Intervju med Jackson Rathbone
Popwrap talked to Jackson rathbone about his horror flick Dread hitting DVD, but the conversation also drifted to his music and the Twilight movies.
“As someone who has been watching horror movies for the better part of his 28 years, I can’t believe I’m about to write this sentence: I found the ending of “Dread” to be so unsettling, shocking and upsetting that I nearly vomited because of the film’s last act.
Now, that will cause one of two reactions for you: either “Dread” will be bumped to the top of your NetFlix queue or removed completely. If it’s the latter, I understand, but feel bad since you will miss one of the more intriguing movies that’s ever been included in the AfterDark Horror Fest.
I recently caught up with “Dread” star Jackson Rathbone and found out that my visceral reaction is exactly why he signed up for the film in the first place. We also talked about more palatable subjects, like what “Twilight” fans can expect to see in this summer’s hotly anticipated installment “Eclipse”!
PopWrap: I’m not going to lie, this film actually made me physically ill at the end.
Jackson Rathbone: Oh, excellent. That’s what I was hoping for!
PW: When did you know “Dread” had the ability to evoke this kind of response?
Jackson: I gave the script to a friend and he said that almost made him wretch, and that’s when I knew I had to make this movie.”
Intervju med Tyson Houseman
Most actors toil early in their careers, desperately taking one job after another hoping to hit the big time. Not so for Tyson Houseman, who, in his first-ever audition scored the part of Quil Ateara, one of Jacob Black’s best friends in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
He is now starring in that film’s sequel “Eclipse,” opening this June, and Houseman is on top of the world. He took a moment to sit down with The Film Yap to discuss scoring the role, how Native Americans are portrayed, and meeting people who think he’s a werewolf.
The Yap: Hi, Tyson, how are you?
TH: Good. How are you?
The Yap: Great, thanks. So how did you get connected with the whole “Twilight” phenomenon?
TH: Well, “New Moon” was the first movie I’ve done, and it was the first audition I’d even ever been to. I remember I got the part, I was looking on the internet for a job on Craigslist, and I found this job that said there was an open casting call, and it didn’t even said for “Twilight,” it just said “a major motion picture,” for a Native American, age 15-25. I thought “I fit that description, so I’ll check it out.” So I went down there, and that’s when I first realized it was for “Twilight,” because there was a lineup from the open casting call like 4 or 5 blocks long, and it was just filled with “Twilight” fans with books and t-shirts and everything, and I thought, “yep, this is probably one of the ”Twilight” films. I didn’t really expect to get anything out of it, but I went and stayed at the audition all day long, and there was only like 5 of us left, and they filmed me at the end of the day doing a scene. The next week they told me I got a callback, and I went and I did the callback, and a week later they called me and said I got the part.
The Yap: So you were batting 1.000 right out of the gate. Quite an accomplishment. You have a theater background, right?
TH: Uh, yeah. It was really just like school plays and stuff like that, though.
The Yap: Wow, so they really did just grab you out of nowhere. Have you had any difficulty adjusting to this sudden fame? You’re not exactly doing an intependent film to start off, you’re jumping right into the mania of this franchise.
TH: Not really. It was kind of a lot to handle at first. You’re right, it’s this big phenomenon thing, and it was hard for me to deal with it. I just had to tell myself, yeah, this is just crazy, but I’m still like the exact same person I was a year ago. I’m still Tyson, and it’s not really changing me personally in any way. I’m staying true to myself and staying grounded. But other than that it’s been really great, just meeting a lot of really cool people. All the fans are just so great and passionate about it.
The Yap: Have you had any crazy experiences yet? Mobs of girls, or people approaching you at weird times?
TH: Actually, there was this one time, it wasn’t even really a crazy experience or anything, but there was this woman, she looked like she was 70 or 80 years old, and she came up to me and said “are you Quil Ateara from New Moon?” It was really funny. You expect 13-year-old girls to be fans, but it ranges across ages.
The Yap: Something I want to ask quickly: being Native American, how do you feel the “Twilight” series portrays Native Americans? Do you see it as proper and respectful?
TH: I don’t know. I like the way it is portrayed. It’s portrayed accurately, and it’s very respectful. I like the whole idea that they stick to the traditions and the stories, and the ideas of how wolves came about. It’s really cool how that’s introduced. But just the lifestyle as a whole in the film and in the books, it’s accurate, and I was really proud to be a part of it.
