The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Movie

The MTV Movie Awards aired this past Sunday, June 6th and Eclipse: New Moon won, won, won.

Best part of the awards show, the Twilight stars…check them out:

Kristen Stewart says she sometimes can’t handle being famous — and that it’s almost like being “raped.”

“What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction,” she tells the new issue of Britain’s Elle. “The photos are so … I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped.

She also said it’s “annoying” when she’s relentlessly asked if she and costar Robert Pattinson are an item.

Said Stewart, 20: “What I say is, that, why would I want anything that’s private to become entertainment for other people? … People say that if I just tell them everything I’ll be left alone, but God, you think if I tell people they’ll leave me alone? They pick up every little scrap, and that’s much worse.”

(Source: MSNBC)

Edward is hitting the Ellen Show.

It is confirmed that the Edward, Robert Pattinson will appear on Ellen Degeneres’ talk show on May 19th to promote the release of “Twilight:  Eclipse.”

So ready set DVR to catch the first of what will hopefully be a butt-load of appearances by the Eclipse actors!

Pattinson will be on Ellen, which airs Wednesday, May 19, Gossip Cop has confirmed.

It will be taped on the 18th so get your butt down to that studio if you live in the area!

The last time Pattinson was on Ellen, he was promoting New Moon and described a woman stripping down to her birthday suit to get his attention.  Seriously ladies, I’m sure he’s seen a lot more than that since the New Moon frenzy…

Ashley Greene goes bad girl vamp in Interview Magazine and talks about her reaction to her fast climb to super stardom. Greene’s Twilight and New Moon co-star, Michael Sheen, interviews Ashley:

MICHAEL SHEEN: Okay. This is my first question. This is the only really serious one, and then the rest are quite funny. The first one is: As an elf, raised by humans, have you found a lot of discrimination against the fairy folk here in Hollywood?

ASHLEY GREENE: Well, I think they’re just jealous that I sparkle and speak elfin and have cute little pointy ears.

SHEEN: It’s true.

GREENE: So, yes, there’s discrimination. But I really don’t care.

SHEEN: You do get described as pixie-like a lot. In my younger days, I used to get described as sort of elf-like. I think it’s probably a lot easier to deal with that if you’re a pretty girl, rather than a sort of average-looking boy.

GREENE: I’m sorry about your adolescence.

SHEEN: Thank you. Well, look, let’s take a second and go back to the beginning, Ashley Greene. You grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Is that correct?

GREENE: That is correct.

SHEEN: Now tell me about Jacksonville. What’s it like? And could you please sprinkle it with some alligator stories?

GREENE: I’ve only eaten fried alligator tail once.

SHEEN: How was it growing up there? Was school good? Or was it a bit of a trial?

GREENE: It was great. I mean, it was great until I realized that there was more out there. I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A. Now that I’m here, I can’t imagine living there.

SHEEN: What happened? You were doing law and psychology?

GREENE: Yeah. And I loved the classes. Everything was kind of set up to go on this course, which my parents absolutely loved; they were like, “Our daughter’s going to go to law school or become a psychologist!” And then out of nowhere, I pulled the acting card on them.

SHEEN: Was it out of nowhere? What was it that started you thinking along those lines?

GREENE: I just, for lack of a better term, fell into it—which I’m sure everyone’s going to hate me for saying.

SHEEN: School plays?

GREENE: No, not even. I always liked performing. I always liked being in front of people. That’s one of the things I loved about law; we had mock trials, and I got to go up and state my case. But I took an acting class, and after my first class, I was hooked. By the time I finished the class, I had a manager, and then I went on a trip to New York City and got an agent, at which point my manager and agent told my mom, “She needs to move to L.A.” I think they were crazy for saying that but I’m so glad that they did.

SHEEN: Well, to go from Jacksonville, Florida, to L.A. at 17 . . . That’s very young. Was that not a scary thing? Were your mum and dad concerned about that?

GREENE: It was more frightening for my mother and father than it was for me. I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind—and that’s pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I’m going, and everything’s going to work out. I’m going to be an actress. There was no way around it. My parents, on the other hand . . . Obviously, they had a lot of long talks and sleepless nights. I was always a good kid, so they went out on a limb. But they did say, “If you go out to L.A. and start becoming this wild child, then you have to come back home and go to college.”

SHEEN: And they haven’t called you back yet?

GREENE: Well, there was a time or two where they were like, “You probably need to come back to Florida.” But it just so happened that every time they told me to come home I would coincidentally book some type of role. I don’t know if it was fate or luck, and it was just happening at the right time, or if it was that they would say, “You are coming home,” and I would immediately go into survival-of-the-fittest mode and book something. But, whatever the case, it happened. And I did struggle. I definitely struggled. And I’m always grateful to my parents for letting me struggle, because you really don’t appreciate it as much, I don’t think, if you don’t realize what you’re gaining. But they paid my rent for the first year.

SHEEN: So, you turn up in L.A. with your bus ticket in your hand and a year’s rent in your pocket, and then what happened? What were the first auditions like?

GREENE: The first audition I went on was Days of Our Lives.

SHEEN: Did you see Joey Tribbiani on there?

GREENE: No, unfortunately not.

SHEEN: Dr. Drake Ramoray?

GREENE: I auditioned five times for it, and I met the producers—it was that thing where the first audition just went really well. I mean, I had a manager in Florida and I got my agent before I moved to California—I came out to L.A. all set up, and then I did extremely well in my first audition, so I had this kind of false hope in my mind. You know, everyone says it’s really hard, but then you come out and do extremely well the first go. And then reality hits, and it’s like nothing, nothing, nothing for a long time. Of course, I didn’t actually get the part on Days of Our Lives. They just toyed with me for a little bit.

