We’ve spent months anticipating New Moon, the next installment in the Twilight saga, the hit vampire franchise that’s taken the world by storm. While Bella may have fallen for brooding Edward, it’s his gorgeous, gifted vampire siblings that we’re loving. GLAMOUR jetted to Vancouver to catch up with Ashley Greene, 22, who plays future-seeing Alice Cullen, Jackson Rathbone, 24, who plays her boyfriend Jasper Hale, Nikki Reed, 21, the sassy Rosalie Hale and delicious jock Kellan Lutz, 23, who plays Emmett Cullen. Sink your teeth into this!

How do you differentiate between love and lust?
KELLAN: The first six months are always exciting, but then things can get boring. So if that lustful feeling never really goes, then you know it’s real.
ASHLEY: When things that used to annoy you turn into things you adore about somebody, you know something has changed.
NIKKI: We over-use the word “love”: “I love tacos, I love shoes.” We “love” a lot of things, but don’t “lust” a lot of things. I’m in a movie revolving around this obsession with love, and I think people should find more of an obsession with lust.
JACKSON: Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted. You can get wasted on lust and warmed by love.

Body hair: discuss…
KELLAN: I do have chest hair and if I’m doing some young teeny magazine it’s nice to look young, so I shave it off. But I’ve never waxed, I wouldn’t go there.
NIKKI: I’m a massive fan of body hair – if men shave any part of their body I’m completely turned off.
JACKSON: I wish I could have more stubble. For New Moon I have to shave every day and I’d rather let it grow, live in the mountains somewhere and shave with an axe!
ASHLEY: Facial hair on a guy looks great but it hurts when you kiss. A little chest hair is manly, but I’m not one for the back hair!

What’s the one thing you find irresistible?
KELLAN: Confidence. That’s so sexy to me. I also love a girl who’s switched on, like she knows how to book an airline ticket and get the cheapest one.
NIKKI: Men who are smarter than me. I don’t find too manly, but I’m really open to learning.
ASHLEY: Talent. The second you see someone in their element they instantly become sexy.
JACKSON: Watching a girl get lost in music. Especially the piano or the cello. If I walked in on a girl playing the cello I might have to go buy new pants!

What are your relationship deal-breakers?
NIKKI: Lying. I’m really good at catching people in their lies. If you try to dupe me, you’ll know about it.
KELLAN: Relationships last when you can be yourself and don’t have to be ashamed of something the other person might hate.
JACKSON: I don’t do the whole “other guy” thing, when girls say they’ve got a boyfriend but it’s almost over. Single girls only. I don’t do groups. Maybe in bed, but not in any other aspect of life!
Ashley: I don’t like it when guys try to impress me. Like, “Look what I know, like what I can do.” Don’t say it, do it.

What will you never compromise on?
KELLAN: Someone questioning my friends. I have people in my life for different reasons. I don’t expect you to be friends with all my friends, but don’t tell me who I can and can’t be friends with.
JACKSON: My music. You can lose relationships because you spend long hours playing, but it’s serious stuff. Sometimes women don’t get that.
ASHLEY: Space. You need space in a relationship. I’m a real “I’m going out with the girls, you’re going out with the guys” type of girl.
NIKKI: My independence. I wouldn’t ever want to give up work, my friends or my own place.

Do you believe in soulmates?
ASHLEY: Gosh, I hope so. I’m a strong believer in chemistry – it has nothing to do with what you want, just how your chemicals react with each other.
KELLAN: I believe that there are three people that could be potential soulmates. You’ll find one and won’t realize until afterward. Then hopefully another will come when the time is right.
JACKSON: I believe that we have a destiny, but sometimes people go their entire lives without finding their soulmates. There’s got to be a couple of options though.
NIKK: I believe in multiple. People are born with this desire to connect, that’s why with girls the line is blurry – is it a friends, is it a relationship?

How do you get over a break up?
ASHLEY: I’m the type who immediately says, “I’m alright,” and then three months later I deal with it. It’s taken me a year to get over someone before, but because of the pride thing I could never go back.
JACKSON: I like going to bars alone and finding groups of people that are having fun and joining in. You hang out with strangers, no questions asked.
KELLAN: I’m a relationship guy, so I’m usually in it to fall in live. If we break up for a reason, I want to fix it. It’s worse if someone cheats because then I’m pissed off, but I’d rather lose love than not love at all.
NIKK:  I remember my first break-up. I literally thought my life was over. Then you realize, it’s like a cut – these might be a scar, but the pain will go away.

How can someone tell if you’re into them?
NIKKI: I say it. I just like it when you say, “I like you, do you like me too? Shall we keep talking?”
KELLAN: DI don’t say it, especially if I’m really attracted to them. I can get shy. But it’s funny – when you’re not super-flirty with a girl and act a bit cool, she’ll usually be more interested!
ASHLEY: I like to see people smile. So if you notice little things being done, it means I care. Like with gifts, it’s easy to give a bottle of wine, but I’d prefer to search for something personal or remember something they liked.
JACKSON: I’ll look down at my boots, bu hands will go in my pockets and I’ll be shifting back and forth. When I’m talking to a girl I like, I usually look awkward so that could be a sign!

Which member of the cast would you get to style you?
Nikki: Kellan
Kellan: Alex Meraz, who plays one of the werewolves, has good style.
Ashley: Rachelle Lefevre, although Kristen and I have the same taste in jeans
Jackson: Ashley

Who in the cast would you go to for relationship advice?
Kellan: Ashley Greene. We’re very close and it’s great to have someone especially as you work with them, just to talk to for advice.
Nikki: Elizabeth Reaser. She has a good head on her shoulders
Ashley: I ask Kellan a lot about guys because he’s honest with me and she’s new but Bryce Dallas Howard is really nurturing and kind of motherly.
Jackson: Peter Facinelli. He’s got a wife, kids, beautiful home. That’s gorgeous. Someday hopefully, I’m taking tips from him.

Which member of the cast would you get to cook dinner?
Nikki: Peter Facinelli
Kellan: Ashley
Ashley: Peter Facinelli – he always says he’s cooked too much and invites us round to eat it!
Jackson: Peter Facinelli

Which member of the cast would you like to be stuck on desert island with?
Nikki: Kristen Stewart
Kellan: Ashley
Ashley: Jackson
Jackson: Ashley

Which member of the cast would you like to get drunk with?
Nikki: I don’t drink
Kellan: Jackson
Ashley: Jackson
Jackson: Rob Pattinson – we used to go to a bar and do open mikes together

Who would you go for a shoulder to cry on?
Nikki: Elizabeth Reaser
Kellan: Ashley
Ashley: My Eclipse co-star Bryce Dallas Howard
Jackson: Nikki

Who would you have a one night stand with?
Nikki: Elizabeth!
Kellan: Bella’s Mum (actress Sarah Clark)
Ashley: Can I say Jackson again? Although I don’t have one night stands!
Jackson: Elizabeth

Which is the gender cliché that you’re embarrassed to say you succumb to?
Nikki: I actually really enjoy putting on make-up, not because I think I look better, but I really like art and painting.
Kellan: Football, sport in general. Although I have a lot of female friends who are into football just as much as me, that’s why I love hanging out with the girls, they get so into it and that’s sexy to me.
Jackson: I can’t clean. I really can’t, I’m not very good at it, I’m actually a poor cleaner. My level of cleanliness is far below most, I wear the same pants every day, I get at least 2-3 wearings out of my socks. Not in a row – they sit in my dirty pile.
Ashley: My dog is spoilt, I buy him clothes. I love girl movies and girl wine. I definitely get very excited over clothes, like really excited.