The Yap: Speaking for your character in particular, you slowly build in to becoming a more regular presence. Can you tell me about how that has helped you?
TH: Yeah. There were a lot of similarities between what was happening to me and the character. I only had one day of shooting on “New Moon,” but I was still friends with all the other wolf guys because we worked out together so much. So it was really cool. The character himself, he was the last one to turn into a wolf, so he always felt kind of left out. They didn’t really talk to him that much. But when he turns into a wolf he’s glad to have all of his friends back. For me, I was always hearing about their stories on “New Moon,” all the fun times they had, and I kind of felt left out. So it was really cool in “Eclipse,” when I’m a wolf, I can hang out with all the guys again. It really felt similar to the character.
The Yap: Great. Your character is one of Jacob’s best friends, so I assume you spent a lot of time around Taylor Lautner, and now he’s this…I don’t want to say teen idol. My first thought was sex symbol, but I don’t want to say that either.
TH: {laughs}
The Yap: {laughs} But anyway, is that something that has happened to everyone, or more just him?
TH: As far as being a more muscley dude with the six-pack, I think that’s more affected him more prominently than the rest of us, but it’s still there for all of us. I do feel sometimes like I’ve become a symbol. There are a lot of that will come up to me, and they won’t see me as me. They’ll think my name is Quil, that I’m the character, and I’ve had some younger girls scared to come up to me because they think I’m a wolf, or something like that. It’s weird to think about it in that respect, that you’re kind of a symbol reflecting that character. But it’s still pretty cool. It’s for the fans, which is nice.
The Yap: There was something else surrounding your character and Jacob’s too later on, which is the whole issue of them imprinting on young children. It’s not as weird or creepy as it could come off. How do you see them handling that as the series progresses?
TH: I think they’re handling it really well. There are a lot of ways it could be seen as creepy and it could be misinterpreted. I get jokes all the time about how I love little kids or something like that. But the way they explain it in the books is really well-written, and they translate that really well in the movie too. The whole imprinting thing, you’ll get a really good idea of what it means, and how it’s okay that it’s a little kid when you see the movie. It’s really excellent.
The Yap: What’s the best and worst parts of being involved with this franchise?
TH: The best part is that it’s a great time. Everybody’s really friendly and nice. Me and the rest of the wolf guys are really good pals, so it’s nice we get to go to these conventions together, and see each other all the time, we get to work out together, and other films you would work with the actor, then you wouldn’t see them after that. But I get to see the other actors at Twilight conventions and stuff like that, almost every month. So it’s really cool.
The Yap: The worst thing, then?
TH: The worst thing?
The Yap: Or the most difficult thing if you want to do it that way.
TH: Well, I guess with the number of people who recognize you now it’s kind of hard to go grocery shopping or something like that.
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Intervju med Ashley Greene
Self pratar med Charlie Bewley
Self magazine talked to Charlie Bewley. He shared very interesting tidbits, like the background of his character Demetri, which he made up:
“Demetri lived near Mt. Vesuvius before it erupted--when it did, it killed his family, but he was so fast, he was able to outrun the lava. He ended up in the foothills, where he was enslaved. But he kept running away from his masters, and ended up in Rome, where he became a gladiator. He had no fighting skills, instead, he just ran away from his opponents. Eventually he was blind-sided by an arrow and he went down. Then Volturi leader Aro came in, recognized his skills, and turned him into a vampire--he’s been serving the vampire guard ever since.”
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Intervju med Melissa Rosenberg
Film has an interview with Melissa Rosenberg where she discusses writing each of the Twilight movies, Dexter, and writing to meet a rating.
“LL: If an adaptation felt to you like an R rating, but the studio wanted you to bring it in at a PG-13, would that be doable?
MR: Oh yeah. It’s completely doable. You don’t sacrifice story by cutting language. Nor do you sacrifice story by showing less blood or gore, or whatever it is that’s bringing you to an R rating. It doesn’t hurt it. When Dexter was aired on CBS they had to re-cut some of it for network television and all they had to do was cut some language. There’s more blood and gore in an episode of C.S.I., though of course Dexter is more disturbing. Not because of what you see, but because of what’s implied. I don’t think you take away from suspense or character by altering a few things like that.
