JC: Is it true that you were in the running to direct “Twilight”?
GVS: Yeah. In an interview, Robert Pattinson was asked, “What’s up for the next Twilight?” They had been asked this a thousand times. So he said, “We want to get a filmmaker like Gus Van Sant to do the next one.” I was surprised at reading this and I thought, “Am I actually considered? Am I in the running? Would they actually even think that way?” So I told my agent to put my name in the hat.
I went out to the interview and, naively, I wasn’t aware that I was expected to sell [myself to] them. They wanted to see your plan even though the plan was to do the movie exactly the way the book read, because if you deviated an inch, you’d be killed by the fans. Of course, the other filmmakers who were much more savvy had long 45-minute displays of these ideas and they got the job. It was a really bad scene because I got really nervous and I realized it was just completely going down. Obviously, I screwed the whole thing up.
Elephants have captured the public’s imagination from the Victorian era, when P.T. Barnum bought Jumbo from the London Zoo, to just this Spring, when an elephant named Tai embodied Rosie, one of the main characters in the movie “Water for Elephants,” starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.
“Elephants do remember you and form bonds with you,” she said. “They pick who they like and who they don’t like, and if they don’t like you they’ll throw food at you. All elephants look for good leaders — they are herd animals like horses and dogs — they will pick a leader who gives them food, finds them water and gives them safety.”
Aria gained a glimpse into the filming process for “Water for Elephants” because she is longtime friends with Tai’s trainers and owners.
“Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon (lead characters in the film) had been so lovely to work with, and so impressed with the elephant,” she said.
Here are black & white versions of the new Breaking Dawn Trailer I made yesterday. You can check out the real ones here. You can also check out the trailer and see some GIFs here.
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