USA Weekend has a new interview with Eclipse Vampire Xavier Samuel (aka Riley).
In the interview Xavier discusses the Twilight fandom, whether or not he has been stalked yet, and all the action in Eclipse -
You’re the new guy to the Twilight saga, but have you ever seen anything like the fandom for this movie?
I got a glimpse of it all at the New Moon premiere. I went along and happily flew under the radar, but it’s 360 degrees of hysteria. It’s hard to come to terms with how severely popular the whole thing is. I’ve only ever seem something similar like the Beatles, that kind of hysteria where people are literally screaming and reaching and mobbing people. I’ve certainly never waited patiently outside someone’s hotel for eight hours to get close to them as they get in a car. [Laughs] I really loved Australian football and there were a lot of players who I really admired and wanted to be, but it never reached that level of hysteria.
No stalking involved?
Nah. You have to have the stalking gene.
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Have you had any weird fan exchanges yet?
I did get an email with a marriage proposal, which I thought was a bit strange considering I’ve never met the person before. And I don’t know how they got my email address. [Laughs] I haven’t had any bizarre encounters yet — just people asking for hugs and kisses and photographs.
Eclipse has more action than the previous two movies, especially with the big werewolf/vampire throwdown in a forest. Did you like going into action mode?
Oh yeah, it was a blast to shoot. Anytime we weren’t shooting, we were rolling around in fits of laughter because everyone’s got their serious faces on, and it’s hard to keep a straight face when you’re playing this stuff. We prepared so much for it and worked so hard to make those scenes as exciting and compelling as possible. The focus of the film is this climactic battle toward the end of the film, and it really is a full-scale war. The wolf pack and the Cullen clan are making an alliance for the first time and they’re sworn enemies, and it’s the only way they could even compete with an army of the magnitude that Riley’s assembled.