SHEEN: How did Twilight come about? Do you remember how it all went down?

GREENE: It was just another audition. My managers were like, “You’re going into a great casting office. They cast great projects. They’re sticklers. If you suck, they won’t call you back in.” So I was like, Okay, I’ll pay extra attention. Then I figured out there wasn’t a script or a breakdown, but there was a book. So I got the series and fell in love with it. Then that determination kicked in and I was like, Okay, I’m going to book this part is what’s going to happen. I worked my butt off for it.

SHEEN: Now there’s so much more to this whole Twilight thing than just the films, isn’t there? There’s everything that goes with it—it’s a huge sort of phenomenon. What’s it like being right at the epicenter of that whole thing?

GREENE: [sighs] It’s a really hard thing to wrap your head around. I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in Twilight, put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out. I did fourindependent films during the break between Twilight [2008] and New Moon. I haven’t even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finallysit back and think about it, it’s incredible.

SHEEN: You’re what, 22?

GREENE: Yes.

SHEEN: I’ve been in L.A. and around Hollywood for maybe six or seven years off and on, and that’s as sort of an older guy. I don’t know how I would’ve coped if I had the kind of success you’ve had at your age, because people do react to you incredibly differently if success is associated with you. How do you cope with that?

GREENE: I think if it was fame for another reason, then it would be a little different. But, with this film in particular, people have become very passionate about it—about my character, but also about me, really relating to me and wanting to be my best friend. And so they cry, and they get so nervous.

SHEEN: Do people actually cry in front of you?

GREENE: Yes. Oh, yes. Fans shake and cry. You kind of don’t know what to do. I give them a hug or whatever. People ask if I get annoyed, but you can’t really get annoyed at something like that.

SHEEN: Are you sure they’re not crying after you hug them? Maybe they don’t want to be hugged.

GREENE: I will look at it the way that I want to, even if it’s not true. I’m an actor.

SHEEN: All right.

GREENE: But, you know, most of my fans are really respectful and great. It’s too early for me to be jaded. Ask me in 10 years or something. . . . I just booked a lead in a Warner Brothers film, and probably part of it was because they know that there are all these fans. I mean, hopefully it’s because of my talent, too.

SHEEN: This is The Apparition?

GREENE: Yeah. The great thing about this film is that it’s really serious. It’s more of a thriller. And, for once, I got cast first. They consulted me on the lead male, and we’re talking back and forth about this character, so it’s sort of a new stepping stone in my career.

SHEEN: When I was on the set of the Twilight films, I could see that Kristen [Stewart] and Rob [Pattinson] have a lot of clout. They have a lot of power within the franchise now, it seems—and rightfully so. They’re asked their opinion, and for actors who are so young, they seemed to have a lot of say in what was going on. You say that now, with this film, you’re getting to be more involved. Is that something that you relish? Or is that responsibility quite frightening as well?

GREENE: For whatever reason, I relish it. Part of it might be that I did get to work so closely with these people, and see close up how they handle things. But I’m really excited. One of the coolest feelings was when I was reading with people for a part, and this guy came in, and I was just like, That’s the guy. You just know.

SHEEN: That’s not just because you fancied him?

GREENE: No. I actually know his girlfriend.

SHEEN: I’ve heard that you are very attracted to pretty boys.

GREENE: Oh . . . um, no . . . He’s not a . . . I mean, all guys in Hollywood are kind of pretty.

SHEEN: Well, you’ve seen me, so you know that’s not true. This is just a fairly random question: When you met Adam Lambert, who was wearing more makeup, you or him?

GREENE: I think that he was, actually.

SHEEN: Yeah, I’ve seen the pictures. Twilight has obviously opened quite a few doors. Did I not see you as a fashion correspondent on the VMAs this year?

GREENE: I was, yeah.

SHEEN: So obviously you’ve developed an interest in fashion since the last time I saw you.

GREENE: You’re a jerk.

SHEEN: [laughs] Don’t say that. I’m the interviewer, and you can’t call the person who’s interviewing you a jerk. That’s the reason why I agreed to do this: I can do whatever I want. So tell me about fashion. Do you feel pressure every time you go out because you know that there’s a high chance that someone’s going to take a picture of you walking down the street? Do you feel a pressure to not dress in jean shorts and flip-flops?

GREENE: There was a moment in time where I was kind of having this mini-breakdown because it was all very new, and it was all being thrown at me really quickly, and I was going, “Why are people reporting on this? Why do people care what I’m wearing or what I’m eating, and why are people looking down on me because I’m not wearing high heels?” That’s the downside to being in the public eye. When girls come up and say, “You’re my role model,” it’s really flattering, but it’s also really scary because I’m not perfect and I’m going to make mistakes. I’ve just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

SHEEN: Is it true that you always ask for a male body double because you have both sets of sexual organs?

GREENE: I might ask for a male body double because I have broad shoulders, but definitely not because I have two sets of organs, no.

SHEEN: Is it true that your Twitter name is HotForRob23?

GREENE: That’s absolutely not true.

SHEEN: Okay, last question: In exactly 10 years’ time, what would you like to be doing?

GREENE: I’ll be 32. Maybe having a baby?

SHEEN: You’d like to be in hideous pain on this day in 10 years’ time?

GREENE: I have a high tolerance for pain. No, I think something along the lines of doing a really incredible, inspiring film with a strong female character. I think when I’m around 32, I’ll be up for things like that.

