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What is it about vampires
that is so appealing to people? |
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What do you think it is?
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I don't know, I guess it's kind of
the sort of, sexy factor of them. |
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I mean, there is something
really sexy about like, |
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I mean, the whole vampire image of
someone sucking your neck, |
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and stuff, that's kind of, I guess
that's one of the key things. |
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The love scenes in it are really strange
because I always try and kill her in the end. |
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So, I mean, it's kind of, it's a
very specific dynamic. |
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But, no, Christen's great. I really liked
working with her. |
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And that's one of the key reasons
I wanted to do it |
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was because of her, because the screen
test went really well. |
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And I really liked working with her, so,
I hope it translates. |
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You know, the book is, it's very
sweeping and very epic. |
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Like, to portray the most, like,
dynamic, ultimate love stories. |
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This book, especially, it's...
I don't feel like it's a typical situation |
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because they love the book and they
only want it to be good. |
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It's like, of course people have their criticisms
because they're so close to it, |
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but, but I feel like that's a good thing.
I feel like that's positive, |
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because they care about it.
And, you know, big shoes to fill. |
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Alright, well we play evil, nomadic
vampires who chase Bella and Edward |
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and make their lives extremely difficult
for most of |
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the second half of the film.
- Yeah, we serve as the conflict in the film. |
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We are the doom, the evil,
I play Laurent. |
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Read the books. Don't feel
the pressure because I think that |
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we've done a really good job
of doing the book justice, the movie. |
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We've had Stephanie as a consultant,
and that's how we made sure |
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that that was going to happen.
And I think that we're faithful to it. |
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And I think the fans are
going to be happy, |
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and they're going to appreciate
what we did. |
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Yeah, I think... Well, yeah, I think we
also, we became fans of it, as well. |
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And so, it wasn't just, you know,
oh this thing is really massive, |
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and we have to take it on.
It was like, when you read the books, |
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and you become a fan of it, then
you're able to internalize it |
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and just go no, I want to make
this really good because I love it. |
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And that helps a lot to take
the pressure off. |
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There's an enormous amount of pressure,
like, kind of increasingly. |
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I mean, and I didn't realize
I would, as well. |
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But then you kind of see this thing,
there's six thousand fans waiting |
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to see the press conference,
or whatever. |
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It's everywhere, you know.
And even while we were up in Oregon, |
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we had fans going to our
location, I mean, |
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they'd be there before we
were there. |
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And, you know, it was just like,
that whole energy |
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while we were shooting,
you could definitely feel that |
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you were doing something
special, you know, |
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which was a... It was cool
to be a part of something like that. |
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These vampires are sexy.
They're not cool and fangly. |
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Well, actually, you know,
what we spent a lot of time |
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making them look grungier,
and dirtier, and grosser, |
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and yeah. So, we spent a lot
of time with that. |
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And just their clothes, and their hair
and everything was all kind of dirty. |
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I think the thing that's so sexy
about vampires is, |
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is I think there's an idea in our society
that power is sexy. |
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And vampires are the ultimate power,
they don't die, |
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they move at the speed of light.
- Super fast, super strong. |
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Super strong. Invincible, and I think there's
a sex appeal to that. |
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And Stephanie actually, writes these
characters out to be very, |
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very, very beautiful,
very good looking. |
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It's a different mythology.
There's no crosses. There's no fangs. |
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There's no garlic. It's a new
mythology, and it's sexy. |