What’s the gender cliché you go against?
Nikki: I like clothes if I’m handed them, I don’t like shopping. I get bored really easily, like having to go through things and looking through racks. I’d much rather eat than shop.
Kellan: I am the worst at packing. If I’m going to the beach, it’ll take me like an hour to pack my stuff like my towels, bathing suits and games.
Jackson: I’m not into sports. I used to play a lot of baseball as a kid but I’ve never followed it I was always much more into art.
Ashley: I’m a real college football girl and I like hockey games. They’re really brutal but I enjoy them. I was a tomboy when I was growing up, I climbed trees and stuff.

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What do you like best about playing Jasper?
Jasper is very conservative in a lot of ways, in terms of how he projects himself around humans, because he’s not comfortable around humans yet. It’s a lot of fun to play someone on the verge of breaking because you have to hold back and it’s interesting because there’s always something going on with Jasper. He’s trying to become a good vampire. He’s at a place where most of the other vampires, in terms of the Cullen family, have already gone through it and he’s kind of that weird missing link between James and Dr. Cullen, I feel.

What was it like when you first met the rest of the cast?
It was great. I happened to have already known Kellan for some time. Kellan and I are good friends. Ashley is just one of the easiest girls to get along with – sweetest person in the world. Miss Nikki Reed is probably one of my favorite people. I’ve been playing a lot of music with her. The girl’s got an incredible raw ability to write songs. We started writing some music together back at the hotel and since then she’s kept it up and we did a little recording session back in LA. Peter Facinelli is Dr. Cullen. He’s the most compassionate guy. He took Nikki and I out for Indian food once. I had never eaten Indian food and I had no idea what to order so he helped us out. He’s a great guy. Elizabeth Reaser as Esme is also an incredibly sweet girl. She was so sweet to us. We had a family unit. Everybody kind of played a part. We’re all extremely different, but that’s kind of how all families are, but we all come together. Rob and I have been playing a lot of music together, with Kristen as well. Kristen also plays the guitar. It was a very musical cast. We were always hanging out and playing. Good times!

How would you describe your own music?
Oh, eclectic – very! It depends on which band you’re talking about. (Laughs) There’s my solo work which is all rhythms basically, blues or Southern rock, or funky blues I’d say. I mainly play guitar or harmonica and then I’ll add a little banjo, mandolin or yukelele. I play a lot of folk instruments. And then with my band it’s called 100 Monkeys and it’s all improvised music. It’s one hundred percent one take, one track, no redos, just jamming and singing and making it up as we go. It’s my roommate and I and we’re both actors and musicians and songwriters so we’ve always done a lot of improv so we took a little bit of the theatrical improv and rock ‘n roll and put it together.

Do you ever find the acting roles you have influence the songs you write?
Oh definitely. It’s nice to being able to go out on location and be in a different city, in a different environment and with different people and that really influences how I wrote. With Twilight I was playing a very visceral, angry, kinda silent character so I  was writing much more music during that time than I was lyrically, but I pumped out probably a good 12 songs while I was in Portland.

How did you discover the rest of the costars were into music?
Well, I never go anywhere without bringing my guitar. I suppose I project that I’m a musician because I’m walking around with my guitar at all times. A couple of the other cast members would say, “Oh, you play guitar? I play guitar!” I’d just kind of hand off the guitar to Rob and he’d show me some of the stuff he’s playing and working on and writing and Kristen is a pretty phenomenal guitarist. She played in the movie Into the Wild so I actually knew she was a musician before. With Nikki she kind of discovered she was a songwriter. She was pretty modest when she talked about music. She said she’s just been dabbling in songwriting and learning to play the guitar. Oh yeah, she’s learning to play the guitar and she started a lot of songwriting in Portland. We worked on some stuff together and she’s just so fantastic to work with. She’s sweet and she knows what she wants and she has a really great take on the way music and lyrics and the vocals and melodies follow one another. I think musicians kind of sniff each other out real quick.

Are there any quirks you can reveal about any of the cast?
We’re all very outgoing. We’re all quirky in different ways. Like Kellan, for instance, he’s this big jock looking guy but if you sit down and talk to the guy for more than five minutes you understand that the guy has a lot more going on inside his head. He’s a real smart kid. He kept talking a lot about haiku books and old Japanese haiku artists. I suppose would be the appropriate terminology. We’ve all got a lot of different things going on in terms of not just being actors.

Since Twilight is a guilty pleasure for so many people, what’s your personal guilty pleasure?
Bad television – any kind of reality show, I guess. I don’t have cable or even basic cable hooked up in my house because if there’s any sort of television, I will watch it.

It seems like you really keep yourself busy – between the Twilight saga and a lot of indie movies!
It’s the only thing I know how to do. If I’m not busy I’m bored and I can’t stand being bored. If I’m not acting I’m playing music. If I’m not playing music then I’m acting. And if I’m not doing either then, whew, I’m probably dead! That would be a bad day.

Jackson: Hello?

Ily (Interviewer): Hello, is this Jackson?

Jackson: Yes it is Jackson.

Ily: Hi Jackson, this is Ily from Volvocast, the Brazilian ‘Twilight’ podcast.

Jackson: Ohh hello, how are you doing?

Ily: I’m fine, and you?

Jackson: I’m doing well, doing well, had a good New Year’s, how was yours?

Ily: Oh it was great, thank you! Oh, Happy New Year, by the way!

Jackson: Happy New Year! Happy 2009.

Ily: Thank you. Ok, before we start, I just have to say that I really appreciate you taking this time, and that Jasper is my favourite character in the Twilight series; so it’s really an honour to be speaking with you.

Jackson: Oh, thank you so much, I really appreciate that.

Ily: Ok, as I told you, our show is called Volvocast, so my first question is – Have you ever driven a Volvo?

Jackson: A Volvo? I haven’t… Or maybe I have? I’m not sure. I drive a lot of my friend’s cars just for fun.

Ily: Oh nice! Awesome.

Jackson: I don’t, myself, have a Volvo, no.

