TheTwilightts

After spending so much time filming “The Twilight Saga” films, do you ever find yourself channeling your character Rosalie in real life?

The only time where that does happen is when we’re all sort of together in a group setting and when people start picking on Rosalie. I feel really defensive of her … I always wondered why people have always sort of talked about who’s friends with who and who has friction with who and then I realized it’s because that is what our characters are doing, you know what I mean? They don’t even know they are doing it but they assume it’s the same dynamic. It’s just kind of bizarre but it’s actually really fascinating.

You always hear stories of what it’s like as a ‘struggling actor’, so what’d you do with your first “Twilight” paycheck? Did you feel a little bit like, ‘I’ve made it!’?

I’ve always been a struggling actress and trust me I am fully aware that after “Twilight”, I’m so aware how fast this is going to go away. You know, I just don’t take any of it for granted. One small chunk of money isn’t going to last you a lifetime. I’ve tried to be smart with my money so the first thing I did was I invested in income property. Then, I did buy a home and I bought my mom a home. My dad was like, ‘At the end of the day, if you have nowhere to live because you’re super poor, if you have invested in some income property you might be okay.’ [Laughs] So that’s what I’ve done.

Last year you married Paul McDonald, who many people know from “American Idol”. How’s newlywed life so far?

As you can see Paul is here and it goes both ways, by the way. People think that he just travels with me wherever I go but they don’t realize that when he was on tour I went to 33 cities out of 50 when he was performing. So it really goes both ways and I think it’s important to make the other person your number one priority.

How did you know he was the one?

I just knew! [Smiles]

So it was love at first sight?

Yeah! Well, I didn’t know the second I met him but I knew within a couple days for sure. My mom is kind of a hopeless romantic and even though her and my father divorced when I was two she totally believes—because of her grandparents and parents—that when you marry, it stays strong forever. So she always hated that I would say I’m never getting married or that I’m never going to have kids. [Laughs] I’m sure some of it came from my upbringing and seeing my own parents get divorced and my anger about it but as soon as I met Paul I said, ‘I think I’m going to marry him’ and she was like, ‘What!? Has he asked you!?’ and I said, ‘No, but I just think I am.’ [Laughs]

What’s your one guilty pleasure?

Oh God, horrible TV! And it’s a new one. I didn’t grow up with a TV so I didn’t grow up watching cartoons, let alone trash. Paul and I have really got into “Dance Moms”. The other day Paul was out and he saw one of the dance moms without me and he had to call me about it and confess. [Laughs]

Being a celeb yourself, do you ever read any of the celebrity tabloids?

I used to have a rule that I would only do it if I was at the airport because it’s like, ‘Well, I’m here and I have 40 minutes before my flight so I’ll just stand at the kiosk and read’. Now I’m at the airport seven days a week, I’m always there! [Laughs] So I don’t think that’s a good excuse anymore; I’ve tried to slow down actually because the more cognizant you are about what is actually going on in the celebrity world the more it’s not really entertaining anymore because you flip through and say, ‘I know that’s not happening! And that’s not true!’

How do you stay fit?

We’re very active. I quit smoking three years ago on July 5^th and it’s something I’ve been extremely vocal about because I feel like it was my greatest accomplishment. I was a really heavy smoker my whole life since I was 12-years-old. I wasn’t active at all because of it. I was a gymnast when I was much younger but I spent most of my years, when you’re supposed to be really active and doing stuff, not active at all. I didn’t realize it until I was older but it really did affect my whole physique, so the last three years I’ve been incredibly active. Paul and I switch it up but we do it all together. We hike with our dogs, we do pilates, we do SoulCycle… I try to cook for both of us and when I can’t cook my mom actually cooks because she lives in our guest house, so I believe strongly in homemade food.

Do you have a favorite meal you like to make?

Last night, before we came here, I cooked brown rice and lentils and I sautéed onions and put in soy sauce and some bell peppers and shredded carrots… My mom and I were attempting to cook a lentil loaf and that didn’t happen so it became a stir-fry. [Laughs]

When you’re out like tonight at Studio Paris for the  Samsung Mobile USA Galaxy S III Customer Appreciation Event, what’s your cocktail of choice?

