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Källa

JACKSON Rathbone talks about some of the challenges of making The Last Airbender for director M Night Shyamalan as well as getting back to the Twilight movie set for remaining movies, Breaking Dawn.

Q. I believe that in your family roots there is this big screen action history?
Jackson Rathbone: Yeah, I have a close bloodline to Basil Rathbone. He’s my grandfather’s third cousin several times removed. I don’t like to talk about how many times removed! But yeah, he’s one of the greatest swordsmen of Hollywood history. We were talking about that earlier. In the film, I wield a boomerang! I’m going up against all these characters who have all these amazing special abilities like being able to manipulate fire, or being able to manipulate water or earth… and Sokka comes running around with a boomerang and with a great tactical side of warfare. You see him go from just being a young man with a warrior’s heart to a rebel leader over the course of the film and he holds his own, even though he just has a boomerang. Hopefully, if we get to make the next two films then you’ll get to see Sokka become a swordsman. So, I’ll get to really follow in Basil Rathbone’s footsteps.

Q. There’s an incredible amount of CGI in this film. So, do you ever get to a point where you see the first screening when it’s all complete and think, ‘oh that’s what I was looking at, that’s what it’s all about’?
Jackson Rathbone: It was a good mix between going to Greenland and having a sense of that reality of where our characters came from, and getting to film on the most incredible sets that I’ve ever seen in my life – I think it’s the largest sets that were ever built on the East Coast in Philadelphia. With the character of Momo there was a doll that was about the same weight and size that it would be in the film. They’d put it there to give us actors a sense of what it was and then they’d pull it out and we’d shoot.

But I guess the hardest thing was when I first met Appa and I’m just jabbing at it with a spear… on set it was in Greenland and there was absolutely nothing there. Night and I would talk about it and he’d show me pictures of what they’d be doing with it. He explained to me how the scene would work in post [production] and everything. But that was one of the most difficult scenes for me, just kind of knowing how far to thrust the spear in. Am I stabbing this creature? Or poking it? Where do you go? It was definitely an interesting experience to see it a year and a half later after all this incredible work was done by one of the most amazing CGI companies in the business. ILM certainly put the magic into The Last Airbender.

Q. You’ve become hugely famous over the last few years. Where’s the oddest place that you’ve been recognised?
Jackson Rathbone: The oddest place that I’ve been recognised [laughs]? In my own house-hold. That’s pretty odd. I don’t know. It’s one of those things… in my entire life I’ve never really been that kind of guy who goes out to clubs, or goes out to the mall. I’ve always had a very small group of friends that I hang out with and make art with. When I was first getting into the theatre I was much younger – about 13 or 14 and I was getting into the local community theatre in Midland, Texas, and I just had this really small group of friends. I just kind of noticed that all the pretty girls were actresses and I wanted to be where they were [smiles]. So, I got into theatre for that and then I fell in love with the art form. I played music and I acted at the same time.

Now, all I spend my time doing is writing music with my friends who I’ve known for 10 years. I get to act with a marvellous cast, with The Last Airbender with a marvellous director and producer. And with the Twilight series, I have an amazing cast as well… and amazing directors we’ve worked with, and producers. I’ve just been extremely lucky in my career to be able to constantly work with people that I’ve respected and admired, and young actors that I think are some of the most grounded people that I’ve met in my life. I just keep my circle small and I don’t go out and do those things that get you in the tabloids.

Q. I think the question was more designed to reflect an answer that Leonardo DiCaprio once gave, when he revealed that the strangest place that he was recognised was in the middle of the Amazonian jungle, when a native said: “You’re the guy from Titanic…” He said it was bizarre because there were no TVs or cinema. So, that kind of thing…
Jackson Rathbone: Well, we filmed in Greenland and they had this local cinema that we actually screened Raiders at, which was really cool. But yeah, all the Greenlandic people knew us. We were in this small town called Ilulissat and it was incredible. Night hooked me up with a gig at the local pub and I played a set on guitar… just myself and the guitar. Then Frank Marshall and I got up and he sang Stormy Mondays and I played slide guitar with the house band and we got ourselves some fans. So, I guess that was the oddest place I’ve been recognised, to make a very long answer for a nice simple question [laughs].

