Considering how ardent The Twilight Saga and other Robert Pattinson fans are, it’s no wonder that all sorts of publications — including this blog — has been posting various news reports about Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and their Twilight and non-Twilight film roles, be they Remember Me (above), Bel Ami, The Yellow Handkerchief, The Runaways, Welcome to the Rileys, or Stretch Armstrong. It’s a give-and-take-and-give-back arrangement: we provide information, fans come to the news sources, our sites and/or printed news sources get more hits/sales, we then can provide more information, and so on.
The problem is when reports surface whether online or in print that have little or no basis in reality. Either the truth gets stretched quite a bit, or the stories are made up from scratch. For example, rumors abounded about Robert Pattinson becoming a possible replacement for Tobey Maguire in the Spider-Man series, until Sony Pictures finally said that no actor was being considered until they found their director. By now, their director has been found — (500) Days of Summer’s Marc Webb — but little more has been said about Pattinson as a human arachnid of sorts.
Even worse is when Pattinson or Stewart (and other celebrities, really) are quoted as having said something during an interview that never took place. That happens much more often than most people realize. According to tabloids, Pattinson has said he’s dating Kristen Stewart. Since then, other publications have picked up the story and it’s now become "fact." Perhaps they’re really dating; perhaps they aren’t. Perhaps Pattinson only cares about his dog. But it’s unwise to rely on information provided by supermarket rags.
Anyhow, MTV News felt the need to post the following introduction to an article originally published on Feb. 8:
After this article published, a dispute emerged over the authenticity of the [Scottish] Daily Record’s interview with Robert Pattinson. Mr. Pattinson’s representative informed MTV News that there was no interview with the publication. However, the Daily Record has since provided MTV News with an audio recording that apparently contains a portion of the interview in question. At press time, Pattinson’s representative had not responded to further questions to clarify the source of the interview. MTV News regrets any error.
In the Scottish Daily Record interview, Pattinson purportedly discussed "his paranoia about relationships, the eventual end of the Twilight series and some very intimate on-camera time he’ll soon share with [Uma] Thurman" in Bel Ami.
Below are a few passages from the Daily Record interview, as posted by MTV News:
"The sex scenes with Uma are kind of disturbing," he said. "Her character kind of uses sex as a sort of weapon and my character thinks like an animal. There’s a lot of sex scenes in this film, so I’m asking quite a lot of myself, and with lots of different people as well."
"If you meet a crowd of people, a lot of times you think someone is going to say something, someone could be going to sell a story about you," he admitted. "The majority of times, nothing bad ever happens, but having that paranoia there is very annoying."
One story — or rather, one outlandish casting rumor — should now be put to rest. Any wish on the part of some fans that the rebooted Spider-Man franchise will star Pattinson as Peter Parker is just that: a wish, with no basis in reality.
"I don’t think I’m going to be playing Spider-Man, even though I would quite like to do it," he said.
And this is from E! News:
Robert Pattinson on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, which apparently is still a will-it-be-a-one-movie-or-two-movie deal:
"I don’t mind either way."
Photo: Remember Me (Myles Aronowitz / Summit Entertainment)