I’m not really a drinker. If I do have something I’ll have a sip or two of beer. It’s weird because I’ve played so many very promiscuous party animal characters and people, once again, really do subconsciously connect you with that because you do it in movies. So I hadn’t really spoken that much about it but I started to recently because I got a little frustrated. I’ve never been a drinker my whole life.

If you could have a drink with anyone who would it be?

Just in light of what just happened I would say Nora Ephron. So many of the women I know, that are still here, that I really look up to and that I really connect with have had such a strong connection with that woman. I just feel like at a certain point in life that would have been such an honor [to connect with her] and something that probably—well, who knows but—could have happened. She’s mentored a lot of women that have mentored me.

// Prietha

Källa

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Källa: Twifans

Q: How difficult was it for you, as your characters, to work with Kristen as a vampire, as opposed to working with her as a human being?

Elizabeth Reaser: I mean, I think it was a lot of fun. There's a scene where she almost kills Taylor. And I believed in the moment that she was strong enough. She really was so committed, whether she was a vampire, vampire Bella, which is completely different, and she was scary, she was a real force.

Peter Facinelli: It's like a whole different person. It was kinda cool. She's grown to be so mature, and confident and strong. Really, it was like dealing with a different person altogether. Like, Bella is usually weak and frail. Not weak. But frail as far, you know, a vampire looking at her, and we always felt the need to protect her, and I didn't feel the need to do that. I felt like this was a woman who could hold her own.

Elizabeth: She could kill us.

Peter: She was stronger than us.

Q: But then was it weird for you? Because one day she would be vampire Bella, and then the next day she'd be back to being human Bella. Because you were filming both films simultaneously? Was that odd?

Nikki Reed: Yeah, and not just human Bella; like human Bella falling...

Elizabeth: apart? (everyone laughs)

Q: And then the next day she was beautiful vampire Bella...

Nikki: That was bizarre.

Elizabeth: Yeah it was weird to see her disfigured like that because it looked so real. It came out great.

Nikki: The last one, Part 1 and 2, that was the only time when my character and Bella actually wanted to interact and have some friendliness and a smile here and there...

TwiSite Comment: Fighting for the same cause.

Nikki: Exactly. The dynamic was very different.

Q: Nikki, you made reference earlier in the panel that you've kind of grown up together on the set, and we asked Mackenzie this, and I thought it would be fun to ask you, especially with Peter and Elizabeth sitting here. What did you learn growing up (on set) from the other actors that you worked with? I feel like this is something where you benefit from each other, I'm sure.

Nikki: Um, I think it would be impossible to go through every single one (actor) and come with the most genuine answer because there's so many people, and certainly from working with these guys sitting next to me, and say, Billy Burke, and Michael Sheen. You guys (gestures to Peter and Elizabeth) have a body of work that I really admire. I mean, I remember seeing (Elizabeth's) Sweet Land and saying "I can't believe she wasn't nominated for an Oscar!" So I think getting to work with people like that, you really try to absorb something from it. I look up to these guys, and they also have a great work ethic as well. I think it's really important when there's a bunch of us working together to have one person who makes sure that nobody falls off the train, you know what I mean? And keep it together and actually keep each other in line too. It's been a journey. I mean, it's been four and a half years, and we've all grown a lot. It's so sad.

Q: And to flip it, is there something that Elizabeth and Peter learned from the younger cast members?

Nikki: I taught her (Elizabeth) how to cook.

Elizabeth: That's true! I never cooked before in my life, and now I actually make rice and some vegetables.

Nikki: She cooked meals for me.

(Elizabeth shakes her head)

Nikki: You did!

Elizabeth: I was not at the level that you were at, but just even that I would go to the store and buy vegetables and actually bring them home and cook them. None of that ever happened until I met Nikki Reed. But truthfully though, in terms of the work I feel like I was stealing from everyone. I mean, I think Nikki has a commitment when she's in a scene, and she brings such an energy into the scene, it is unlike anyone else onscreen. And it's something that is so specific to her. What she did with Rosalie and her creativity, and the way she thinks about the scene and her character, she puts a lot of work into it. And as far as... I'm thinking of the people sitting here, with Peter I'm always listening to the way he talks about these characters, and sort of like stealing his theories, because, again, he's someone who I really admire, and being in a scene with him, you really can't half-ass this, you really have to show up and you do the best job that you can, especially because, like Nikki said, we are a team. And you cannot let your team down.