Q. Your co-star Kellan Lutz said at the Eclipse press conference a couple of weeks ago that you and he got up to some scrapes? Because after doing The Last Airbender you thought you were ‘invincible’?
Jackson Rathbone: [Laughs] Oh God no… I think it got a little bit over elaborated in the press, as things tend to do. It was interesting because I came from The Last Airbender and I had all this kung fu training. So, I went to film Eclipse and we were rehearsing everything, and the other cast and I talked about film technique fighting and how, if you’re the camera, the fist can be literally that far from my face [gestures close to his cheek] and make it look realistic.

Kellan, I think, got a little over excited whenever we were filming because it was his first real action film that he got to do, and that’s what he loves to do, but he made contact with my temple. He didn’t knock me down, but he definitely knocked me for a loop. I was kind of dazed… we kept rolling, though, and we did five more takes. Then we took a little break and I sat down and the world got a little fuzzy. I was like: “This is kind of interesting…” The producers were really concerned because, you know, their money was at stake, so they sent me to the hospital to get me checked out. I was fine. I wanted to go back to work. But they called me for the day and I reported back to work the next day, at 5am, so… It didn’t really leave a mark, but his hand was bruised, so…

Q. You’re the winner then?
Jackson Rathbone: I think so, I think so. He hit me and I didn’t fall down, so I’m pretty excited about that.

Källa

The last time we spoke with you, you had only one tattoo at the time. Fast forward to a few years later, you now have 6 according to a recent interview with Saturday Night Magazine. What are your new tattoos and what do they mean to you?
Actually, it’s seven now… They all mean a whole lot to me, but I don’t know how fully I want to describe them… I have a heart for my mom, a hammer for my dad, a tattoo for the late great Spencer Bell, as well as two for my late grandparents, my first tattoo, “I’m lost”, and my newest is my family motto, “suaviter et fortiter”.

You have two films coming out the same week, how does it feel to have completed two films directed toward two very different fan bases?
It’s a mark of how I want to keep shaping my career. Keep it moving, change it up, always make it fresh for myself and the audience as well.

How did it feel to step into Sokka’s shoes for the very first time?
Pretty damn comfortable. Kinda like leather slippers.

At Newcon you revealed you originally auditioned for the role of Zuko for Airbender. Are you glad you were chosen for Sokka instead?
I think Dev plays an amazing Zuko and I had a lot of fun with the character of Sokka. I’m also excited to get to delve into Sokka’s development as a warrior and strategist… that is, if we get the next two films greenlit. Here’s to hope!

Since signing onto Twilight, you’ve always spoken about wanting to do Jasper’s back story for Eclipse. Finally getting the chance to film it, were the scenes you filmed at all how you imagined Jasper’s back story would be portrayed on screen? Was there a moment in the book you wished had made the cut?
It was exciting when I finally got to step in the civil war outfit for the first time… I looked at myself in the mirror, and I thought, now that’s Jasper. Not the high-school kid trying-to-be vegetarian-vampire Jasper, but Jasper at his core. The warrior and the gentleman. I just wished I got to play more of the Civil War era vampire scenes because it was so natural and so much fun.

In Dread, your character Stephen Grace has a pretty shocking and gruesome death scene. What was it like filming the entire process?
Surprisingly hilarious. I had an axe sticking out of me for Heaven’s sake! Bloody hysterical. Bone-splittingly funny. Axe me no more questions.

Out of all the various characters you’ve played in TV and film, which one has been your favorite to play?
The one I haven’t played yet.

