Rob and Kristen step out with friends

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart stepped out for dinner together with friends in Vancouver last night, where they’re filming new Twilight movie Eclipse. Rob wore one of his familiar caps to hide that messy hair, while Kristen — free of her Bella wig — was very camera shy as she was caught behind Rob through the glass door of the restaurant as they were about to leave, and then sat next to him in the car back to where they’re staying. With the couple of the covers of Interview and AnOther Man, and New Moon’s release getting ever closer, we’re just going to see more and more of these two! Source

Mag Scans: Entertainment Weekly New Moon Exclusive

Entertainment Weekly presents a Twilight Exclusive with Taylor and Kristen. Mentions of Rob are in the interview along with secrets from the New Moon Set. Visit EW to view videos from the photoshoot with Kristen and Taylor.

Kristen Stewart lies on a beige carpet, surrounded by a mess of pink roses and broken crystal. Her sweater is ripped, revealing a bloody gash on her right arm. It’s April in Vancouver, and the New Moon cast is filming Bella Swan’s climactic 18th-birthday celebration — the one cut short after an innocent paper cut turns the Cullen family, in one split second, from civilized ”vegetarian” vampires into six beastly creatures hungry for sweet human blood. Director Chris Weitz wants another take of Edward (Robert Pattinson) fighting off his vampire brother Jasper (Jackson Rathbone), as Stewart lies injured in the background. This is the third freezing night in a row that the cast has worked until dawn, but that doesn’t stop the set from feeling warm and jovial. Pattinson mugs for the movie camera between takes and teases his costar for just lying on the floor in the midst of all the vamp-on-vamp violence. ”Do you want Kristen to give us a little life back there?” he jokes to the director. Kristen smiles. ”I’m just writhing down here,” she says. ”A lot of writhing. I writhe really well.’

So do Twilight fans. Right now, for instance, millions of them around the world are writhing in delicious agony as they wait for New Moon to hit theaters on Nov. 20. Last year Twilight, the first adaptation of author Stephenie Meyer’s series, grossed close to $400 million worldwide and set Stewart and Pattinson on the road to superstardom — and superscrutiny. Now the team is back with New Moon, though the sequel is a different beast — and one that’s not as easy to tame. Meyer’s second book is steeped in heartbreak and sadness, focusing on Bella’s road to recovery after Edward smashes her heart into a million pieces and then vanishes. In addition to the melodrama, the movie has to make do with very little of the dreamy Edward Cullen. Instead, it mainly concerns the burgeoning relationship between Bella and her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who transforms into a gnarling werewolf. Pattinson couldn’t be happier with his downsized role. ”It was a stress-free job for three months,” says the actor, 23, in his charming British lilt. ”All the pressure was on Taylor.”

In truth, no one in Twilight-world should be feeling any pain. Sure, there have been some minicontroversies. First, director Weitz (The Golden Compass) replaced Twilight helmer Catherine Hardwicke. Then Lautner publicly campaigned to keep the role of Jacob as the character grew deeper (and taller). And recently, actress Rachelle Lefevre, who plays the vengeful redheaded vampire Victoria, was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the soon-to-be-shot third film in the series, Eclipse. Each of these flaps rattled fans — but seemingly only strengthened their commitment to the franchise. Could anyone doubt that New Moon will be a hit come fall? Perhaps that’s why the set feels a bit like summer camp — albeit a very cold, very dark summer camp filled with vampires and blood. ”In a weird way, there is less pressure this time around, since it’s something we know people want to see,” says producer Wyck Godfrey. Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the movies, has already proved that it will stay as true to Meyer’s vision as possible. ”I told Summit that they could probably get a talking chimp to direct New Moon, and it would still do well,” says Weitz.

Weitz replaced Hardwicke mere weeks after Twilight became a box office sensation last November. Depending upon whom you talk to, Hardwicke left the franchise either because of a scheduling conflict or because she wanted, among other things, a bigger budget for New Moon and more time in which to shoot it. What no one debates is that the studio needed a director who could handle the expanded scope of the sequel, which called for hulking werewolves and a location shoot in Italy. Summit also wanted a filmmaker well versed in special effects, particularly after the first movie was ridiculed for the scene in which Edward’s skin is exposed to sunlight and begins sparkling like he’s in a weird body-lotion commercial.

