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Q & A with Twilight stars
Q: How did you both feel when you found out you'd been cast in Twilight?
Kellan: I've always wanted to play a vampire and having my good friend Ashley cast as Alice, it was amazing. It's fun to work with your friends, cos it doesn't seem like work then, you get to just hang out, make memories and have a good time. You know, I was kind of bummed that we didn't get fangs, but the white make-up totally made up for that, yeah!
Q: How surprised are you by the success of Twilight?
K: For me, I didn't know Twilight was a book series when I got involved with it... I know, boo me! I need to read more apparently! But Ashley bought the books to my hotel room, and said, hey, have you read the books? And I laughed in her face, then she had all the copies for me, so I read them as quickly as I could. Loved the book series, and then I realized why the fans, you know, followed it so closely. And, you know, it's a great story, about that bit of love that we all know. It's beautiful, and, I fell in love with it. So to see how quickly I fell in love, I knew it was going to be a big hit. It's definitely a roller coaster ride. But we all enjoyed being a part of it. The fans guys are amazing!
Q: How has the success of the film changed your life?
K: I'm from the mid-west, so I lived in a lot of small towns where there were not too many people. My grandparents in Iowa are like the King and Queen, because they have a grandson who's in Twilight, and he knows people in Twilight, so everyday they have people knocking on the door asking for autographs, or if they can send me things to sign. They're just so popular, it's great getting phone calls from them saying, "You make us so proud!" That was my Grandpa! But then yes it's definitely opened up doors. Ashley and I did a movie together, due to Twilight, called Warrior, and it's really nice to have doors opened, allowing you to further your career, try new things as an actor, and you know, it has given us the opportunity to do that. That's what Twilight has done for all of us. I really appreciate it, it's that chance to really just do what you love, and thanks to Twilight, we all get to do that.
Q: What made you get into the acting business in the first place?
K: For me it's the girls! Kidding - really it's one of those things where my life was going one way, and I'm from a big family so my mother really directed all our lives, and once we got to California, I found out what acting was. It was never really a dream of mine, it's something that I was amazingly lucky to fall into. It was just one of those things where when I was out of my mum's arms, I kind of decided that I was going to follow my heart, and thank god I did.
Q: Are your characters people that you'd like to hang around with in real life?
K: I think you're my best friend! I love my character. I got so lucky with Emmett. It's great to act as a character who loves life as much as I do, and life is just so short, why not have fun every second that you can? That's what I try to bring to the role of Emmet, he's just a big teddy bear that I love to play. I'd love to have a best friend like him.
Q: You mention about Warrior that is a new film, that you both worked on, a lot of people have been asking about it, can you just tell us a bit about it and when we're likely to see it?
K: Never. You can never see it! It's just ours personally! It's a coming of age story, I play Connor Sullivan who's this cocky lacrosse player. Lacrosse is a tough sport! What happens is my father is in Iraq, he's in the marine corp and he goes back to Irag to fight so we have to move our family to different cities all the time. In one city I learn about lacrosse and I get to make new friends, yey, that's always fun. On another trip when the family moves to New York his dad ends up dying. So I really have no-one in my life, I've just moved to a new school and all the East Coast Lacrosse guys hate me cos I'm a West Coast Lacrosse boy and I have my own way of playing. Ashley plays Brooklyn, who, I just fall in love with cos she's beautiful and she can kick any guy on the Lacrosse teams butt at Lacrosse. So she's kind of my girl to lean on. I just get into a lot of trouble - my path to becoming a man, a real man! She's there to help me out, and it's going to be a really great movie. It's not just a sports movie, where I score the winning goal. There's a lot of emotional scenes and it's great to have someone so talented, that is so close to me as a friend, working alongside me. It makes the acting really genuine and not forced, so thank you again for working on the movie with me.
A: Everyone has to go see it. It's good.
K: It's out around August. They never tell us.
Q: A lot of people wonder about the audition process. Can you tell us a bit more about that in terms of Twilight?
