New Moon Fan Meeting in Tokyo [Part 4]
Katie has written Part 2 of her NEW MOON FAN MEETING recap.
Chris introduced himself and said hi and promised to keep it short. Rob asked, “Genki” and that means “How are you?” A lot of girls in the audience responded with “Genki desu,” which means “I’m good.”
They immediately moved into the question & answer period but only had time for two questions. A little disappointing, but this was scheduled for an hour.
The first question was about their favorite thing to film in “New Moon.” Rob’s answer was “Anything with the Volvo in it,” and Chris’ answer was “Anything with Rob in it.”
The second question, asked in English (very impressive!) was “Would you like to protect someone you love?” Rob said he would and compared it to his character. He put more thought into this answer so that was refreshing. After that they said they ran out of time for questions and immediately moved on to the drawing for the Los Angeles premiere on November 16th.
Rob and Chris were directed to the balcony portion of the stage…if you want to call it that, where each girl had 15 seconds to plead their case of why they deserved the trip. I took a lot of snapshots at this point and didn’t get it on video. A few of them cried, a few laughed, and with all the emotions from the finalists the audience got just as emotional.
The translator for the audience explained each girl’s answer and then Rob and Chris were told to choose the winner based on their reasons.
Chris said it isn’t fair and he couldn’t decide, so they pulled out “The Red String Machine.” This was totally planned as you’ll see in the video. The six girls had one end and Rob and Chris had one. They all had to pull to see who was holding their string. The one with Rob won the trip to Los Angeles and could choose a guest) and a “Twilight” necklace that Rob put on her. The one with Chris’ string won a “special prize from the director.” Chris jokingly fessed up that the trip to L.A. would be much better. She won a Bella and Edward Barbie Doll along with a red robe that was worn on set. Once they brought the robe out it was obvious that it was from the scenes in Italy.
The other four girls didn’t walk away empty handed. They each got a hug from Rob and Chris and one of the red robes that were worn in Volterra, Italy on St. Marcus Day. The girl hugging Rob in this picture is the one I refer to later on…she let me try it on!
Oh WOW!! They got the ACTUAL robes from Volterra!! Japanese fans get all the best stuff!!!
To read Katie’s FULL RECAP (Part 2) head on to her blog – PasstheChopsticks