Weitz had the right F/X cred for the job. The Cambridge grad had spent three years overseeing the otherworldly creatures in his 2007 adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass. The film didn’t score with most critics, but its visual effects won an Oscar. So, with the exception of being, you know, male, Weitz seemed a good fit for New Moon. Aware that his gender is a sticking point with many fans, the director, talking on set between takes, downplays his testosterone levels. ”I’ve always made movies for women,” he says. ”I’m in the more girly gradient of male directors. The thing I’m least interested in is blowing stuff up.”

The moment Weitz was hired, he was thrown into the debate about whether Lautner should reprise his role as Jacob. Was this eager young actor right for such a steep character arc, and able to transform from wide-eyed boy to beastly monster? ”If there was one thing that we were petrified of, going into New Moon, it was the casting decision of Jacob,” says Godfrey. The filmmakers eventually tapped Lautner again, partly because he had a fan not just in Weitz but in Kristen Stewart. ”It’s completely understandable why they wanted to make sure he was right,” says the actress, 19. ”He was so young, 16, so I got it. But I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him. I literally saw Jacob in him.” And how did the Bella-Jacob chemistry play out on set? ”We have that relationship,” she says. ”It’s lamely cute. I love that kid. I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally.”

Needless to say, Lautner — who played SharkBoy in Robert Rodriguez’s 2005 The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl in 3-D — is thrilled to be on board. He talks giddily about standing shirtless under freezing rain towers, and about the number of stunts he gets to do, but it’s clear that the biggest challenge was turning werewolf. ”Sometimes we’ll film two scenes in one day, one pretransformation and one post-,” says Lautner, now 17. ”So I have to change my mind-set: Okay, I’m little Jacob-poo — and now I’m a big bad wolf.”

From the looks of things on the set, Lautner will delight the contingent of fans known as Team Jacob. The Michigan native has packed 32 pounds onto his frame, downing protein shakes and other high-calorie foods during an intense 11-month training. But what may shock moviegoers — if they can stop gazing at his abs long enough — is that it seems the guy can actually act. ”I think that Taylor is really going to surprise people in the movie,” says Weitz over coffee, three weeks before he’s due to finish editing the picture. ”People have seen his body and all that stuff and it’s a shocker because it’s hard to believe that anyone can be quite so carved. But he actually delivers a really great performance. He wasn’t just exercising all day, he was also reading the book quite a lot.”

Stewart can be a pretty serious bookworm herself. At this point, she may know Bella as well as Meyer does, and, like many on the set, she won’t let anything, not a director nor a script, trample on the author’s original intentions. ”We definitely feel protective of the series,” says the actress, who has no problem stopping a scene if a note rings false. ”The directors are interchangeable, so while it’s exciting to have new opinions, at the same time it’s like, ‘Look, this has way more to do with what we have already created.”’

While making the first movie, Summit kept urging Stewart and Pattinson to ease up on the teenage angst. Now Stewart’s diving headlong into heartache. She says she reached her breaking point one long, cold night in the forest while filming the pivotal scene where Edward abandons her. ”Before the scene, I was sitting in my car, like f—ing crying — crying so hard you can’t breathe,” she says. ”Because I was really overwhelmed and intimidated by the scene. Everyone says, ‘She better be able to pull off the emotion in this movie!’ And it’s such an important moment in the book, when he leaves.” The scene exhausted her. ”I’m thinking, ‘We have to be done now,”’ she remembers. ”’Just tell me we’re done.”’

Despite the heavy emotional weather in New Moon, director Weitz remained calm and contemplative, as different from the driven, frenetic Hardwicke as Jacob is from Edward. On particularly tough days, Weitz wore a shirt bearing the WWII British propaganda slogan ”Keep Calm and Carry On.” Sometimes he’d sit in the 
 director’s chair and read sci-fi novels while the crew readied the next shot. ”[Making Twilight] was much more of a fight,” says Stewart. ”Everyone was a little more scared. We needed to make something commercial but stay true to the book. We didn’t have as much money. It was all very impulsive, and that’s what I love about that f—ing movie.”

