I’m in a hotel where the interview will take place. Robert is late, although understandably so. He’s been doing interviews all day, so I try to be patient. Suddenly, the door opens and Robert walks in apologizing with a very thick British accents that makes wewe melt. He’s tall and thin, he has a very pale skin. He’s wearing jeans and a T-shirt under another shirt. He’s hair is messy and it looks as though he had fallen asleep. He plays with a bottle of coke. When he finally sits down we start out interview…
What made wewe want to be in this movie? Had wewe read the books?No, I hadn’t read them, so I didn’t know how to play my character. When I was kusoma the script I remember telling my agent “I can’t do this. It’s physically impossible to do this”.
Why did wewe think that?Because it’s not just acting. The character has these amazing physical qualities that are impossible to have: he has a great body, he’s gorgeous. So I thought they were going to say to me “No, thank you, next”. Honestly I went to the audition without preparing. I didn’t know the lines au anything and Kristen was there. I didn’t know she was going to be Bella. She was very strong as Bella in the audition, so that gave me a clue as to how to play the character.
In the beginning the mashabiki of the book were not very thrilled about wewe playing Edward. What kind of pressure did it make wewe feel?If wewe try to do things just to please the mashabiki you’re going to deliver a bad performance. So I made the decision of playing Edward a certain way, and I alisema “that’s it, I don’t care what people say”. And I tried really hard to not make the character cheesy. But I think that since I’m a guy and it’s a girls book I felt I needed to find something else. So I had to dive in, deeper than most of the people who read the book.
Was it fun playing a vampire?I don’t think I’m playing a vampire. I don’t think I even look like one, do I? (laughs) I would’ve loved it if Edward had been the typical vampire we’re all familiar with, because the Wanyonya damu in Twilight are too weird. They’re very pale, they have strange eyes, but they’re so normal and they can live in the real world without rasing any suspicions. On the other hand, I was very fun. I had to do action sequences and I had to climb trees (laughs).
wewe mention real vampires, are wewe a shabiki of vampire movies?Well, in this film I’m not scary. I’m not like Nosferatu. I want to be that kind of vampire, that would be cool. But as wewe know, this film is not about vampire clichés, so I played him like he had a disease, like you’re not the same person after someone bites wewe because wewe wake up three days later wanting to kill people. You’re a thousand times stronger and faster, and you’re going to live forever and if wewe think about it, that must be horrible!
What was the hardest part of playing Edward?Edward has a certain aura that makes people be scared of him instinctively and they don’t know why. I really upendo that, but I think that’s hard to onyesha on screen so I would imagine him as a lion who was in the jungle surrounded kwa animals, they know he’s not hunting but they keep their distance. And that was something I really wanted to add to the movie, in fact there’s a scene in which all the birds literally fly away as soon as I walk by, and this gives wewe the idea. But I think that was the hardest thing to onyesha (he pauses). Well that, and being the most beautiful man in the world! (laughs). But there’s nothing I could do about that.
In the movie Edward is suppossed to be 17 years old. If they make the inayofuata movies, what are they going to do to keep the character looking young?With botox! (laughs) No, actually I am a bit worried about that. I don’t know, I guess we’ll have to shoot them pretty quickly.
I know wewe play the piano, and in the book Edward plays a song in the kinanda for Bella. Are wewe playing the kinanda in the movie?Yes, I’m playing a song written kwa Carter Burwell.
Are they adding any songs kwa wewe on the soundtrack?There’s one au two songs kwa me in the movie, although I don’t know what they’re doing there! (laughs). It’s one of the most bizarre moments in the film, because I’m in a scene with Kristen and there’s me imba in the background, I can hear myself playing the guitar, gitaa and my voice singing, but my face is just there talking.
After playing Cedric Diggory in the Goblet of Fire, were wewe worried of repeating yourself with another book series?Yes, but it’s a very different role and story.
I know wewe read a manuscript that Stephenie Meyer wrote from Edward’s point of view in order to prepare yourself for the role…Yes, I read it when we were in the middle of filming, and since the book of Twilight was written from Bella’s point of view and she never really knows what Edward is because he lies and he hides stuff all the time, I had all the freedom to play him as I wanted to. And even though in the book wewe read only positive things about Edward, when wewe see the real situation he’s completely negative. Imagine waking up one siku saying “I didn’t ask to become a vampire. And now I want to kill a bunch of people and I feel terrible. I don’t want to die but I don’t want to live like this either. I found the only person in the world that makes me feel like I want to keep on living, but I want to kill her too”, that has to be horrible.