Ily: Ok, that’s fine. How has your life changed after Twilight?

Jackson: Oh, it hasn’t changed too much. I get recognised a little bit, here and there. Coming home was a lot of fun. A lot of my friends were finally able to see my work, and that’s nice for my friends and family to be able to, you know, see me doing what I love to do (mumbled) It’s been good.

Ily: That’s great. Well there has been some rumours about New Moon and Eclipse being filmed together next year, do you know anything about it?

Jackson: Oh, I don’t know quite anything about that just yet, but I believe we’re going to get started on New Moon in March, so its coming up here pretty soon, and that’ll be a lot of fun, to be able to get them both out as quick as possible.

Ily: Great. We know that Jasper doesn’t get a lot of screen time in New Moon, but he’s crucial for Edward’s decision to leave Bella. Are you looking forward to filming that scene?

Jackson: Oh I am, very much so. I’ve been looking forward to it ever since I read that part of the book, and it’s just uh, ingrained in my mind of who Jasper is, and finally he breaks. All that guilt, you know, that immediate guilt, and uh yeah, I’m very excited – I’ve been thinking about that scene a lot.

Ily: Oh great – me too. What other scenes in the next movies are you most excited to film?

Jackson: Oh well, uh, I think all of it. It’s going to be interesting, getting into the werewolves, and kind of seeing how that transformation takes place, and what they do. I think it’s going to be amazing.

Ily: Uh, we checked your playlist on iTunes, and realised that you have a song from a Brazilian band in it – ‘A Minha Menina’ by Os Mutantes.

Jackson: Os Mutantes?

Ily: Yes.

Jackson: Ah ok, yes, I do love that song, I’ve got to admit, so… fantastic. I originally heard it as a cover by another, a different band, called A Band Of Bees, they covered that song, and I looked into the song, and a friend told me that Os Mutantes did it and it was better, and uh…it was.

Ily: Yeah they’re a great band.

Jackson: Original’s always better.

Ily: Yes, I agree. Um ok, there were lots of screaming girls at the Twilight Premiere in November, and Robert Pattinson says that he’s always uncomfortable when people are screaming like that. How do you feel about it?

Jackson: It’s a little bit unnerving, but at the same time it’s nice to see that there’s so much support. These girls, you know, and all these fans, boy and girl fans alike. We got women and men too! They all love it, they all really love it – and to see that love and appreciation for a piece of art that we’re doing, it’s really inspiring. If it can reach that many people, there’s something to it.

Ily: Have you always known you wanted to be an actor, or did you just wake up one day and say ‘Hey, I’m going to act!’

Jackson: Well, uh, my sisters, when I was young, they did theatre, and so I was bored and my parents said ‘You should go do theatre. I said no. I ended up joining the acting troupe building sets, I was kind of a set mover behind the scenes in theatre shows. Then after a year of that, I kind of was interested in trying out to be on stage myself and so I auditioned for one of the plays and I got in, and I kind of fell in love with it right then. Well I was really young, I was probably about 14 at that point and I always loved the theatre and right then at that moment I was like ‘Oh, this is what I want to do.’

Ily: Awesome. For you, what is the best part of being an actor?

Jackson: The best part, I’d say, of being an actor, would probably be the ability to kind of walk in someone else’s shoes. You know, get in someone else’s mindset, to experience something extreme, or you know, to experience all these different emotions and have the licence to do it, and to play characters. I always loved make-believe I suppose.

Ily: Great. Can you tell us a little bit about your character in ‘Dread’?

Jackson: Oh, my character in ‘Dread’? Yeah… His name’s Stephen Grace, he’s a film student and he’s kind of an outcast, but self-imposed. He doesn’t really, you know, make an effort to talk to anybody, he kind of has a really solitary life, but he wants to make documentaries. Another guy comes in – Quaid – with the idea of making a documentary about fear, you know, people’s deepest dread. Then Stephen gets pushed to the limit a lot of times, they all do. It’s a really, kind of… it starts off almost like a Kinsey study of fear, and then it gets into this really kind of dark, uh… well, it’s been compared to ‘Saw’ I think. So yeah, it gets a little dark at times, but it was fun. It was a lot of fun to do, Anthony DiBlasi is an amazing director, and we just had so much fun filming that movie, and I think it’s going to make people feel something.

Ily: Great. Do you have any funny stories? While you were filming it?

Jackson: Hey, funny stories? Well, um, there was a couple of things but, you know like, behind the scenes, just having some fun with the other cast members. The first night, we all got together and did a big read through, we had a pizza party while we read through all the script, and the script is very heavy, it’s very dark at times, so we had to add some levity and make it a little fun, and we read the script in funny accents. We were kind of like, making stuff up and using weird voices, eating pizza. Just having a good old time, you know?

Ily: Yeah, very good. There has been some rumours, Jackson, that you might have a role in a movie called ‘The Last Airbender’. Is it true?

Jackson: Oh, well, um… I can’t really say anything yet. It’s kind of um… I am working on some pretty heavy negotiations for another franchise, yes. I can’t really say any more than that, you know? I have to be a little coy, I’m sorry.

Ily: Ok, well, good luck with that. Do you have any big plans for 2009, besides filming New Moon and releasing a CD with your band?

Jackson: Well, uh, those are our biggest plans right now. We’re really focussed on the band right now – we’re going to be in the studio all of January, recording, so we’re going to have something out real soon, and we’re probably going to release a little ‘tribute to the fans’ EP coming out even sooner. Some old completely improvised music that we put up on our myspace (www.myspace.com/these100monkeys) that people have been listening to. We’ve been getting wonderful feedback (mumbles) and then we’re going to get another EP out. So we’re going to be trying to pump out as much music as possible, which is going to be a lot of fun. 100 Monkeys is a huge part of my life, it’s a passion, a definite passion.

Ily: It’s a great band, I love it.

Jackson: Oh, thank you!

Ily: Could you tell Brazil a little bit about 100 Monkeys, because not many people here know it… yet.

Jackson: Oh no? Well we would love to come down to Brazil and play. We have a couple, we saw on our myspace page, we have a few Brazilian fans that leave comments saying ‘Come to Brazil’ and we definitely hope we can do that sometime. Maybe, you know, if we get enough requests we can go there in the summer!

Ily: Oh, I’ll work on that for you!

Jackson: Oh thank you, that’d be fantastic!

Ily: Ok well, I know the next question is a stupid question, but people would kill me if I didn’t ask you this, so I apologise in advance. A while ago in our podcast, we were talking about stupid questions, and the other hosts, my friends, they asked me what I’d ask you if I ever got the chance to interview you, and I was joking around and I said that I would ask you who your favourite Power Ranger is, and yeah, I’m sorry!

Jackson: Oh no, my problem is, I am familiar with the show, but I’m kind of colourblind, so I mix up the power rangers. I mix up colours all the time, so, uh, I don’t know.