What is one thing you can’t leave the house without?
Pants. Well, legally…

And finally, just a quick “lightning” round:
Favorite TV Show: South Park
Favorite Book/Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Slaughter House Five
Favorite Food: meat
Favorite Movie: the big lebowski
Favorite 100 Monkeys song to perform: the live improv songs
Sokka or Jasper?: nope
Describe each of your band members in 3 words: passionate, artists, brothers

Over 300 questions were submitted by your fans and only a select few were chosen. Here they are!

From Jenny: Word is, you do not like sweets, what is something edible that you love?
Beef jerky. Anything spicy.

From Emily: What is your favorite Johnny Depp film, and if you could recreate any role that he has done, which would it be and why?
Perhaps, Ed Wood. It’s one of the many under-appreciated Tim Burton/Johnny Depp films and I think the character is so impressively passionate about what he does and how he develops over the course of the film. That would be fun to bring to life.

From Jodie: You were born on the cusp between Sagittarius and Capricorn, which sign do you see yourself relating to or leaning most towards?
I don’t pay much attention to signs. Except for Stop signs.

From Jillian: What is Dean’s story? When did you get him and how did you come across him? Also how old is the little fella?
He is a Canadian cat, rescued from Canada and being adopted by a Southerner, he now prefers American bacon. Much like Wolverine, he doesn’t remember much of his past… He’s five?

From Brenda: With your aspirations of being a director, what kind of story would you want to tell?
The story of searching. I like the quote, “the journey is the destination.” Also, the idea of constant natural and artistic development in a sort of spiritual union, during the most extreme moments of our lives. And I like comedy.

From Tierney: If you had to choose never to pick up a script again, or never to pick up another musical instrument ever again (including singing) which would you choose?
Maybe I’d become a carpenter. I like to build.

From Nikki: Your most favorite childhood memory?
Fishing a bike out of a lake in Houston when I was nine years old, and my dad and I fixed it up for me to ride. Got it painted up a dark blood red… The entire process took two weeks. It was a bonding experience.

From Anonymous: I believe that immortality exists by remember those who have “graduated to greater adventures”, you often talk about your friend Spencer Bell, what is your fondest memory of Spencer Bell, and how has he influenced your life?
Spencer and I used to trade music back-n-forth whenever I moved out to LA and he was in New York. We would email each other songs or trade little sample EPs when we saw each other in person. He’s a musical inspiration, both as a songwriter and as an instrumentalist. Furthermore, as a fellow artist and a friend.

From Susie D.: As you have so willingly shared the loss of your friend Spencer Bell with us all, and you yourself (and the band) have done so much to see that his legacy of music lives on – what would you want your legacy to be?
Like Keith Richards said, engrave “He Passed It On” on my gravestone.

From Jens: In a past interview you mentioned that you were going to be an uncle, how do you feel being an uncle? And is Uncle Larry jealous now that he has to share his title?
Now there’s two uncles in 100 Monkeys! It’s an amazing feeling of pride and renewed excitement of life. Mr. Abrams is no longer the only Monkey’s Uncle… but now we have a club together. It’s exclusive. You have to be an Uncle. The other guys are jealous.

From Maddie Bridget: I’m a huge fan of who-dunnit type stories and you seem like the kind of guy who keeps a bit of mystery about himself; my question is this- were you, heaven forbid, to be “done away with,” which famous literary, cinematic or real-live detective, dead or alive, would you wish to solve the case of your demise?
I’d like to have Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes on the case. Keep it in the family, you know.

From TRS: Someone invents a device the size of a cigarette. You put one end of it in your mouth and someone puts the other end in theirs, and you both become able to know each other’s minds and memories as easily as you know your own. Do you use it? With whom?
Nope. Getting to know someone slowly and surely is the fun of it. To bumble around in love, stumbling through tongue-tied moments and fleeting, questioned glances.

From Domenique: What is the one thing that you want to do most before you die?
Create.

