The Twilight Saga

WHAT IS THE OVERALL STORY OF TWILIGHT?
It's an action romance type of Romeo and Juliet story between a mortal and an immortal. It's the battle of love between the human girl and the vampire, and throughout that quest for that ultimate love, there's bad things that happen.

WHAT WILL AUDIENCES ENJOY ABOUT THE FILM?
I think they will enjoy a lot of stuff, the film really goes to a lot of different levels, there's a lot of action for the guys, so me being an action junkie we do a lot of cool actions scenes! For the romantic group, it's a love story like Romeo and Juliet between Bella and Edward. It never really gets dull, it's a rollercoaster.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
I play Emmet Cullen, he's kind of like the big brother in the family, he really sees being immortal and being a vampire as a positive, unlike the other vampire family members who don't really. I mean they enjoy it in some aspects but Edward's really sentimental and wishes he could die or wishes he could be mortal again that's why he doesn't want to change Bella. I'm the big goofy brother who likes to pick fights and just a have fun being a vampire.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE PLAYING A GOOD VAMPIRE?
(Laughs) It was fun, it was the joy of having all this super-power strength and the knowledge of knowing you can't really die unless another vampire comes at you and annihilate you but being Emmet they really can't do that to me!

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE SCENE TO SHOOT?
Favorite scene to shoot, I would have to say (pause) probably the ballet scene, that's where I was rigged and we did a lot of stunts and that's my forte - I love doing stunts and getting dirty and hurting myself so it was really fun when we jumped off the balcony. You land on the ground fifteen feet below but it's really a free fall because we have to act like vampires so it's that rush of being safe but not feeling safe!

HAVE YOU READ THE BOOKS?
Ah yeah I have actually, I read them once I was doing the movie and I read them again recently. It's really great to see the direction that Catherine took with it because its difficult turning the book into a movie, five hundreds pages into a one hundred and twenty page screenplay. So with seeing all the characters that have been cast, and re-reading the book again, it's really cool.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH CATHERINE?
She's a firecracker, she's amazing. It was great to work with someone who I really admire - I Iove Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown, so to work with her and her whole style was really cool and she had a lot of personality and a lot of spunk so it made work not seem like work.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH KRISTEN AND ROB?
Kristen and Rob? Oh Rob? I love that kid, I mean I have a lot of London friends, who are just different from American friends, you know - just how people relate and live their lives, so he's a rock star and just makes being around him so energetic and so much fun. Kristen is so mature and a brilliant actress and a brilliant person to communicate with and go out to dinner and hear her story and just goof around with.

WHAT OTHER PROJECTS DO YOU HAVE IN THE WORK? WHAT'S COMING UP FOR YOU?
Currently I'm working on 90210 which is a blast - I mean working on the zip code is always fun and my character is a mean lacrosse player who steals girls and fights with all the other guys. I'm also currently working on Warrior, it's a movie about lacrosse and where it originated and the history and the native American culture of it and hopefully Val Kilmer is going to sign-on to play my dad - it would be amazing to work with him.

TELL US ANY BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES THAT STAND OUT IN YOUR MIND.
Um, behind the scenes stories... the most fun one that comes to mind is when we had like really good weather, which is not good for us because we're vampires and we need to have the bad stormy clouds, you know - cloud coverage and we had no clouds for a couple of hours but we needed to do this outside shot, so Catherine had all the extras do a cloud dance! She fed them M&Ms to get them in the mood and gave them Redbulls and it was just really cool to have a director who, who's very hands on and would get in there and get dirty.