Ily: Oh, you could say blue!

Jackson: Ok, can I say blue? Is that your favourite?

Ily: Yes!

Jackson: Ok, sweet! Well let’s go with blue.

Ily: Great! I told them you would say blue.

Jackson: Ok, well, I just said blue.

Ily: Great. Wonderful! Um, alright Jackson, well thank you very much, thank you for your time.

Jackson: Thank you. Well you have a wonderful 2009.

Ily: You too, and I look forward to seeing you in New Moon, and in your other films as well.

Jackson: Well, thank you very much.

Ily: Thank you, bye bye.

Jackson: Bye bye.

Interviewer: You been having a lot of fun with the cast yet?

Jackson: Yeah, man…

Interviewer: Party every night?

Jackson: Party, dude… We have a lot of work to do…

Interviewer: Yeah that’s true. Early call times, right?

Jackson: Yeah well, what we like to do is keep everything in moderation.

Interviewer: Yeah, for sure! That was a hell of a Mohawk I saw on TV!

Jackson: Did you like that?!

Interviewer: Yeah, it was crazy! It was awesome man!

Jackson: Thank you…

Interviewer: How long does that take to put together??

Jackson: Well, uh, we have wonderful hair people on the set… (laughs) After I’m done shooting, they uh, we like to experiment, I suppose you could say.

Interviewer: You have to have fun with the situation, right? I mean…

Jackson: Exactly.

Interviewer: Can’t take it too seriously, right?

Jackson: I never take myself too seriously… I actually did most of my first introductions with everyone on the crew of New Moon, with my… my Mohawk. (laughs) It was longer than it is now.

Interviewer: Were you actually filming in Greenland recently?

Jackson: Uh, yeah, I was up in Greenland…

Interviewer: Yeah, that’s just like, a different adventure, right? You don’t hear about Greenland as a filming place very often!

Jackson: It is COLD!

Interviewer: Yeah, yeah?

Jackson: But the entire country looks like, uh, Haagen Dazs cookies and cream ice cream.

Interviewer: No way!

Jackson: I swear to God… (laughing)

Interviewer: You’re making me wanna go there!

Jackson: Yeah, you could take a spoon, and dip it into Greenland… (more laughing!)

Interviewer: Where you off to after Vancouver?

Jackson: Oh, to, um… Vancouver, then we go to Philadelphia.

Interviewer: Philly, yeah?

Jackson: I’m in Philadelphia… the rest of the film keeps shooting here. I’m doing another film right now…

(Talking over each other)

Interviewer: I also heard you earlier today when you were talking to the girl at the hotel, and you were telling her about doing a tour in Texas with the band?

Jackson: Yep, we might be shooting a little tour in Texas, coming up…

Interviewer: Is this like a national, or just in Texas type tour?

Jackson: Well, it’ll be basically just in Texas. What we’re trying to do right now is we’re trying to hit the west coast, and then we’re gonna go head to the east coast, over in like, you know, Philadelphia, we have ‘Just Sports’ Burlington (A.N. – Please note, this venue has now changed)…

Interviewer: Yeah? Must have an NYC show somewhere in there…

Jackson: Yup, we do, we do… We’re kind of keeping it all quiet now.

Interviewer: Banana man, the manager!

Interviewer: Banana man! Big plans… You got big plans cooking up for the band?

Marty: Oh, course… Going through jungles and shit like that.

Jackson: Been telling then about the east coast, like, right now, we’re going for the west coast, then we’re gonna go for the east coast.

Marty: East coast is gonna be awesome!

Jackson: East coast will be beautiful.

Marty: We got Philly, we JUST got another one, it’s all finalised now and confirmed.

Interviewer: You guys playing Brooklyn, NYC, Bowery Room or something like that?

Marty: Hopefully Brook… Hopefully Manhattan… We got a…

Jackson: Well we’re looking at it right now, what we’d honestly love to do is just basically say ‘Hey listen, two weeks, three weeks..’ We put it on our myspace, we put it to the fans, because we love playing music, but you can’t play music without people to listen to you. You know, it’s like you can’t be an actor without people to act to. You need these things, and for us, it’s like, we like to give the audience power. We like to say, ‘Hey, we wanna go play this place, it’s convenient for us to be here at this time, could you help us out?’ and that’s exactly how we do it.

Interviewer: Oh really? No way. That’s awesome.

Jackson: Our fans are amazing.

Marty: This, and the Rio Theater. We were like, well, we’re having trouble getting in touch with venues, like…

Interviewer: No one returned your call, and all of a sudden, like ‘Heyyy I booked you guys for a gig’…

Marty: I actually mentioned to another manager that I was doing cold calls to theatres and he’s like ‘Really? You actually do that??’ and I was like ‘Yeah dude, I work hard for these guys!’

Interviewer: Yeah… awesome job…

Marty: Yeah, but, umm, this, really these venues, I was like ‘Hey guys, we really wanna play Vancouver, what venues do you recommend, can you help us?’ and eventually they were like ‘Hey, we got these gigs for you’… We were like, ‘We’ll take them’.

Interviewer: Yeah, the Rio Theater is a good one for you guys.

Marty: Oh we’re really excited.

Jackson: We’re stoked.

Interviewer: It’s an all ages show, too. That’s gonna be crazy, all the kids out there.

Interviewer: Jackson, you ever wear the banana suit?

Jackson: Be careful…

Interviewer: Go to the Rio in the banana suit, come on!

Jackson: For our music video, we have a uh… Our website is in maintenance right now…

Interviewer: Yeah.

Jackson: It’s been through many hands, we haven’t been satisfied and we’re trying to work on something that has a little bit of, um you know, 100 Monkeys…

Interviewer: Websites are tough!

Marty: It is, it’s very tough…

Jackson: And none of us are computer savvy. We just play instruments and have ideas and all that.

(Talking over each other)

Jackson: like, we have ideas but we cannot do it on a computer. (laughing) So basically we’re trying to get that set up, but we’re going to have a music video that’s um…

Interviewer: You guys are all gonna be in banana suits?

All: Ahhhhhh!

Marty: Don’t know WHAT you’re talking about…

(Talking over each other)

Jackson: We have a music video to a song called ‘Slow Down’ which is on our album ‘Monster De Lux’, which is on iTunes, and it’s directed by Will Schmidt…

Interviewer: Oh ok…

Interviewer: Oh seriously?

Jackson: Yeah dude… Will SCHMIDT not… (laughing – it seems the interviewer thought Jackson meant Will SMITH) nah it’s Will Schmidt, he’s another good friend of ours.

Interviewer: You say it quick and people will be impressed!

Interviewer: (talks fast) WILL SCHMIDT…

Jackson: …. directed our music video. ‘We just wanna say thank you to Will… SCHMIDT.’ And, uh, thanks Will.