LL: Having read Breaking Dawn, where things get ratcheted up a notch, do you still go for that PG-13 rating?
MR: Oh yeah, absolutely. That’s your audience. In this series you don’t sacrifice anything. There are some movies that wouldn’t play at PG-13, like The Hangover, but this is just not one of them for me. Again, if you’re capturing character, emotion, and emotional journey, you’re OK.”
Intervju med Justin Chon
Intervju med Nikki Reed
Intervju med Jodelle Ferland
Urban Rush intervjuar Jodelle Ferland om hennes skådespelar karriär och om den femte Twilight boken som kommer handla om hennes karaktär, Bree. ;)
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Intervju med Cameron Bright
This a must read Volturi fans!!! Cameron Bright who plays Alec, brother to Jane in New Moon & Eclipse has some fun with InMovies:
Could you tell me a bit about your role in Eclipse?
My role in Eclipse? I can’t really tell you what I do or anything like that. I mean, as far as who I am, you guys know that. I play Alec. He’s one of the Volturi from New Moon and all that kind of stuff. But
you know, it’s pretty secretive, so I’m not going to be telling you
exactly what I do, ‘cause I want you guys to go and watch the movie.
Well, I’ll ask you something else then. Twilight actors often talk about feeling like you’re all part of one big family. Could you speak to that?
I wouldn’t say one big family. I’d say more like partners in crime, friends, you know. Oh, we are great buds. I’d say I’m friends with a lot of them and I’m glad I’ve met a lot of the people from this movie, but
you know, technically they’re just colleagues, right? They’re doing the
same thing as me, and that’s what I like about them.
I understand that your character has some special powers, and it seems to me like it might be a challenge to portray something that no one can see. I wonder how do you act something that isn’t visually
obvious?
If anything I cut people’s senses off, so you know, I’m the kind of guy that you don’t want to make pissed off because you won’t know what’s coming to you. But you know, it’s also a cool power when you think
about it. You know, it’s a different one. I’m not the normal, like, read
minds or anything like that. I cut off people’s senses. You want to be
able to hear? No, no you can’t. You know, that kind of stuff.
Was it challenging to get into that, into portraying that power?
Well, so far I’ve never had to use my power, so I can’t say it was hard. I can’t say it was easy, because I haven’t had to do it. But, as in portraying the character? It wasn’t hard at all, it was fun, you
know, because you get to do whatever you want with it. You know, a
book’s a book. You can picture the person in your head, but as soon as
you turn it into a movie, it’s a totally different world, because you’re
seeing it come to life. As far as my character goes, the books never
really bar him down to a certain person, you know? Like they never said
‘This is how he acts, this is what he does, yadda yadda yadda’. But it
was when I got to film in the movie they said ‘Fave fun! You’re a
vampire now. Be a vampire.’ And, nobody knows how to play a vampire,
because, has anybody met a vampire before? No. But, you know, that’s
what I like about it, [that] I can do whatever I want with it.
So how did you prepare?
I didn’t. I just showed up and did whatever I wanted.
Did you have any inspiration?
No. Preparation for me on set is fairly easy. I don’t really go through a lot of things, and I don’t do a lot of exercises with my lines or anything. I show up and I just get it done. I don’t know, it’s hard
to explain. You know, I’ve been doing it for two thirds of my life, and
it’s just what I do now. I know when I, I know how to, what’s the word? I
know how to analyze a character and just…it’s one of those things that
you just do. Hard to explain.
Okay. Fair enough. So…
But, everybody does it differently, and I just, I just show up on set and you know, the director will say, ‘This is how I want you to see it, this is how…’ You know, it’s a process. Like, you don’t just step into
the room and automatically do it. There’s so many things that go into it
and you’re playing off people and luckily in this movie, I’m playing
off people like Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen…[and] they just make it
so much more easier. And the people on set are so nice, and a lot of
them are friends. Like Daniel I knew before, and Chris is great. All
they do is joke around on set. I mean you’re joking around, it’s a job.
It’s not the set of this huge movie, it’s just another set. You show up,
you have fun, you do what you do, and that’s how I see it.
Who’s your favourite Twilight character?