K: She made a great Alice in the end, right? I went up for Bella as well...! I didn't get a call back for some reason? Said my hair wasn't long enough, or something? Wow, five times? No, it's funny. I was doing a project in Africa for seven months, called Generation Kill, and I came back, and I told my agents that I wanted to take a break. I read Twilight, loved it, but an actor had already booked in the role of Emmet, so there was no real role. They wanted me to go for the part of Edward, but I knew, I'm not Edward! So I decided to go back home, and said I wanted to take a break from acting, to see my family, and go to the mid-west and see my grandparents and hang out with my dog who I missed! Then I got the call saying that I had to go back, because the guy that was set to play Emmet had fallen through - they'd re-opened it up. I thought - I want to play Emmett. So I flew back to LA and auditioned. I wore a wife beater - everyone else was small, and they started doing press-ups and I was just laughing. That's good, keep on, five, six...six, that's it? But it was really fun, I love auditioning, and I went in there, and rocked it as much as I could and they called me that night asking if I could fly to Oregon where Ashley and the rest of the cast were already rehearsing, doing the baseball scene, just rehearsing as much as they could be, so I was like yeah I'll fly up there. I auditioned for Catherine, and it's funny, I asked Ashley who was already booked as Alice if she had any advice and I remember cos Catherine held up a lot of headshots and asked, who do you guys like for Emmet, and Ashley was like, 'Oh Kellan!'
K: So I probably wouldn't be Emmet, if it wasn't for Ashley here. Yeah, thank you again! I thank her for everything cos she helps me out so much! You know it's funny cos I asked Ashley for any advice and she told me that in her audition she sat up in the chair and like jumped out at Catherine and she loved it. I had an audition with Catherine in her hotel room, and I was on her bed...am I blushing?! Its sunburn, sunny in here! But I jumped, I jumped from her bed at her, and I think I jumped a little too far cos I really hit her! I thought, 'Oh gosh I've just ruined this' but she loved it! 'Oh my god! You're my Emmet, yes! She said' Do it again!! After that she said, ok, you're my Emmett, go and play baseball practice. I was wearing boots and jeans, stuff like that, and everyone else was in athletic gear, cool workout pants. I was wearing a jacket, and trying to run in boots, it wasn't fun! So yeah, here we are today.
Q: Ok, question for Kellan, do you perform your own stunts?
K: Yes
Q: and would you like to do more in future films?
K:I love action movies, I love getting hurt, I love bleeding, you know, its funny, I did all the stunts in Twilight, which, especially the truck scene where they woke me up in my trailer at 4 in the morning, it was freezing, and they were saying, 'OK, we're ready for the truck scene.' Yeah...They tell me, get on top of the truck, I'm like, ok this is easy, then they start the engine and I think, what are you guys doing?! Then they slowly start going, ten, twenty, thirty, forty miles an hour, freezing, my cheeks are going aarr...and they're like, alright now jump. What?! Where am I jumping? I loved doing the baseball scene too, all the harness work - You want to do it again?' Yeah, please, let's keep going! So yeah I love action movies, I want to take my career further that way and just shoot guns and blow up cars, fun stuff like that. But its funny doing Warrior that we did, our stunt guys were more like girls, they were terrible, and so me and the other actors were like we'll do this.
A: There was a lot of blood.
K: Yeah, much blood. My shoulder was all bloody and bruised and they were like is that make-up, no! That hurts!
A: Method!
K: All method acting!
Q: Lots of children have role models in life and who have inspired them, who was your role model, and why?
K: My father has always been my role model in life. My parents separated when I was younger so I didn't really get to see my father growing up too much and it was one of those things when you live with so many boys and you have so many older brothers yelling and making fun of you and calling you baby baby baby, then I'd go crazy and started throwing fists. My father, when I did visit him never raised his voice once to me, and my mother was the opposite, I love her to death, and that's the only way to deal with boys, when you've got six in the house, yell, sit down, eat your food. After the divorce, my father moved to LA with only one hundred bucks to his name and built up who he is today from there, and he's such a successful man and such a strong business entrepreneur that I've always looked up to how strong he was when he was alone and it's great to live in LA where he's at now. I get to make that relationship grow, and we're so much closer now, and I've always looked up to him, he's the nicest father I could ask for.
