Rachelle Lefevre and Cam Gigandet Interviews.

Rachelle Lefevre and Cam Gigandet play Victoria and James, two of the bad vampires in Summit Entertainment's Twilight, based on bestselling book by Stephenie Meyer. Although they're the bad guys in the movie, the thousand or so fans who turned up at the Los Angeles premiere of Twilight didn't hold their roles against them. Lefevre and Gigandet were cheered on by the passionate crowd of Twilight followers right along with the rest of the cast.

Rachelle Lefevre: Victoria in Twilight.

Rachelle Lefevre: Oh my goodness, hello everybody.

It's kind of an onslaught tonight.
Rachelle Lefevre: It is, it is.

What do you make of it?
Rachelle Lefevre: You know what? It's incredible. We started to get some idea of the fan sort of frenzy at Comic Con, but I don't think that anybody could have anticipated this. I certainly never thought I'd be a part of anything where people were sleeping on concrete to get a look at us.

Why do you think this is such an international phenomenon?
Rachelle Lefevre: I think that the story is just so universal. Romeo and Juliet comes to mind. You know, it's survived 500 years. It's been translated into, I don't know, 8000 languages. I think that love stories are timeless and when they're done right, they appeal to everybody. That's the brilliance of it is that because they're vampires, it also adds this really dark element and allows for a lot of action, too. And so in addition to having this great romance, you have fight sequences and chase scenes and real, real sort of intensity. It's a real ride, this film.

Is there anything in your past that you would have slept out overnight to see?
Rachelle Lefevre: You know what? I was very, very young but I remember the New Kids on the Block being like… I think I sort of liked boys for the first time, you know? And going, 'What's this all about?' I just wanted Joey McIntyre to sing to me.

Maybe he will now.
Rachelle Lefevre: Maybe he will now. Joey, will you sing to me?

Cam Gigandet: James in Twilight.

Cam Gigandet: This is…it's just so unreal, really. I feel like they're going to call cut and we're going to like, 'Let's do it again.' It's like a movie, really.

I'm sure you anticipated quite a crowd but does this exceed it?
Cam Gigandet: You can never really… I mean, you can hope for the best. But I never would have expected this. This is just wild. Wild.

How did Twilight become such a pop culture phenomenon?
Cam Gigandet: How? It's got the best of both worlds. It has like this dark mystery with these vampires. But then it's like a relatable love story that you've seen. It's like an old classic love story so, you know, those two combined.

How much fun is it to play the bad guy?

Cam Gigandet: I love it.

They keep casting you that way.
Cam Gigandet: I know, but it's just so much fun because you have unlimited amounts of freedom and I think that's why I like it.

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Taylor Lautner and Solomon Trimble Interviews.

Taylor Lautner (Jacob) and Solomon Trimble (Sam) don't have a lot to do in Twilight, the movie based on bestselling book by Stephenie Meyer, but Twilight readers all know both Jacob and Sam play important roles in the sequels to Twilight - New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. And at Twilight's Los Angeles premiere both Lautner and Trimble said they're definitely ready for New Moon whenever Summit Entertainment, the studio behind Twilight, tells them it's moving forward.

Taylor Lautner: Jacob in Twilight.

What's the appeal of Twilight?

Taylor Lautner: All of the fans can relate to the characters. I mean, a lot of our fans are in high school so they can relate. The other thing is it's a romance. The girls love the romance. But it's not only a romance – it's an action romance. So I think the movie is for everyone. It's got romance, action, horror, it's got everything.

Have you had any strange fan encounters while out on the Twilight tour?
Taylor Lautner: The tour, it wasn't bad. But actually just over here there was some middle-aged woman. She's like, 'Guess what Taylor? I'm wearing the Team Taylor panties!' I'm like, 'No way.' And she's like, 'Would you mind signing them?' And luckily my publicist was right there and she's like, 'We've got to go do an interview.' And I'm like, 'Okay, yeah, I'll think about that one.'

Would you have done it if you hadn't been pulled away?
Taylor Lautner: Maybe. I don't know. No, I'm kidding. No!