Twilight character period? I don’t know. To be honest with you, from seeing New Moon, I like Michael Sheen’s character. That’s because he’s nuts, and I like crazy people. Crazy people are some of the best in the
world. You know, you have the most interesting conversations with crazy
people. And, so his character I really like.
If you were Bella, who would you choose?
If I was Bella, who would I choose? Oh, I’m gonna have to say I’d go with the body, most likely. For me I’d go with the body, so it’d be Jacob.
You’re a man after my own heart. Me too.
I know you did a lot of work with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Could you feel any chemistry on set between the two of them?
No. I mean, there’s always chemistry between any guy and girl who are friends, but as far as the chemistry between those two? I had so many people asking that…No! Personally it’s not my business so I stayed out
of it. They said ‘Oh, don’t say anything about Rob and Kristen’, and I
basically told them straight out, ‘You don’t have to worry about me
talking about other people’s lives, I’ll talk about mine but I won’t
talk about anybody else’s, you know?’ But as far as them, they looked
like friends, and that’s all that I can say. They joked around just as
much as anybody else did, and we all had fun.
Were you intimidated by Taylor Lautner’s pecs?
Was I…pardon me? By his pecs? (laughs) Oh no. Vampires aren’t supposed to look nice. They’re supposed to look mean. You know what I said? ‘Cause I’m friends with all the wolf pack, and whenever we go to
Twilight conventions that’s what they always say—all the werewolves are
like ‘You know what? We have the body.’ But at the end of the day, dogs
are a man’s best friend, and diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
Intervju med Robert Pattinson
The 23-year-old actor has become a global superstar after playing brooding vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, but his latest film is indie flick Remember Me, which he revealed stood out from the hundreds of roles he has been offered.
Robert said: “I never like anything, so it’s quite easy to decide what to do – I’ve never felt any pressure to do anything, particularly. Even when we were shooting it [Remember Me] I never thought about the box office.”
He added: “I had read tonnes and tonnes of scripts over the summer after I did Twilight, I mean hundreds, and everything seemed exactly the same.
“But this one, the way the dialogue was written, it just seemed much more naturalistic than most things.
“It’s not really a feel-good movie. They don’t make movies like it anymore, I think that’s how I kind of choose stuff, that’s the only criteria I have. There seems to be a gap in the market for something and I just try and do that.”
Robert hopes his Twilight fans like the new film but revealed he would never appear in a film simply to please an audience.
He said: “Obviously you hope people like things but I think if you start doing stuff to please a certain audience then you’re going in the wrong direction. I mean, you don’t even know the people you’re trying to please, especially if you’re trying to please whole swathes of people.
“I hope they like it.”
Remember Me is released on Friday April 2.
[Källa]Intervju med Robert Pattinson
Jackson Rathbone snackar Eclipse m.m.
Intervju med Jackson Rathbone
Här är den andra delen av Fear net's intervju med Jackson Rathbone.
In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, you get to work with Catalina Sandino Moreno…
Ah man, Catalina. That was amazing, working with her. I was a huge fan of Maria, Full of Grace and she was lovely to work with.
We'll finally get to learn a little bit more about your character, Jasper Hale. What we can expect to see from Jasper's flashbacks and your scenes with Catalina?
Jasper's back story is that he was turned into a vampire during the Civil War era, so I got to don the Civil War regalia and ride a horse again -- I haven't been on a horse in like two years, so that was really fun. Basically, that's how I meet Maria, who's played by Catalina. Maria turns Jasper in order to make him the leader, or trainer, of the army that she needs in the South. Vampire armies are very prevalent in the South in those days. You'll get to see a lot of deadly training vampire scenes, and a little bit of the love-lust relationship between Jasper and Maria and how it doesn't really pan out.
Sounds like the type of turning scene your fans are going to love seeing. From the books and films, we know that vampires are turned with bites in various places; we've seen Carlisle, for example, bite Esme rather romantically on the neck to change her. So… can you tell us where exactly Maria bites Jasper?
Where does she bite him? Well, I don't want to give everything away. I've got to keep some little secrets. [Laughs] I think people are going to be pretty happy about it.
Fair enough! Were there any particularly funny moments you had while filming Eclipse?