How did wewe develope your vampire abilities? I read wewe wrote a journal as Edward. Are wewe planning on publishing that?It wasn’t exactly a journal. I don’t know how it started (laughs) but I hadn’t realized how difficult it was going to be to play Edward until I started kusoma the script. He’s a very complex character. So I moved to Portland on my own two au three months before filming began and I didn’t do anything but read the script and vitabu to find anything that helped me play him. So I started to write things. I mean, if wewe really prepare for a role, there’s going to be a moment in which he’s all wewe can think of. So I did things like little suicide notes. I was a little worrysome actually (bursts out laughing).
Here’s Kristen’s part of the interview:
It’s 2 o’clock in an exclusive hotel in Beverly Hills where we are interviewing Kristen Stewart. She rushes in. She’s been doing interviews all day. She says hello and it catches my attention that she’s wearing jeans, sneakers, a loose T-shirt and a plaid shati tied around her waist and not a drop of make up. I didn’t expect her to be so casual since she’s the nyota of the movie. I notice she’s very nervous. She tells me that it doesn’t matter how many times she’s done inteviews, she doesn’t get used to being the center of attention. We start our interview…
Before signing up for this role, had wewe read the books? Did wewe know it was a fenomenon like this?I had no idea. I don’t know why I didn’t know anything about it. Once I became aware of it I started noticing the vitabu everwhere, I heard people talking about it, and everything starts getting bigger and bigger.
Do wewe think that the fact that wewe didn’t know anything about Bella and Twilight helped wewe play the role better?Yes, I don’t think I would’ve been very keen about playing this role. I would’ve been very intimidated.
What do wewe like the most about Bella?I like that on one side she’s the victim, everybody chases her. Even the guy of her dreams wants to kill her. I upendo the kind of balance wewe can find in a very helpless girl, because at the same time she’s very sure about her relationship with Edward, she says “We can do this and it’s worth fighting for it”.
Did wewe meet Stephenie Meyer? How was yout relationship with her?She came to the set a few times.She was very involved from the beginning, she went through the script, she was aware of the casting choices, but afterwards she let everyone do their job.
Did wewe talk about your character with her?No, it would’ve been the longest conversation of my life! We did’t have much time for that. She asked me if I wanted to know anything about the character and I told her that ervything was in the book.
Do wewe like vampire stories?I upendo the themes they represent. They swali mortality. I upendo than in Twilight almost everything is a life au death situation, and then there’s the whole ‘forbidden fruit’ thing. All of that is always present and I upendo it.
But have wewe ever been interested in vampires?I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. In fact, when I was a kid I dressed as Dracula for Halloween. I loved it ’cause I thought I looked so cool.
What does it feel like to be in upendo with a vampire?In my case, my character finds herself in a world that it’s not real. In the beginning everything is very logical to her, but I think the main thing is that she never maswali the situation she’s in. It’s like she doesn’t have a choice. There’s a chemical reaction that happens between two souls that need to be connected, like saying “We don’t have a choice. We can’t live without each other”.
How did wewe and Robert manage to pull off that chemistry onscreen?We’re actors. It’s natural for us. We rehearsed a lot in the beginning, we had a lot of time to read about Wanyonya damu and to read the books. So sometimes we argued about them saying “No, Wanyonya damu can’t breathe, so I’m not going to be able to feel your breath (laughs). I don’t know, we got lucky. Hopefully that shows onscreen.
Bella is a very brave girl, so wewe see yourself as a brave girl?I think bravery comes from believing in something and I have my convictions.
What do wewe have in common with her, since she’s an average girl, not popular. Do wewe relate to her?Yes, in the sense that I was never one of those girls who goes to the cafeteria and completely rules the school. I completely relate to that part, like wewe believe you’re not supossed to be the maarufu girl, you’d rather be someone else, and she’s like that. She can’t understand why everyone is so interested in her. Like everyone has a sort of fixation about her.
And why do wewe think the world is attracted to a character like Bella?Bella has an amazing will power. Edward can read minds, but not hers. And in the inayofuata vitabu she has a very strong mentality and she tries to protect others. But she’s not aware of that. So when Edward tells her he can’t read her mind she immediatly thinks there’s something wrong with her. And that’s funny about this girl, she doesn’t realize she’s immerse in this ndoto world.