She pauses. ”But I think New Moon is gonna be even better.”

Video: Kristen and Taylor behind the Scenes of EW Shoot

ET goes behind the scenes for EW photoshoot September 2009 issue with Kristen and Taylor.

Thanks to KStew411 for the link

Pics: 2009-08-08 Palihouse Hotel

Here are the pics from the rooftop dinner of Rob, Kristen, Marcus and friend.

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Pics, Robsten Rumors and more …

Are they? or Are they not? Who knows.. but you have to admit these two sure know how to stir the masses.   The “just friends” are turning up all over LA  together or snapped just leaving each other ’s company. First we have pics of Rob “supposedly” leaving Kristen’s house in a sweet ride. Is there a backseat in that car?

Then the twitters started flying that the two were seen at the Hotel Cafe where  Bobby Long was delighting the crowds.  Seems the two buds snuck in the side door with the other brit pack member Marcus Foster.   When the show was over they snuck out just as quickly but not before the lovely Moon managed to snap a quick pic.  You can catch that over at Letterstotwilight.com below is her account of the sighting that was posted on RadarOnline.

Rob Pattison and Kristen Stewart evaded screaming girl fans Thursday night as they snuck out of the Chateau Marmont and hit a local Hollywood hot spot for a friend’s concert.  Twilight blogger Moon gave RadarOnline.com the exclusive details about her sighting of the dynamic duo and Rob’s fellow Brit Packer Marcus Foster – who is playing at the same venue tonight. Do we think we’ll spot the pair again?

“Moon here, from Letterstotwilight.com and I just happened to catch some of our favorite Twilight people out on the town last night at the Bobby Long show at the Hotel Cafe.

Last night fellow fan and pal Ashley and I went out to the Hotel
Cafe to catch the Bobby Long show cause well he has amazing music and ya never know there’s always a chance! We roll up to the venue grab some prime standing location next to the front of the stage near the front door emergency exit. So we’re cooking along, beverages in hand and settle in to enjoy the music. A few songs in around 10 pm we hear someone pounding on that front exit and a few of us glance over there in time to see Marcus Foster walked in followed by Rob Pattinson in that unmistakable black beanie (and apparently Kristen who we didn’t see till later) and don’t catch anything else cause I turn around to confirm that I was not in fact having Bella style visions of Rob flashing in my head. And they can confirm that it was indeed Rob in the flesh. We saw him for about all of a second as they made a quick step to the right of the door behind a very small curtain. At this point I was looking for my Comic Con preparedness kit because we all needed a paper bag for hyperventilating because I was standing one person away from this curtain.

A few songs pass and we notice that the crowd wasn’t freaking out, so we surmised that it was either because this is LA and most folks hardly get star struck after living here a few years or in fact they really did sneak in almost undetected. Now as much as I will rep for LA, judging by our own silent freak outs, I don’t think most of them would have stayed that nonchalant had they known Rob was maybe a foot or two away from them.

It was nearing the end of the set and a few songs at the end Bobby glances over to that little curtained off area and a little look of recognition passes and he smiles and give them the nod. At this point we knew Bobby was ending his set so we made the executive decision to divide and conquer and head for the front. It was pretty obvious he wouldn’t leave through the crowd of people and that he would head straight back out that front exit.

Ashley and I headed for the front and hung out against the wall. It was us, a valet dude, a hobo and two German chicks. No paparazzi, no nothing. Then things started happened. The door opened and Marcus rushed out right into the street and hailed a cab. At this point we knew he was headed out. Marcus gets the cab (about 10:30pm) as close as he can which is probably about 20 feet or less from where we were standing and they would definitely have to walk in front of us. Then Marcus walks back to the door, and out comes Rob!! Yes, I saw Rob Pattinson and he walked in front of me. If I had reached out my hand I would have touched him. He walked half bent over and booked it for the cab. NO bodyguards! We had a few seconds to look at him and then shocker of shockers right behind him by a few feet walks Kristen Stewart! At that point we are both stunned because we did not see her walk in. She walks by us quickly doing that patented KStew hair thing and awkward walk to follow Rob and Marcus out to the cab. Marcus jumps into the cab first, followed by Rob who half flies in and then Kristen jumps in and they speed off crouching down. Because I am half shocked I get one lousy pic of them jumping into the cab and one of the cab speeding away. So a little after 10:30 pm Rob and Kristen headed back to the Chateau as RadarOnline.com scooped.”

