How was it for you getting your head around the
psychological aspect of Bella becoming a vampire, and her powers?
Kristen Stewart: I was really, really excited about
developing Bella’s vamp thing. And not just the look, I know people are
obsessed with the look and all of that, but really, for me, she’s definitely my
favourite vampire – I like her powers the best. Bella doesn’t even realize she
has these really enormous talents, she discredits everything she’s got. Even
though she makes fun of it, her super self-control is actually probably the
coolest power in the series. Also she can project her shield, like a membrane.
Bella can protect anyone who steps within that, and any other vampy power has
no effect on her whatsoever, which is why Edward cannot read her mind. It all
starts to click why it’s been so difficult, why they’ve been drawn together,
and why she’s been such a mystery to him….all of that makes sense now. It was
really interesting.
It’s a pretty happy beginning for Edward in ‘The Twilight
Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2,’ and fatherhood has its own psychological affect
on Edward, in a good way….
Robert Pattinson: Yeah. The beginning of ‘The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ starts
off with a pretty happy moment again (laughs). All of the tribulations from
before have ended up with everything being ok. Bella’s made the change into a
vampire without a hitch really. The only worry is that Bella worries about how
she’s going to behave as a vampire, is she going to go crazy? Especially
because she’s stronger than all the Cullen’s put together at the beginning. You
find out very rapidly that she’s very much in control of herself and finds it
even easier than anybody else when they’ve been turned into a vampire. It’s a
very happy beginning. With Edward, when he has a child, I think it’s such an
irreplaceable union that he doesn’t just think about himself any more, he
thinks of himself being him, Bella and Renesmee. So it becomes a different
thing, I guess he grows up quite a bit. He stops being so self-obsessed.
Renesmee becomes a big part of this story and the
development of Bella….
Kristen Stewart: Yeah. Renesmee is a really, really
special little kid. She has her own way of communicating, she somehow passes a
tonne of information, sensory information – that’s how Bella and really talk to
each other. It’s awesome to see because she develops so young and so quickly,
you see a mother communicate with her infant child more so than we would be
able to in real life. I’m sure every mother feels that they’re speaking to
their children, but Bella and Renesmee really are speaking to each other in
this mythical way. I was so excited to see how that looks visually.
How was it for you acting opposite Mackenzie Foy in that
role?
Robert Pattinson: Mackenzie’s great. She’s very
self-possessed for a really young girl. She’s really smart, she’s really
talented. She’s had to do very difficult things. She’s playing the face on the
body of maybe 15 other young girls of varying sizes, which is very, very
difficult to do for any actor, let alone a young girl who’s doing her first
movie. She’s very funny. She’s taught us a lot of things about life and how to
be polite to people. She’s very professional and likes to have her swear bucks.
She made a lot of money off me and Kristen (laughs).
Kristen Stewart: We are so lucky to have Mackenzie. When you
work with good actors, everything just becomes more real and natural for you
and you create a more complete environment – it just lives within it. Mackenzie
is so smart and she loves doing this. She’s never out of it, she probably knows
more about what’s going on and what the next shot is than most other actors on
set. She’s amazingly cool and I’m very proud to have her be playing my daughter
(laughs).
While Edward has a better understanding of what is happening
between Jacob and Renesmee, Bella is sort of blindsided by that dynamic?
Robert Pattinson: Obviously it causes a lot of problems in
the Cullen household considering Jacob’s imprinted before Bella has even seen
her own kid. I think because Edward can read Jacob’s mind and he knows a little
bit about imprinting, and he’s kind of certain that Jacob wouldn’t necessarily
be attracted to a newborn baby if he wasn’t kind of forced by his genes into
doing it (laughs). So he kind of has a quicker understanding of it than Bella
does. Bella has to go purely on trust.
While the other Vampire and Werewolf characters have had a
feral and animalistic side to them throughout the ‘Twilight’ movies, this is
Bella’s first time with that aspect to her – and it’s very much channeled in
the new protective, maternal side to her.
Kristen Stewart: It was fun to throw Taylor around because
Taylor’s not only the best at getting thrown around, so I wasn’t scared of
hurting him, but it definitely makes you feel very empowered when you flick him
and he flies across a forest (laughs). The cool thing about that moment was
that it came from a very instinctive, protective, maternal….something that I’ve
never experienced but I can feel it, having to play with it for a bit – I
obviously don’t have a child to protect (laughs), but I can sort of feel it.
Everyone’s toyed around with being very feral and crazy and aggressive, it’s
fun to do, for blood lust and anger and all of that. But more so for protecting
the child, that’s fun. That just takes it to a whole new level. It’s a lot of
fun to play because I feel like there’s nothing you’ll fight for harder than
your kid.
There’s been a large ensemble cast for each of the
‘Twilight’ movies, yet ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ takes
it to a next level. How was that for you?
Robert Pattinson: We’ve had the same cast for years, so it’s
such a huge change having like 70 people on this one – it’s kind of amazing.
There are some really great actors, really great people and it’s interesting
because it gives it a very epic feel, which is nice for the final one of the
series. Also, really nice people seem to be attracted to be in the cast of
Twilight movies. And this one, it suddenly turned into an action movie at the
end. I did a few stunts, like the one where I did a jump on a wire, which was
pretty fun.
Bella starts the ‘Twilight’ series as pretty awkward, shy,
and clumsy. Yet in this film she’s evolved into a fiercely protective mother
and powerful vampire. How has that arc been to play?
Kristen Stewart: I am so very human in the ‘Twilight’
series, I’m full of idiosyncrasies. Being a clumsy person is not always
the easiest thing to do, and also, the way that I usually learn my lines, I
learn the idea, then I find the words and they come out – which is why I
stutter a lot in ‘Twilight.’ That’s something that I liked. But now it’s just a
really different way of approaching movement and talking in a scene. I have to
approach it completely differently because Bella’s mind now works so
fast. Bella has had clear insecurities that show – which is really, really
good for the series because at this point, to be really
still, to be so controlled and to know that your mind works faster now, in that
before you speak you already know what you are saying, before you move you are
already there mentally. It’s like its already happened, that was interesting to
portray.
In the book, the hunt was my favourite. I loved how alive
she became. The idea was really clearly stated in the book that, as a vampire,
Bella is different and she is special – you could feel it instantly.
Everything’s easy for her. Now she’s excelling. It’s been really awesome to
conceptually play that I am the strongest person in the room (laughs). That had
an effect on how I stand next to these big huge guys, who are clearly stronger
than me. I got to do wire work and kick people. It feels good to get physical,
because I’ve always literally stood behind people.
‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ explores
the vampire world beyond the romance of Bella and Edward….
Rober Pattinson: Yeah. This one, it’s a lot bigger. The
story spans the globe and encompasses many different characters, showing the
variety of powers and abilities vampires can have. It shows a huge amount of
the vampire world. Many, many different character. It shows how many different
powers and abilities vampire’s can have. And is also it’s about the fulfillment
of Bella’s character, first seeing her as a vampire is going to be a powerful
moment. It’s very interesting.
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