Are you ready for New Moon?
Taylor Lautner: I am. That's why I'm telling all my fans see it three times and we should be good.

What do you think of the vampire versus werewolf issue?
Taylor Lautner: Personally, I don't get the vampire thing. They're cold; werewolves are hot. I mean, cold, hot, come on! And I think Bella is just confused at the moment. She doesn't know what's best for her and the Team Edward fans, but they'll come around. They'll come around.

There are a lot of Team Jacob fans.
Taylor Lautner: I was surprised. There are a lot more than I expected. It's awesome. I love just diving into the crowd and giving them hugs. It's fun.

Solomon Trimble: Sam in Twilight.

How are you doing?
Solomon Trimble: I'm doing really well.

Are you eating this up because it looks like you're having a good time?
Solomon Trimble: I am.

So how are you at signing your autograph?
Solomon Trimble: I'm getting tennis elbow. This is new. No, I'm doing pretty good. When I first started it just wasn't good. Now my signature's got a little flow to it. The faster I go, the better it is.

Did you practice?
Solomon Trimble: Yeah, I did, twice. Just once before for friends and then yesterday at Borders. There was a podcast and a signing with some of the cast there. That was only 200 people and I remember thinking my arm hurts and they said, 'Wait till tomorrow.'

Maybe you should just do your initials?
Solomon Trimble: I thought about that but it's too quick. It just looks like, I don't know, like Stonehenge. It's bad.

So you didn't know about Twilight, right, going into this?
Solomon Trimble: My sister in law she was a crazy Twilight fan.

And then the screaming really kicks up because Robert Pattinson has made an appearance.
Now go.
Solomon Trimble: She was a crazy fan and when I got cast I tried telling her, 'Yeah, I got cast as Sam Uley.' She thought I was lying, made it up. I'm like, 'Twilight, isn't this the book?' I knew quotes before I even read the book or was cast because she was so into it. And then, yeah, when she saw that I had the script she tried to rip it from me. I got a scar on my neck. She didn't get it.

So the next one, you should play a next bigger part, right?
Solomon Trimble: Yeah, my schedule is open. I'll just say that. I have no idea what's going on but yeah, my schedule's open.

Are you buffing up?
Solomon Trimble: Yes, I'm buffing up. I'm eating nothing but chicken and salmon and lifting heavy metal. The Twilight Awesomes are a group. They bought a gym membership. I went to my gym and like out of the blue they're like, 'Oh, you're three months ahead,' because I went to pay. It's like, 'Really?' And then I get this card for my birthday and they were like, 'Hey, we want Sam to be buff…' It's kind of a backhanded way to… I was like, 'Thank you Miss Jan and everybody in Twilight Awesomes.' Thank you.

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'Twilight' star finds uneasy fit with fame.

