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Public speaking has never been Robert Pattinson�s favorite part of his job. But presenting the Golden Globe to director Susanne Bier for her drama �In a Better World� Sunday night proved to be a welcome respite for the actor, who�s knee deep in the middle of filming �Breaking Dawn,� the final installment of the �Twilight� saga, which will be split into two parts.
�It�s been really hard shooting both films at the same time,� admitted the 24-year-old star, moments before he had run backstage to present his award with �Tron� star Olivia Wilde. �But it�s the end of an era.�
That era certainly will be one that Summit Entertainment, the films� distributor, not to mention the franchise�s devoted fans, will be sorry to see go. Starting with 2008�s �Twilight,� the fantasy romance that first saw Pattinson�s handsome, brooding vampire encounter his mortal love, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), the movie series has taken in roughly $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office, as audiences lined up to see Swan wrestle with her feelings for her immortal boyfriend and her best friend, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, over the course of the next two films, 2009's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and 2010's "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
At the start of the first part of �The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,� Bella consents to Edward�s marriage proposal � Edward�s condition if he is to grant Bella�s request that he transform her into a vampire � and the young couple are wed before heading to a remote island getaway for a honeymoon.
Speaking by phone this month, director Bill Condon, who�s helming both installments of the finale, said he has been thrilled with what he�s seen from his leads. �All the characters are moving [in this chapter]," he said. "It�s really about the passage from adolescence to adulthood, and they all seem energized by that. It�s the stuff they are all connecting to in their lives.�
As for Pattinson specifically, Condon added, �Now he�s dealing with a character who�s like him. The final movie allows us to step behind the curtain of what it�s like to be a vampire. It doesn�t seem that exotic anymore; It�s trying to be more real.�
The director, though, was reticent to share any details of the production, which is filming in both New Orleans and Vancouver, Canada, with a jaunt to an island off the coast of Brazil � a location that might in the end prove the most memorable to Condon, because the entire cast and crew needed for the honeymoon scene was stranded after a long day of filming.
�It was incredible. We got caught in the middle of this huge rainstorm � I�ll remember it forever,� Condon said. �Eighty people sleeping on the floor of the set. We couldn't leave.�
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