Q: Fame is very hard, especially because of the paparazzi and publicity that goes with it, what inspires you to continue acting and being a positive role model with all those sort of distractions that fame brings
K: Exactly, I mean we love what we do. For me it's such a hobby because I didn't have the dream to be an actor, so everyday is something new. I love auditions, it doesn't seem like a job that a lot of actors who grew up in LA and they've always had the dream to be famous, they get sad after auditions because they don't book a role and I think that outlook's terrible. I mean I think we're lucky to be able to just audition, if we get something, I get to play a vampire and that's...
A: Pretty good
K: That's so cool, I mean how many people can say they can do that? And again it's just an occupation, just like a doctor or just like a teacher, there's a group of people who are after us. You know, we aren't different from anyone else, we're still human, and for the paparazzi to follow us out it's, it can get us that kind of crazy if you do put yourself in that kind of situation and you do party it up and you're drunk leaving a club and they're just there to shoot away. But if you just stick to your normal life and nothing really changes, then...
A: If you're normal and boring, they don't want to take your pictures anyway!
K: Yeah the normal and boring! But yeah, most of the time, that's a job for them to be paparazzi so you kind of have to, it's a give and take scenario. The more products you do and the more you're out there, the more they want you, I mean before Twilight no-one even knew my name and I was fine with that and nothing's changed at all, it's just to be able to give back too. And then when you are doing charity, a lot of stuff that we like to affiliate ourselves with...
K: It's nice because we can help the charities out more. So by going to events, like we had that Bowling for Autism one that we had a lot of supporters come out there and auction, help auctioning off stuff, just really giving back and helping our community out is the best thrill of it.
Q: Kellan, You appeared in an episode of heroes, can you tell us a bit about that?
K: Hayden has some soft lips, she plays the main girl. Heroes was fun, I was really bummed, I was playing her fiancée five years in the future, and I was really hoping I'd get some sort of power besides the ability to kiss, that I made my own power. But no, it was a great, it was an honor to be part of the show I really wish I was able to do more episodes or get a cool power cos I really love the show.
Q: What are the downsides of being famous?
K: It's not really a down side, but you definitely sell your privacy, so a lot of things that you want to do, or you used to do, just going shopping or going to the grocery store, or you know, I went to circuit city which is an appliance store, and I brought Lost on DVD, and I was followed buying Lost, and it's weird. A lot of times, no one likes you 100% of the time, so when you have people criticizing certain things, you know, thank god I'm not on the internet, like some actors, you know, they have to see what comments are made on IMDB or stuff like that and it kind of breaks them down a little bit in a way and it's really kind of sad to go that route. But just again, you know, no-one's going to like you 100% of the time, and it sucks for people who don't like us for certain roles you do, but tough luck!
Q: If you could pick anyone in the world to be your Bella or Edward, who would it be, and why?
K: Ladies first!
A: Hmm...
K: Be honest!
A: Of course! Ok, yeah I'm going to go with Kellan! Kellan, you don't know this about me, but I'm actually desperately, madly in love with you!
K: Well the secret for you Ashley... I'd let you be my Bella!
Q: What is the thing you hate the most about filming Twilight?
K: It's stopping. I had such a blast hanging out with the cast and the crew, and it was sad, you know, not saying goodbye, cos we hopefully would see each other for New Moon but you know, you have friends for life and it's great that we all got to hang out in LA, everyone's really cool, so it's tough saying see you later.
A: Yeah definitely, especially for something like this. We're supposed to have such an extreme family bond, it's like you have all these really great friends, and then you leave, and you're you know thrown together in this situation, and then we leave. And we're all really busy so you feel like a piece of you has been taken away. So there's definitely that, and then getting hit with hail!
K: See I loved that! The weather!
A: You like pain though! See I don't like pain!
