Robert and Kristen Interview with Courier Mail (Australia)
AS Twilight fans gear up for the first installment of the series' dramatic finale, stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson talk love, marriage and babies . . . in their new film
A raven-haired beauty, still awkward in her skin, lies fully-clothed in a field of flowers. The tall grass gently sways. Beside her lies a dashing boy, his fresh, chiselled face flicking between brooding and loving looks towards his girl. It's a deeply romantic and extremely chaste depiction of the first flushes of young love. So sweet.
That's the way fans are used to seeing The Twilight Saga couple Bella Swan and Edward Cullen dance around each other, as depicted in three movies based on the phenomenally successful books by Stephenie Meyer.
Sure, there's flashes of heartbreak, of longing looks, of petting verging on the heavy, but those scenes are saturated in the same youthful innocence, of teen angst mingling with a certain kind of romance that never strays too far from being, well, above the covers. No swearing and certainly no sex. Ever.
But things are hotting up in the perpetually gloomy outpost of Forks, USA.
The Twilight Saga's fourth film instalment - Breaking Dawn Part I - has these star-crossed lovers married, copulating, having a genetically questionable baby, and, once again, fighting the forces of darkness to save the future of mankind. And vampirekind, and werewolfkind.
The honeymoon sex scene in this, the first of two films charting the final book of the series, was reportedly so steamy, the actors were recalled to set to reshoot them. The original version was too explicit to pass the censors.
Reports of excessive "thrusting" by Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella, were bandied about as attracting frowns from US standard-bearers.
The trailers for the movie show the couple in a steamy embrace under a waterfall, and then cuts dramatically to Bella holding her rapidly growing stomach. Then there's the birth. Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward, says that part of the film "was more like a Saw movie than a Twilight movie".
How the audience of largely teenage fans will digest the movie will be discussed in the media at length after its release this week. But for the young stars of the film, it's all part of the Twilight zone.
"I can't wait for this film to come out," Pattinson says. "I feel like we've been talking about it for months. Well, I have!"
He is lounging on a plush sofa at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills. His white T-shirt features a tiny rip front and centre, his shoelaces are unlaced and his baseball cap is on backwards.
In short, he's disarmingly understated and approachable, immediately offering a cheery hello that quickly reaches his fervent blue-green eyes. He may have been named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine but Pattinson couldn't look more inconspicuous if he tried.
He's the first to admit that this movie is different from the previous three.
Not only does it signal the beginning of the end of this billion-dollar franchise but it also takes the core message of abstinence and gives it a twist - it's OK to get married and then have sex, but it still carries consequences.
Pattinson reveals that the harrowing childbirth scenes were tough to watch, given that Bella was writhing in pain and covered in blood for most of the scenes. Bella's body is emaciated before she gives birth to baby Renesmee.
"Kristen's head was attached to a dummy body which had gore all over it, and she was wearing a torn hospital gown," he says.
"It looked unbelievably bad. And the dummy was so realistic I was shocked when I first walked on set - to see anyone you know look like that is just horrible."
He not only found the on-set experience intense but also had some trouble coming to terms with his place in the movie. Perhaps he experienced that particular emotional conundrum unique to becoming a dad?
"Kristen really connected to this film. She thought that it was Bella's journey and that it was really important. But when I first read the script, I was so frustrated because what is Edward supposed to do, when he's on the sidelines, worrying," muses the Londoner.
"By the time I was called on to the set, Kristen had gone so far beating herself up that I was terrified - and I hadn't been terrified since the first movie. We shot the childbirth scenes as continuous sequence, from when she goes into labour to the birth, so we really had to commit to what we were doing.
By then Edward's really beaten down and has to give up his ego. It's only in Part 2 that Edward rebuilds himself again, and I admire him for that."
The experience was made all the more harrowing for the young actors, as they are also off-screen partners.
Well, maybe. Neither will directly confirm the rumours. Or deny them.
ADMITTING you have a boyfriend shouldn't really be headline news, but then Stewart, 21, is - albeit begrudgingly - used to her life being scrutinised.
For more than a year, legions of Twilight fans across the world have suspected that Stewart and Pattinson were more than onscreen lovers. And now they have proof the romance they've seen blossom onscreen has spilled over into real life. Sort of.
In a rare slip of the tongue, she recently revealed she was excited to be spending more time in Britain because "my boyfriend is English".
Talking to her today, it becomes obvious that while acting is her craft, protecting her private life has become her other full-time job.
Looking pretty and much softer than some photos portray, she's dressed in skinny jeans and a T-shirt, and happy to talk about how it feels to be at the centre of the Twilight storm.
Her life changed dramatically when she won the coveted role of Bella Swan almost five years ago, and she says she's finally come to terms with her superstardom.
Often criticised for being unapproachable, or sometimes moody, when snapped by the paparazzi or on the red carpet, Stewart is sanguine about those moments, especially when she weighs them up against the amazing opportunities that have come her way as part of her speedy transition from anonymous to global phenomenon.
"Yes, I feel more comfortable at times now, but it really is about what mood you're in," she says. "If the mood strikes and if you're feeling unselfconscious that day, you can have fun with it. The trouble with the red carpet is that it's hard to fake it. So, if you're having an introspective day or not thinking clearly, it comes across. Then people think that's who you are all the time, but it's not - that's just five minutes of my life."
ADMITTING you have a boyfriend shouldn't really be headline news, but then Stewart, 21, is - albeit begrudgingly - used to her life being scrutinised.
For more than a year, legions of Twilight fans across the world have suspected that Stewart and Pattinson were more than onscreen lovers. And now they have proof the romance they've seen blossom onscreen has spilled over into real life. Sort of.
In a rare slip of the tongue, she recently revealed she was excited to be spending more time in Britain because "my boyfriend is English".
Talking to her today, it becomes obvious that while acting is her craft, protecting her private life has become her other full-time job.
Looking pretty and much softer than some photos portray, she's dressed in skinny jeans and a T-shirt, and happy to talk about how it feels to be at the centre of the Twilight storm.
Her life changed dramatically when she won the coveted role of Bella Swan almost five years ago, and she says she's finally come to terms with her superstardom.
Often criticised for being unapproachable, or sometimes moody, when snapped by the paparazzi or on the red carpet, Stewart is sanguine about those moments, especially when she weighs them up against the amazing opportunities that have come her way as part of her speedy transition from anonymous to global phenomenon.
"Yes, I feel more comfortable at times now, but it really is about what mood you're in," she says. "If the mood strikes and if you're feeling unselfconscious that day, you can have fun with it. The trouble with the red carpet is that it's hard to fake it. So, if you're having an introspective day or not thinking clearly, it comes across. Then people think that's who you are all the time, but it's not - that's just five minutes of my life."
Source => Courier Mail / Via => Spunk Ransom
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