Peter: I think that age doesn't really matter to me, when you're working with people that are talented you get inspired. Whether they were younger or older, you do look to the people that you work with and they inspire you in different ways. I totally was inspired by the people in this room, and with the other actors that I work with.

Q: So to take it one step further, have you learned anything from your character that surprised you?

Peter: I always say I put a little bit of myself in every character, but I also take a little bit from the
character and I walk away with it after I play it. With Carlisle, I think he taught me a lot of patience.

Elizabeth: That is his superpower.

Peter: No. It's compassion.

TwiSite Comment: Compassion! There you go.

Peter: That's (patience) his secondary superpower.

TwiSite Comment:Peter is schooling us in Twilight today...

(laughs)

Peter: He has a lot of patience. He has a lot of wisdom, and he thinks things through and I've always admired that in him, and even with my own kids, because Carlisle to me is like the perfect father figure. I always looked at him with my kids, and I learned patience with him.

Q: To the fans, your hair from movie to movie to movie, everyone is always really excited to see the changes, and sometimes not so excited to see the changes.

Peter: Why did you look at me? (laughs)

TwiSite Comment: You know the moments the fans get the promo head shots were like "Oh!" Is there a certain movie that made you think "Wow, I look hot!"?

Nikki: No.

(everyone laughs)

Nikki: I had some real moments with Peter about this. I was like, "Just be honest".

Peter: I think you looked good in Eclipse.

Nikki: You did?

Peter: I did.

Nikki: Thanks.

Elizabeth: Yeah, I think that was my favorite wig.

TwiSite Comment: That was the best, when you got to dye. That looked great.

Nikki: I wanted to go with that one and someone else came in and said, “No.” I was a little disappointed, but you always put your faith into the other creative directors there and you believe that they are going to do what’s best. It is really bizarre… I don't know about you guys (to Peter and Elizabeth) but my process as an actor is that I try not to obsess over what I'm going to look like, I mean I do(laughs) but it's not the focal point, you know? That was such a priority I feel like for a lot of us in these movies, it was like "What do we look like?" It’s not always what we should look like or what we think we can look like.

Elizabeth: My approach was to always try to simply it. Less of everything – less hair, less make-up, less lashes, less artifice as much as possible. But it was tricky because I had a wig, then I had to dyed hair, then I had brown hair, then I had really dark hair, then I had some highlights…I still don't know what my hair was supposed to be. I would love to hear what Stephenie Meyer thinks about that. But that's the weird thing about movies, you know? Sometimes it just gets out of control. There's so many people!

Nikki: So many people!

Elizabeth: And the next thing you know...you got a thing on your head.

Peter: It's not your job as an actor... (makes weird hand gestures around his head). There's a hair person - that is their job (everyone laughs). My job is to bring the character to life; their job is to watch out for your hair. So you're in constant battles with that person, because you're, like, "I wanna look good". They're trying to make you look a certain way, and I'm like... at a certain point you have to be like, "Ok, that's their job and you have to let them do their job". There were times when I looked in the mirror and I looked like a cross between a 'Ken doll' and Ronald McDonald.

Nikki: Is that because of what I said that time?

Peter: You might've put that in my mind.

Nikki: But you know what? I think it's fair to say that we switched department heads for hair and make-up for every single film. Which is a really hard thing to do to actors because every time we came in we had a new person with a new vision.

Peter: A new person we had to trust.

Elizabeth: And they had a lot of challenges.

Nikki: Yeah.

Peter:... and they wanted to always fix the one before, you know, or put a new stamp on what they were doing.

Q: Do you have a personal favorite?

Peter: I like the hair in Twilight because that was my hair and I dyed it. If I had to choose wigs, which was 2, 3, 4, 5...

TwiSite Comment: Not 4 or 5 (everyone laughs)

Peter: There were moments in 4 and 5...

TwiSite Comment: What moments? (everyone laughs)

Nikki: This is a sensitive subject for Peter and I because we're the ones that sit down in front of people and had people go like, "God, you guys actually are really good looking!" That's what people say the most about us.