K: Yeah
source (includes Ashley's answers)
Q: How did you both feel when you found out you'd been cast in Twilight?
Kellan: I've always wanted to play a vampire and having my good friend Ashley cast as Alice, it was amazing. It's fun to work with your friends, cos it doesn't seem like work then, you get to just hang out, make memories and have a good time. You know, I was kind of bummed that we didn't get fangs, but the white make-up totally made up for that, yeah!
Q: How surprised are you by the success of Twilight?
K: For me, I didn't know Twilight was a book series when I got involved with it... I know, boo me! I need to read more apparently! But Ashley bought the books to my hotel room, and said, hey, have you read the books? And I laughed in her face, then she had all the copies for me, so I read them as quickly as I could. Loved the book series, and then I realized why the fans, you know, followed it so closely. And, you know, it's a great story, about that bit of love that we all know. It's beautiful, and, I fell in love with it. So to see how quickly I fell in love, I knew it was going to be a big hit. It's definitely a roller coaster ride. But we all enjoyed being a part of it. The fans guys are amazing!
Q: How has the success of the film changed your life?
K: I'm from the mid-west, so I lived in a lot of small towns where there were not too many people. My grandparents in Iowa are like the King and Queen, because they have a grandson who's in Twilight, and he knows people in Twilight, so everyday they have people knocking on the door asking for autographs, or if they can send me things to sign. They're just so popular, it's great getting phone calls from them saying, "You make us so proud!" That was my Grandpa! But then yes it's definitely opened up doors. Ashley and I did a movie together, due to Twilight, called Warrior, and it's really nice to have doors opened, allowing you to further your career, try new things as an actor, and you know, it has given us the opportunity to do that. That's what Twilight has done for all of us. I really appreciate it, it's that chance to really just do what you love, and thanks to Twilight, we all get to do that.
Q: What made you get into the acting business in the first place?
K: For me it's the girls! Kidding - really it's one of those things where my life was going one way, and I'm from a big family so my mother really directed all our lives, and once we got to California, I found out what acting was. It was never really a dream of mine, it's something that I was amazingly lucky to fall into. It was just one of those things where when I was out of my mum's arms, I kind of decided that I was going to follow my heart, and thank god I did.
Q: Are your characters people that you'd like to hang around with in real life?
K: I think you're my best friend! I love my character. I got so lucky with Emmett. It's great to act as a character who loves life as much as I do, and life is just so short, why not have fun every second that you can? That's what I try to bring to the role of Emmet, he's just a big teddy bear that I love to play. I'd love to have a best friend like him.
Q: You mention about Warrior that is a new film, that you both worked on, a lot of people have been asking about it, can you just tell us a bit about it and when we're likely to see it?
K: Never. You can never see it! It's just ours personally! It's a coming of age story, I play Connor Sullivan who's this cocky lacrosse player. Lacrosse is a tough sport! What happens is my father is in Iraq, he's in the marine corp and he goes back to Irag to fight so we have to move our family to different cities all the time. In one city I learn about lacrosse and I get to make new friends, yey, that's always fun. On another trip when the family moves to New York his dad ends up dying. So I really have no-one in my life, I've just moved to a new school and all the East Coast Lacrosse guys hate me cos I'm a West Coast Lacrosse boy and I have my own way of playing. Ashley plays Brooklyn, who, I just fall in love with cos she's beautiful and she can kick any guy on the Lacrosse teams butt at Lacrosse. So she's kind of my girl to lean on. I just get into a lot of trouble - my path to becoming a man, a real man! She's there to help me out, and it's going to be a really great movie. It's not just a sports movie, where I score the winning goal. There's a lot of emotional scenes and it's great to have someone so talented, that is so close to me as a friend, working alongside me. It makes the acting really genuine and not forced, so thank you again for working on the movie with me.
A: Everyone has to go see it. It's good.
K: It's out around August. They never tell us.
Q: A lot of people wonder about the audition process. Can you tell us a bit more about that in terms of Twilight?