SHEEN: What are a couple of female performances in films that you watched that have inspired you?

GREENE: Charlize Theron in Monster [2003]. She’s one of the most incredibly beautiful people alive, and when I was watching that movie, she scared the shit out of me. I thought she did a fantastic job.

SHEEN: I watched 500 Days of Summer [2009] the other day. I thought Zooey Deschanel was fantastic.

GREENE: She’s the queen of indies. And, Joseph Gordon-Levitt transitioned really well, too.

SHEEN: You make it sound like he’s an alien. “He transitions.”

GREENE: No, I’m just saying that I might have a mini-crush on him. That’s all I’m saying.

SHEEN: Well, this is an interview, not a dating agency. I’m not here to hook you up. But, on that note, I think we’ve taken up enough of your time. You can get back to your much more important life that you’ve got going on in the background.

GREENE: Like eating dinner.

SHEEN: By the way, you got the answer to the 10 years’ time question wrong. The correct answer is: working with me.

GREENE: Oh, of course. Doing a fantastic film with Michael Sheen. Where he plays an elf

(Source: Interview Mag)

Kristen Stewart – why aren’t you giving us any news, pictures, appearances??? I know you covet your privacy like girls are coveting your boyfriend…but give the people some you.  Why is Kristen so private? It seems like a public and personal conundrum. In an interview Kristen did with Fabulous Magazine, she talks a bit about fame and fan reaction to Robert Pattinson.

“Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I’m an actor. It’s bizarre to me that everyone is so obsessive.”

She also goes on to say, “Girls are scary. They covet Rob. I think half of them must hate me.”

I know this is one Kristen interview…but I have to agree with other bloggers out there – what is up Kristen Stewart?  Part of being an actor is obsession yes?  I guarantee if you were serving squishies at the local Quick-E-Mart, no one would be obsessing over you or your boyfriend.  We like you, there are normal fans out there that are just interested and won’t stalk you to your core, so smile and say cheese to the cameras … especially to the fans in Utah when you head to the Sundance Film Festival!

Even though Peter Facinelli was promoting his Showtime series, Nurse Jackie, he of course gets bomboarded by Twilight questions … because we just care that much MORE about Twilight!  Peter of course is Carlisle, the Cullen patriarch, and he talked about his larger role in Eclipse, which is his favorite book in the series, filming in Vancouver while also working on “Nurse Jackie” in New York, and how he’ll probably learn the status of Breaking Dawn on the internet before he gets the phone call about it from the studio. Check out what he had to say after the jump.

Question: Does Carlisle have a lot to do in Eclipse?

PETER FACINELLI: Yes, he does a lot. A lot more than the first two films, for sure. You know, what I like about the third movie is that you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven’t seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there’s some great battle sequences. It’s my favorite book.

When do you hear about Breaking Dawn?

FACINELLI: I don’t know. Usually the fans know before I do, so I’m sure I’ll see it on the internet before I get the phone call.

Is Twitter part of your job now?

FACINELLI: No, I just enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans. It’s a great way to share information with them and it’s also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people’s faces and I like being able to also mix that up with sharing information with them that’s important, and also letting them know what I’m doing. I’ve had people come to me and say, “Hey, will you tweet this out?” There’s like pay advertisement stuff. I’m not into that. I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don’t want to sell my followers anything. I want to be able to have that fan base so I can tell them what I’m doing and entertain them.

How do Twilight fans relate to you?

FACINELLI: What’s great is that, because I look so different from Carlisle, they’ve gotten to know me in a different way than Carlisle is. I’ve had this fan base go and look at some of the other work I’ve done and see how vastly different that work is. It’s fun for me that I don’t look like Carlisle and I’m not anything like him, so when people do meet me, they’re not confusing me at all with Carlisle.

Did you ever think these Twilight films would do so much for your career?

FACINELLI: No. The fan base has been so phenomenal. When you go to an event and people have flown in from other countries just to take a picture with you, that’s a loyal fan base that you can’t even imagine having. I’m thankful for all of them and that’s why I try to connect with them, in some way.

Are you wearing a wig in the films now?

FACINELLI: Yes, for the third movie, because I was doing both projects at the same time, I wore a wig. There were days where I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I’d jump on a plane and be on the “Nurse Jackie” set. I was going from Vancouver to New York, every three days.

Was it hard to switch gears?

FACINELLI: No, for me, it was really invigorating. I did a scene where I was crying with Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith) that came out of me just being emotionally exhausted. It wasn’t written that I was crying and, all of a sudden, in the middle of the scene, I broke down and started crying. It felt right for the scene. I did takes that I wasn’t crying in, but they felt like, because I was just dumped by Jackie and there was all this heavy emotions going on, it really worked for the scene. I think it was just me getting off an airplane, having three hours of sleep and just being that vulnerable. It hit me that hard. But, I enjoyed doing both projects, at the same time.

What kind of doctor is Carlisle?

FACINELLI: Carlisle is the head of the hospital in Forks.

Is he good?

FACINELLI: He’s great. Carlisle, because he’s been around for so long, is very well educated. What I love about him is that he has a real love for humanity. People always ask me what kind of research I did to play a vampire. I say, “I did very little to play a vampire because I’m playing a vampire who’s trying to be human.” My research was more about what it is to be human and why he loved humanity so much that made him want to hold onto that. When you look at something like Twilight, the good vampires aren’t necessarily good. They’re just eccentric. The bad vampires are just doing what they’re born to do and made to do. It’s like domesticating a lion. For me, Carlisle doesn’t want to be a vampire, so he’s just really holding onto that humanity.