You know, whenever you get into these fight scenes it gets a little funny because you're going after each other, and we've all been such good friends for three years now, so throwing a punch at your friend is kind of weird. Jasper has to train the Cullen family, so it was weird… I didn't want to throw punches at Nikki Reed or Ashley [Greene]! It just didn't feel right to me to hit a girl. I was raised very Southern, and that's very wrong where I come from.
Switching gears to your musical interests, do you and 100 Monkeys have any plans to tour outside of the U.S.?
I think we are [but] I don’t know how soon. We have the rest of our dates that are posted on our website, but we're going to try and get out to the U.K., and we really want to get down to Australia and South America. It's just about finding the right time; hopefully we'll get down there as soon as possible.
How's the tour going, and where are you right now? Do you get pulled back from time to time to do press for films like Dread and the upcoming Twilight film, Eclipse?
Jackson Rathbone: We just got into New Orleans, which is nice because my mom was born and raised here. Well, basically I kind of go back and forth; sometimes we have driving days and literally I'll have one day where I fly back and do some promos. So I can keep both up at the same time. It's fun… I'm always in motion.
What was it about the script for Dread that hooked you and made you want to be a part of it?
I've always been fascinated by Clive Barker's dark, Gothic world, and I was a fan of the Hellraiser series when I was growing up. When I got the script, I was told it involved his short story so I read them both and I thought, this is much more of a personalized, humanized version of these dark tales that Clive Barker likes to tell. I really liked it because it was something that could happen in real life -- the derangement of a character like Quaid [played by Shaun Evans]-- that was something that was grounded in reality, and I really liked that aspect of it. I was kind of on the fence, so I gave it to a friend of mine to read and he got through all of it, and at the end he was like, oh man, I almost vomited toward the end. That's when I knew I had to do it.
What was it that you think brought him to that crucial vomiting point?
I think it was the realistic element of the ending, really. I don't want to give away or spoil the ending, but the realistic, visceral imagery of what Anthony was able to pull out of a short story and turn into a full length feature script -- it's one of those things, I have such a strong imagination whenever I read a script, I can visualize things pretty well. A lot of my friends are like that too because they're artists.
In the DVD special features for Dread, there's a behind the scenes moment where we see you eat a maggot. Please tell us there's a good reason for why that happened?
[Laughs] That was kind of a dare; I don't know if they got the entire scene on camera, but you know… In the beginning of Dread, Stephen's only friend is a crow. There are a couple of scenes that I don't think made it into the final cut where I feed the crow little maggots.
So these maggots were on set the whole time, especially towards the end, and people were always joking with one another, "You have to eat a maggot!" They're full of protein, they're actually not that bad for you. So Anthony DiBlasi was holding one out, and I happened to be covered in blood and it had been a long day, and somebody asked me to eat the maggot -- so I did!
The funniest thing about that is that someone's already posted that clip to the 100 Monkeys message board under the title, "Sexiest Jackson Moments…"
You're kidding me! Wow. I'll take it!
How familiar were you with Clive Barker's work beforehand, and did you ever get the chance to meet with him at any point during production?
I never got the chance to meet Clive. I was running and gunning, shooting that film; I was up there for 28 days, I believe, and worked every day. I don't think I had a single day off. So I never got to meet him, but I really wanted to. I'm extremely jealous of Anthony, who got to meet with him a lot. He's worked with Clive in a producer capacity several times, and then he was able to adapt this short story into a feature. I thought he did an amazing job with it, I love the slight changes and how he expanded upon his ideas to lengthen it out and make it a full length story.
One Barker-esque element that is hinted at early on in Dread is the subtle sexual subtext between Stephen and Quaid, especially as horror and sexuality can often be quite intertwined. Is that tension something that was present in your mind or discussed beforehand?
I'd definitely say that horror films are the best kinds of films to take a date to. You get a little scared, you get a little closer. But in terms of filming, there were only a couple of scenes that seemed to me to have a slight sexuality, especially when Quaid is sort of laying out his idea for this project and he's in the shower while Stephen's outside the shower. I think that was one of those first moments, for Stephen, where he's thinking, "This guy's kind of weird." And of course, after the club and all the things that go down in the house afterwards, there's definitely a sexual [vibe] there. But I don't think it's too homoerotic. It's more a subtlety of these two guys becoming friends and testing the , which is always kind of weird.