From LC: If you were to create a “Soundtrack” for your life up to this point, what music/songs,etc. (10 or so) would be on it?
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Thou Shalt Always Kill – Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip
Get Off Of My Cloud – the Rolling Stone
Something is Not Right With Me – Cold War Kids
Wonderlust King – Gogol Bordello
Whatever Happened To My Rock ‘N Roll – BRMC
Where Is My Mind? – the Pixies
Southern Can Mama – Blind Willie McTell
Things Go Up – Seasick Steve
Not Everybody Likes Us – Hank Williams III

From Heather: Since you come from Texas, and Texas is ranch country, do you know what cow tipping is and have you ever done it?
I do know of it. Legally, speaking though, I should say I’ve never done it.

From Natalie: Who is your favorite literary character (personage) and why?
Peekay from the book The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay. Not the movie version, though.

From Hope Leyba: If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could only take 1 instrument with you, what would you take and why?
I would take a guitara-druma-bassa-keya-lele. It’s like a ukulele, but with a guitar and a bass and a keyboard.

From Writer_girl: I know that you love photography and I as an amateur photographer would love to know do you prefer 35mm or Digital, and what is your personal favorite camera? If not too much, what is your favorite picture that you’ve taken.
35mm all the way. Problem with digital, it takes you out of the moment and takes away the eventual symbiotic nature of artist and tool. The simple act of being able to immediately take away from the moment by checking the picture (as in digital) negates the origin of the creation of the photograph, to capture a moment and preserve it, not to stop the moment and critique it. I say film.

From Leigh: Kind of an out there question and I hope not too personal but what are your favorite things relating to the five senses and why?
Still looking for the sixth sense actually.

From Ally: Lust is one of the seven deadly sins, but which one would you be?
Hmmm…. Lust for life? Gluttonous love? Family pride?

I suppose I’ve fallen victim to them all at one point or another. I yearn to be at least one of the seven Virtues.

Thank you so much Jackson (and your wonderful management) for doing this interview with all your fans!
Thank ya’ll so much!
[Källa]

[Popsugar]

We finally got a chance to catch up with Jackson Rathbone, a hunk who flies way under the radar in our opinion.

The Twilight star has had a crazy summer promoting Eclipse and The Last Airbender, all while touring with his band The 100 Monkeys (Jackson even busted out his harmonica on the Teen Choice Awards carpet to play us a little tune, heart him).

But that doesn't mean he's dreading getting back to work on Breaking Dawn, thanks to Kristen Stewart:

"I can't wait, it's always a reunion" Jackson told us about gearing up for back-to-back filming of the next two movies, even though he said he had "no clue" when production starts except sometime this fall.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing Bella's transformation, that's one of the things that has been building up for a while," Rathbone dished, all cute all scruffy.

"I'm excited to see how Kristen Stewart really works with that. That's going to be fun, she's an incredible actress and, I know this is a pun, but she's chomping at the bit in order to play that transition."

The Twilight star tells us about his next projects – and what roles he’s dying to play!
Nothing is official until you sign on the dotted line, which is why Joseph Gordon-Levitt might need to do some serious campaigning for the role of The Riddler in director Christopher Nolan’s next Batman film. Twilight hunk Jackson Rathbone confides that he’d love to play the part – and we think he’d be perfect!

“Are you kidding me? I would do that at the drop of a hat!” the 25-year-old actor told HollywoodLife.com exclusively at Melanie Segal’s T.J. Maxx-sponsored Celebrity Retreat August 5. “I’m not going to take my hat off now,” he joked, “but that would be awesome. That is the kind of role I like. I like character parts.”

Sorry BFFs, but this means you’ll never see Jackson playing a romantic lead like his Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson! “The only roles I don’t like are the romantic leading man parts,” he said. “You know, at the end of the day, I like playing the stranger character. I like playing to the extremes of the human psyche and like to expand myself through art.”






[Källa]

Intervju ur One Magazine med Jackson Rathbone :

"Jackson Rathbone: Things are finally going a good way for me. It was time!