(Source:  Collider)

Kristen Stewart has said she feels she has become her “Twilight” character Bella Swan.

The 19-year-old feels “protective” of her big screen alter ego because their lives have progressed in a similar way.

“I feel like Bella has become something that is me, in a weird way. I feel very protective of her. Bella and I have been on a similar ride, in that during the second film she

matures a bit. She’s making these drastic life decisions and she knows what she wants,” she said.

Perhaps this is the reason for the rumored off-screen romance?  By the way Kristen, it’s OK to love the story and the characters…if we had the chance, we’d be Bella too.  Who wouldn’t want an Edward or Jacob romance?
“She’s got to know herself much better. I think I’ve done the same thing through this project. It’s been a wild ride and there’s been a lot of self-evaluation. I’ve grown a lot, and so has Bella,” she added.

Seems like most of the Twilight cast is taking a well-deserved break from all the New Moon mayhem. We know what the vampires are doing – keeping it chill in Ventnor – but what are the werewolves doing? While Taylor Lautner works out and accepts awards, the other members of the pack, like Chaske Spencer – is keeping it real, real low key…until the frenzy resumes for ECLIPSE!

“I keep in touch with some of the wolf guys, but mainly I just totally disconnect,” he told MTV News at the red-carpet premiere of “Youth in Revolt.” “I just got back from vacation, so I’m pretty refreshed.”

When he says “disconnect,” he really means it: no obsessive self-Googling, no clicking over to the “Twilight” fan sites to see what’s shaking, no attempting to catch some early footage of the upcoming film. He hasn’t seen a single frame of finished footage, nor does he have a clue when a trailer might be made public.

“I stay off the Internet,” he explained. “I don’t pay attention to anything. I put on my little stocking cap and I’m gone. What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don’t ever approach. They just give you a ‘What’s up?’ and that’s it.”

But months removed from that craziness — and months before it ramps up again in June with the release of “Eclipse” — Spencer confessed that it all seems a tad unreal.

“Oh, yeah, I almost forgot about that,” he laughed. “That was a blur!”

Deep from the MTV archives comes a video of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson’s outtakes from an interview during the promotional tour for “Twilight.”  This is them fresh, un-obsessed and kinda cute…obviously they are good friends cause Kristen picks Robert’s teeth like only a good friend would.

More “Twilight: Eclipse” interviews are coming our way.  Woohoo.  This time the interview is with a new Kristen…Kristen Prout, who plays Lucy.  A quick refresher on the Twilight characters, Lucy was one of the vampires Jasper met during the Civil War, who lived in the South. She was killed because she turned on Maria, Jasper’s first companion. She is described as tall, pale, and blond.

Nineteen-year-old Canadian born actress Kirsten Prout has been making a name for herself in film and television, since getting bitten by the acting but at the very young age of two. After her feature film debut in 2005 as Abby, sidekick to Jennifer Garner’s character in the superhero flick Elektra, she went on to play Amanda, the girl-next-door love interest for Kyle on the ABC Family drama Kyle XY.
This June, Kirsten Prout will be in her most visible project to date, as vampire Lucy in the highly anticipated The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. In the third installment of the popular film franchise, her character is seen in flashbacks that give insight into the backstory of Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and how he was created.

In this exclusive interview, the rising star talked to IESB about the experience of playing her darkest role yet, in such a high-profile film.

IESB: What initially drew you to acting? Since you were so young when you started, were you even aware of what you were doing?

Kirsten: When I was younger, I used to watch television and Disney movies, and that kind of thing, and it started out as just wanting to play characters and just a love of story. I had a very active imagination. I was making requests to my parents, not necessarily to get into film or television, but to play characters. And my mom, for a long time, understandably didn’t want to expose her child to an industry with so much rejection. So for years, I would just keep asking and asking, and eventually I figured out that I could actually make a career of it and it was called being an actress.

Finally, when I was 10 years old, she let me go to my first audition because she thought I’d just get it out of my system. She thought I’d just go and nothing would happen, and I’d just give up on it. So, I went to auditions and I actually started doing well. It was something that I really loved to do. As soon as I started working on television, in shows and playing characters, I just knew that’s what I had to do. I was never a commercial kid. I told my mother and my agent, when I was 11 years old and so pretentious, “Yeah, I think I’m going to pass on doing commercials.” I was always just in it because I love storytelling and I love getting into the mind-set of different characters. It just snowballed from there.

IESB: Was there something specific that made you realize acting could be a career?

Kirsten: I knew that I wanted to be a Disney princess, or experiencing the life of someone on a television show that I loved. I just realized that actors are the people that did that, and therefore I should become an actor to do it. I was pretty young when I decided that it was what I wanted to do and that it’s what I love.

Q: How did you get involved with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse? Was it just a regular audition?

Kirsten: Yeah, it was just a regular audition. I had just come off of two films, and it was after Kyle XY, which was a television show I worked on for three years. I had been working on it for so long and, before that, I hadn’t taken a real break because I had been working steadily since I was 10 years old. So, at the end of Kyle XY, which also happen to coincide with the end of my high school career, I decided to go off to University and leave the industry. I went for a year to McGill University and I majored in English literature, and I took all my advanced classes that I prepared for in high school, and I had a great time there. I got straight A’s and was on the honor roll. But then, when I came back to Vancouver during the summer, I went for an audition because it was what I was used to doing, and I booked it. And then, I booked something right after that was a mini-series that would shoot into the school year. So, at that point, I decided to put off going back to University.