(laughing)

Jackson: No, but we uh, we got some good people around us. Its like, what we’ve always wanted to do with our careers, and um, our art.

Interviewer: Yeah.

(Talking over each other)

Interviewer: So it is music first or movies first? I you had to make the decision tomorrow?

Jackson: I’m gonna have my cake and I’m gonna eat it too, and I don’t even like cake!

Interviewer: That’s awesome!

Interviewer: Thanks for your time…

Jackson: Oh yeah, cheers… I’m probably gonna head inside but thank you once again.

When MTV News recently visited the London set of “Dread,” based on a short story by the twisted mind behind “Hellraiser” and “Candyman,” things weren’t looking good for the 23-year-old actor who shot to stardom last month portraying earnest vampire Jasper Hale. But, as Jackson was eager to tell us, life has never been better.

“This has been a fun movie to work on,” he smiled, pretending for a moment that he wasn’t soaked in Karo syrup. “It’s my first leading-man role. I was always a character actor when I was in theater as a kid, and I’ve done a lot of character roles in television shows and whatnot. But this is a character that has a lot of development, a lot of progression. … I like roles that I can sink my teeth into.”

Like so many of his “Twilight” friends, Rathbone can now satiate his hunger as only a young star coming off a hot Hollywood film can. But rather than cashing in with generic romantic comedies or action flicks, he has chosen to partake in Barker’s psychological thriller that tells the tale of Stephen (Rathbone), Quaid (Shaun Evans) and Cheryl (Hanne Steene), three college kids making a documentary about the origins of fear — until one decides that the only way to get to the truth is by extracting dread from those around him.

” ‘Dread’ is a Kinsey-esque study of fear,” the star explained of the plot, which is already being loosely compared to the “Saw” films’ exploration of the lengths people will go to for survival. “We’re setting up this fear study, and what we do is we interview people about their greatest fears and their dreads. The film starts out in this sweet college and then gets darker as people start having to live through their fears. A lot of times, it makes them stronger or it breaks them. That’s what this film is about: It’s about facing your fears and seeing what happens.”

And the bottom line, according to Rathbone, is that he had never read a script quite like it before.

“It’s not that typical romance, love-triangle thing — which is what I’d really like to stay away from,” Jackson laughed while discussing the decades-old story by Barker, as well as the film version being overseen by director Anthony DiBlasi. “I’ve always loved the horror genre. As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to really watch TV, let alone horror. I come from a fairly conservative background, and so I had to sneak away to watch movies like ‘The Terminator’ when I was 10 years old, and when I was about 13, 14, a good friend of mine gave me a George A. Romero box set with ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Day of the Dead.’ I loved those movies, but I had to hide them under my bed as a kid.

“If my parents saw them, they would have grounded me for months,” he remembered. “They didn’t want certain images ingrained in my mind.”

Now, Rathbone is hard at work bringing himself to death’s door and hoping a portion of his sizable fanbase will similarly risk getting grounded to see the film when it comes to theaters next year. “I really have to give all props to my fans, because they’ve really been so supportive of me,” he explained. ” ‘Twilight’ has given me, and a lot of the other actors on ‘Twilight,’ a much wider fanbase, and they’ve been so supportive of us, and that’s really what we need. As an actor, you need an audience to practice your craft. A painter can paint alone, a photographer can take pictures alone, a musician can play — but as an actor, you need someone to watch you, and we couldn’t have a better audience. … I’ve been able to do a lot more films because of them.”

But whereas “Twilight” famously took the fangs off vampires and portrayed the Cullens as vegetarians whose bloodlust could be held in check by the occasional woodland-creature buffet, “Dread” seeks no such horror suppression. “Several of us go through a lot of prosthetics in this film,” Rathbone explained. “It’s really good. I mean, it looks real, and it’s fairly horrific.

“And when you’re off camera, it’s fun to chase someone around covered in blood,” he joked. “That’s a lot of fun.”

But don’t think that all this blood and gore will make “Dread” a completely different film than “Twilight,” as Rathbone said both films share similarly shadowy undertones. “There’s something about playing darker, like a vampire, or somebody like Stephen who’s just kind of wrapped up in death,” he compared. “With Stephen, it’s the death of his brother, and he’s trying to get over that. With Jasper in ‘Twilight,’ it’s about controlling the urges to feed and trying to establish that humanity. I think that’s what I really love about playing a darker character, finding the humanity. Because we all have dark sides of ourselves, and if we let that control us, then we’re never gonna be happy. It’s about finding the balance.”

Based on Rathbone’s diverse marathon of filming a “Donnie Darko” sequel, “Dread” and “New Moon” back-to-back-to-back, as well as his continued participation in the band 100 Monkeys, finding a balance doesn’t seem to be a problem for this fast-rising star.

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Identity Theft

“I stay away from Facebook and MySpace. Whenever I go out with a friend, they’re like ‘I didn’t know you had a MySpace.’ I don’t have a MySpace. There’s actually three MySpaces for Jackson Rathbone. I don’t know who these people are but they’re not me!”
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
“I got my butt kicked a few times by my sisters. But I grew up so southern that my father would say, ‘You take it like a man.’ And I’d be like, ‘Oh, what? I’m 5!’ But it was interesting. My dad always taught me to treat my girlfriends the way I wanted my sisters to be treated by their boyfriends. They always taught me a really wonderful level of respect that’s not common these days.”

Protective Brother
“When it comes to my sisters’ boyfriends, I’m either cool with them or my sisters know that I hate them. I’m pretty blunt with them and to the point. Back in high school, there were a couple of boys my sisters had and man, I let them know I didn’t like them. I was pretty upfront but my dad always had it right. Whenever my sisters brought them over to the house for the first time, he’d be teaching me how to clean the shotguns.”

Country Boy
“I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.”

Weather Man
“We had a lot of weather issues on the set of Twilight. One day we really needed the clouds to cover the sun, so we started doing a cloud dance, initiated by our director. We started dancing around and the extras really got into it. The entire set was dancing. And a few minutes later the clouds came, so it might’ve worked.”

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TEEN: In the movie they never talk about Jasper’s vampire abilities. Why?
Jackson: Well it doesn’t really come out too much in the book. It’s one of those things were it’s understood but in the third book it really comes out like the back story and everything. I think one of the things we didn’t want to get too much into was focusing on all the other vampires. We wanted really to establish this relationship and how she (Bella) gets sucked into the world of the Cullen family and once she’s in the world that’s when things kind of start coming out.

One of the things about Jasper is he doesn’t use the ability all the time. It’s something that he’s very strict about using because it’s like an invasion of privacy to make someone feel something, to manipulate emotions.

TEEN: Did you enjoy your fight sequence?
Jackson: Oh, I loved it! It kind of has that male side of me that’s kind of like, yes, finally go crazy, because Jasper is very reserved, one of the late comers who’s come into this vegetarian vampire lifestyle. Whenever we would sit around the lunch table while we were filming, us Cullen kids would kind of joke around about how we can take everybody out in the cafeteria in about 15 minutes.

