Twilight studio expected director to make Robert Pattinson hotter somehow
Summit Pictures gave Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke an impossible task: Can she make Robert Pattinson look good?
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Robert Pattinson may be a London 10, but to Summit Pictures, he’s a Forks 7.
Appearing on Josh Horowitz’s Watchalong podcast, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke revealed that, in addition to having to adapt a pageturner like Twilight into a feature film, Summit Pictures expected the impossible: They wanted Hardwicke to make Robert Pattinson better looking.
Now, far be it from us to comment on other people’s physical appearance, but generations of Twi-hards seem to agree that Robert Pattinson is, indeed, a smokeshow. Total hottie material. Just a real [eyes popping out of skull], [wolf whistle], [owooga carhorn]. To be fair, though, per Hardwicke, Pattinson wasn’t looking his Batman best quiet yet. Like many before him, he was going through a bangs period and “was kind of out of shape because he was hanging out at the pub all the time.” To be fair to ourselves, this also doesn’t seem that bad. Still, Hardwicke could sense the chemistry between Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and recorded their screentest for the studio’s consideration.
“After we did the fun auditions at my house for a couple of hours, then I looked the next morning at all the footage I shot and recorded, and I thought it worked not just in person but it works on screen,” Hardwicke said. “I had to be sure. Of course, in person, I just got carried away, but you have to be sure it translates.”
Well, for the folks over at Summit, it didn’t. They called her back and expected her to play god. “‘Do you think you can make this guy look good?’” Hardwicke recalled them asking. Hardwicke, still tethered firmly to reality, responded with a question of her own, “Did you see his cheekbones?”
“I said, ‘Yeah, I do. Did you see his cheekbones? We’re doing a makeover on the hair and everything, and he’s going to start working out, and he’s going to be gorgeous.’ But they didn’t believe it at first. He like walked over there with a stained shirt or something. It was Rob.”
Honestly, even Robert Pattinson, with the biggest, yellowest mustard stain on the grodiest t-shirt, could probably sell a blood popsicle to a Twi-hard in white gloves. In other Pattinson news, he and partner Suki Waterhouse are expecting their first child. Congratulations, Mr. Pattinson. Now, put on a clean shirt. You’re going to be a father!
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are we sure the Market can bear that?
I like that he and Kristen beat the Twilight stigma, but I didn’t like how they acted like they were too cool for Twilight when they were making the movies.
Eh, they treated the material with all the respect it deserves.
They chose to be in those movies.
Even the most ardent Twilight fans would agree you can dunk on the movies just fine.
They were being paid. Nobody’s obligated to pretend their vaguely demeaning but well-paid job is cool and fun.
I think they should at least be respectful to Twilight fans.
Why?
Because I think the fans deserve respect.
Looks-wise, he peaked during Harry Potter. He looks like he smells now.
No amount of CGI, makeup or camera tricks can reduce the size of that forehead. He’s got an eighthead
“Throw some glitter on dat and we good”
I’m gonna take a wild guess that the studio exec who didn’t think Pattinson was handsome enough was a man.
And straight?
Forks 7For some reason I thought this was a Mickey 7 reference at first , since apparently he’s playing the eponymous character in the movie version of the sci fi book .But turns out its called Mickey 17 (which I assume is pointless executive meddling with story , rather than the old “If we called it Mickey 7 , people would wonder when the first 6 movies happened? if we call it 17 they’ll probably work out its not a sequel” tactic ..probably
I always have the feeling it’s straight guys obsessed on how other straight guys deviate from the hotness canon. Robert Pattinson is hot, of course, but part of his charm is that even when he is cute he was not a model, not Taulor Lautner or any of the leads of the Scream series, that bland collection of square jaws and calculated teethy smiles. Which I won’t very hypothetically push out of my bed, ok, but yet the kid with the gothic looks kind of wins.