Entertainment Weekly: The Cast interviews

Entertainment Weekly has posted several interviews they had with a few members of the Twilight cast. To read the full interviews, please click on the links.

Dakota Fanning

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Where are you right now?
DAKOTA FANNING: I’m at school. I’m hiding from any teacher that would see me on my phone right now. But technically it’s allowed because it’s before school has started.

What’s it like to come back to high school now that the move is out?
That’s my life. That’s what’s normal to me. I don’t really know anything different. I’m really lucky that I get to go to school and have that normal life, whatever that is, and then also get to do what I love to do and be a part of really great projects.

How do you think your classmates will react to the movie?
Most of them have already seen the movie, so they’re very excited about it. I’ll definitely be talking to some people about it today, I’m sure.

What was your reaction when you started hearing the box-office numbers?
I mean, I think that there are so many fans of the book and the movie, and it’s just sort of exciting that so many people went to see it on the first weekend. I know so many people were camping out for days to wait for it. And I think that it’s great that everyone got to see it right when it came out.

You knew that it was going to be big. But the biggest opening day ever?
I don’t know if I realized it would be the biggest, but I certainly knew it would be big because of all the fans you encounter at the premiere. Everyone is a Twilight fan in some way, I think.

Jamie Campbell Bower

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me about what it’s like entering this crazy phenomenon.
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER: Bizarre. You know it’s funny, we go in and do our job and never really expect anything else, as long as you’re happy with what you’ve done that’s all you really want. And then you do a movie where it has such a huge following and it’s definitely not something I was aware of at the time. I mean I knew of it, but it wasn’t something that was at the forefront of my mind or something that I had experienced yet.

Had you seen Twilight before?
I had, yes. I actually wanted to be involved in the first film. And I read the script for the first one and upon reading the script for the first movie I read all the books. So I had seen both the film, read the script and all the books.

So it’s safe to say you’re a fan?
I’m a hardcore, die-hard fan.

Are you glad you got to play Caius?
I was originally auditioning for the role of Demetri in New Moon, and then they said, “We think you’d be more fitting as Caius.” And I said, “Well that’s very kind of you, I’d love to come along and play him.” And I was aware of the character, I was aware very much of the particularly strong presence the Volturi have in Breaking Dawn.

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Charlie Bewley lauches official site

British actor Charlie Bewley, better known as Demetri, launches his official website. He made the announcement via his Twitter account. To visit his site, click on the link above.

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A short interview with Felix and Demetri

The Seattle Times were able to have a quick chat with Charlie Bewley and Daniel Cudmore who plays Felix and Demetri in New Moon.

Question from Marie Hansen: The books don’t really dwell too much on your characters’ personal histories. So what was that process like, to start with a blank character and work out that information?

Bewley: It’s a good thing and a bad thing. If you look at Bella, everyone knew what Bella should be and how she should act and react because of the weight of the emotional subtext that accompanies every single line that she says in the book … the fans knew exactly who they wanted for that role, and they knew exactly who they wanted for Edward, so [those two actors] were under very strict guidelines as to who they were playing.

With me and Dan, we didn’t have that benefit, if you like, or that burden. We were allowed a large amount of dexterity in terms of where we came from as characters and to a certain extent our idiosyncrasies and our characteristics as Demetri and Felix….

As soon as I walked on set with the lavish costumes and red contact lenses, you have the hair and makeup and you’re suddenly interacting with all these characters … you start developing as characters. And it’s a wonderful process.

Question from Autumn Thompson: Who’s your favorite character in the movies?

Cudmore: It’s tough because you enjoy playing the character you were cast as, so much. … But I really like the wolf pack, I really like the kind of dynamic that they have going on there, that character, that raw aggression, I think it’s really kinda cool.

Question from Brian Holland: Who wins in a fight, Demetri or Felix?

Bewley: I’ve not heard that question before.

Cudmore: Let’s just say we’d probably be worse for wear after that one. … I see it as a humongous fight that would go and go and go to the point where they’re both lying on the ground breathing like … [he pants] … “OK, you think we should go again? All right let’s go.” And it just continues and doesn’t ever really end.

Bewley: His superpower is his intense strength … mine is tracking. And with tracking comes speed. … [turning to Cudmore] I think you’d beat the crap out of me, but then in a 100-meter sprint …

Cudmore: You’d win.

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Interviews: The Volturi Experience

Here are more interviews from the New Moon press junket featuring the Volturi, courtesy of Entertainment Tonight and Extra TV:

The Volturi were also interviewed by Hollyscoop.com. To view their interview, click on the link above.

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Charlie Bewley: on getting his role and being part of New Moon

OK! UK has an exclusive interview with Charlie Bewley who plays Demetri in New Moon. Charlie talked about getting his role as Demetri, working with the Twilight cast and being part of the Twilight Saga. Here is an excerpt of his interview:

So how did you get the role of Demetri?
I was working/studying in Vancouver at the time and I went in and did an audition for Demetri. The first audition went really well so I went for a second reading with Chris Weitz [director of New Moon].
I went in as the character – with the best representation of Demetri as I could and I did a lot of coaching and back-story preparation and I just nailed it!
He [Chris] initially wanted me to read for Marcus and if I had gotten that role it would have been me, Jamie Campbell Bower [who plays Caius] and Michael Sheen [who plays Aro] at the top of the Volturi – which would have been this [insane] British empire!