Dread does have its gory moments, but it's much more a deeply psychological thriller than a straight out blood-fest -- and that seems to be what makes it all the more disturbing, doesn't it?
I definitely agree. You know, it's hard for me to classify Dread as a horror film; it does have horrific elements, but horror to me has always had more of a fantastical element - movies with monsters, or films like Friday the13th or Halloween. As opposed to this, which I think of more as a psychological thriller; it's much more about testing the limits of your mind and your psyche, exploring the darker side.
On the subject of fear, what's the first movie that ever scared you?
The first movie that ever scared me was Poltergeist. I watched it when I was about ten, my older sisters made me watch it. Freaked me out for two or three days. I couldn't sleep at all, I was scared of my own shadow… that was definitely the first movie that ever did it for me in the horror genre, and it freaked me the hell out. My parents got real mad at my older sisters for that one.
Dread is a film more in the traditional horror realm than perhaps Twilight is, but do you see much of an overlap between those two worlds?
I don't know… I've always been varied in terms of the art I like to create; I'm a musician, I'm an actor, I write, I just directed my first music video for one of Spencer Bell's songs called "Beautiful, More So," and I also have the same degree of varied taste in art. So it depends on your taste, really. But they are very different films. [Laughs] Twilight's more of a romantic action film, and Dread's more of a psychological thriller. The two are very different, but that's also how I've managed my career, through very different mediums and different characters, as much as I can. It lets me spread my wings as an actor and try on different shoes for a little while.
At the beginning of Dread, Stephen meets Quaid as a stranger in a darkened alley. Have you had any similarly fateful, random, life-changing meetings in strange places yourself?
Well, I don't have too many life-changing experiences in dark alleys, I've got to admit. [Laughs] But I was fortunate enough to go to a high school called Interlochen Arts Academy, and we had halls in the dorms that we lived in, and I lived down the hall from two guys who eventually became my best friends later in life. One of them was Spencer Bell, who I met as I was blaring some Primitive Radio Gods. I don't know if you know that band, but it's a fairly obscure band from back in the '90s. And Spencer came by and said, "Hey man, are you playing Primitive Radio Gods? Hell yeah, I love that band!" We kind of became friends through music.
That was about ten years ago; Spencer passed away about three and a half years ago from adrenal cancer. Spencer and I had always written and played music for each other, sending it back and forth when he was living in New York and I was living out in Los Angeles. Spencer formed a couple of bands, and then he passed away and his CD was released posthumously. So now we're working with his father, Bill Bell, and his other band members from The Stevedores, to release his albums posthumously. We're about to release the third one, and we're supporting it with the Spencer Bell Legacy Foundation which is coming up in Dallas, Texas, on April 24. There will be performances by Spencer's other band mates from bands he's been in since he was 15, and a record release of his new album that we put out. So I hope people come check that out. You can go to ASCCNow.com, which is Artists Supporting a Cure for Cancer Now, orSpencerBellMemorial.com. There's some amazing music that he was making that never got a chance to see the light of day until he passed away. That changed my life.
Tell us about your guest spot on Criminal Minds, which may have been a surprising role for some fans see you in.
That was one of the roles that I, to use a vampire pun, loved sinking my teeth into. I just love playing characters that are really out there. That was a hard role; I got to work with [actor-director] Jason Alexander, who's incredible to work with as an actor because he is an actor and he understands the difficulty in trying to play extreme characters as honestly as possible. I had a great time working on that set. I got to work with Matthew Gray Gubler a lot - he's one of the coolest guys I've met so far.
Right after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premieres (June 30), you've got a prominent role in M. Night Shyamalan's epic-scale fantasy film The Last Airbender (July 2). What kind of fun did you get to have on that set?
M. Night Shyamalan brought it to life; it's the first film he hasn't completely come up with from scratch. It's pretty cool, it's going to be an amazing action movie for families. It's an amazing fantasy realm. I was stoked to be a part of it, I got to do like three months of kung fu training.
What forms of fighting did you train in?
It was a lot of different forms, kind of a crash course. I learned power fist form and they taught me a lot of grappling techniques and holds, it was basically a run-through of many forms. I will say that my kicks are terrible. I don't kick so well. I'm pretty good with my hands and my hand-to-hand combat, but foot-to-foot? Not so good.
