Access Hollywood is just now releasing some footage shot at Comic Con. Here’s what the ladies had to say.
Video: Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed & Elizabeth Reaser’s Emotional Last Day Of Filming For Breaking Dawn
August 1, 2012
Momma Will Take You Down and Other Twilight Tag Lines
July 31, 2012
MTV asked Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, and Kellan Lutz what their character’s tag line would be.
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Jenny Han Mentions Twilight in Books She Wishes She Had As A Teen
July 30, 2012
Hypable is doing a series of interviews with various YA authors this summer. Jenny Han referenced Twilgiht During her interview.
What is one YA book that is out now that you wish was out when you were a teen?
I liked The Babysitter’s Club but then I also started reading Flowers in the Attic and Stephen King when I was really young. I wish there had been more adventure or scary stories that were age appropriate for me. I wish I had things like The Hunger Games or Twilight because you are ready to read that and it is an appropriate story for teens.
Check out more of Janny Han’s interview on Hypable
Hypable has a regular YA book feature. Check it out here.
New Face Friday: MyAnna Buring Fansite’s Breaking Dawn Exclusive Interview
July 27, 2012
MyAnna Burning who plays Tanya in Breaking Dawn Part 2 spoke with the Twilight websites as part of our ongoing New Face Friday’s series. Last week the series kicked off with fellow Denali coven member Casey Labow. MyAnna was a Twilight fan before the movies ever came out and she was quite excited to talk to all of us.
Q: A lot of people who are cast talk about the very first time they see themselves in their red or gold contacts, and that’s the first time they really felt like a vampire. Can you describe what it was like for us the very first time you saw yourself all decked out in your vampire gear?
MyAnna: It was amazing. I think that’s the first moment that I really, truly, believed that I was doing the film. Because all of it, you know, you have this build up when you get the part and you can’t quite believe it’s true then, and then you arrive and you still can’t quite believe it’s true then. The idea of you becoming a vampire, or becoming part of this incredible group of vampires that’s described in Stephenie’s films, it’s such a far-fetched notion in a way, and then all of a sudden as soon as the contacts go in, it’s a reality. Suddenly you are able to see yourself as a part of that group, if you will, and it’s an amazing feeling.
Q: Congrats on being cast in Downton Abbey. Can you tell us a little about that part and when you are starting to work on it?
MyAnna: I’ve already started working on it. I play a maid who joins the rest of the staff downstairs. She causes a bit of mischief and I’m very excited to be playing, her name is Edna, and I’m thrilled, really.
For the rest of the interview, check out TwiFans, this week’s host site.
Ricky Whittle Talks Austenland With Artist Direct
July 27, 2012
Last Summer, Stephenie Meyer’s production company filmed Austenland, based on the novel by Shannon Hale. UK actor Ricky Whittle is one of the stars playing Captain George East. No word yet on when the film will be released, but this is what he had to say about the experience.
In Austenland, what resonated with you about Captain George East?
He’s hilarious! He hits a little too close to home [Laughs]. The premise of the movie is a Jane Austen-themed resort, which Keri Russell goes to along with Jennifer Coolidge. The staff are all male actors who are basically hired to romance the women in old regency attire and speak in old English like in the Pride and Prejudice days. George is a former soap opera star who’s obsessed with his body and is a ladies man. Even though it’s not me, there were a lot of similarities. I work out and like to keep in shape. I’ve done a bit of soap in my time, and I definitely like the ladies. I thought, “Wow, this is perfect!” [Laughs] I tried to make him endearing. I gave him a childlike quality where he’s very vain, but he’s not aware of it. He’s obsessed with his body but in a curious manner. He’ll be checking out his bicep and trying to get a look at it because he’s genuinely excited he has a new muscle. He’s a very funny character. I did some of my best acting in the movie. It wasn’t because of my craft, it was because I was trying to keep a straight face opposite Jennifer Coolidge. That woman is a comedy genius! It was my first step into comedy, and I learned a lot. Hopefully, I can talk that on to following projects.
It sounds hilarious.
