Interview With Twilight Actor Jackson Rathbone - Page 2

TEEN: Did you enjoy physically changing your appearance to play Jasper?
Jackson: I really enjoyed it. I was always a character actor when I was in theatre. I kind of find that it helps the audience, especially with Jasper. I mean I’m not actually blonde so I had to bleach my hair blonde. I’m fairly pale. I’m more of an indoor sports kind of guy you. I’m a musician so I spent most of my time awake at night and in the recording studio tucked away from the sun.

But I really do love to change appearances for a lot of the characters I play.

TEEN: What's up next for you? You seem to keep really busy!
Jackson: Well I've got some stuff that I am really not supposed to talk about, I’m not allowed to say. I will say that our band (100 Monkeys) will be focusing a lot more in terms of getting out our actual written album out there. We have an album we're in the middle of mixing and mastering right now which is a complete jam session album of all improvised music, including improvised lyrics, so everything in the song is one take, one track, you don’t get a redo. It’s kind of like the way Jack White produced Loretta Lynn for her album. We kind of took that idea and ran with it. We're mixing that album and hopefully will start playing out a lot more.