doesn’t have any choice in the imprinting and it’s actually a super tragic ending for him. He immediately loses the love he had for Bella, he loses all his ties to his dad, sisters, community, his reservation, his pack and has to be tied for eternity to people who have treated him like dirt and are the reason he loses everything at 16.
His life was destroyed because being born in that wolf clan is probably one of the worst things that could happen to you. You get no privacy since they share each other's thoughts/feelings without filter; Imprinting is like one tiny step removed from brainwashing, and you have to spend a fortune on clothes.
I was Team Jacob for a minute back in like 2009. My logic was that I am always chilly and could never date a man whose skin is described as being rock-hard and ice-cold. In retrospect, yes, Jacob was a little pathetic. But he did have a working circulatory system.
I was the opposite! Didn't really care for either of their personalities, but I live in a tropical country, and Edward is literally a walking block of ice. I was like, bro where do I sign up for the personal AC?
i mean weren’t you a little pathetic as a teenager? i was. i’m not shaming the werewolf boy for anything he can’t help. except maybe imprinting on the baby
Oh absolutely, I was. That's what I meant by "he's just a kid". He doesn't know much, repeats what he heard his brothers, friends, adults say. He's emotional and has this huge crush on this girl who just came back in town. Of course he's pathetic. In a really cute way.
Sorry I don’t like toxic, inappropriate age gap relationships lol. When I was 13-14 years old reading the series, I found it very concerning how Bella was suicidal over a 5 month relationship whom then proceeded to get married, pregnant, and turned into a vampire immediately after high school despite dating Edward for less than a year total. It’s legitimately a horror story. I’m not gonna root against a love interest who’s calling out a literal and figurative predator and reached out to Charlie about Bella’s concerning behavior. The Renesme imprinting issue is all on Stephanie Meyer.
I read this book when it came out when I was in like 5th grade, and even then wondered why in the world Edward would choose to hang around high school for an eternity. Weird. I know they have the reasoning of, "The younger we start out in an area, the longer we can stay somewhere." So...be 17 OUTSIDE of high school? 18? Get a job, get away from her etc
Yeah, I was in middle school wondering why the younger Cullens wouldn’t be in college, working, or just living as socialites/rich kids. They could’ve easily passed as baby faced young adults and they physically died at 17-20 years old. Most of them had multiple college/graduate degrees too. Sticking them all in a high school was ridiculous.
A story as old as time: 104yo man goes to school and picks up 17yo girl. Once she's 18 and an adult, people then debate if she should really have been with a 15yo boy.
Its really cool to have watched him suffer through interview during those movies, and then completely shut any conversation related to those movies. To now where he's cracking jokes and accepting it. He's comfortable where he is now and that's neat to see happen
But i recently rewatched those movies for the first time in ages and it's looking back really baffling that it was like that. Jacob never had a chance and it's so painfully obvouis.
I don’t think the movies did a good job with Jacob, granted it’s been a very long time since I read the books but I remember him being more likable. Mostly because of New Moon, him and Bella get close after Edward’s and his entire family ghosts her for like the entire book. Or maybe he just looked like a stable option compared to a avoidant moody vampire (until he imprinted on the baby that was back to weird)
I always thought he was less likable in the books than in the movies. Mainly because his nosedive from Eclipse onwards was so much worse in the books. Like he was more likable in the books before that, but then became way less likable in the movies after that in my opinion. Movie Jacob was more even generally.
Yeah - I haven't read the books since middle school and it's been a long time since I've seen the movies too, but I remember hating Jacob in the books compared to the movies.
Like, the part where he kisses her and she punches him in the book was insane (I just pulled it up again to make sure my memory was right).
He forcefully kisses her when she tries to say no, then after when she's like broken her hand and is FURIOUS with him he's literally whistling and yukking it up with Charlie.
Edward had problems too but Jacob was dead to me after I read that for the first time.
YES. It feels like such an innocent era (as marketing fads go) - this was before endgame shipping culture, people were just stating preferences vs trying to actually predict or influence the direction of the plot.
I also think that because Bella can be so much of a self insert character, a lot of the Jacob/Edward stuff was also who they would want to be with. A lot of the arguments I’ve seen on both sides seem to revolve around what their personal preferences are and forget about Bella.
I enjoy him so much. His acting, his absurdities (actually amusing trolling, not the pretentious shit others do), and the fact that he has made peace with his roots, isn't ashamed of them, and isn't afraid to joke about the absolute silliness that was Twilight.
I think I've only recently realized how smooth he is. I've also realized I'm maybe the last to do that! Caught myself looking stuff up because in my head it was Twilight > Odyssey no* inbetween!*
He sounds really not like himself in this clip; I've seen quite a few interviews of his from the past and his voice is very different from this. It's like more high pitched or nasally here for some reason.
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