Do you get to use your character's signature sword in this as well?
Not yet. Right now it's still the first series, so he's rocking a boomerang.
Lastly, what do you get to call M. Night Shyamalan on set? M? Night? Mr. Shyamalan?
Night. I call him Night. I wondered that, too. He's an amazingly cool guy. It's great to get to work with someone who I've respected for years.
[Källa]Exklusiv intervju med Tayolr Lautner
Detta är frågorna som ställs i intervjun:
1/ Is Jacob Bella's sun?
2/ Did you have a lot of time to talk with Stephenie Meyer?
3/ Was there a lot of pressure to play Jacob?
4/ How was the casting?
5/ How did you get prepared for this role?
6/ Did you do research about Quileute tribe?
7/ Is it diffucult to shoot a movie with a wig?
8/ During filming, could you improvise a scene?
9/ Did you do your own stunts?
10/ Are you a fan of your CGI wolf?
11/ How does your wolf have been created?
13/ How can you explain this phenomenon?
14/ Do you think the film is true to the book?
15/ If there was a fight between Edward & Jacob...
16/ Are you happy to have your 'pack' with you?
17/ How was the atmosphere during the filming?
18/ What do you think about your co-stars?
19/ Do you understand Bella?
20/ Are you excited to discover Eclipse?
Intervju med Robert Pattinson
Life, seen from a very realistic way, is , as time goes by, a chain of loss, considers de American filmmaker Allen Coulter. According to the director of The Sopranos, there’s people that get strength when they are in grief, and then there’s people who get lost in their pain, without expecting anything or anyone to rescue them.
Intervju med Jackson Rathbone
MTV’s Hollywood Crush has a post from their interview with Jackson talking a bit about his character in Eclipse.
Läs hela intervjun här!Though we don’t learn much about Jackson’s Jasper Hale in “Twilight” and “New Moon,” his background is explored much more in “Eclipse.” “I’m excited for a step up with Jasper’s character,” Jackson said. “It’s been two, three years and now I get to kind of go outside and show a little bit more of what makes Jasper tick. We get to go into his back story — see where he came from, who he was before, what makes him who we see in the first film of ‘Twilight,’ what makes him seem like he’s always in pain, why he’s always in pain … because he is.”
So why, exactly, is he in so much agony? “He’s almost depressed,” Jackson said. “He wants to live a good life. He wants to be part of the Cullen family. He is the newest to this vegetarian vampire way of life, and he’s still trying to be part of that and address his inner demons and what he used to be. It was really fun to be able to express that.”
Intervju med Michael Welch & Justin Chon
Welch is the first to wander down into the hotel lobby where I am waiting with a pair of publicists along with the woman who has just finished Serratos' hair and makeup in preparation for the night's events.
I figure that waiting for the others to appear could prove problematic, so I pull Welch aside. To begin the interview I ask him if he had any idea of what he was signing up for when he was asked to join the "Twilight" cast.
"I certainly didn't expect this. I think we all knew that it had the potential to be a successful franchise. But no, I've never been apart of anything like this," he says.
Welch, who appeared in "Star Trek: Insurrection" and a fan-favorite episode of "Stargate SG-1," explains that this isn't the first time he's seen dedicated fans.
"I've always been in awe of sci-fi fans because their passion is remarkable. And the thing that is great about sci-fi fans is that if they enjoy what you do in the sci-fi world they'll follow you outside of that world as well. It has been a great pleasure to get to know the "Stargate" fans over the years, but this brings it to a new level. People were screaming for us before the first film even came out and I made the joke at one point saying, 'We may suck and ruin your story so I wouldn't be screaming at us quite yet,'" he says with a laugh.
I ask if he was worried about how the public, both fans and critics, would react to the film.
"The priority for me was to first and foremost please the fanbase. How do you do that? You capture what Stephenie created to the best of your ability. So having Stephenie on set was an enormous help. Her approval meant more to me than anything. If she likes what you are doing with the character she created, you are on the right track. I respect film critics in what they do, but with what that said, and particularly in this case, I think that this franchise is accomplishing what it set out to do, which is to please the fans, " Welch says.