I had just come off of two shows and, in between filming them, I had gone for Eclipse. I read for a different vampire, called Bree, who is a brunette with short, short hair that is 13 years old and completely not me, but I went for the audition just because it was a big project. I can tell you that I’ve never felt that level of nervousness in an audition room, in my whole career. I had read the books, but it hadn’t really sunk in what a huge phenomenon Twilight was. I went into it and it was an important audition, but I wasn’t really nervous. I was just focusing on my work, but a lot of people were just so stressed out. I went to the audition room, and then I heard back about the audition that I was wrong for the character, but they wanted me to come back for another vampire that was essentially the same size role and everything, except she had long blonde hair, was extremely pale and was older. So I went in, did one audition and a week later, I got a call and then showed up on set. It was pretty rapid. I only had one audition for it because I’d already auditioned for another character and they’d seen what I could do.

IESB: Had you seen Twilight before auditioning?

Kirsten: Yeah, I had. I was very familiar with the franchise, just because my younger sister was reading the books. I was curious about what she was reading because she was just going through them like nothing. I was like, “What is that?” And she said, “It’s Twilight. It’s a vampire romance.” And I was like, “Oh, that sounds kind of cool.” I started reading it and I just shot through it. It was very readable stuff. And I’d seen the movie because everyone’s seen it.

IESB: What can you say about your character in Eclipse? How does she fit into the story?

Kirsten: Without revealing too much, Lucy is one of the vampires that turns Jasper, played by Jackson Rathbone. Jasper gets turned while he is an officer, and I’m one of the vampires that causes Jasper to be turned during his military career. Lucy appears to be an innocent little victim, and then she turns into something a lot more sinister.

IESB: Is Lucy the darkest character you’ve ever played?

Kirsten: I’ve always been on the good side. I’ve never played a villain, in my entire career. I’m the girl next door, or the girl who helps out, or the girl that makes an innocent escape. For once, I got to look all innocent and have that angelic quality, and then, all of a sudden, turn into something really dark. That was fun for me. That was the first villain that I’ve ever played.

IESB: Did you do anything to get to know Jackson before filming, or did you just click right away?

Kirsten: We actually got along really well. We met in the make-up trailer, during the make-up testing, before filming even started. When I first got the part, they had to figure out whether they had to airbrush you, which in my case they didn’t really because I’m already pale enough. But, they take a look at you, and design your hair and the hair pieces you’re going to wear, and all that. So, I met Jackson when he was getting his hair done. He was getting his hair dyed by the on-set stylist, and he was getting weird patterns shaved into it underneath, which was kind of funny.

IESB: Playing a vampire, were you at all disappointed that you weren’t going to get to wear fangs?

Kirsten: When I was reading the books, I was very surprised that there weren’t fangs. The vampires in the Twilight Saga don’t have fangs. We sparkle. No, I wasn’t disappointed. The thing is, a lot of the actors that have been hired have very nice teeth that are very noticeable. They’ve picked people with teeth that stand out. It’s more threatening. You notice that there’s something different about that person’s teeth, but it’s not fangs. It’s not obvious. You don’t know you’re going to get bitten. I was not disappointed. When someone tells you you’re going to be a vampire in Twilight, the reaction is not disappointment. I’ve had to deal with prosthetic teeth and it’s not fun.

IESB: How secretive were they with you, when you were auditioning? Did you get to read actual scenes?

Kirsten: No. The technique that they used for the audition was that they made the scenes exact transcripts from the book. It was very strange to audition with them because they were written to be read and they weren’t adapted yet. They didn’t give the screenplay out. So, the audition side was just reading a page of Twilight and reading the lines that were interspersed between the descriptions. That’s what it was like. They could never distribute that. Even when I got the job, the secrecy was so high in the Twilight world.

IESB: While you were shooting, did you have any experiences with the paparazzi?

Kirsten: Oh, yeah. The first day that Jackson came into work, he almost tripped on the stairs, coming out of his house, because there were so many photographers that he couldn’t even see. The circus around all the trailers and everything was crazy. They had giant black dividers to keep paparazzi out. On the first day, they took down all the signage and blocked everything out. All the actors had to wear bathrobes to cover their wardrobe in between scenes. It was really intense.

I was born and raised in Vancouver, and I’ve done a lot of film work in Vancouver. I worked with Jennifer Garner on Elektra and there was a lot of paparazzi on that as well. But, Vancouver has changed a lot since Twilight. It’s changed the whole media culture there. We didn’t used to have paparazzi. You’d get five, tops. And then, on Twilight, all of a sudden it was like, “Where did all these photographers come from?” They were hiding everywhere. There were hundreds, just waiting. It’s part of the whole phenomenon of Twilight. You have to just take it as it comes because it’s just nuts.

IESB: How was David Slade, as a director? Had you been familiar with any of his previous work?

Kirsten: Yeah, I had. He’s a great guy because his way of working is so open. He just says, “Do what you do,” and lets you play with it. If he has notes, he gives them to you, but he’s a very open director. He keeps it light. He loves his job and he’s very serious about it. He’s a great director.

IESB: What is Seven Deadly Sins and who do you play in that?

Kirsten: I play a character named Miranda. It’s a cool concept because each character, and there’s seven main character, all have a sin. It’s a story that revolves around the sin that we perpetrate and how it changes the plot. It starts off with a very basic high school group of friends, but it slowly unravels. Through envy, sloth and all the sins, it slowly turns into this situation which is very high drama.