I don’t do the same thing twice.

Aside from the character he plays in The Twilight saga, Jasper Hale, Jackson Rathbone is currently on the poster of The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan. A role that allows him to show the whole extent of his talent in the field of martial arts.

One magazine: In the United States Eclipse and The Last Airbender are out at the same time. What movie do you want to see at the number one spot in the box office?

JR: To be honest, I consider myself lucky just to be in two movies at the same time! Before that, I enjoyed a quantity of projects that nobody went to see in theaters. Things are finally going a good way for me. It was time!

ON: How did you land the role of Sokka?

JR: When I met M. Night Shyamalan, the film director, three years ago, we immediately got on. Initially, I auditioned for the role of Prince Zuko and he told me he was thinking of another role for me. Then I never heard of the film for a year. Then he got back to me and asked me to play Sokka and I was hired. I’m a fan of the animated series, I’ve always loved fantasy stories with such rich mythology. And with this role, I finally have a chance to show that I can do more than just to play a vampire. It also gives me the opportunity to be much less serious than Jasper, as Sokka has many comic scenes.

ON: Are you tired of the role of Jasper?

JR: No, but I try to play very different characters from film to film. I don’t do the same thing twice. I gravitate naturally towads to projects in which the public don’t expect to see me.

ON: What kind of training have you followed for this movie?

JR: I studied a form of kung fu called Gong Li Quan based on the teachings of Shaolin monks. The movements of the fists are extremely rapid and aggressive. I also learned to fight with stick and even a boomerang. Then we had to make me look less experienced to look like the real Sokka, a rebel who engages in battle with everything he has and no special technique. I loved my training for the role several months in advance before the filming. It was a fascinating experience.

ON: What is your favorite memory of filming?

JR: All the scenes we filmed in Greenland. I had never been there and it is a truly magical place. It was very physical, since climatic conditions are extreme, but the nature is wonderful. This isn’t the kind of place where you can go on vacation in general and I think I’d never go there without the film. So it is an experience in itself which I will remember until the end of my days. It’s precisely to live this kind of thing that I’ve become an actor. We started every morning landing on the top of an iceberg by helicopter. We can’t imagine a more exotic destination than that.

ON: You have not suffered too much from the cold, right?

JR: I had to wear seven layers of long leggings under my clothes not to freeze and I had gloves made of neoprene to avoid frostbite. One can easily lose a finger or two without realizing it in such a climate. (Laughs)

ON: In your opinion, are there any similarities between Twilight and The Last Airbender?

JR: Yes, because both films are about family and, more specifically, stepfamilies. In both cases, the characters are from very united clans that go beyond beyond blood ties. And then, as it should and Twilight normally see several suits at The Last Airbender. I, in both cases, signed for trilogies and I hope that day will come.

ON: What are your new projects?

JR: Soon I intend to return to the studio and to the concert halls with my band 100 Monkeys. We released a new single called Future Radio and we will continue touring in the United States. Then, I intend to make further appearances on the TV screen in several shows. I loved playing a role in an episode of Criminal Minds and I’ll repeat this experience. The television offers fascinating perspectives for an actor like myself who likes to vary in his roles. I dream of playing in such a comedy like the sitcom Philadelphia.

ON: Was it strange for you to act with actors you didn’t know after Twilight, in which you’re

friends with everybody?

JR: Yes, it was a bit strange to arrive on a set and to see that there were unfamiliar faces. But it’s more in line with the reality of an actor than the reverse. In Twilight, we are a great group of friends with the actors and crew. We meet together periodically and to returm is like returning to a summer camp. But in The Last Airbender, I also made friends and was very emotional to say goodbye to everyone at the end of the shooting."

 [Källa]

Vi började dagen med bilder på Kellan och slutar med Jackson. Här kommer en döläcker photoshoot med Jackson, asså han och Kellan är mina absolut favoriter!