NYLON December 2010
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film strips. the flipped
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tough love. after twilight, kristen stewart is suddenly an international star. she’s not just quite sure how to deal with it yet by stephanie trong. photographed by marvin scott jarrett
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first look. mac x alice+olivia
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NYLON editor in chief. marvin scott jarrett art editor. michael pangilinan executive editor. stephanie trong
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We are shooting on the green screen, we have a character called Appa? Which is a big bison kind of flying bear creature? And that’s me, I’m a big flying bear creature.
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ou might know Jackson Rathbone from the Twilight series, where he plays Jasper Hale. And you might know Jackson Rathbone as the rock musician who plays in the band 100 Monkeys. But soon you’ll know him as something else the sci-fi action hero from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the Nickelodeon anime cartoon. We interviewed Jackson for the latest issue of NYLON Guys, which you can get here. Meanwhile, there’s more from the story, plus photo outtakes of Jackson’s Brooklyn photo shoot, below. Does anyone call you by your real first name, Monroe? >I still go by Monroe when I am in trouble with the law. Which is… often? >Very rarely; very rarely. I don’t get so much as a speeding ticket these days but I am a habitual parking violator.
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I know M. Night Shyamalan is famous for his secrecy. But what can you tell us about The Last Airbender? >Well I can say it is going to be an amazing action film; it’s got the most incredible CGI. We got ILM working on it, which is Industrial Lights and Magic, and it truly is magic, honestly, at the end of the day.
Nice try. Okay, no, but I get to ride it. Not a real flying bear? >No, I rode a fuzzy saddle. It was about 15-20 feet off the ground. It’s on this kind of rocking thing… They were moving it, and there is a big green screen behind you. Night’s yelling, “Okay, you’re flying through the air now!” You’re like, “Okay, I am flying through the air now.” And oh yeah, I had to be flying through the air, and no, I wasn’t on any drugs. Maybe there was good liquor on set? >I can hold my liquor! I’m from the South, come on now. You know, I love Jameson Whiskey, and I love Bud Light, I keep it pretty simple. I was actually in a bar recently, and they only had three beers on tap, and it was Bud with lime on tap! I had to give the bar tender a little, you know, guff for that one. Are you kidding me? You don’t even have Bud Light on tap? You don’t even have Lonestar on tap? You only have Bud Light Lemon-Lime?! I hope you lamented about your lime beer problems during your Last Airbender audition. >Oh, I didn’t have to audition. I actually had my part delivered by an owl, followed by a
list of magical school supplies… No, no, I did the normal auditioning process. Actually I had auditioned for M. Night’s The Happening before… then I met Night and we hit it off. I heard in an M. Night movie, you don’t ever see the full script…. >At the audition you only get the lines you’re gonna say, but this movie in particular based off the Nickelodeon animated series, so it’s a departure from Night’s thrillers. It’s about finding the hero within
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against all odds, and it’s got some of the most incredible action sequences, with all of these characters being able to manipulate the elements and being able to throw fire and throw water to block it… However, my character only gets to throw a boomerang. That’s not as rock n’ roll as being able to bend water. So you can’t bend water. What else can’t you do? >Iron. You want to watch me iron, you’ll see how bad I am. I like my clothes wrinkled any-
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way, so it’s fine. But one of my band mates taught me a trick; his name is Lawrence Abrams and he’s a jazz musician; he’s about 56 years old. He taught me the old put it on a coat hanger and put it in the shower and let it steam up a bit. First time I did it though, I put it in the shower, and that was wrong. You don’t put it in the shower because it gets wet. See? I learned. You’re an actor with a band, 100 Monkeys. Do you think you’ll do anything to combine those two passions? Obviously, I’m going to star in Twilight the musical. The scary thing is, I bet they’re totally making one, like, right now! --FARAN KRENTCIL
Find your own sparkle. With the influx of designer collaborations, we usually have one of these reactions: 1. Yes, that makes sense 2. Wow, that’s so random! We know which category Alice + Olivia for MAC falls under. Known for flirtatious party-wear (a go-to when searching for a New Year’s Eve dress), the label’s entrance into the makeup world seems almost predictable. But don’t assume a metallic dress will translate to a silver sparkly eye shadow. Instead, the result of partnership includes a dark plum nail polish, neon yellow crème lip-gloss, and an almost-black shimmer pigment. If this range is any indication, wearing it will most likely result in a night full of surprises. -- ALI HOFFMAN
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Kristen Stewart on David Letterman, Joan Jett, and Hollywood’s new blood.
