Question: When did the cast give you enlightenment? And what about having Meyer there? Bill: the first people who arrived were Rob, Kristen, and Taylor. We just sat in a room talking about every page through the script. They showed a tremendous amount – when an actor embodies a role you’ll know it more than they ever will.
Bill: I met with Rob a couple months before we started. We were just having a general talk about Twilight. He mentioned something I ahdn’t known before. He’d been a playing a men who was full of regret and who was self loathing. Because of an episode where he broke away from the Cullen family (the early 30s in Chicago) where he’d explore what it’d be like to kill human beings.
Rob thought it was a killed that played on Edward, but it was never played in the movies. There was Midnight Sun where it’s really explored. SO we had a conversation about that, I worked with Melissa, and we put it into the beginning of the movie. We understood where Edward was coming from. So things like that, so much comes out of those types of meetings.
Advanced screenings of Breaking Dawn Part 1 are available in the US on the November 15th, 16th and 17th. Check them out HERE to see if there is a screening near you.
Did You Get to do scenes with more of the cast this time around?
I did. I got to meet all the characters, finally. It’s so funny because I knew Peter Facinelli from a previous project and I saw him during the first movie because I was rehearsing when they were rehearsing, but then I never got to see anybody again except Billy {laughs}. Billy Burke, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart were sort of like my understanding of the movie. I still have yet to meet Taylor Lautner. I haven’t come across him, even though I met all the other werewolves. Isn’t that funny? But that’s how big this cast is. I got to know some of the vampires really well – some that I don’t have scenes with. It’s funny the people I did become close with while shooting that I never even got to work with.
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What has been the best part of being part of the Twilight phenomenon?
It is a phenomenon and I would have to say just getting to work with these people. I enjoy Kristen and I was really happy I got to play her mom. I feel such an affinity for her and I really like her a lot, and Rob as well. Working with all the directors. Just to watch something on this scale unfold and to watch the progression of it from the first movie (which you would have thought was was an independent film the way we were shooting it), to the way it was by the end. It really did have a grand scale to it, and that doesn’t come around very often.
“We kind of pulled a prank on the director,” Ashley explained. “The whole entire extended cast—like, every vampire coven—decided to plan out this dance, and do it instead of doing the scene. Bill [Condon, the director] started hysterically laughing.”
So, of course, when I hopped on the phone with Bill last week to chat all things “Breaking Dawn”, I just had to ask about getting punk’d by a bunch of bloodsuckers. And as it turns out, the moment was even more epic than we imagined.
“It was the most amazing thing ever,” he enthused. “If you know the book, it ends with this incredible showdown between like 27 vampires on our side and then there are 80 vampires on the Aro/Volturi side. And we’ve been on this set for weeks and weeks and weeks, and as we’re doing the last huge shot with everyone there, huge camera set up and things, suddenly you hear “Sweet Dreams” from the Eurythmics and the Cullen side starts to do this ‘West Side Story’-like rumble.”
OME, right?!
But as amazing as the moment itself was, what seemed to impress Bill most was how the whole thing was kept completely under wraps. “First of all, the idea that they could keep this a surprise still blows me away,” he said. “But it’s one of the greatest moments I’ve ever had on a set.”
There you have it: one of the “greatest moments” on set…ever. Are you listening, Summit? This blooper better be on the “Breaking Dawn – Part 2” DVD, or else a bunch of riled up MTV staffers will be paying you a visit…
Fans of the original “Twilight” soundtrack got a pleasant surprise when the recently released track list for “Breaking Dawn – Part 1” revealed that Iron & Wine’s melancholy ballad “Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)” was among the cuts.
Twilighters — who are no doubt gearing up for Thursday’s “MTV First” with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at 7:56 p.m. on MTV and MTV.com — will recall that the song made its “Saga” debut in the closing moments of “Twilight” as Bella and Edward shared their first dance. And according to Breaking Dawn director Bill Condon, the retread of this memorable number was an important reference for him to make.
“I always thought of this movie as the bookend to the first movie, and that was such a great powerful, romantic song for those characters,” he told MTV News during a phone interview last week. “It just felt right to kind of refer back to it at this important, important moment,” he added about “Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” the first of the two-part finale.
Of course, Condon wouldn’t reveal exactly which important moment this song will accompany in the November 18 film, leaving fans to wonder whether its delicate strains will find their way into the wedding itself or perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Cullen’s first dance as man and wife.
Condon did divulge, however, that the song is just one of many callbacks to earlier “Twilight Saga” films.
“[There are] quite a few,” he confirmed. “Musically, I would say at the wedding there’s a jazz quartet that plays a couple of tracks from ‘Eclipse.’ Carter Burwell has come back to do the score. He did the first movie, so ‘Bella’s Lullaby’ features in this movie too.”
Moral of the story: Keep your eyes and ears peeled for touching tributes to “Breaking Dawn” predecessors.
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