I know Edward’s car is now a dark sil­ver, but was there any rea­son for the change?
Avail­abil­ity. Volvo wanted to intro­duce a new car into the series, instead of the older model. So they pro­vided a newer model, brown Volvo. Imme­di­ately we knew it had to be repainted, and chose a dark, non-shiny, black colour. It added more to the first Edward scene in the movie, the feel­ing is upbeat but the colour of the vehi­cle adds to the dan­ger lurking.

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I really enjoyed the added scene with Vic­to­ria swim­ming towards Bella. (The book hints to the orange colour the water was reflect­ing, in a later rev­e­la­tion by Bella.) How did this scene come to be?
Well, the orange coloured water wouldn’t have looked right in the scene so we put her in the water vis­i­bly. That scene was dif­fi­cult because we wanted to film her swim­ming towards Bella but it had to be at a dis­tance. If it wasn’t at a dis­tance fans would won­der why Vic­to­ria didn’t just get her in that short scene, but at the same time it had to feel threat­en­ing. That was all shot in Van­cou­ver in a swim­ming pool, we had the actors under­wa­ter with four or five frog men with air tubes for secu­rity pur­poses. We also had green screens in the water sur­round­ing the actors so we could CGI in all the par­ti­cals in the water. Theres actu­ally a pro­gram to add in all of the float­ing debris and colour dif­fer­ences in the water after film­ing. Kris­ten had a cold at the time and was scared of drown­ing. We had to force her to stay in the water [laugh­ter] But Rob was more com­fort­able in the water, hes had to shoot under­wa­ter scenes in the past. [Harry Potter]

Were there any scenes that you would have loved to see in the film but never made the final cut?
Yes, one scene. Theres a scene with a motor­cy­cle crash that gives more of a sense of dan­ger. The rea­son why it didn’t make the final cut was because of weather rea­sons, it was just too sunny to be con­sid­ered Forks. The DVD will include that scene as well as extended scenes. Some of the extended scenes include more of Edward’s visit to the Vol­turi con­cern­ing his immor­tal­ity and more from the scene between Carlisle and Bella. [when he was stitch­ing Bella up.] In one of the early drafts of the script this scene was not in the movie. Imme­di­ately I knew that had to change, it was essen­tial to the story line.