But the night hasn’t ended yet at least not for these two bff’s.  After Rob, Kristen and — don’t forget —Marcus,   loaded up in the little yellow taxi they headed back to Chateau Marmont where supposedly the two have a room… that’s one room for both of them.  Rob — Kristen — One Room.   Or that’s what RadarOnline is claiming.  Just read on for the full facts scoop…

Only RadarOnline.com can report that Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart spent the night together –in the same room — at the fabled Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles Thursday night!

Our witness spotted RPattz and Kristen along with fellow Brit Packer Marcus Foster entering a suite of the legendary hotel Thursday evening.

Around 8:45pm, a guitar was delivered to their room. (We all know Rob loves to play the guitar!)

And while Kristen was quiet around others, she got a chance to be alone with Rob later. A source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com that around 1:30 a.m. Friday Marcus Foster left the suite.  Rob and Kristen stayed inside the room.

Many of Rob and Kristen’s Twilight co-stars arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia this week to prepare for the start of filming of Eclipse –the third movie in the Twilight saga.

Rob and Kristen are enjoying some down time together in Los Angeles before re-joining their castmates Sunday at the Fox Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, California.

Now we have Kristen sneaking out of Chateau Marmont the morning after — the morning after what, we don’t know — but it was the morning after and whatever it was Rob built up an appetite doing it because shortly after Kristen’s departure the cutey pie was chowing down on the patio.   Guy’s gotta keep his strength up you know.   Any way here’s what OK had to say about it..

One day after Robert Pattinson was photographed speeding away from Kristen Stewart’s L.A. home in his car, it’s Bella that’s the one attempting to make a stealthy exit.

On Friday morning, the Twilight star was photographed leaving the side exit of the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood, where R-Pattz has been staying since returning to L.A. earlier this week.

Five minutes after she left, Rob himself was spotted chowing down on the hotel’s patio.

But there’s more from RadarOnline seems Rob and Marcus took a little taxi ride to no where…? Why? Who knows but it sure did get the Papz away from the hotel … hmmm.

Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been locked away in a luxury suite at the infamous Chateau Marmont in Hollywood since Thursday night but the handsome vampire surfaced Friday afternoon sans his ethereal beauty.

As RadarOnline.com first reported, the sulky stars spent the night together at the hotel, and caught a friend’s concert at the Hotel Café Thursday night.

RPattz might only drink blood on screen, but in real life the guy likes to eat.  Dressed in his trademark baseball cap, sunglasses and a plaid shirt Rob scarfed down a chicken sandwich, French fries and coke while lunching on the hotel patio with two older men.  Unfortunately, the Twilight star spent most of his time smoking on the patio.  Rob, you’re not going to be able to film those Eclipse fight scenes if you’re not in top health!

After lunch RPattz and Marcus Foster left the hotel in a taxi, aimlessly drove past a guitar store but didn’t stop, and then headed back to the hotel.  Marcus is performing at the Hotel Café tonight, and we’re sure fans would love to see Rob join him on stage.

Gossip: Had to see this one coming …

Ted just can’t stay away from his favorite attention getting topic and with the two of them showing up for Comic-con it was too hard for him to resist.  Here’s the latest on Ted’s Robsten Gossip

Rob and Kristen “Together” in San Diego

Looks like Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are better actors than some of you give them credit for.

After plenty of awkward interaction at Comic-Con last week, it was almost too obvious that Rob and Kristen were being told to stay the hell away from each other.

So how did Robsten spend some much deserved free time Wednesday night before their crazy day on Thursday?

We hear from well-placed sources that Rob and Kristen were “together” Wednesday night, happy at last, on the 11th floor of the über-hip Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego.

“They were so private,” dish our in-the-know eyes. “They were hardly seen by anyone. Their people made sure of that. But [Rob and Kristen] were there. They had a secret entrance to the hotel and everything.”

