Actors who had smaller roles in the Twilight movie talked to the Oregonian about their experience. They include Ayanna Berckshire who plays Cora, Catherine Grimme who plays young Bella, and Solomon Trimble who plays Sam. You can catch all these actors this week in Portland where they are participating in the Vampire Baseball event by Twilight FanTrips. Part of the proceeds will be benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
“Before my second audition, I walked around my house in North Portland as Cora and thought about the world as Cora. Being from the San Juan Islands originally, I wasn’t that far from Forks (where ‘Twilight’ is set). I was one of less than a handful of minorities in my hometown, and I worked at an A&W. I looked at the photos of Forks that Stephenie Meyer posted on her Web site, and I imagined that as my hometown.
“At one time they were thinking of Cora as a love interest for Charlie Swan (Forks chief of police and father of heroine Bella). That was before the fourth book came out. I was laughing with Stephenie Meyer between takes, and I said to her, ‘If you could just write in the last book that Charlie and Cora live happily ever after, you’d be doing me a big solid.’ She was very sweet. I’m immensely impressed by what she’s done.”
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