It was crazy! Jerusha Hess really is an actor’s director. She’d approach us and say, “You know your lines. You know the direction of the script and what’s meant to happen. Go and play!” She worked with improvisation. She’d tell us, “Go too far, and then we’ll bring it down.” It was nice to have that freedom and trust from a director.
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How MacKenzie Foy Stole the Fandom’s heart
July 26, 2012
Laura has her bimonthly Movies.com column up. this time out she talks about MacKenzie Foy and just how adorable won over Hall H.
One of the things about Foy is the fact that she does uncannily resemble both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. In a franchise that is very concerned with character appearance, this was one hurdle met. In an interview last year, director Bill Condon spoke about the resemblances and being overjoyed that Foy both looked the part and had the acting chops as well. “Mackenzie Foy was like; wow that’s it [with her audition]. She looks like their daughter and there’s just a quality she had, you know. I mean and it was such a relief because Renesmee was so tough to picture and imagine, you know? So I have to say she was just like, I think we’ve got it right there, and then I showed her to everybody else and everybody agreed.” Fans also echoed Condon’s sentiment. Every time Foy spoke there were audible, adoring sighs from the crowd.
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Just to add to the adorableness of MacKenzie, at Comic Con I was in the interview suite waiting my turn to interview several Twilight actors for Movies.com when I spied MacKenzie sneak over at a closet pull something out and hide it behind her back. I instantly thought what was up with that? She was failing dreadfully at being furtive all the while thinking she was succeeding at stealth in they way only 11-year-olds can. Well, about a minute later I found out. When she told one of the room handlers, “Excuse me I have to give something to Mr. Jackson”. She pulled a stuffed toy from behind her back and presented it to Jackson Rathbone for his newborn son, who was at that time roughly a week old. There were no cameras on her. She had no idea I was about to start an interview. It was just a great kid, being a great kid, and Jackson seemed rather touched too.
Video: Yahoo Movies Talks to Stephenie Meyer and Andrew Niccol about The Host
July 26, 2012
Yahoo! Movies has posted an interview with Stephenie Meyer and Andrew Niccol from Comic Con about The Host.
Ashley Greene Talks Fashion and More With Harper’s Bazaar
July 26, 2012
Check out what Ashley has to say on style and her upcoming projects.
Comic Con, Females in Geek Culture, and Where the New Generation Fits In
July 26, 2012
CNN has a really great article up that includes attitudes about Twilight fans attending Comic Con and a prevalent boy’s club mentality.
There are big differences between the mature, established, mostly Generation X women, who developed their interests through actual comics and comics-related media (and can be every bit as marinated in the minutiae of continuity as the hardest-core male superhero reader), and the younger cohort, who are largely drawn into the worlds of fantasy and pop culture through manga and young adult fiction: not just “Twilight,” but also “Baby-Sitters Club,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” and, of course, “Harry Potter.” But at least girls and teens are coming into the social and participative world of fandom rather than just sitting on their couches playing Xbox.
You would think that male comics fans would have no problem with women getting into both the hobby and the business. Traditionally, guys who are into comics and related subcultures did not suffer an overabundance of female attention during their adolescence. Now that they are grown-ups, they might see the advantages of having women around who share their interests and passions.
Indeed, most of them do. But there remains a hard core for whom arrested adolescence extends beyond the persistence of childhood interests. These are the boys who put the “no girls allowed” signs on the doors of their clubhouse, and those signs are there still.
Perhaps this is why the “Twilight” phenomenon activates such intense passions among the Comic-Con crowd. Back in 2008, when the Con was “invaded” by thousands of young, female “Twilight” fanatics, some guys caused a ruckus by walking the floor with signs and T-shirts reading, “Twilight Is Ruining Comic-Con!”
That attitude has gone underground, but it has not gone away. Sure, a lot of the hostility is wrapped around objections to the series itself and its lightweight treatment of the supernatural (fans take this stuff very seriously). But it’s telling that many of the same folks who pitch a fit over a couple of twinkly, sparkly boy vampires mooning over Bella Swan have no problem with unorthodox treatments of the material that feature mostly naked girl vampires and sexually depraved demons, as can be seen in many modern horror comics.
Check out the rest of this very insightful article on CNN.
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