Well, we were at the Hard Rock, too, and we can assure you all Robsten was nowhere to be seen in any of the common areas.

“Who knows their specific sleeping arrangements, but [Rob and Kristen] were on the same hotel floor.”

Too dee-lish. And remember how we told you Rob was given a bit of a break before heading back to New York to finish filming Remember Me? He was supposed to stay down in San Diego Thursday night, too, but instead, Rob decided to head back up to L.A. early…with Kristen!

The San Diego airport is literally 10 minutes from the H.R. hotel. That’s why Rob flew straight into S.D. Wednesday from NYC. Couldn’t possibly imagine why he would choose to depart out of LAX instead and spend the weekend up in smogville.

Interesting there are no pics of either Rob or Kristen over weekend. Let’s hope they were supersecret together, just like they were in S.D.

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‘New Moon’ Stars Still Find Comic-Con ‘Terrifying’

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner discuss life in the ‘Twilight’ spotlight.

SAN DIEGO — Appropriately enough for a movie series about a vampire clan that never sleeps, “Twilight” day at Comic-Con began bright and early. Gathered together at 9:30 a.m. Thursday (July 23) for an invite-only press conference, a small group of reporters took up about a third of the massive ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront hotel, eager to talk fame, fiction and fanpires with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

“This year, I have something to say,” Pattinson laughed, remembering that he was overwhelmed to the point of near speechlessness last year. “It’s much more terrifying.”

“This is a severely emotional movie. … There are high points for Bella, but she’s a manic-depressive basically,” Stewart said of her “New Moon” performance. “There was more to think about. It’s a more mature part.”

Speaking with other reporters before the event, none of us Comic-Con veterans could recall a movie having an event like this before. Summit Entertainment claimed an entire ballroom for media only, no Twilighters allowed. Not “Lord of the Rings,” not “Iron Man” or anything else had ever needed its own press event — a testament to the enormous growth of both “Twilight” and Comic-Con in general.

“It’s crazy,” Lautner said when the trio were asked about how they’ve been dealing with the fame.

“None of us saw it coming, and this past year has been a ride for us.”

Kristen Stewart, who currently has short black locks to play Joan Jett in “The Runaways,” laughed, “I cut my hair off.”

“It’s still so young to me, I can’t claim anything as a low,” Pattinson said when asked about his avalanche of fame. “I live a nearly identical life, except for being recognized. It’s not the worst thing in the world. I never did anything ‘normal’ before — and now, I get other people to do that for me.”

Pattinson confirmed that Thursday afternoon’s massive fan event in Hall H will screen a clip featuring him. The line outside the convention center is arguably the longest in Comic-Con history.

Speaking specifically about Stephenie Meyer’s franchise, Stewart said, “You’re so much inside [Bella's] head, it feels like home.”

“When I play it, I try to eliminate the vampire element as much as I can,” Pattinson said of playing Edward Cullen. “I only see it as a tool to make things more fraught.”

“I did a lot of the apparition scenes, which were me doing one line a week,” Pattinson remembered of the ghost-like appearances he filmed at the beginning of the “New Moon” shoot. “I had a stress-free three months. All the pressure was on Taylor.”

Asked for the one “Twilight” question they hope to never answer again, Lautner knew his answer immediately. “To growl. I’m asked that by a lot by fans, and I don’t like doing that,” he said. “So, fans, please don’t ask me that. Wait for the movie.”

Pattinson’s least favorite question? “What’s it like kissing Taylor Lautner?” he grinned.

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Twilight’s Christian Serratos: R-Pattz is No Ladies’ Man

Twilight star Christian Serratos, aka Bella’s high school pal Angela Weber, has a job many girls would just die for — she gets to be on set with Robert Pattinson and the rest of the vamp-movie gang all day. So does she think R-Pattz’s new reputation as a ladies’ man is deserved? OK! chatted with Christian at the Charlotte Russe 2009 Fall Launch in NYC, and we asked if the thought Edward Cullen had turned into a playboy since skyrocketing to fame over the last year.

“I don’t think so,” says Christian, adding that if has changed, Robert has gone in the opposite direction.

“If anything he’s become more humble and more introverted,” Christian tells OK!.