K: She made a great Alice in the end, right? I went up for Bella as well...! I didn't get a call back for some reason? Said my hair wasn't long enough, or something? Wow, five times? No, it's funny. I was doing a project in Africa for seven months, called Generation Kill, and I came back, and I told my agents that I wanted to take a break. I read Twilight, loved it, but an actor had already booked in the role of Emmet, so there was no real role. They wanted me to go for the part of Edward, but I knew, I'm not Edward! So I decided to go back home, and said I wanted to take a break from acting, to see my family, and go to the mid-west and see my grandparents and hang out with my dog who I missed! Then I got the call saying that I had to go back, because the guy that was set to play Emmet had fallen through - they'd re-opened it up. I thought - I want to play Emmett. So I flew back to LA and auditioned. I wore a wife beater - everyone else was small, and they started doing press-ups and I was just laughing. That's good, keep on, five, six...six, that's it? But it was really fun, I love auditioning, and I went in there, and rocked it as much as I could and they called me that night asking if I could fly to Oregon where Ashley and the rest of the cast were already rehearsing, doing the baseball scene, just rehearsing as much as they could be, so I was like yeah I'll fly up there. I auditioned for Catherine, and it's funny, I asked Ashley who was already booked as Alice if she had any advice and I remember cos Catherine held up a lot of headshots and asked, who do you guys like for Emmet, and Ashley was like, 'Oh Kellan!'
K: So I probably wouldn't be Emmet, if it wasn't for Ashley here. Yeah, thank you again! I thank her for everything cos she helps me out so much! You know it's funny cos I asked Ashley for any advice and she told me that in her audition she sat up in the chair and like jumped out at Catherine and she loved it. I had an audition with Catherine in her hotel room, and I was on her bed...am I blushing?! Its sunburn, sunny in here! But I jumped, I jumped from her bed at her, and I think I jumped a little too far cos I really hit her! I thought, 'Oh gosh I've just ruined this' but she loved it! 'Oh my god! You're my Emmet, yes! She said' Do it again!! After that she said, ok, you're my Emmett, go and play baseball practice. I was wearing boots and jeans, stuff like that, and everyone else was in athletic gear, cool workout pants. I was wearing a jacket, and trying to run in boots, it wasn't fun! So yeah, here we are today.
Q: Ok, question for Kellan, do you perform your own stunts?
K: Yes
Q: and would you like to do more in future films?
K:I love action movies, I love getting hurt, I love bleeding, you know, its funny, I did all the stunts in Twilight, which, especially the truck scene where they woke me up in my trailer at 4 in the morning, it was freezing, and they were saying, 'OK, we're ready for the truck scene.' Yeah...They tell me, get on top of the truck, I'm like, ok this is easy, then they start the engine and I think, what are you guys doing?! Then they slowly start going, ten, twenty, thirty, forty miles an hour, freezing, my cheeks are going aarr...and they're like, alright now jump. What?! Where am I jumping? I loved doing the baseball scene too, all the harness work - You want to do it again?' Yeah, please, let's keep going! So yeah I love action movies, I want to take my career further that way and just shoot guns and blow up cars, fun stuff like that. But its funny doing Warrior that we did, our stunt guys were more like girls, they were terrible, and so me and the other actors were like we'll do this.
A: There was a lot of blood.
K: Yeah, much blood. My shoulder was all bloody and bruised and they were like is that make-up, no! That hurts!
A: Method!
K: All method acting!
Q: Lots of children have role models in life and who have inspired them, who was your role model, and why?
K: My father has always been my role model in life. My parents separated when I was younger so I didn't really get to see my father growing up too much and it was one of those things when you live with so many boys and you have so many older brothers yelling and making fun of you and calling you baby baby baby, then I'd go crazy and started throwing fists. My father, when I did visit him never raised his voice once to me, and my mother was the opposite, I love her to death, and that's the only way to deal with boys, when you've got six in the house, yell, sit down, eat your food. After the divorce, my father moved to LA with only one hundred bucks to his name and built up who he is today from there, and he's such a successful man and such a strong business entrepreneur that I've always looked up to how strong he was when he was alone and it's great to live in LA where he's at now. I get to make that relationship grow, and we're so much closer now, and I've always looked up to him, he's the nicest father I could ask for.