"Twilight" star Rob Pattinson was only a short time into his heartthrob publicity tour when he arrived in Philadelphia last week, and the magnitude of his role as teenage vampire Edward Cullen was already getting to him. Not quite a typical It guy, the 22-year-old actor wasn't exactly oozing charisma or confidence.
In two hours he would be facing 1,000 shrieking fans at the King of Prussia Mall, but in his suite at the Four Seasons Hotel he cringed at every mention of the word fame.
The London-born actor bashfully stared at the floor and ran his fingers through his now infamous hair as he answered questions about the cultlike following of "Twilight"-obsessed teenage girls and their mothers.
"It's really strange when you go from like no one caring to people going like, 'Oh yeah, I saw that guy from 'Twilight' being an idiot.' I mean, it's strange," Pattinson mused. Refusing to make eye contact or even use the first person when discussing his outrageously successful press tour, Pattinson tried to disassociate himself from his character.
But that might be impossible.
Thanks to his role as Edward, Pattinson has already attracted a fan base of thousands of teenage girls willing to camp out in the rain for hours for a two-second encounter.
He is trying not to let it go to his head.
"So many young people who get a big hit kind of get hyped up," he said. "They start to believe their own hype and then everyone starts to, like, cut them down immediately. And I just feel like I'm being propelled by something I have absolutely no control over.
" . . . I always feel like I'm going to get my head cut off."
The intensity of the past few weeks confuses him. Dressed in black jeans, a nondescript black jacket, black leather Nikes and a white(ish) T-shirt, Pattinson looks more like a gawky, shy, awkward teen (albeit with perfect bone structure and no acne) than the brooding vampire the "Twilight" legion wants him to be.
He got a taste of life in the spotlight after playing Cedric Diggory in two Harry Potter movies, but then he "squandered away" his Harry Potter momentum and just hung out with some L.A. waitresses until returning home to London. That's where he was when he landed "Twilight," living with his best friend in a tiny apartment with one chair, a TV, and homemade furniture.
"It was so cool," he said nostalgically. "You had to walk through a restaurant kitchen to get up to the roofs but you could like walk along all the roofs . . . I didn't do anything for a year, I just sat on the roof and played music . . . it was like the best time I had ever had.
"I never set out to be an actor," Pattinson offered as an explanation of why he isn't worried about failing. "Though I'd be quite annoyed if it fell apart, because I quite enjoy doing it."
Before acting, he imagined a very different life. Pattinson planned on going to the prestigious London School of Economics to study international relations and politics. He ended up making Harry Potter movies instead, which gobbled up years of his teen life.
"It went on for so long," he said, "I didn't have to decide what to do and I didn't have to do any exams or anything. It seemed like a really easy option."
After his time off "doing nothing," Pattinson tried to reignite his acting career in part because he needed some structure.
"I guess I must have matured a little bit last year," Pattinson reflected, laughing. "And I guess maybe I missed school and I missed kind of working in a structured way and so I started looking at scripts and acting in a very structured way. I forced myself to feel like I was working."
Besides the movie-star thing, Pattinson is also trying screenwriting. He has already written a few scripts, the most recent one about the slave trade. And he wants to have a production company by the time he is 26.
"I guess I'm just a control freak," he said. "I don't like the way the film industry is . . . If you come with a good script and then it goes to the studios and gets financing, it all gets changed because they want to make money. And it's like, how do you know if it's going to make money or not? All you're doing is making it generic when you do that, and making it generic is no guarantee that it's going to make money either.
"The only way to abandon that is to take risks," he added passionately. "And you need to be able to trust people. So you get a company together with people you know are good and you know work hard and you can make good stuff. That's kind of what I want to do."
But for now, Pattinson must get through the "Twilight" of his young career.
He said all the press is tiring and he has "an overwhelming urge to say something really terrible" every time he has to face 1,000 screaming 14-year-olds. He has been traveling with the same bag of clothes since he was in Italy almost a month ago.
"It's weird how odd your clothes start to smell," he confessed, half-seriously.
His character's loner image seems to ring true in his own personal life as well.
"I'm good at disappearing," he said. "I don't have too much of a problem with it. There's hardly anyone I want to speak to . . . I spend most of the time just avoiding phone calls, just avoiding everything."

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Twilight star 'doesn't like attention'.

Vampire movie Twilight has broken box office records in America and is set to do the same in the UK. Actor Robert Pattinson was amongst cast members in London for the UK premiere. Newsbeat caught up with him to find out why he's camera shy, how he copes with hordes of screaming fans and what it would take to get him wandering around naked.

It's a bit crazy what's been happening around Twilight, isn't it?
It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person anyway, so it doesn't really feed well when people are looking at you. I'm not really in the right job. I don't like having my photo taken. I don't like the attention.
Do you have fans following you around?
Whenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there are loads of people screaming at me. I'm not thinking at all so I can't really remember what's happened immediately afterwards.
There are stories in the papers about a multi-million pound deal for appearing in the rest of the Twilight series. Are they true?
I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m (£8.1m) a movie. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.
Are you doing the next two films?
I went into it doing it as a trilogy. They're shooting the second one in March. I'm not really in it that much in the second one. The lead character is somebody else, which is another reason why I'm not being paid $12m. I've got two scenes.
People are calling you the next Jude Law. Do those claims sit comfortably with you?
No. The same thing happened with Harry Potter. You get a bit of heat and everybody says you're this, you're that. Then it dies down. You just do jobs. I don't know any actor who's followed through, when they say he's the next this and then he actually has become the next that. I don't get that. I don't see what the point is.
How do you cope with the screaming fans at premieres?
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.
Did you ever imagine that girls would be obsessed with your hair?
That's the weirdest thing ever. I don't get that at all. It's really strange.
A lot of the gossip websites seem to have an obsession with you as well, don't they?
I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, What?. They always seem like they're six feet away. I don't understand. I'm walking around and I don't see anybody.