Peter: In Eclipse it wasn't so bad, I mean it was a little short but if I had to pick I guess I would go with Eclipse. I would go with Twilight.

Do you agree with Peter on his best hair?  Are you dying to cook with Nikki Reed after reading this interview?  Let us know what you would have asked Peter, Nikki, and Elizabethin the comments!

Tomorrow we have our Jackson, Ashley, and Kellan interview to post!  Stay tuned...

Q: How difficult was it for you, as your characters, to work with Kristen as a vampire, as opposed to working with her as a human being?

Elizabeth Reaser: I mean, I think it was a lot of fun. There's a scene where she almost kills Taylor. And I believed in the moment that she was strong enough. She really was so committed, whether she was a vampire, vampire Bella, which is completely different, and she was scary, she was a real force.

Peter Facinelli: It's like a whole different person. It was kinda cool. She's grown to be so mature, and confident and strong. Really, it was like dealing with a different person altogether. Like, Bella is usually weak and frail. Not weak. But frail as far, you know, a vampire looking at her, and we always felt the need to protect her, and I didn't feel the need to do that. I felt like this was a woman who could hold her own.

Elizabeth: She could kill us.

Peter: She was stronger than us.

Q: But then was it weird for you? Because one day she would be vampire Bella, and then the next day she'd be back to being human Bella. Because you were filming both films simultaneously? Was that odd?

Nikki Reed: Yeah, and not just human Bella; like human Bella falling...

Elizabeth: apart? (everyone laughs)

Q: And then the next day she was beautiful vampire Bella...

Nikki: That was bizarre.

Elizabeth: Yeah it was weird to see her disfigured like that because it looked so real. It came out great.

Nikki: The last one, Part 1 and 2, that was the only time when my character and Bella actually wanted to interact and have some friendliness and a smile here and there...

TwiSite Comment: Fighting for the same cause.

Nikki: Exactly. The dynamic was very different.

Q: Nikki, you made reference earlier in the panel that you've kind of grown up together on the set, and we asked Mackenzie this, and I thought it would be fun to ask you, especially with Peter and Elizabeth sitting here. What did you learn growing up (on set) from the other actors that you worked with? I feel like this is something where you benefit from each other, I'm sure.

Nikki: Um, I think it would be impossible to go through every single one (actor) and come with the most genuine answer because there's so many people, and certainly from working with these guys sitting next to me, and say, Billy Burke, and Michael Sheen. You guys (gestures to Peter and Elizabeth) have a body of work that I really admire. I mean, I remember seeing (Elizabeth's) Sweet Land and saying "I can't believe she wasn't nominated for an Oscar!" So I think getting to work with people like that, you really try to absorb something from it. I look up to these guys, and they also have a great work ethic as well. I think it's really important when there's a bunch of us working together to have one person who makes sure that nobody falls off the train, you know what I mean? And keep it together and actually keep each other in line too. It's been a journey. I mean, it's been four and a half years, and we've all grown a lot. It's so sad.

Q: And to flip it, is there something that Elizabeth and Peter learned from the younger cast members?

Nikki: I taught her (Elizabeth) how to cook.

Elizabeth: That's true! I never cooked before in my life, and now I actually make rice and some vegetables.

Nikki: She cooked meals for me.

(Elizabeth shakes her head)

Nikki: You did!

Elizabeth: I was not at the level that you were at, but just even that I would go to the store and buy vegetables and actually bring them home and cook them. None of that ever happened until I met Nikki Reed. But truthfully though, in terms of the work I feel like I was stealing from everyone. I mean, I think Nikki has a commitment when she's in a scene, and she brings such an energy into the scene, it is unlike anyone else onscreen. And it's something that is so specific to her. What she did with Rosalie and her creativity, and the way she thinks about the scene and her character, she puts a lot of work into it. And as far as... I'm thinking of the people sitting here, with Peter I'm always listening to the way he talks about these characters, and sort of like stealing his theories, because, again, he's someone who I really admire, and being in a scene with him, you really can't half-ass this, you really have to show up and you do the best job that you can, especially because, like Nikki said, we are a team. And you cannot let your team down.