So what about the romance with Kristen Stewart? Christian teased us with a sort of yes, sort of no on whether the two are together.

“I truly don’t know, I don’t know. There is a possibility,” Christian reveals. “There’s a possibility that it’s all BS, I just don’t know. It’s going to be interesting finding out either way.”

Christian and the rest of the cast will be reunited on the set of Eclipse in August, something she’s excited about.

“I feel like we’re all going to have a blast. I feel like we all know our characters and we’ve all had a lot of help with Stephanie [Meyer], too,” she explains. “She’s there on set and if we have a question, she’ll answer our question. She’s just really chill. She’s really supportive. She likes what everyone’s doing, so I think everyone just wants to make her happy, as well as the fans, so it works out.”

Rob keeps it simple and rides the subways

Here’s some interesting sightings from Gossip Betty.   True or not it’s great to think that down underneath our guy is just a regular Joe and keeps the everyday things simple.

Robert Pattinson is in New York working on his latest film, Remember Me. Over the next 4 months, the 23 year-old heartthrob will be using the city as his home base. He’s been spotted all over the city, enjoying beers at NYU hangout, Bowery Bar, with Eva Mendes, walking through the Lower East Side in sunglasses and flannels and even riding the subway.

Last week the hunk was caught by one of my spies hopping on the C train at the Spring Street station in SoHo, which is conveniently close to his hotel. This week he was spotted riding the train again uptown, likely to his GQ cover shoot on Monday. It’s nice to learn that a man who could command giant gas-guzzling and pimped out SUV’s chooses to go with the down-to-earth subway option instead.

My eyewitness says, “Rob is almost better looking in person, he’s tall and very thin, always in skinny jeans and a t-shirt or flannel tossed over it. No one seems to notice him on the subway; he just blends into the crowds. He doesn’t wear a hat or even sunglasses on the train.”

Is he dating Kristin Stewart, the Bella to his Edward? My Twilight source tells me that he’s still single, girls! “Rob is having a good time and he and Kristin are good friends. They’ve got a special connection thanks to all the Twilight movies, but it’s nothing serious. Rob is single.”

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Metro Interview: New Moon’s Kristen Stewart gets inside Bella’s head

Metro goes behind the scenes with Kristen in part 4 of their New Moon Exclusives.

New Moon’s Kristen Stewart gets inside Bella’s head
Talia Soghomonian
11 June 2009 04:25

It is the role that catapulted her to stardom, and Kristen Stewart is about to reprise her part as Bella in the hotly anticipated sequel to Twilight — New Moon

What is it like to be back on set doing another Twilight film?

It’s a little bit surreal to be back doing a second one, just because it’s something that I thought about for an entire year and now it’s happening. But it’s sort of like I couldn’t wait any longer.

It’s hard. Usually you finish a movie and there’s a very long grieving process. You have to lose the character. You have to drop it from your mind or else it just continues to bug you. In this case, I couldn’t drop her completely and I worked in between, which is a strange sensation. It’s weird how easy it was to slip right back into it. I don’t know if it’s because I have such a reference, like the book, or because I knew that I just had to do it. I don’t know, but it feels good. It feels like I can finally release the pressure.

Isn’t that pressure kind of self-inflicted?

Yeah, I have that feeling on every movie that I do. It’s just that this one, I had to wait a year. Unless there’s something about the story or that character I’m playing that literally needs to be fulfilled — like, consummated — unless it’s actually lived through and physically manifested, it’s just a story and it’s not done. So until you actually bring it to life, you basically have the capability of murdering the character on the page. If you don’t do it justice, then nobody else is ever going to see those things and you’re never going to learn from those experiences because you didn’t do it right.

So yeah, the thought of having to live through something that I find so worthwhile, and then subsequently have people learn from that through your own experience, I would do anything. I would jump off a cliff for it. Oh! There’s cliff-jumping in our movie. Perfect! (Laughs)

What are the changes in this second installment? Your character Bella takes risks again…

Well, she loses what basically gives her the drive to do anything in her whole life. She loses the man she’s in love with, but she also loses her entire life plan, and she’s so young to have to be forced into a decision like that. It’s just a glorified, elaborate version of the worst breakup you’ve ever been through. All of a sudden you question everything. All of a sudden you know nothing and you’re dropped in the middle of a freezing cold ocean.