It was good to work on a drama and have some gritty material. My sin was envy. My character starts out as a good girl and, throughout the movie, because she’s envious, she becomes harder and harder and more deceitful. By the end of the film, she’s completely different and she’s definitely learned a lesson. I really enjoyed working on that. The actors were just phenomenal. We had a great time together. We filmed in Victoria and all stayed in the same hotel. It was like staying in a sorority and a frat house combined.

IESB: Are you personally more like Miranda in Seven Deadly Sins, or are you more like Amanda from Kyle XY?

Kirsten: Amanda was very sweet and docile, and she didn’t have that kick or bite to her. I think I’m more like Miranda because she has a bit of an edge to her and she stands up for herself. She’s got more of a strength. I think I’m more like Miranda. I can kick butt when I have to.

IESB: Do you enjoy working in these types of ensembles? As an actor, is that something that you feel helps you learn from the other actors?

Kirsten: Oh, yeah. Also, because I grew up in the film industry, I’ve been working with people who are older than me, my whole life. Even on Kyle XY, everyone else was hired to be a 17-year-old, and I wasn’t even 17 yet. I got hired when I was 14, so I was playing 17 when I was 14. I’ve always been around people that are older. So when I see a cast, and I’m at that age where I’m around people who are my peers, it’s very exciting for me to come onto a set and have that bonding opportunity.

Working with the cast of Twilight, that’s so young, and also working with the cast of Seven Deadly Sins, with a lot of up and coming actors who are very seasoned, we’re able to learn from each other and everyone understands what you’re going through. Everyone is going through the same thing. So, it’s great. I look forward to doing it more.

IESB: When you work on projects that are based on novels, like with the Twilight Saga and Seven Deadly Sins, do you like to use that source material, or do you prefer to just stick with what is in the script?

Kirsten: With Twilight, the plot is basically just rearranged to fit a film. I had to read the books because it’s so similar and I wanted to get all the subtext of what’s been written to learn what the characters were thinking. In the script, you don’t get that. In a book, you have someone tell you what everyone’s thinking. That was an important tool for me to use. It’s far more similar than other projects that I’ve worked on that have adapted books into screenplays.

Whereas with Seven Deadly Sins, it was a concept that was based on the book, but it’s entirely different. The plot is completely different than the books. And, my character is supposed to have a huge nose, be a redhead and be super-gawky. She never makes a transformation into something sexier, which my character does, by the end of the film. She’s the dork of the entire story. If I had read the books before auditioning, I would have totally had a different way of going into the audition room. But, I was told that, because the concept was taken from the books, but it was so different, that I shouldn’t even read them. So going into it, I prepared for the role without reading about the other characters. Of course, I read the books after I had the part and I read the script and understood the concept, just to get a taste for it and to get into the author’s mind. I just read it for fun. Honestly, it was so different. Some of the characters are similar, but my character was completely taken out and changed to fit the new plot

IESB: What was the experience of making Meteor Storm like?

Kirsten: It’s about the end of the world. To be honest, I had just come out of University and I was looking for something that I had never done before, that was so nuts and crazy. I just wanted to get back into the industry, get back on a set and just do something that was completely different. I read Meteor Storm and it was just fun. It will have a cult audience of people who are into apocalyptic films. It was so much fun to film. I love the two actors that I worked with, Brett Dier and Travis Nelson. They were my age, and we had a great time making the film. But, that said, what I do enjoy more are character studies, more like Seven Deadly Sins or Eclipse, where I can actually get into a stylized character.

IESB: Who do you play in Meteor Storm?

Kirsten: She’s just the average teenage girl. The film is about a completely average, normal American family has to cope with an extremely crazy situation. For me, it was just about taking it and stripping it down to the basics. It was about wondering, “How would a normal person naturally react to something that’s so unbelievable?” That was a good exercise for me.

IESB: When you make a movie with that type of subject matter, do you try not to think about the reality of something like that ever happening?

Kirsten: I don’t really think about the world being destroyed. Sometimes it’s fun, just in the creative process. I was in a scene where things were blowing up, and I stopped to think, “If this actually happened in my everyday life, what would my reaction be?” It’s very easy, as an actor, to just go, “Oh, my God!,” and scream. But, it’s the actors that pause and take the time to give that look like, “What the hell is happening!?,” that seem more real. That was fun for me to play with.

IESB: Would you consider doing another television series?

Kirsten: Yeah, totally. The thing with my career is that I’ve never said, “I’m only going to do this. I’m only going to do that.” For me, seeing material that I like is the most important part. I look for something that I’m passionate about. If a television series came my way and I read the script and loved it, I would totally do another television series. But, if I read a feature film and I absolutely adored it, I would go for that as well. It’s about the character, the story and what I connect with. And, it’s about where I am in my career, at that point.

IESB: Where would you like to see your career go next?

Kirsten: I love dramatic roles. I love situational comedy with a darker sense of humor. I love playing those characters that are going through a struggle or something darker. I watched The Road recently, and I’m not saying that I would want something as dark as that, but that was something that showed me how these small choices that you can make, with such high stakes and such drama, that would be the ultimate challenge, as an actor. So, I’d love to do something darker. I’ve been reading some scripts that are not as bright as Little Miss Sunshine, but they’re around that area. It’s that humor and that everyday struggle and those weird events that just make you laugh, but are serious, at the same time. I’d love to do something that I could just explore a little more, that’s a little more dramatic.