When I interviewed Anna Kendrick (who plays Jessica in the films) prior to the release of "New Moon," she admitted that whenever she met anyone who wasn't familiar with the books or the films, they would always want to know if she was a vampire or a werewolf and that they were always disappointed that she was just a ordinary high school student. I ask Welch if he has had similar experiences. He has but that hasn't diminished his love for his role.
"I think the high school kids are a necessary part of the story. We are there so that girls can look at Bella in a normal high school situation and empathize and connect with her. We're also there to add some levity, some humor and lightness to what is otherwise a pretty dark and intense story," he says.
Kendrick had told me the fun of playing Jessica was that she was nothing like her character. I ask Welch if the same is true with him or if he too spent his high school days chasing a girl who wasn't interested in him.
"Unfortunately, it was quite easy for me to connect with Mike and his journey," he says as Justin Chon enters the room followed by a man with a professional video camera. I wave him over. He and Welch happily greet each other like childhood friends. I bring Chon up to speed on our current train of thought and ask him, seeing that he is older than his "Twilight" high school cohorts, what it was like for him to essentially go back to school for his role.
"It's funny because I just had my 10-year reunion this December and all of my classmates asked me what it is like to still be playing those kinds of roles. I don't know. It's a part of my life that mentally I've grown way past, but professionally, because I look so young, I tend to play young characters. It's kind of cool because I can relive [high school] but play it the way I choose to play it," Chon says.
Welch adds, "How many people throughout their lives want to go back to their teenage experiences with the mindset and perspective that they have now? We get to do that. It's a gift and kind of special to relive these experiences our way."
I comment that everyone I've met from the films (the majority of my interviews have been with a pair of actors at a time rather than one on one) seems to have a wonderful relationship with each other even if they didn't appear in any scenes together in the film.
Chon suggests, "It's like a small cohesive family. If you see a person enough, you bond. We're all young, not set in our ways and none of us have egos so we just have fun."
Welch agrees saying, "I think part of the camaraderie also comes from an understanding of what we are all a part of. We all understand that this is an once-in-a-lifetime crazy thing."
Chon adds, "When we were shooting 'New Moon' they had these black tarps that covered the sets so you couldn't see in, and one day there was a helicopter flying above the set. Was this really happening? Did someone really rent a helicopter so they could get a shot of someone picking their nose? It's absolutely wild to be a part of this."
I ask if they are worried that they will always be associated with the "Twilight" films rather than the roles they'll have in the future.
Welch says, "I've always looked at acting as a marathon, not a sprint. It is what I love and plan on doing for the rest of my life. I've been very blessed that I've been able to build my reputation as an actor a brick at a time. This part of my career is another brick, a great stepping stone. Everything I get to do from here on out, I get to do, at least in a small part, because of ['Twilight']. So, yes, those thoughts to cross the back of your mind but at a certain point you have to have confidence and faith that things are going to turn out they way they are supposed to as long as you put in the work."
Chon nods, " I've thought about it. Is this the role I'm going to be best known for? Will I always be Justin Chon from 'Twilight'? It is a portion of my life but it doesn't define me. What I view as important is ultimately going to define who I am to myself. At the end of the day I just want to be doing something I love. If they just know me from 'Twilight' that's fine."
We take a moment to step back and laugh that we're having this conversation because ultimately every actor, professional or otherwise, wants to have success, notoriety and to be part of a phenomenon like "Twilight." No one wants to be pigeonholed for the rest of their careers, but if it is going to happen this is the way to do it.
Chon reminds us that we're talking about a film that none of the major studios were interested in and that, prior to its release, they were all "little actors trying to get roles in a indie film." Chon also says he's thankful that they'd take the risk of casting an Asian actor when, as he sees it, he wasn't the obvious choice.
Welch, who admits that he hadn't really thought about that aspect of casting, adds, "With a lot of projects, in the casting process, they are very specific about what ethnicity they want for a role. If I'm not mistaken, with this film, it was really about getting the most talented people who fit the roles best."
With that, I'm told to wrap up the conversation. As I stand to leave, I'm asked by Chon's stalkers, the camera crew, if I wouldn't mind giving them a brief interview. I suggest that I should have had someone do my makeup, but I'm not exactly about to refuse, although I'd hate to think that for the rest of my career I'll be typecast as a journalist.
Serratos glides in for a brief "hello" before the actors return to their rooms for a brief respite before they venture out into the arms of a thousand screaming fans.