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hough she’d caught our eye with her piercing turn with Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild last year, it was her Twilight role as Bella Swann, the mortal love of a “vegetarian” vampire named Edward Cullen (a phrase now synonymous in America with “hot, unattainable soul mate”) that showed she was ready for her NYLON cover turn. Apparently, Superbad director Greg Mottola agrees - he’s cast Kristen opposite Jesse Eisenberg in his new flick Adventureland.
Here’s what Kristen told us about her new life as a bonafide, tabloid-chased celebrity. Read the new issue of NYLON for even more about the world of a Hollywood veteran, but a very new movie star. On the Twilight Madness: “Anywhere we’d go for Twilight was a psychotic situation. The sound was deafening, and it’s thoughtless,
as well… You get a slew of all these bullshit questions like, ‘What’s it like to kiss a vampire?’ and ‘How much do you love Robert?’ Then you’ll get one that’s actually real, but you’re like, ‘No, I can’t right now, I can’t even consider [it].” On her memorable David Letterman appearance: “I feel like I have nothing to say on those shows… I’m not
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“nobody should ever put what i say in a magazine.�-
Kristen Stewart hair & make up. andy beta, photographed
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by. josette compton, lauren craig, top from channel
good at the funny thing—most shows. I don’t have a conjust pump out [for] a fiveting there and looking kind And no, she’s not dating totally false… Rob and I are a lot together, so we feel in public, every little the way I stand next this guy really fucknatural that we’re because we’re put in situations.” On who she’s actume—he’s 20 now—but ing 16, it was althing. Then you realize, ‘Oh, What can have you, like, fingers, laughing. DON’T FORGET TO MARCH COVER SHOOT MORE!
people are really great on those trived personality that [I can] minute segment, so I end up sitof baffled. Embarassing.” Robert Pattinson. “It’s just good friends. We went through very close. But if we go out detail is scrutinized, like to him. And it’s like, I know ing well [laughs]. It’s only sort of leaning on each other, the most fucking psychotic ally dating: “He’s older than when you’re 13 and he’s turnways sort of an out-of-reach get a little older, and you the fuck am I thinking? I lickity...’” she snaps her “He’s awesome.” CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FROM OUR WITH KRISTEN TO FIND OUT EVEN
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The Beatles were without any question the most popular, most influential of all rock groups. Their influence expressed itself first of all in the simple sociological dimensions of their success, unmatched in pop-music history. But the band also managed almost singlehandedly to transform the innocent enter-
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tainment of rock-and-roll into the artistically self conscious pretensions of rock. As the Beatles began to define their generation, it became apparent that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the creative forces behind the band. Ringo Starr was cute and cuddly and George Harrison played eloquent lead guitar, but it was Mr. Lennon and Mr. McCartney who composed most of the band’s songs and were the lead singers. They worked together in a classically complementary manner. Mr. McCartney was the sunny, bright one, the purveyor of lilting ballads and cheery love songs. Mr. Lennon was the harder, fiercer man, the true rocker of the foursome, with the deepest, most convoluted sense of rock’s anger and potential triumph. — John Rockwell
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treacly tweener saga of first love that drowns in nostalgia, Flipped furthers Rob Reiner’s slide into irrelevance. Based on Wendelin Van Draanen’s book, Reiner’s film concerns the relationship of two eighth graders in the 1960s, across-the-street neighbors Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) and Juli (Madeline Carroll), whose feelings for each other seesaw between infatuation and disinterest, admiration and disappointment. The twist is that the story is told from both Bryce and Juli’s perspective, meaning the narrative is constantly doubling back to provide an opposing POV on events. In other words, it’s He Said, She Said for middle schoolers who dig stagnant period pieces, with its central structural gimmick made more frustrating still by tone-deaf narration from its two protagonists. Reiner and co-writer Andrew Scheinman haven’t so much adapted their source material as merely transposed it, and their script’s incessant, monotonous voiceover immediately grinds the proceedings to a halt. Not helping matters is the torpid Leave It to Beaver-style humor and plotting, which involves one contrived scene after another, including Juli trying to save a giant Sycamore tree from being chopped down, Bryce’s wise gramps (John Mahoney) befriending Juli and helping her landscape her front lawn, and a dinner party
between the kids’ economically disparate families that affords insight into the suppressed misery of Bryce’s intolerant dad (a hammy Anthony Edwards). Spunky Juli’s discussion of “perpetual motion” speaks to the film’s larger concern with the way adolescence entails constant reassessments of the world, adults, others, and one’s self. Yet despite its earnestness and gender-equality interest in both the male and female maturation process, the film’s stolidity is its death knell. Slow as molasses and just as gooey, the proceedings—including Juli’s visit with her “retarded” uncle, which embarrassingly reconfirms the imprudence of having actors mimic handicapped mannerisms—indulge in such innocuous corniness that not a single genuine emotion materializes. Instead, it’s all just softly lit sitcom moralizing about serious issues, with the film’s desire to thoughtfully consider the tumultuous process of growing up almost as admirable as its execution is soporific.