OK, I am not a Brit but I do love this GMTV show!  These hosts are funny and seem to make the Twilight stars very comfortable – even Robert Pattinson (which we’ve posted already).  Check it out…

Anna Kendrick on GMTV:

Billy Burke on GMTV:

GMTV, a British breakfast TV show, interviews Robert Pattinson.  This is a great interview because Robert seems especially relaxed with a ‘hometown’ talk show.  He also talks about how the American tabloids are much harder to deal with than those from his homeland, where photogs at Heathrow didn’t even recognize him (first video below).

Robert Pattinson also talks about Edward & Bella’s relationship, how he doesn’t really like it.  This interview with GMTV during the “Twilight Saga: New Moon” promotional tour,and he revealed quite a few things,which include not really agreeing with Edward and Bella’s relationship (second video below).

Robert Pattinson said that he really enjoyed filming “New Moon” because everyone was so relaxed,and Chris Weitz, the director was great and very calm. He talked about how amazing it is that they’ve already filmed two sequels within a year of the first “Twilight” movie coming out.

He said he didn’t really quite agree with Bella and Edward’s relationship because it’s the type that sort of alienates everyone else around them . They’re so caught up in themselves,that the friendships around them sort of drop off. He said he did quite a bit of his own stunts in “New Moon,” but not as many in “Twilight” because he got injured on the very first day.

He also revealed that he would never want to be a vampire in real life. However, the running fast ability is appealing to him. He also said he doesn’t like putting on that pale white make-up everyday. He talked about how his family feels about his career. He was also in a band. He wasn’t a fan of school or homework.

He talked about all the media attention. He said, it’s great to go back to England because no one even bats an eye at him over there. He feels normal again when he’s there. He concluded, by talking a little bit about the Volturi vampire clan and their history. He appeared to get a little confused,though.

“Twilight Saga: New Moon” is in theaters now. “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” hits theaters on June 30,2010.

(Source: GMTV, Flix)

Bryce Howard has been busying promoting her new movie, but she can’t seem to stop talking about “Twilight: Eclipse.” Lucky for us…

She revealed that while filming the movie, she suffered from post-partum depression. She also discussed the fact that she’s never gotten in front of the camera for a film directed by her father, director Ron Howard.

Finally, she discussed the way she became a part of Eclipse, saying “I felt really grateful to the cast and to everyone and actually Rachelle [Lefevre] herself … The intention was just to make the best film possible.”
Check out the video below

Here is the full Bryce Howard segment on the view…

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Teen Hollywood asks Anna Kendrick from “Twilight: New Moon” a few questions and gets some interesting responses.
I love this actress, she’s just so cute and funny….

Playing Bella’s high school BFF in the film version of the Twilight saga, allowed the very petite and talent-packed actress Anna Kendrick to appear kinda clueless but, she’s telling us that Natalie, the control-freak, ambitious and competent young business-dynamo she plays in the dramady Up in the Air is a little more in her personal ballpark.

As we’re sitting down with Anna in Beverly Hills, we’re impressed with this spunky actress who is all stylish in black dress accessorized with super high black heels and a huge black onyx ring.

Anna says she got dating advice from her suave co-star George Clooney (hey, he oughta know, right?) She admits that she had fun letting go along with her character in her drunk, partying scenes.

Since the film poses the theory that our social and work interactions are too impersonal due to modern technology, we wanted to know where Anna stands on texting and e-mail vs. in personal encounters. So, let’s get “Up in the Air” with Anna….
Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener in “Up in the Air.”
Paramount Pictures

TeenHollywood: This movie shows how modern technology has replaced actually spending time and interacting with other people.

In your own life, do you text more than you see people?

Anna: I try not to. I’ve tried iChat now. I’ve tried Facebook, but I’m off Facebook. I can’t do any of that Facebook or MySpace stuff. I feel like it’s a really false way of staying in touch.

There are people I want to keep in my life, and there are people that I’ve had to let go of because I feel like a texting relationship or a Facebook relationship is a false relationship. I try to be better about staying in touch with people I’m close to. If it has to be over text or phone then so be it, but I’m much better at in-person interaction.

TeenHollywood: So, you’d never break up with someone with a text then?

Anna: No! When I was 11 years old, I broke up with my boyfriend over email. That’s true. But, email was new, so it was still okay to do that.

TeenHollywood: There is a lot of flying for work going on in this movie. Have you had any airplane experiences that stand out for you?

Anna: I just did a press junket for this movie on a plane, which was strange. That was definitely the first time that I’ve ever seen a concert in a plane. Sad Brad did his song from the movie.

Flying into Vancouver is always weird because I look like such a bum when I fly and Vancouver is the one place there’s always sure to be Twilight paparazzi, so there’s tons of pictures of me online, in the exact same hoodie. I’m like, ‘Well, you really needed that picture, didn’t you? I look exactly the same, in the same outfit.’

TeenHollywood: So, did you tap into your own inner control freak for this role?

Anna: I do think she’s a control freak, and I think I’m a control freak, but we react to being out of our element in very different ways. I get more awkward and I fumble and things immediately fall apart. And, Natalie’s rigidity and self-awareness increases exponentially when she feels out of control. She tries to cling to anything that she can control or keep orderly, whether it’s her hair or her computer. It makes for some very interesting comedy.

TeenHollywood: It sure does. What did you enjoy most about your character Natalie? What was fun to play?

Anna: I love that she’s unapologetically ambitious. I don’t have that and I wouldn’t really want that for myself, but I admire it so much, in her. I love that she’s independent and strong.

I know that the audience only really falls for her after she completely melts down and I love her even when she’s in her bratty mode. I feel protective of her and I wanted her to maintain her dignity. I love her, even when she’s a nightmare.

TeenHollywood: Natalie got to tell George’s character that he was too old. Is George Clooney too old for you?