TEEN: Did you enjoy physically changing your appearance to play Jasper?
Jackson: I really enjoyed it. I was always a character actor when I was in theatre. I kind of find that it helps the audience, especially with Jasper. I mean I’m not actually blonde so I had to bleach my hair blonde. I’m fairly pale. I’m more of an indoor sports kind of guy you. I’m a musician so I spent most of my time awake at night and in the recording studio tucked away from the sun.

But I really do love to change appearances for a lot of the characters I play.

TEEN: What’s up next for you? You seem to keep really busy!
Jackson: Well I’ve got some stuff that I am really not supposed to talk about, I’m not allowed to say. I will say that our band (100 Monkeys) will be focusing a lot more in terms of getting out our actual written album out there. We have an album we’re in the middle of mixing and mastering right now which is a complete jam session album of all improvised music, including improvised lyrics, so everything in the song is one take, one track, you don’t get a redo. It’s kind of like the way Jack White produced Loretta Lynn for her album. We kind of took that idea and ran with it. We’re mixing that album and hopefully will start playing out a lot more.

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So we don’t really see his special powers in this one.

Jackson Rathbone: “Oh no.”

Why?

Jackson Rathbone: “We’ve a lot to do in this film and Jasper’s powers are one of those that you don’t really want to give up right on the onset. I think, hopefully, we get to do the second and third film and by the third film I think it’ll be very obvious. However I think we do a little subtleties here and there. I don’t know if you catch up on them but whenever Jasper meets Bella for the first time inside the Cullen house, there’s a little bit of a moment. It’s a slight, very subtle thing that Catherine [Hardwicke] worked on with all of us.”

It’s not something that you can outwardly show anyway.

Jackson Rathbone: “You know, it has to do with other people. It’s the ability to manipulate emotions. Maybe if turned around they’d yell all scream.”

Are you tired of signing your autograph yet?

Jackson Rathbone: “You know, no, but I think my hands have gone numb.”

So why do you think people love Twilight so much?

Jackson Rathbone: “I think everybody’s always attracted to the vampire genre. I’ve always been, myself. And the mythology of being immortal and invulnerable basically, it’s something extreme. I’ve always been attracted to extremes in life and in stories and art. I think that’s why people are here because it’s extreme yet at the same time, it’s grounded in morality.”

Did you miss not having fangs?

Jackson Rathbone: “You know, I was worried because that was going to be a mess. I’d be talking like this the entire time. I have fangs in my mouth and I can’t speak properly. No, no, no. We all talked about that and we’re really happy because it makes it more realistic, a little bit more modern, you know?”

Why does it make it more modern?

Jackson Rathbone: “Because it’s always been the old fairy tale that Nosferatu has these long fangs or Buffy the Vampire Slayer where their faces go and the forehead and the teeth grow out. So it’s like we’re in a new age, a new age that says, ‘Hey, you’ve got some pretty nice canines. I’ve got some pretty good canines. We can sink our teeth into some flesh. We could do some damage, couldn’t we?’”

Are you ready for New Moon?

Jackson Rathbone: “I don’t know if anybody is. I don’t know what’s going on with it. I think that we’re going to wait until tonight and then we’re going to figure that all out.”

But you’re hoping?

Jackson Rathbone: “Of course. Yeah.”

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Peter Facinelli: We did like a week of testing all the different kinds of makeup. The makeup team was phenomenal and the actors were very patient. We worked it out. But they had some kind of gadget from Japan and it was like an ionizer and it was weird because, as they put the makeup on you, if they touched you, you would get shocked. It was one of the those things were you had to be very careful but, then again, it was early in the morning so if you did get shocked, it kind of woke you up a little bit. The makeup was part of the transformation. For me it was blonde in a bottle. That took a good day at the salon.

Nikki Reed: You’re lucky.

Peter Facinelli: Yeah, some of us had to go back to the salon more than others. With the touch ups, with the roots, it was a lot of maintenance, high maintenance, but it was a fun transformation. It was fun to see myself looking so differently with the contact lenses, with the light skin. I remember getting washed up at the end of the night and someone had seen me and they didn’t know I had just played Dr. Cullen all day long and they were like ‘That was you?’ So that was fun.

Q: Were there any bloopers?

Nikki Reed: Ashley hit a cameraman with a baseball.

Ashley Greene: I did.

Nikki Reed: I had to fly on the cables while I was running and it wasn’t until I was up in the air that I realized that my arms and legs aren’t coordinated. Like, I don’t know which arm goes with which leg when I’m in the air.

Peter Facinelli: We didn’t have time for bloopers, it was a very fast-paced shoot; we were weather dependent so whenever we had clouds we had to go.

Q: No food fights in the cafeteria?

Nikki: That was not allowed. Hair and make-up would have killed us!

Jackson Rathbone: We had the Cloud Dance though. We were fighting the weather and we can’t be in direct sunlight because of certain vampire tendencies.

Ashley Greene: We had to prepare for like four days at once for when we had weather cover. If it was raining, everyone was running for this, and there are some times, because it’s Portland, it would rain and then the sun would come out and then it would start hailing and the whole crew was always running around.

Peter Facinelli. Yeah, we’d go through four seasons in one day.

Nikki Reed: There was a lot of hanging out, a lot of contacts being stuck in eyeballs. We had to pull contacts out of eyes. I was at the hair salon, I don’t know if any of you have seen a photo of me as Rosalie but, yeah, it took 36 hours for me to become half blonde, that was just half of my head.

Q: Any embarrassing moments?

Peter Facinelli: You’ll have to ask Rob about embarrassing moments. His baseball stuff was embarrassing. He had never played baseball so the baseball so it was very awkward for him to squat so it was basically fun yet painful to watch him go through that. But he finally got it and he looked great at it. To his credit, he had, what, a week to learn to play the game.

Q: You mentioned the contacts, were those painful?

Peter Facinelli: If you notice [Kellen] has very small eyes and they gave him contacts that were like this (he holds up a three-inch round Voss water bottle top) so you wanna stick this in your eye?

Kellen Lutz: And I’d never worn glasses or contacts but my whole family has and they told me ‘Oh, it’ll be easy. It was really tough. I wasn’t able to do it myself (put the contacts in).

Peter Facinelli: We had two people tying him down in a chair.

Kellen Lutz: Prying my eyes open, saying ‘think happy thoughts’. I don’t know what they did but they got them in.

Peter: With a crowbar.

Q: Can you talk about the wire work? Was it challenging?

Ashley Greene: Wire work was amazing. Super fun. It’s not that difficult to take to. We rehearsed it twenty times…

Kellen Lutz: It’s tough for guys.