What’s your inayopendelewa character in the book?I like Edward he’s a very interesting character. On the outside he seems very confident, handsome. He’s the ideal man everybody wants. But he’s all alone. All the girls want him because they think he’s perfect, but he’s not.
What made wewe want to be in this movie? Had wewe read the books?No, I hadn’t read them, so I didn’t know how to play my character. When I was kusoma the script I remember telling my agent “I can’t do this. It’s physically impossible to do this”.
Why did wewe think that?Because it’s not just acting. The character has these amazing physical qualities that are impossible to have: he has a great body, he’s gorgeous. So I thought they were going to say to me “No, thank you, next”. Honestly I went to the audition without preparing. I didn’t know the lines au anything and Kristen was there. I didn’t know she was going to be Bella. She was very strong as Bella in the audition, so that gave me a clue as to how to play the character.
In the beginning the mashabiki of the book were not very thrilled about wewe playing Edward. What kind of pressure did it make wewe feel?If wewe try to do things just to please the mashabiki you’re going to deliver a bad performance. So I made the decision of playing Edward a certain way, and I alisema “that’s it, I don’t care what people say”. And I tried really hard to not make the character cheesy. But I think that since I’m a guy and it’s a girls book I felt I needed to find something else. So I had to dive in, deeper than most of the people who read the book.
Was it fun playing a vampire?I don’t think I’m playing a vampire. I don’t think I even look like one, do I? (laughs) I would’ve loved it if Edward had been the typical vampire we’re all familiar with, because the Wanyonya damu in Twilight are too weird. They’re very pale, they have strange eyes, but they’re so normal and they can live in the real world without rasing any suspicions. On the other hand, I was very fun. I had to do action sequences and I had to climb trees (laughs).
wewe mention real vampires, are wewe a shabiki of vampire movies?Well, in this film I’m not scary. I’m not like Nosferatu. I want to be that kind of vampire, that would be cool. But as wewe know, this film is not about vampire clichés, so I played him like he had a disease, like you’re not the same person after someone bites wewe because wewe wake up three days later wanting to kill people. You’re a thousand times stronger and faster, and you’re going to live forever and if wewe think about it, that must be horrible!
What was the hardest part of playing Edward?Edward has a certain aura that makes people be scared of him instinctively and they don’t know why. I really upendo that, but I think that’s hard to onyesha on screen so I would imagine him as a lion who was in the jungle surrounded kwa animals, they know he’s not hunting but they keep their distance. And that was something I really wanted to add to the movie, in fact there’s a scene in which all the birds literally fly away as soon as I walk by, and this gives wewe the idea. But I think that was the hardest thing to onyesha (he pauses). Well that, and being the most beautiful man in the world! (laughs). But there’s nothing I could do about that.
In the movie Edward is suppossed to be 17 years old. If they make the inayofuata movies, what are they going to do to keep the character looking young?With botox! (laughs) No, actually I am a bit worried about that. I don’t know, I guess we’ll have to shoot them pretty quickly.
I know wewe play the piano, and in the book Edward plays a song in the kinanda for Bella. Are wewe playing the kinanda in the movie?Yes, I’m playing a song written kwa Carter Burwell.
Are they adding any songs kwa wewe on the soundtrack?There’s one au two songs kwa me in the movie, although I don’t know what they’re doing there! (laughs). It’s one of the most bizarre moments in the film, because I’m in a scene with Kristen and there’s me imba in the background, I can hear myself playing the guitar, gitaa and my voice singing, but my face is just there talking.
After playing Cedric Diggory in the Goblet of Fire, were wewe worried of repeating yourself with another book series?Yes, but it’s a very different role and story.
I know wewe read a manuscript that Stephenie Meyer wrote from Edward’s point of view in order to prepare yourself for the role…Yes, I read it when we were in the middle of filming, and since the book of Twilight was written from Bella’s point of view and she never really knows what Edward is because he lies and he hides stuff all the time, I had all the freedom to play him as I wanted to. And even though in the book wewe read only positive things about Edward, when wewe see the real situation he’s completely negative. Imagine waking up one siku saying “I didn’t ask to become a vampire. And now I want to kill a bunch of people and I feel terrible. I don’t want to die but I don’t want to live like this either. I found the only person in the world that makes me feel like I want to keep on living, but I want to kill her too”, that has to be horrible.