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Banksy’s London Banksy’s London By Jeff Marlow
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walking tour of the world’s most famous street art highlights hip, vibrant neighborhoods on London’s north side. Most artists would cringe at the thought of thousands of people walking by their work and not even noticing. Most artists would be happy to indulge in a media interview about their latest creative breakthrough. Most artists don’t have to worry about their creations being obliterated by the police. But then again, most artists aren’t like Banksy. In an art world full of self-promoters and charlatans, Banksy has made a name for himself by remaining elusive. Depending on who’s telling the story, he’s short, tall, thin, heavy, bearded, cleanshaven, right-handed, left-handed, or maybe even ambidextrous. No one knows where or when he will strike next. What is known is that he has transformed London; with the city as his canvas, Banksy has created art of the street and for the street, using graphic images and amusing juxtapositions to generate accessible, thought-provoking morsel s of urban wit. A walking tour of Banksy’s spray-paint masterpieces in the English capital is an art tour unlike any other. The city frames the art, to be sure, but the art also frames the city, highlighting cultural trends and political attitudes of several hip North-side neighborhoods. 26
Just north of Victoria Park, a stenciled classical master paints his own graffiti while restrained by a dollar-signemblazoned ball and chain, a critique on the art establishment’s capitalistic manacles. Farther to the west, in the working class neighborhood of Bethnal Green, an idle workman’s flower painting sprouts from the street’s double yellow lines, using symbols of urban life to whimsically portray nature. It is a flash of beauty amid gritty low-rent apartment buildings with balconies framed by withered potted plants. Continuing westward, one of the latest Banksys occupies a stone wall in the hipster hangout of Shoreditch, a hotspot for up-and-coming artists and musicians. Banksy’s street art blends in here: traffic signs are often indecipherable because of the posters and stickers promoting the latest show, album release, or gallery opening. Despite the competition, the discerning eye will find a mourning angel wearing a bulletproof vest above a line of storefronts. This image, painted over previous Banksy creations, pays tribute to a popular local street artist who died in a bus accident. On a wall opposite the Chalk Farm tube station in the Camden neighborhood, a subservient ethnic maid sweeps trash beneath a white curtain. This may be the unfortunate social reality in the city’s
penthouses, but this corner of London brims with diversity and joie de vivre. Just down the street lies the jubilant chaos of the Camden market, one of the world’s best troves of alternative fashion, cheap food, and avant-garde art. Though in essence a street artist, a Banksy-centered tour of London wouldn’t be complete without stops at the Natural History Museum (where he covertly installed a stuffed rat holding a microphone in the dinosaur exhibit hall), the British Museum (where he secretly hung a piece of cave art depicting a man pushing a shopping cart), and the regal auction houses of Bond Street (where one of his canvas works recently sold for over $200,000). Banksy is a rarity in the art world: a subversive leader of the underground who has successfully entered the public consciousness. But his crossover appeal, in some eyes, diminishes his clout as a leader of the counterculture. Popularity and street cred are, in some ways, mutually exclusive. In Camden, stalls sell $40 Banksy shirts a few blocks from his work, an irony certainly not lost on the artist. Like all effective art, Banksy’s creations make you think. He plays with our expectations of what art is supposed to be as one of a long line of “that’s art?” artists whose work is more likely to pro-
voke incredulity than reverential “ooh”s and “aah”s. He makes us laugh while challenging us to question societal norms and the status quo. Despite Banksy’s popularity (his name ranks with Madonna and Mayor Ken Livingstone among the most associated with London), his work is still, officially at least, graffiti. His pieces may persist for days, weeks, or years, depending on the work ethic and artistic sensibilities of local law enforcement. Before setting out, check one of the many websites that track the status of the paintings to see what’s available and where to go. But the ephemeral quality of his art makes a Banksy tour of London all the more exciting; an observant pedestrian could be the first to lay eyes on the latest masterpiece…or even catch a glimpse of Banksy himself in the act. London is home to some of the most respected art museums in the world, but a tour of Banksy’s street art does something no gallery can, showcasing unique parts of the city while introducing viewers to cultural trends of the neighborhood. After scouring the streets for the world’s most famous graffiti, your view of London will never be the same.
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