Ashley Greene: I got lucky on that part.

Nikki Reed: It was painful for me.

Ashley Greene: Really? Oh yeah…I guess that’s true.

Nikki Reed: Yes. Well, you’re putting on this suit that’s like 15 pounds and then it’s like a girdle, you’re being strapped into this thing and then you’re hooked up to like 40 cables and then they go ‘Okay, ready? 1, 2, 3” and then they lift you into the air and they’re like ‘Camera’s not ready’ and you’re just chillin’ in the air, dangling all of your weight.

Ashley: I think the first couple of takes were kind of embarrassing actually.

Peter Facinelli: I didn’t do harnesses stuff on this but I’ve done harnesses in other things and I think the hard thing would be, or has been for me, trying to look eloquent as you’re like going through the air and meanwhile you’re kind of flailing around. So, you’re trying to make it look right.

Nikki Reed: Yeah, I just felt retarded. I felt like I needed to have a conversation with each one of my legs.

Ashley: You actually had to run in it too and jump on a balcony.

Nikki Reed: I have some behind-the-scenes footage that’s kind of funny. I felt a little silly. Rob and I had quite a few laughs.

Jackson Rathbone: I thought it was kind of like getting paid to go to the amusement park, fun.

Q: What movie or TV show did you all think of before you did Twilight when thinking about vampires?

Jackson Rathbone: The Lost Boys.

Kellen Lutz: Yeah.

Peter Facinelli: Underworld.

Ashley Greene: Interview with the Vampire.

Nikki Reed: “True Blood”.

Peter Facinelli: I say Underworld because that was my idea of a vampire movie before Twilight. It was all fangs and gore and guts. When I read “Twilight”, it was more of a throwback to the Bela Lugosi, beautiful images and sensuality and mystique which was what I liked about it.

Q. Did you guys see the fan’s responses to your casting and do you read blogs about yourself?

Nikki Reed: (laughing) I can’t look. I know you hear a lot of people say that but I actually can’t look. Now I am Rosalie and now there’s posters and people who haven’t read the books can read them and put my face to that character but I think we all experienced a little bit of this. You know when you’ve got 20 million people reading a book and each one of them has their own (idea). It’s not like when you’re playing a real person, like you’re impersonating somebody and so they had characteristics and mannerisms that you can imitate. When you’re playing a character in a book, everybody has their own idea of that person and every single one is different. So you just have to come to terms with it. You’re not going to be that for everybody but now, we are that.

Ashley Greene: They did a fantastic job in transforming all of us.

Nikki Reed: Yeah. I had the biggest transformation out of everybody. I actually dyed my hair blonde and bleached my skin. Everything of mine that I associate with myself like my mole; that was all gone. So I had to look in the mirror and see a different person every day. Oh, your question was about blogs…

Peter Facinelli: I think we all peeked at the blogs because I remember talking about it and I was like ‘Wow, they hate all of us…except for Ashley Greene.’ Ashley Greene they loved from the get-go.

Ashley Greene: Aw. Except I was too tall.

Peter Facinelli: But even with Ashley they would nit-pick and there was always something and, like Nikki said, everyone has their idea of these characters. There are actors that they had in their heads that they wanted to play it so and all of a sudden they had this cast thrown upon them and they were like ‘What?’ To Catherine’s credit, she didn’t just say ‘This guy’s blonde, he can play Dr, Carlisle.’ If you had blonde hair, you dyed it brown. If you had brown hair, you dyed it blonde. Catherine had a vision; these are the actors that have the qualities of these characters that I’m looking for and I can make them look like the characters in the book, and she did that. And people, once they saw the transformations, then they came on board. But, at first, because none of us looked like our characters, they were against all of us.

Nikki Reed: Now, I think all the fans are pretty happy.

Q: Had any of you read any of the books before you were cast and when did you realize you were part of such a phenomenon?

Ashley: I actually read the first one before my first meeting. I wasn’t aware of them before that but my management told me this is a really great opportunity. It has the potential to be big but they didn’t send the script out so I read the book in a day and a half and fell in love with it and read the second and third, just because I wanted to so I get why people are so in love with it so yeah, when I finally got cast in the part, I was ecstatic and cried. I didn’t realize it was going to be such a huge deal until we were filming in Portland and my mom was like “Do you have a fan site?” and I’m like “People don’t know who I am” so this is a pleasant surprise.

Q: How did you guys bond to form the family dynamic?

Ashley Greene: Peter’s the daaaad.

Peter Facinelli: I’m the father. I’m the daddy. We spent a lot of time together in rehearsals , a lot of time helping each other out. I think there’s a bond there because we all respected each other as actors and we all respected each other as people but we all really enjoy each other’s company. I mean, when I see them, they put a smile on my face. I have a profound love, like a family love for all of the Cullens and for Bella and for Jacob. When I see this cast, it makes me happy. I just want to go over and give them a hug (the girls all go “awwwwww”) and I felt like that’s how it was when we were shooting. I enjoy them. I truly enjoy them.

Nikki: We have poker night!

Peter: Yeah. Sometimes they come over and play poker.

Jackson Rathbone: We had a lot of time to bond before.

Peter Facinelli: Yeah, we had a couple weeks to bond before.

Nikki Reed: You know what, for baseball you taught me how to slide.

Peter: Yeah, and Edward (Rob).

Nikki: That was our bonding moment. I had a really hard time learning how to slide and it was Peter. He acquired bruises all over his legs teaching me how to slide.

Peter Facinelli: It was kind of fun because I always thought Carlisle taught the family how to play baseball, brought that to them. And some of the actors didn’t know how to play and I was able to teach them so it sort of felt like Carlisle teaching his children for the first time with Rob and Nikki and you (Ashley) were pitching. She had her own professional pitching guy.

Q: Elizabeth, can you talk about getting into the mindset of being a mother when you’re clearly not old enough to be their mom?

Elizabeth Reaser: I think the backstory with me was pretty specific in the book, although I have not read the fourth book yet, of her tragic life and Carlisle saving her. She’s a really loving and warm character which is easy to conjure up with all of these cute little nuggets (Peter laughs). I have three nephews and I just thought about them a lot. It was kind of fun to have Nikki call me “mom”.

Q. Have you had any rabid fan encounters?

Peter Facinelli: I think they came to Kellen’s room.

Jackson: I think Kellen actually got a gift basket at his hotel.

Kellen Lutz: It’s definitely great being Emmett and being a part of this amazing experience of Twilight and having the fans, when we were in Oregon, somehow find our hotel rooms, especially mine and knock. I thought it was my castmates because I thought we were all going to rendezvous, get some dinner or something so I wasn’t fully prepared to answer the door and I just got out of the shower so I was kind of in a towel. Thank god I didn’t just open the door like I usually do.