Anna: (laughs) Yes, George Clooney is too old for me. It’s funny, a friend of his, who was his age, was dating somebody younger than me, and he thought that was fine. And, I was like, ‘What would you say to me, if I was dating somebody your age?,’ and he was like, ‘Oh, no, absolutely not!’

He had this older brother thing with me, where he had rules for me about dating and stuff. It was really sweet.

TeenHollywood: How was it to work with George Clooney?

Anna: He is amazing to work with. If you’d told me how much I was going to end up making fun of George Clooney on this set, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. He gave me a hard time, all day, every day, so it was just like, ‘Okay, it’s on! Bring it!’

TeenHollywood: With such great dialogue in this film, did you have a favorite line or moment?
Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener and George Clooney as Ryan Bingham in “Up in the Air.”
Paramount Pictures

Anna: I loved yelling at George and telling him off. I loved telling George that he was a 12-year-old. I was so looking forward to that scene, almost to the extent that I was concerned that it was gonna be an indulgent thing. And, Jason (Reitman, the director) reassured me and made sure that I stayed on track, but I was so looking forward to that when I read that scene in the script.

It was like every ex-boyfriend that I’ve ever had, in the form of George Clooney, on a boardwalk. So, telling George Clooney that he was 12 was a lot of fun.

TeenHollywood: The writing in the movie is so tight. Was there any room for improvisation at all?

Anna: Not much. But, when I was drunk Natalie, there was room for more improv. I don’t know if Jason would have let me stray from the page more than I did, but I didn’t really have a desire to. The dialogue was so sharp and so smart, and I felt like I wanted everything to be very exact, when I was in rigid Natalie mode. When I was in drunk Natalie mode, the improv was a little more fun.

TeenHollywood: Do you think Natalie will change in say 15 years or be just as rigid?

Anna: I think there’s a possibility that that’s how her life could have gone. Maybe this epiphany that she’s having at 23, leads to a lot more. Maybe she becomes fun-loving, or maybe she has an affair.

But, I think that there’s hope for her, in the end, and there’s hope that she can find a real balance in her life and accept compromise.

Anna Kendrick as Jessica Stanley in “New Moon”
Summit Entertainment

TeenHollywood: Can you talk about who you play in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World?

Anna: I play Stacey Pilgrim. I actually got to meet the “real” Stacey Pilgrim, which is Bryan Lee O’Malley’s sister, who’s named Stacey.

Basically, I judge Scott’s (Michael Cera) choices in life and his choices in love, and I’m yelling at him. I just pop up to be what I think is a moral guide point.

Chris Weitz, the “Twilight: New Moon” director is revealing movie details that even the most fantastically fanatic Twilight fans have missed. To that I say, I have watched the movie four times, some of my friends seven, we have made you tons of money and yet you still mock us with missing key moments of “New Moon?” And you are making us buy an iPhone trivia app to figure it out?

Here’s what I found straight from Chris Weitzs’ mouth…

Vampire elevator music: When Edward, Bella, and Alice get into the elevator on their way to see the Volturi, the music playing in the elevator is the Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (a.k.a. The Bat)

When Bella is looking for the meadow where she and Edward are seen lying down together, she carries a golden compass clipped to her backpack–part of my baggage

If you want to know what Jacob says before he almost kisses Bella, ask a Quileute! The address of the Quileute tribal council is quileutenation.org. I can tell you this much: He says, Kwop kilawtley

Hidden wolves – Look for an upside-down engraving of a wolf in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first aid equipment; on Jacob’s t-shirt when he meets Bella in the school parking lot for the first time; and a wolf trinket on the dream-catcher that he gives her

We did a little trick when Edward gets out of Bella’s truck and they’re arguing. We wanted to show Edward moving impossibly quickly, so we put Rob right next to the camera but out of sight, and used a double dressed like Rob in the driver’s seat. When Edward gets out, it’s the double, and then Rob steps in front of the camera and it looks as if he’s got there faster than humanly possible

You can see Volterra’s tower and the red-cloaked revelers from the festival of San Marco on the cover of Bella’s copy of Romeo and Juliet when she wakes up in her bedroom

In the wolf-fight, we purposely knocked over the camera when the wolves tumble towards it; you can also hear the microphone thumping, as if an actual on-set animal had run into the camera and boom

Quileute culture:  ”When prepping to visualize Jacobs and Emily’s houses, production designer David Brisbin and his team visited La Push and met the Quileute executive council. While they were there, a young Quileute girl gave David the first drum she made (this is a Quileute custom). To show appreciation, we decided to put the drum in a prominent shot — it’s at the entrance of Emily’s house, and you see it when Bella first enters. Also, the high pitched ‘call’ that Embry and Jared give when they jump out of Bella’s car is a thing the Quileute kids do.”

Waxing romantic.  The reason the moon phases ‘backwards’ to reveal the title is that this is scientifically correct! I moderated an astrophysics seminar for the Science and Entertainment Exchange with noted astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson and he complained about the number of films that get simple science wrong. (Don’t ask me to justify vampires or werewolves).”

That’s Italian!  ”In the Volturi chamber, Aro speaks Italian — ‘La Tua Cantante’ should be easy for readers of the books — he’s referring to Bella’s being Edward’s ’singer,’ whose blood calls out to him stronger than anyone else’s. Later, when Bella tells him that he doesn’t know anything about Edward’s soul, he replies, ‘Fore … ne il vostro l’uno o altro’ — ‘Perhaps … nor yours either.”’

(Source:  Entertainment Weekly, Scorecard Review)