LOS ANGELES � Ask many a teenage girl to which team are they most loyal and it�s unlikely you�ll hear about the Black�hawks, White Sox, Bears or Cubs. You�ll prob�a�bly get an ear�ful about �hits� of a dif�fer�ent kind from the new movie �The Twi�light Saga: Eclipse.� You�re Team Edward if you love the moody vam�pire Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pat�tin�son. Team Jacob is for fans of the usu�ally shirt�less, chis�eled abs of Tay�lor Lautner�s were�wolf per�sona, Jacob Black.
Recently, I was a guest of Sum�mit Enter�tain�ment in Los Ange�les, talk�ing with both actors, who are now on their third install�ment of fang-filled love tug of war.
You both have been through three dif�fer�ent direc�tors on these movie adap�ta�tions. What�s been the dif�fer�ence for you?
Robert Pat�tin�son: I don�t know nec�es�sar�ily if it shows in the final film, but the dif�fer�ence between Chris Weitz (�New Moon� direc�tor) and David Slade (�Eclipse� direc�tor) is dra�matic. Chris saw the first one and just thought that he wanted to fol�low along the road. David wanted to do it com�pletely dif�fer�ent from the first two. It all felt so fresh right from the first day. Edward�s move�ment and such, from every sin�gle part of the per�for�mance, it just really shook it up a lit�tle bit.
Tay�lor Laut�ner: Well, Jacob gets a lit�tle more frus�trated and a lit�tle heated in this one. It was very emo�tional for me. There are a lot of emo�tional scenes between Jacob and Bella (played by Kris�ten Stew�art) and Jacob and Edward. He becomes very close to Bella, there�s the much-talked-about kiss�ing scene � but also all of the fight�ing scenes, so it was good � it was much more dra�mat�i�cally challenging.
And what about that kiss�ing scene with Kris�ten? I know that you�re both very good friends. That has to be a lit�tle awkward.
TL: We are very close friends, but I wouldn�t say it was awk�ward. After we fin�ished a take of the kiss�ing scene that was kind of steamy, there would be a moment of silence and then we�d look at each other and she�d go, �Ewww, we just kissed � weird.� And then we had to do it again and again. After a while, it got kind of mechanical.
In the movie, your char�ac�ters are both in love with Bella and in hot pur�suit of her inter�ests. She doesn�t know which way to turn and even is at the core of the bat�tle that breaks out in this film. In real life, could you be in a rela�tion�ship that was so dif�fi�cult to have?
RP: Oh, no way. I�m ter�ri�ble at that. I can�t even deal with peo�ple shout�ing at each other. The slight�est bit of con�flict and I�m gone imme�di�ately. It�s one of the chal�lenges of this movie for me. It�s bal�anc�ing the emo�tional aspects with the phys�i�cal demands. Occa�sion�ally, there come moments where you have to por�tray a big story within a fight scene and it does become quite complicated.
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