Peter Facinelli: He was expecting me. (laughter)

Kellen Lutz: I heard a voice that I didn’t know and I asked who it was and they were like ‘Emmett, we’re your fans’ and they were like shaking. I could just hear them shaking and I was like ‘Oh God, hold on. Yeah, one second’ I threw some clothes on as fast as I could, opened the door and it was two lovely ladies holding a giant basket full of goodies for all of us.

Ashley Greene: Ladies. Not, not little girls.

Q: So how many nights did they stay there?

Kellen Lutz: They were staying in the room right across from me and I stopped by to say ‘thank you’.

Peter: In the towel?

Kellen: (laughing) No! I think they were there for three nights.

Q: Has anyone else had fan encounters?

Nikki Reed: I had a woman ask me if I could hold her baby for a little while because she really wanted Rosalie to hold her baby.

Peter Facinelli: Yeah, that was weird.

Nikki Reed: Yeah, I realized later in the third book, I think it’s chapter seven in the third book, it talks about how Rosalie really wanted to be a mom and have a very simple life. She never had the choice to become a vampire. I don’t know if I’m reading into it too much but this woman came up to me and was like ‘You can hold my baby’ and I was like ‘Okay’ and I’m carrying around this six month old child for like thirty minutes.

Peter Facinelli: You were carrying it for a while. I was like ‘Nikki You have to give the baby back’.

Nikki: I didn’t know where the mother went.

Peter: So we still have the baby. If you’re out there, please come get the baby (laughter). I was in Hawaii, floating on this deck. You could swim out to this deck and just kind of lay in the sun. I had my two-year-old daughter just napping on my shoulder and some girl swam out there and said ‘Are you Dr. Carlisle Cullen?’ in the middle of nowhere in Hawaii and I said ‘yeah.’ It was really funny.

Q. Peter, what did your family think of your transformation into Carlisle. Did you frighten them?

Peter Facinelli: No. They kind of like it. Except, when I first dyed my blonde hair, they didn’t even notice. I came into the house, I had my blonde hair and I said ‘What do you think?’ and they were like ‘What?’ It did nothing.

Q: Can you talk about how the look of your characters?

Elizabeth: It’s so specific the way these characters are written. I feel that Stephenie did all the work for us.

Jackson: It’s more realistic in a lot of ways, not having normal vampire teeth and all that.

Peter: No. It was banned from the start I thought.

Nikki: There was a time when it was just discussed.

Peter: All right, (he makes hissing cat noise) Okay, Rosalie.

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Nikki Reed: I got excited about that idea like what is separating us from the kids at school? You read the book and there are certain descriptions about the dark purple under their eyes and their intimidating beauty and you get there and you think, ‘How are we actually going to do this? How are we going to put purple under their eyes and not have us look like a bunch of freaks at school and how can we incorporate old clothing from the ’30’s and ’40’s. (To Ashley) you and I dealt with this a lot. We really wanted to bring that element to it. But we just stood out too much. In the books, it works but when you actually put it together visually, it was almost too much. We stood out too much.

Ashley Greene: Their fair skin. We’re supposed to be these exquisite people but we’re also supposed to be these people trying to fit in.

Nikki Reed: We’d lighten all our features up and then go and put make-up on top of it to make it look like we’re trying to fit in and then was that too much?

Q: Have you guys signed on for 4 movies?

Nikki Reed: Three. We’re signed for three. The fourth book wasn’t out so it’s three.

Peter Facinelli: Going back to what he said, the interesting thing for me about the movie was less exploring the vampire world and more about vampires trying to explore humanity. Them trying to act human, so there’s a lot of humanity that gets explored in the movie. Whereas, in other vampire movies, it’s all about vampires and sucking blood and teeth and that’s not this movie at all. What’s so nice to see, being an old guy, in the younger generation is, the actors I worked with here they really came on board to do their part and they were dedicated and were passionate about it and that’s nice because sometimes you get young actors together and they’re like ‘Whoopie, we get to go out and party and have a good time and, look, they’re throwing money at us’ but for this I felt like everybody was there to work as hard as they can to be truthful to the books. Rob and Kristen were so dedicated and focused, they would meet after hours to talk about the next day’s next scenes. It was really wonderful to see.

Q: Did any of your get any alone time with Stephenie to talk about your characters?

Kellan: I think we all did. She was always there for us. Hey, what can I say. She found my hotel room.

Peter: She knocked on his door (laughing).

Kellen: She was there for all of us and, for me, I had a lot of questions for Emmett. There was a passage she wrote that I was looking at called ‘Emmett and the bear’ and it really said a lot about Emmett and Edward’s relationship and how close they really are and for me to read that and it’s not in “Twilight”, it really helped me distinguish that relationship between them. Rob and I when we’re acting, I really feel like we’re brothers and, without that, I don’t think I’d have that connection. And, just talking to her, she just gave me so much info.

Q: If any of you could have a special power like Edward or Alice does, what would it be? And, what was it like working with Rob and Kristen?

Jackson: I enjoyed my special ability. It was the ability to manipulate emotions, calm a room of very hungry vampires like all of us. And working with Rob and Kristen was just amazing. They really ignite the screen when they were together. It was just beautiful.

Ashley: On the powers, I got to have Alice’s power (seeing the future) so I was pretty happy with that.

Nikki: I think I just wanted to be Alice.

Peter: You get to be really bitchy. That’s your power. Rosalie, that’s her power.

Ashley: Wasn’t it whatever you were in your human life was enhanced?

Nikki: So what did I have?

Peter: You were feisty and beautiful.

Q: Can you talk about more upcoming projects?

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Ashley: I’m going back and forth to Louisiana working on this film called Skateland and it’s the fun ’80’s so I get to have all the hair and make-up for that. It’s a coming of age type film.

Jackson: I just flew back in from London filming a little movie called Dread, a psychological thriller. Sean Evans is another cast member from Boy A and Being Julia. It was actually a first time director and writer and it was incredible. I got taken around the English countryside. Didn’t get to go into London much but picked up a few terms here and there.

Peter: I’m doing a new Showtime series called “Nurse Jackie” with Edie Falco. I play Dr. Cooper, another doctor. I’ve graduated from cop roles. Now I only play doctors. It’s quite a different doctor than Dr. Cullen. It’s exciting and it’s a dramady. It’s different in that Dr. Carlisle is this calm presence, very knowledgeable and the patriarch of a family and Dr. Cooper is just a nervous wreck; a guy who exudes confidence on the outside but, on the inside, he has no idea what he’s doing.

Q: Why does everybody think that vampires are so intriguing?

Jackson: There’s a danger in that. If you can live forever, maybe you don’t appreciate the life that you have . What the Cullen family has come to realize is that with their immortality, they’ve lost their humanity, the ability to fulfill their lives.

Peter: I think it’s the immortality, the sensuality, the hidden sexuality of it all, that makes it intriguing……for me and hopefully, for you.

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