Julia Jones is about to be bitten by fame in a big way

She is one of the stars to look out for in the next Twilight film, Eclipse, as her character takes a more central role in story’s wolf pack. With this, is fame about to bite actress Julia Jones in a big way?

The Boston Globe was able to interview to the actress where she talked about growing up in Boston, being an actress and playing a part in the Twilight franchise. Here is an excerpt of their article.

“Because Stephenie Meyer wrote the layers, you’re kind of serving something else,’’ says Jones, who had a small role on NBC’s “ER’’ and acted in a few indie films before landing the role in “Eclipse.’’ “Usually you’re looking for any clue you can in a script – usually it’s skeletal, because it’s not prose. But in this case, there’s 3,000 pages of detail.’’

Jones has perfected the art of the brooding werewolf frown, but in real life she has a sweet smile and a quick, dry sense of humor. She grew up in Jamaica Plain, summered on the Cape, and graduated from Boston Latin School. Her mother still lives on one of those pretty roads that connects Centre Street to the Jamaicaway.

“The cool thing about it is that there’s a pond on one end of our street – I grew up sailing on it – and on the other end of the street there were housing developments,’’ Jones says during a visit to her agent’s office in Los Angeles after returning from “Eclipse’’ filming in Vancouver.

Jones started her stage career as a child. By 4, she was dancing with the Boston Ballet in productions of “The Nutcracker.’’ By high school she was a Wheelock Family Theatre star.

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Wheelock director Jane Staab says Jones was always intense and introspective, even as a teen. “Her intelligence just emanated from her,’’ Staab says. “She has an inner light you just sort of respect. It makes you sort of jump.’’

Julia Jones: on working with Robert and Kristen

Julia Jones will make her Twilight debut with the upcoming New Moon. In an interview with Limelife, Julia talked about working with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Here is an excerpt of her interview:

LimeLife: Okay Julia Jones, if we could ask you anything about one of your co-stars, it would be this: Does Robert Pattinson speak with an American or a British accent between takes?

Julia Jones: (laughs) Yes, Rob is British, he has a British accent, and he speaks like that when he’s not acting! His [American] accent is so good, actually. Sometimes hearing him speak in his normal British accent, I get a little thrown off, because his American accent is just perfect.

LimeLife: Would you say the same for Kristen Stewart too? We love her.

Julia Jones: I have a lot of respect for [Kristen] because she’s just sort of got this balance of being cool and doing her own thing, and then also being very professional and really pushing herself in front of the camera. It’s a hard talent to have, especially as a young actor. I was really impressed with her.

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Meet Julia Jones

LimeLife has an exclusive interview with Julia Jones, where she talked about how she got her role as Leah in New Moon and how did she bring her character to life. Here is an excerpt:

LimeLife: Julia, you’ve just played this amazing role in Eclipse and we can’t wait to hear about it. First though, can you tell us from where else we might know you?

Julia Jones: Probably the most notable thing was that I did a recurring role on ER. I appeared in their final season [as Dr. Kaya Montoya], so it was pretty cool to be a part of something that great and large as it was closing. Everybody was appreciating it, so it was a good time to be involved.

LimeLife: We heard that there were open casting calls for Eclipse. How exactly did you score the part of Leah Clearwater?

Julia Jones: The casting director I’ve had a relationship with for a number of years. She actually just called us up and I went in and auditioned for the director David Slade and for her, and came back about a week later and read for some people from Summit and David again and some of the producers. And then I waited for about a month before I heard anything, and you’re right, in that time they were doing huge casting calls and going up to Canada. I think they accepted tapes from anybody so really anyone in the world could put themselves on tape and potentially be seen by the casting people.

LimeLife: Okay, so basically you were tapped on the shoulder to audition for the biggest cinema craze of our time. What kind of relationship did you have with the Twilight series at that time?

Julia Jones: It’s interesting because I hadn’t read any of the books before I got the audition. I of course was aware of it, I have good friends who have been – I think “obsessed” is the right word – for quite some time. (Laughs.) Then when I got the call for the audition, I actually had a very serious visceral reaction. My heart started beating fast, it’s a very unusual thing but I think on some level I think I sort of felt like I knew that this was going to be something important and probably life-changing.

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

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