Q: Fame is very hard, especially because of the paparazzi and publicity that goes with it, what inspires you to continue acting and being a positive role model with all those sort of distractions that fame brings
K: Exactly, I mean we love what we do. For me it's such a hobby because I didn't have the dream to be an actor, so everyday is something new. I love auditions, it doesn't seem like a job that a lot of actors who grew up in LA and they've always had the dream to be famous, they get sad after auditions because they don't book a role and I think that outlook's terrible. I mean I think we're lucky to be able to just audition, if we get something, I get to play a vampire and that's...
A: Pretty good
K: That's so cool, I mean how many people can say they can do that? And again it's just an occupation, just like a doctor or just like a teacher, there's a group of people who are after us. You know, we aren't different from anyone else, we're still human, and for the paparazzi to follow us out it's, it can get us that kind of crazy if you do put yourself in that kind of situation and you do party it up and you're drunk leaving a club and they're just there to shoot away. But if you just stick to your normal life and nothing really changes, then...
A: If you're normal and boring, they don't want to take your pictures anyway!
K: Yeah the normal and boring! But yeah, most of the time, that's a job for them to be paparazzi so you kind of have to, it's a give and take scenario. The more products you do and the more you're out there, the more they want you, I mean before Twilight no-one even knew my name and I was fine with that and nothing's changed at all, it's just to be able to give back too. And then when you are doing charity, a lot of stuff that we like to affiliate ourselves with...
K: It's nice because we can help the charities out more. So by going to events, like we had that Bowling for Autism one that we had a lot of supporters come out there and auction, help auctioning off stuff, just really giving back and helping our community out is the best thrill of it.
Q: Kellan, You appeared in an episode of heroes, can you tell us a bit about that?
K: Hayden has some soft lips, she plays the main girl. Heroes was fun, I was really bummed, I was playing her fiancée five years in the future, and I was really hoping I'd get some sort of power besides the ability to kiss, that I made my own power. But no, it was a great, it was an honor to be part of the show I really wish I was able to do more episodes or get a cool power cos I really love the show.
Q: What are the downsides of being famous?
K: It's not really a down side, but you definitely sell your privacy, so a lot of things that you want to do, or you used to do, just going shopping or going to the grocery store, or you know, I went to circuit city which is an appliance store, and I brought Lost on DVD, and I was followed buying Lost, and it's weird. A lot of times, no one likes you 100% of the time, so when you have people criticizing certain things, you know, thank god I'm not on the internet, like some actors, you know, they have to see what comments are made on IMDB or stuff like that and it kind of breaks them down a little bit in a way and it's really kind of sad to go that route. But just again, you know, no-one's going to like you 100% of the time, and it sucks for people who don't like us for certain roles you do, but tough luck!
Q: If you could pick anyone in the world to be your Bella or Edward, who would it be, and why?
K: Ladies first!
A: Hmm...
K: Be honest!
A: Of course! Ok, yeah I'm going to go with Kellan! Kellan, you don't know this about me, but I'm actually desperately, madly in love with you!
K: Well the secret for you Ashley... I'd let you be my Bella!
Q: What is the thing you hate the most about filming Twilight?
K: It's stopping. I had such a blast hanging out with the cast and the crew, and it was sad, you know, not saying goodbye, cos we hopefully would see each other for New Moon but you know, you have friends for life and it's great that we all got to hang out in LA, everyone's really cool, so it's tough saying see you later.
A: Yeah definitely, especially for something like this. We're supposed to have such an extreme family bond, it's like you have all these really great friends, and then you leave, and you're you know thrown together in this situation, and then we leave. And we're all really busy so you feel like a piece of you has been taken away. So there's definitely that, and then getting hit with hail!
K: See I loved that! The weather!
A: You like pain though! See I don't like pain!
K: Yeah
source (includes Ashley's answers)