Peter: I think that age doesn't really matter to me, when you're working with people that are talented you get inspired. Whether they were younger or older, you do look to the people that you work with and they inspire you in different ways. I totally was inspired by the people in this room, and with the other actors that I work with.

Q: So to take it one step further, have you learned anything from your character that surprised you?

Peter: I always say I put a little bit of myself in every character, but I also take a little bit from the
character and I walk away with it after I play it. With Carlisle, I think he taught me a lot of patience.

Elizabeth: That is his superpower.

Peter: No. It's compassion.

TwiSite Comment: Compassion! There you go.

Peter: That's (patience) his secondary superpower.

TwiSite Comment:Peter is schooling us in Twilight today...

(laughs)

Peter: He has a lot of patience. He has a lot of wisdom, and he thinks things through and I've always admired that in him, and even with my own kids, because Carlisle to me is like the perfect father figure. I always looked at him with my kids, and I learned patience with him.

Q: To the fans, your hair from movie to movie to movie, everyone is always really excited to see the changes, and sometimes not so excited to see the changes.

Peter: Why did you look at me? (laughs)

TwiSite Comment: You know the moments the fans get the promo head shots were like "Oh!" Is there a certain movie that made you think "Wow, I look hot!"?

Nikki: No.

(everyone laughs)

Nikki: I had some real moments with Peter about this. I was like, "Just be honest".

Peter: I think you looked good in Eclipse.

Nikki: You did?

Peter: I did.

Nikki: Thanks.

Elizabeth: Yeah, I think that was my favorite wig.

TwiSite Comment: That was the best, when you got to dye. That looked great.

Nikki: I wanted to go with that one and someone else came in and said, “No.” I was a little disappointed, but you always put your faith into the other creative directors there and you believe that they are going to do what’s best. It is really bizarre… I don't know about you guys (to Peter and Elizabeth) but my process as an actor is that I try not to obsess over what I'm going to look like, I mean I do(laughs) but it's not the focal point, you know? That was such a priority I feel like for a lot of us in these movies, it was like "What do we look like?" It’s not always what we should look like or what we think we can look like.

Elizabeth: My approach was to always try to simply it. Less of everything – less hair, less make-up, less lashes, less artifice as much as possible. But it was tricky because I had a wig, then I had to dyed hair, then I had brown hair, then I had really dark hair, then I had some highlights…I still don't know what my hair was supposed to be. I would love to hear what Stephenie Meyer thinks about that. But that's the weird thing about movies, you know? Sometimes it just gets out of control. There's so many people!

Nikki: So many people!

Elizabeth: And the next thing you know...you got a thing on your head.

Peter: It's not your job as an actor... (makes weird hand gestures around his head). There's a hair person - that is their job (everyone laughs). My job is to bring the character to life; their job is to watch out for your hair. So you're in constant battles with that person, because you're, like, "I wanna look good". They're trying to make you look a certain way, and I'm like... at a certain point you have to be like, "Ok, that's their job and you have to let them do their job". There were times when I looked in the mirror and I looked like a cross between a 'Ken doll' and Ronald McDonald.

Nikki: Is that because of what I said that time?

Peter: You might've put that in my mind.

Nikki: But you know what? I think it's fair to say that we switched department heads for hair and make-up for every single film. Which is a really hard thing to do to actors because every time we came in we had a new person with a new vision.

Peter: A new person we had to trust.

Elizabeth: And they had a lot of challenges.

Nikki: Yeah.

Peter:... and they wanted to always fix the one before, you know, or put a new stamp on what they were doing.

Q: Do you have a personal favorite?

Peter: I like the hair in Twilight because that was my hair and I dyed it. If I had to choose wigs, which was 2, 3, 4, 5...

TwiSite Comment: Not 4 or 5 (everyone laughs)

Peter: There were moments in 4 and 5...

TwiSite Comment: What moments? (everyone laughs)

Nikki: This is a sensitive subject for Peter and I because we're the ones that sit down in front of people and had people go like, "God, you guys actually are really good looking!" That's what people say the most about us.

Peter: In Eclipse it wasn't so bad, I mean it was a little short but if I had to pick I guess I would go with Eclipse. I would go with Twilight.

Tomorrow we have our Jackson, Ashley, and Kellan interview to post!  Stay tuned...

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// Prietha