Oddly, we have a character that’s warm enough and bright enough to bring her out of that, and it’s truly gut-ripping. Because as perfect as Jacob is for her, she holds on to an ideal, the ultimate fiery love that she has for Edward even though it’s not comfortable, it’s not practical and it’s not a good idea. So it’s really a very strong thing to do. It takes someone who really trusts themselves.

So basically the movie starts out and everything’s great, and then it gets absolutely terrible, and then it gets maybe OK again, and then it’s” no, no, no, no – life is hard.” It’s going to get hard again because he comes back again.

Is she introverted or just seeking an ideal?

It’s not that she’s incredibly introverted. She’s just yet to have found a connection that is truthful. She’s a seeker of the truth. She’s not one to get wrapped up in something that is a fantasy. She doesn’t set herself up for disappointment. So that’s what makes the story with her and Edward so compelling, in that this is a girl that normally wouldn’t do something this crazy.

So what does Kristen prefer, the werewolf or the vampire?

Kristen shouldn’t open her mouth (Laughs). Kristen is entirely torn. Kristen should stop using her name in the third person.

You were virtually unknown when you shot Twilight. How has your life changed since its phenomenal success?

My life hasn’t changed. Most circumstances I find myself in are different than they were a year ago, but I myself haven’t changed…however a normal 18-year-old girl would change in a year. But it makes things so much easier. I would do it for free every day [even] if nobody saw it. I cannot describe how good it feels to actually have something that is truly into your heart and soul actually affecting people. And that’s amazing. So that’s the biggest change.

Has success changed you?

It didn’t change me, it changed things around me a little bit…I’m so used to doing movies that nobody wants to see. To put your heart and soul into something for years of your life and have it actually affect people is probably the most satisfying, and that is a completely ineffective word to describe how satisfying it is.

Do you feel a responsibility towards the author’s fans and the movie fans?

Yeah, absolutely. It’s a strange thing. You start something and you know that it’s going to take on a life of its own, but its already something so whole — there are so many people that you’re going to inevitably either make happy or not. Everyone’s understanding of the story and love for it is going to show, even though there are little issues that everyone’s going to have because everybody reads the book differently. So of course we have a massive responsibility. Because of them, we’re able to do what we like to do.

What was it like coming back to a different director?

As an actor, you don’t work with the same director on every film. And this, it’s a continuation. It’s the same story but it is a different movie. I love Catherine (Hardwicke). She’s a dear friend of mine, but Chris (Weitz) – it just works out.

Besides all the technical, logistical reasons, Chris is so devoted and because he’s a man, there’s a common question. How is it having a man director? Is it a huge difference? You can’t make generalizations about people like that. He’s one of the most compassionate human beings I’ve ever met. Unfalteringly compassionate. He cares way too much for the story, and you need that. So he’s perfect.

How would you describe it to someone who hasn’t read the books or seen Twilight?

Anybody who’s ever been broken up with will probably watch this movie, and their temperature will probably go up.

How do I describe this? It’s a movie about ultimate devotion being ripped from you and thinking that your entire world that you’ve established is wrong. And then trying to get it back and realizing that it’s all OK. (Laughs) And vampires, werewolves, too, so that makes it even more exciting. Robert Pattinson is just so cute. So is Taylor Lautner. That’s what I would tell someone who doesn’t know about the movie yet.

You’re still quite young. Do you want to continue making movies or perhaps go to college?

I absolutely have no foresight. I used to think I had a lot when I was younger. I worked really hard in school to give myself options, and I’ve literally taken those options and thrown them down the toilet. Purposely – not to make that sound totally negative. It’s what I want. I want to keep doing what I’m doing.

It’s funny, people ask me all the time: “What do you do for fun? What do you do when you’re not acting?”

It’s a strange thing, acting. It’s a business, it’s a job, everything like that. All it is, is self-reflection. You just never stop caring about people and I’ve never stopped doing that, so I’m sure it’ll seep into other areas of my life. I want to write. I’m not going to school because I can’t take the structure of it, but I’m not going to stop learning.

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