March/2001 Rolling Stones Transcript
This is a brief transcript from March 29, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone. This transcript is only of the interview with Robert Iler. For more excerpts from the article, and for more photos, visit the Rolling Stones website and Photo gallery. Robert Iler and I talk in his manager's office after school. He's just been in physics class, but as he keeps missing classes to film The Sopranos and never quite catches up with his tutor, he is adrift. "I have no clue what was going on," he says. "If you miss one day in physics, that's it." Soon he's going to be home-schooled: "Everyone says you should have a normal life and got to school, but I don't think going to school is normal. It's insane -- sitting in a chair for eight hours listening to people babble on. I can't take it." Iler's crazy about Slipknot. Everyone's into them now, he complains, but he liked them fifteen months ago. Iler told David Chase all about Slipknot, and Chase thought it was funny; this season Anthony Jr. is into Slipknot, too. "Music is my life," says Iler. "I just listen to music on Napster. I have, like, 80,000 songs. Slipknot, Pantera, Metallica..." He also -- fully embracing the incongruity that adulthood bashes out of us -- utterly adores Jennifer Love Hewitt. He has more than 200 pictures of her on his bedroom wall. "I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt." |