How did wewe develope your vampire abilities? I read wewe wrote a journal as Edward. Are wewe planning on publishing that?It wasn’t exactly a journal. I don’t know how it started (laughs) but I hadn’t realized how difficult it was going to be to play Edward until I started kusoma the script. He’s a very complex character. So I moved to Portland on my own two au three months before filming began and I didn’t do anything but read the script and vitabu to find anything that helped me play him. So I started to write things. I mean, if wewe really prepare for a role, there’s going to be a moment in which he’s all wewe can think of. So I did things like little suicide notes. I was a little worrysome actually (bursts out laughing).
Here’s Kristen’s part of the interview:
It’s 2 o’clock in an exclusive hotel in Beverly Hills where we are interviewing Kristen Stewart. She rushes in. She’s been doing interviews all day. She says hello and it catches my attention that she’s wearing jeans, sneakers, a loose T-shirt and a plaid shati tied around her waist and not a drop of make up. I didn’t expect her to be so casual since she’s the nyota of the movie. I notice she’s very nervous. She tells me that it doesn’t matter how many times she’s done inteviews, she doesn’t get used to being the center of attention. We start our interview…
Before signing up for this role, had wewe read the books? Did wewe know it was a fenomenon like this?I had no idea. I don’t know why I didn’t know anything about it. Once I became aware of it I started noticing the vitabu everwhere, I heard people talking about it, and everything starts getting bigger and bigger.
Do wewe think that the fact that wewe didn’t know anything about Bella and Twilight helped wewe play the role better?Yes, I don’t think I would’ve been very keen about playing this role. I would’ve been very intimidated.
What do wewe like the most about Bella?I like that on one side she’s the victim, everybody chases her. Even the guy of her dreams wants to kill her. I upendo the kind of balance wewe can find in a very helpless girl, because at the same time she’s very sure about her relationship with Edward, she says “We can do this and it’s worth fighting for it”.
Did wewe meet Stephenie Meyer? How was yout relationship with her?She came to the set a few times.She was very involved from the beginning, she went through the script, she was aware of the casting choices, but afterwards she let everyone do their job.
Did wewe talk about your character with her?No, it would’ve been the longest conversation of my life! We did’t have much time for that. She asked me if I wanted to know anything about the character and I told her that ervything was in the book.
Do wewe like vampire stories?I upendo the themes they represent. They swali mortality. I upendo than in Twilight almost everything is a life au death situation, and then there’s the whole ‘forbidden fruit’ thing. All of that is always present and I upendo it.
But have wewe ever been interested in vampires?I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. In fact, when I was a kid I dressed as Dracula for Halloween. I loved it ’cause I thought I looked so cool.
What does it feel like to be in upendo with a vampire?In my case, my character finds herself in a world that it’s not real. In the beginning everything is very logical to her, but I think the main thing is that she never maswali the situation she’s in. It’s like she doesn’t have a choice. There’s a chemical reaction that happens between two souls that need to be connected, like saying “We don’t have a choice. We can’t live without each other”.
How did wewe and Robert manage to pull off that chemistry onscreen?We’re actors. It’s natural for us. We rehearsed a lot in the beginning, we had a lot of time to read about Wanyonya damu and to read the books. So sometimes we argued about them saying “No, Wanyonya damu can’t breathe, so I’m not going to be able to feel your breath (laughs). I don’t know, we got lucky. Hopefully that shows onscreen.
Bella is a very brave girl, so wewe see yourself as a brave girl?I think bravery comes from believing in something and I have my convictions.
What do wewe have in common with her, since she’s an average girl, not popular. Do wewe relate to her?Yes, in the sense that I was never one of those girls who goes to the cafeteria and completely rules the school. I completely relate to that part, like wewe believe you’re not supossed to be the maarufu girl, you’d rather be someone else, and she’s like that. She can’t understand why everyone is so interested in her. Like everyone has a sort of fixation about her.
And why do wewe think the world is attracted to a character like Bella?Bella has an amazing will power. Edward can read minds, but not hers. And in the inayofuata vitabu she has a very strong mentality and she tries to protect others. But she’s not aware of that. So when Edward tells her he can’t read her mind she immediatly thinks there’s something wrong with her. And that’s funny about this girl, she doesn’t realize she’s immerse in this ndoto world.
What’s your inayopendelewa character in the book?I like Edward he’s a very interesting character. On the outside he seems very confident, handsome. He’s the ideal man everybody wants. But he’s all alone. All the girls want him because they think he’s perfect, but he’s not.