We heard filming Eclipse in Vancouver was crazy. Did you have to go undercover to get out of your hotel and get to where the film set?

Personally, I didn’t have to. I’m not out there enough for people to really recognise me.
You didn’t get your call sheet until very, very late in the day and so you wouldn’t know exactly where you were going. Locations are very covert, it’s very hard to find out where they are. It was top secret in Vancouver!

Were there lots of fans hanging around?
There were a few. There was a big building next to where we were shooting and we had to erect this giant cover to stop the paparazzi taking pictures. They would hide out in hotel rooms in the building adjacent to us and start taking pictures. The worst thing about it is, as soon as one person knows [where we were] they go on Twitter and tell the rest of the country! And then everyone’s there!

So do the fans recognise you yet?
I’m really famous in Italy! I shot in Montepulciano in Tuscany, which was an amazing experience in itself – it was such a great honour to go there and they really did put on a great show for us. I only did one day of shooting so I spent the rest of the time running around and having fun with fans. And they really appreciated that so a bunch of fan sites started popping up on the internet and when I went back to Rome for the first time since shooting New Moon, there were a tonne of chicks there who had been in Montepulciano who were staunch Charlie Bewley fans.

To read the rest of his interview, click on the link above.

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Ashey, Kellan, Daniel and Charlie at the New Moon Tour Chicago & New Jersey

Ashley Greene, Daniel Cudmore and Charlie Bewley delighted Twilight fans in the Chicago area as  they make a stop at the Westfield Fox Valley Mall in Chicago for the New Moon Mall Tour. She was joined by Kellan Lutz and they indulged the fans as they answer questions, sign autographs and pose for pictures.

Charlie Bewley and Daniel Cudmore on the other hand were in New Jersey at the Cherry Hill Mall hitting the New Moon tour. Like Ashley and Kellan, they signed autographs for fans and pose for pictures.

To view more pictures of the cast, head over to Just Jared Jr.

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Charlie Bewley at the 5:19 Show

Charlie Bewley stops by BBC’s 5:19 Show where he talked about New Moon.Charlie talked about making the film, joining the franchise and the fame surrounding Twilight.

Aside from that, Charlie also talked to Glamour Magazine where he talked about getting his role, being vampire and working with Robert Pattinson. Here is an excerpt:

Were you a Twilight fan before you were cast in New Moon?
I wasn’t a Twilight fan. I just couldn’t get over that whole alpha male-ism that there might be a better-looking person out there in the world but me. (LAUGHS)

What was it about the part of Demetri that part that attracted you?
With Demetri, I knew that I could bring something to this character that no one else could; a certain energy and flare and charisma that I could really bring to him and make my own.

How was it coming into the cast for the second movie as an outsider?
A lot of people misquoted me when I said that it was difficult to come into a group of actors like that and they thought that the whole Hollywood cliché was the problem, but what it is is that with Twilight you have a phenomenon that’s only a year old and everyone has gone through it together; the staple six or eight characters in this film have gone through this massive amount of attention from the world and they have had to bond; they’ve had no choice, whether they liked each other from the start or not. And for people to come onto the set on such a high profile film and expect to just walk in and start high-fiving, that’s just not logical and human nature, and it does take two or three days for people to adjust to someone’s personality and sense of humour, etc.

Have any of the other cast-mates given you advice on how to deal with the hype, because Robert Pattinson especially has a lot to deal with?
I think Rob is dealing with it very, very well. I mean given the fact that he is the most photographed person in the world and that he can’t leave his front door. I mean when I speak to Rob, he doesn’t seem like he’s changed too much from when I first met him or from what I’ve seen of him in interviews before that. He’s still a very grounded person, someone who massively enjoys what he’s doing and an avid musician so I think he’s having a fantastic time. Did he give me advice? Not really. I think everyone deals with it in their own way.

To read more of his interview, click on the link above.

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Volturi trio at the Rome Film Festival Photocall

Charlie Bewley, Jamie Campbell Bower and Cameron Bright walked the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival yesterday amidst the cheers and screams of the Twilight fans. The Volturi trio is in town to promote the latest Twilight film, New Moon. They were also joined by Twilight scriptwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who is in Rome for the first time promoting the film franchise.

They walked the red carpet followed by a team of flag weavers from Volterra, the Tuscan village where the Volturi resides. The actors gamely posed for pictures and signed autographs for fans while walking the red carpet. New scenes from the film were also shown during the photocall.

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New Moon Volturi back in Rome

Vampires are prowling the streets of Rome!

The Volturi trio of Jamie Campbell Bower, Charlie Bewley and Cameron Bright are in Rome to attend and promote the Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Rome Film Festival. They were seen visiting the city’s tourist spots and from time to time, obliged fans with some autographs and posed for pictures.

Click on the link above to follow their Twitter accounts as they post detail on their Roman holiday.

Thanks to Radar Online for the pictures!

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Charlie Bewley on Robert and Kristen, dealing with gossip and many more

Charlie Bewley was in attendance at the Astro Boy premiere two night ago and he was interviewed at the red carpet. He talked about working with Robert and Kristen, and how fame hasnt changed both of them, dealing with gossip, filming New Moon and many more.

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