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Twilight premiere: fans brave cold to see Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

The 22-year-old English actor plays vampire Edward Cullen in the film, which has been touted as the "girl's answer to Harry Potter".
He was joined on the red carpet by co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays his teenage love interest Isabella Swan. Stewart, 18, arrived at the West End Vue Cinema in London's Leicester Square wearing a single-strap blue dress, apparently unconcerned about the bitter temperatures.
Twilight is based on the series of books by Mormon housewife-turned-author Stephanie Meyer which have sold around 14 million copies across the world.
The film, which raked in £24 million ($35.7 million) on its opening day in the US last month, is expected to catapult Pattinson – who played Hogwarts pupil Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter films – to international heart-throb status.
Pattinson was raised in Barnes, west London, and first trod the boards in Guys and Dolls at his local theatre group seven years ago.
In Twilight he stars as Cullen, a 108-year-old vampire who looks like a teenager and wins the heart of Stewart's character when she moves to his hometown of Forks, Washington.
The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, opens in cinemas in the UK on Dec 19.

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Twilight-mania, Robert Pattinson, invade Boston area.

Blast releases a special TWILIGHT EXTRA issue of the magazine on Monday with photos and video from the event, a longer interview with Robert Pattinson, our movie review, and more!

SAUGUS, Mass. — The teenage girl came out of the Hot Topic store, eyes glazed with a silly smile on her face. Her mother ran up to meet her, just as the words started tumbling out of the daughter’s lips.

He talked to me, she gasped, as her mother smiled along but tried to calm the teen down.

She has epilepsy, the mother explained, and I don’t want her to seize.

Then she scooped up her daughter and hurried away, without giving her name, to make room for the next giggling girl.

Fan dedication: defined.

She was just one of hundreds who flocked to the Square One Mall north of Boston on Friday. The object of their fanaticism wasn’t one of the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus, but rather a soft-spoken, spiky-haired Brit named Robert Pattinson.

In the words of one indignant passerby who was turned away from shopping at the barricaded Hot Topic: He isn’t even famous.

Though Pattinson, 22, may not be a household name yet, to the fan community of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire Twilight series, (and hardcore Harry Potter fans who remember he played Cedric Diggory) he is second to none. Playing the lead male character Edward in the upcoming vampire film Twilight, the fan hysteria has reached peak heights.

At first I thought maybe he wasn’t as good for Edward, but now I think he’s perfect, said Selys Rivera, 14, of Worcester. He’s completely perfect for Edward. He’s amazing.

Pattinson, along with co-stars Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Edi Gathegi and Rachelle Lefavre, is headlining the Hot Topic-sponsored movie tour to promote Twilight in the final days before the film’s release on November 21. The Saugus event was Pattinson’s third and final stop on the tour after the event scheduled in San Francisco was canceled after fans mobbed the mall.

Pattinson, Stewart, and the trio of Lautner, Gathegi and Lefavre toured to 13 cities across the U.S. from November 10 through November 15.

[The hysteria] hasn’t died down at all, Pattinson told Blast in a brief interview at the Saugus Hot Topic. It happened in [Italy], it happened in Mexico. It’s completely ridiculous.

Here in Saugus, the crowd was much tamer than the events in San Francisco and Chicago. Wristbands were given, starting at 9 p.m. Thursday, to the first 500 people who bought the Hot Topic official “Twilight” tour T-shirt. The Saugus police were no-nonsense about the event and were a steady presence around the mall throughout the night.

We got here at about 9 p.m. yesterday and we were there like all night long, said Attleboro resident Amanda Pease, 20. We only left to go to Starbucks.

