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Kristen Stewart started the MTV interview with her arms
crossed in her oversized shirt her feet running in place as if she would like
to run away from the interviews. She was also rocking with her legs crossed
away from Robert showing he desire to no want them to be seen as couple during
the interviews.
At the beginning of the interview Robert Pattinson touched
the zipper of his pants in a cover cue showing he felt that his masculinity was
threatened by the prospect of this interview, and perhaps sitting by Kristen Stewart
on National TV. Robert then he hunched his shoulder over, hunkered his head
down like a turtle and brought his legs together a gesture cluster that showed he
was a bit cold during this outside interview and clearly and would prefer to
hide out rather than be there being interviewed. Robert quickly followed that
by holding his own hand in comfort cue and kept holding his own hand as he extended
his arms and placed his hands between his legs as he tucked his held tightly
together feet under his chair is “feet retreat.” He held this gesture cluster so
that he looked like a little boy about to have to compete in a spelling. He
then tried to cover his fear by giving a long be fear by giving a long wide
yawn. This is actually a stress yawn, a way of taking in more oxygen to deal with
stress and also a way that we show appeasement. For example subordinate dogs
will sometimes yawn in the presence of an alpha person or alpha dog to signal,
don’t hurt me. The yawn made Patterson look extremely rude though I sure he
thought it was rebellious way of showing he was “all cool.” And Robert said, “I feel very very funny.”
Like he did in his last interview on Jon Stewart interview, Pattison quickly
took a drink to cover his nervous then rubbed his eye (looking almost like he
was digging sleep out his eye) a cue that showed symbolically he didn’t like
what the way this interview was looking. If you get a freeze frame of the whole
crew in that moment you have this amazing body language shot. You will see that
all three Twilight actors are hunched over in mirror matched of each other and
the two actors even have their legs spread, feet tucked and left arm resting on
their left leg and hand between their legs mirrored exactly Taylor is
scratching the back of his neck in a “I would like to fight my way out of here”
stress cue. The two guys actually match and mirror each other frequently daring
the interview.
Pattinson, says, boldly, “This (the current interview) is
not very interesting to watch” he
follows that by holding his cup.
Kristin actually gives a suppressed roar when the first the
host says he is about to show a tape of he and Pattinson’s first interview on
the MTV awards. When they come back from the clip she is standing up and
circling in front of the chairs. She too look like a little girl here. Notice
how she stops in her circling facing Pattinson orienting her heart towards him
then she leans in toward him and rest her hand on his upper thigh. This gesture
cluster shows she still seeks him for reassurance.
They all laugh to cover their embarrassment.
Kristen is really uncomfortable as the host gives the “superlative awards” Kristen bites her nails with discomfort and rocks forward and backward then.
Kristen is really uncomfortable as the host gives the “superlative awards” Kristen bites her nails with discomfort and rocks forward and backward then.
Talking about the Halloween costumes she taps her feet impatiently
and a times bending her upper torso over like she wants to throw up. She is
feeling a bit sick, and dying to get through and run from the away as the
interview questions about her pink wig and sunglasses costume and durring the
first question from twitter follower, “What is your favorite scene….” Here I feel so sorry for the interviewer.
When asked about the headboard breaking scene Pattinson
turns his upper torso and heart towards Kristen and reaches a bit towards her.
When talking about taking being asked to take his shirt off during
the auditions and refusing Pattinson oddly sticks the top of his hand in his
pocket (His hand closest to Kristen) showing he embarrassed but a bit boastful
at the same time about how he rebelled against taking his shirt off.
Question, “What scene would you reshoot.” the kissing scene. This is the only question that Pattinson answers without sarcasm. His voice get warms and he gives real illustrator gestures showing what he did and wanted to redo. It felt to me that this response reveals he would like to “do over” in his relationship with Kristen. as he shows what he will do.