At 5 p.m. Friday, a crowd of a couple hundred girls had gathered around a stage that was set up for Pattinson to speak to the fans for the question and answer portion of the event. Some had camped out for more than 20 hours just for the chance to meet their beloved Edward, while others had arrived only moments before to wait around until Pattinson spoke at on the stage.

A security presence was felt. A barricade was set up like a moat around the stage to protect Pattinson from the overzealousness of any rabid fan-girls.

Blast has not heard reports of any of the other Twilight character events going as wildly insane as Pattinson’s. His response to questions about whether he had talked to his fellow cast members since the tour began: I haven’t actually. Do you how they’re [events are] going?

A couple minutes after 6 p.m., the fans started to trickle out of the store with awe-struck faces and trembling hands.I went up there and he was so nice. He actually asked me like how everything has been and whether I was okay, and I was just like so speechless. I was just like, ‘I love you so much and I can’t wait to see you in the movie! I can’t wait to see you in all of your movies!’ said Pease, who admitted that she had not known Pattinson had acted in any other movie other than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Pease’s boyfriend, Bill Brauneis, 21, of Attleboro was a bit more conservative with his enthusiasm about seeing Pattinson.

It was great. I was looking forward to meeting him, he said.

The fan reactions were noted, even by the authorities that were there for security.

They all came out like zombies, like they’d been bit by a vampire,” said Saugus fire Lieutenant Eric Hansen.

Television crews swarmed on girl after girl who came out sobbing hysterically in the aftermath of meeting Pattinson. A couple kind words from the actor were translated into confessions of attraction and admissions of love.

One girl walked up to her group of friends after exiting the Hot Topic with a giddy smile on her face, whispered I told him I loved him, and burst into a bout of giggles.

He’s cuter in person, another girl proclaimed to the next batch of fans waiting to be admitted into the Hot Topic.

Pattinson said that when he was first cast into the role of Edward, he did not realize how big the Twilight phenomenon truly was.

If I was doing [the movie] now, knowing it was going to be this audience, I think I probably would have done it differently, said Pattinson. But I think, at the end of the day, it’s a good thing I went into it thinking [Twilight] is a small thing because it essentially is. It’s a small story; it’s an intimate story, and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing.

There is a lot of pressure on the actors and creators of the film adaptation of Twilight to get everything perfectly right for the fans who will scrutinize every detail of the film to see how it compares to the novel.

Most fans said that they liked all the clips of the film they had seen thus far, but 25-year-old Sarah Kontos of Worcester said that the raciness of the Bella and Edward make-out scene, shown in Summit’s final Twilight trailer, gave her pause.

In the book, she wears like ratty old pajama pants with holes in them, and she’s not like sexy, so it was weird to see that in one of the trailers, said Kontos. I kind of was mad. That would give people who didn’t read the book a totally wrong impression of that part.

Director Catherine Hardwicke has said in interviews that Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, asked her to tone down the make-out scene that was originally shot because she would have nothing to work with in the later adaptations of the novel.

As the crowds waiting for their signed posters thinned out, the police presence in front of the Hot Topic grew from three to 12 officers. Echoes of Robert! Robert! could be heard throughout the mall as the clock struck 7:30 p.m. and the fans gathered around the stage shouted impatiently for the culmination of their long wait. Though Pattinson was escorted through back passageways to get to the stage, a large crowd of fans who were not among the lucky 500 to meet Pattinson gathered around the entrance to the Hot Topic on the off chance that he would pass by them.

As soon as Pattinson appeared on the stage for the question and answer session, the chatter turned to a unified shrieking scream that thundered around the interior of the mall. Lieutenant Hansen had to plug his fingers in his ears to dull out the ear-piercing sound of what is sure to be the high point in some of the fans’ teenage lives.

The questions were submitted by fans earlier in the day and were handpicked by Pattinson. Pattinson may not be known universally, like Brad Pitt or Michael Jackson, but the obsession that surrounds him by his dedicated fan base is enough to counter the indifference of the general public. If Twilight is a success when it is released on Friday, the name Pattinson will be sure to mean something.

Though his initial popularity is based on his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and now Edward Cullen in Twilight, Pattinson has directed his focus toward indie films. His next major role is in the drama How To Be.

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