the Twilight Connection

These pictures are from a photo shoot in Los Angeles.  I will be posting more gorgeous pictures of Taylor Lautner later today, so come back, you won’t be dissapointed

*pictures from Bauer-Griffin

Go HERE, click play and you can color Bella and the Cullens, it’s fun.

*thanks Eyes of Amber

“Thank you, everybody who voted at the MTV Movie Awards! It was awesome to see Twilight get so much love. Congratulations to Catherine and Rob and Kristen and all of the cast and everyone at Summit and everybody on the crew! You all did an amazing job and you deserve your popcorn!

Twilight fans are the best!

XOXO
Steph

P.S. You got to see a little taste of New Moon tonight, but I promise you this: when it comes to New Moon, you haven’t seen anything yet! Can November please come faster?”

*from StephenieMeyer.com & picture from everglow

“(Robert Pattinson) announced at the Cannes Film Festival that he has been cast in the film ‘Bel Ami,’ Variety reports.

The film is an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s short story and is scheduled to begin shooting in Paris next year.

“It’s a totally amoral character,” Pattinson tells the trade magazine.

In addition to his role in the ‘Twilight’ franchise and ‘Bel Ami,’ the actor is also set to star in the upcoming film ‘Remember Me.’”

*source *picture from radaronline

TA.com: Has the Twilight hype affected you in anyway? After having gone through one Twilight film already, do you feel you are better prepared for the hype the second time around?

GB: The whole Twilight experience has been truly amazing. I am constantly in awe of the love and support that Twilight fans all over the world continue to give me. The downside is that I have less time now to communicate directly with my fans, but I hope they know that I feel truly blessed to be a part of this thing called Twilight. I’m at the point in my life where I can appreciate all the adoration from fans, but not get swept up in all the hype. I’m still the same Gil Birmingham I was before Twilight.

TA.com: Can you tell us what it was like filming New Moon?

GB: New Moon was a tremendous experience for me. It was great to be back working with Rob, Kristen, Taylor and the rest of the cast. With the addition of the werewolf clan cast members, the energy on the set was at a whole new level. Filming New Moon, like Twilight, wasn’t easy. We spent long hours on location, in cold damp weather, sometimes well into the morning. What impressed me the most was the many dedicated fans who camped out in the cold all night while we were on location. They were really amazing!

Read the complete interview –> HERE <–

You can visit Gil’s website here, his Myspace here, and his Facebook fan site here.

*thanks TA

JACKSON RATHBONE IS BLOODY CUTE

The Twilight actor plays a song for us on piano. We like him.

The adage that you can tell a lot about someone by their shoes seems true of Jackson Rathbone, who is wearing brown leather cowboy boots flecked with yellow paint.  He spent many of his formative years in Texas, and talking to him, it becomes clear that he would describe himself as an artist before he would just call himself an actor.

Rathbone started acting in high school when he attended Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and moved from set and lighting design to a spot in front of the curtain.  “When I started being onstage, I fell in love with it,” he says.  Although he is now best known as Jasper Hale in Twilight, and is currently filming M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, what Rathbone seems most excited to talk about right now is his band, 100 Monkeys.

His bandmates are old friends and actors as well, and he shares a house in Hollywood with two of them.  “We call it the Monkey House,” he jokes.  “We all play all the instruments,” he adds.  “We call it the Monkey Switcharoo.”

When asked about working with his Twilight castmates, he praises their talent, then adds, “Kristen and Rob are both very musically inclined, so we would have jam sessions.  It was like the Cullen Family Band.”

Strangely enough, the hotel room where we’re speaking is equipped with a grand piano.  Nearly everyone who’s passed it has hammered out a botched chopsticks, and Rathbone, whose car is waiting outside, can’t resist the pull either.  He sits down, and to much applause, plays an actual song.
–KATE WILLIAMS

*source

Stephanie Meyer posted this blog on her site today,

“I am not being sued. No one has contacted me or my publisher to inform either of us that I’m being sued. I never had a roommate named Heidi. There is no professor in the BYU English department named Dr. Peter Benton (though there is a character on ER by that name). And most of all, I began writing Twilight exactly the way I’ve told people in countless interviews and events for the past six years: I had a cool dream, I wrote it down, writing it down was really fun, so I kept writing until I had a whole book.

The sad thing about this silly situation is that so many legitimate news outlets reported it without doing any research at all to determine if there was any truth to the story. And at least two of these facts are really, really easy to confirm. Particularly, the one about the BYU professor. A simple on-line search can give you that information. Also, a quick call to my publisher would have cleared up the whole lawsuit story. (Kudos to the fansites who did their due diligence and debunked this rumor days ago.)

I guess the moral of the story is that—big surprise—you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Seems like it’s April Fool’s Day every day on-line. So no worries, the filming of New Moon continues uninterrupted. And, to end this on a bright note, the filming of New Moon continues to be awesome. It’s all so beautiful! Chris Weitz is brilliant. Kristen, Rob, and Taylor are beyond words. I have gotten choked up more than once on set due to their amazing performances. I can’t wait to see it all put together!”

*picture source

Christian Serratos loves the animals, and it makes me love her even more.

Learn more about Twilight at peta2.com

I am finished filming New Moon. It was great to see everyone one again!

Chris Weitz was great! I can’t believe that I have been so fortunate to have worked with such talented people in such a short time. Stephenie, Catherine, Chris and more. I am so grateful! This time around I felt more comfortable letting the team know that when I was dressed as Angela, I and Angela would prefer to be dressed animal cruelty free and they obliged. They were awesome! I’m so thankful that they went out of there way to find items that did not have animal products in them. It was touching.

*from Christian Serratos myspace blog

*picture from NewMoonMovie.org

*thanks Lion & Lamb Love

I found this at the Post Secret Facebook page.

Robert Pattinson, a self described loner, told Bop magazine, “I’ve never fallen in love, but I try to be as romantic as possible.”

Pattinson also said he believes that love can be found just about anywhere. He continued, “It’s absolutely possible that you can meet someone on the street and suddenly fall in love with that person. That often happens to me!”

Playing the role of Edward Cullen in Twilight and the forthcoming sequel New Moon taught him a special lesson. “It’s a love story that shows that nothing is impossible. If you really love someone, you can overcome any obstacle.”

Oh Rob, we knew it, you’re just a sweetheart.  Read the full article here

Here is an interview from Amazon.com.  It was from before Twilight was released and it’ s just adorable…or is that just Rob?   Click here to see the video

In this wonderful interview with Ashley Greene, she talks about her difficulty adjusting to fame,

“The role has ensured the relatively unknown actor’s name now returns nearly two million search results in Google and, of course, the relentless attention of the paparazzi.

“I’m still getting used to the go, go, go Hollywood lifestyle which has definitely thrown me into a realm where I’m struggling a little bit,” says Greene, who was a fan of the books long before she auditioned for the role of Alice.

“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it’s unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?”"

…AND her mutual crush on her adorable on screen husband, Jackson Rathbone!

“He and I both don’t have time to date, but we do have amazing chemistry,” she says.

“We both have such big crushes on each other and it clearly shows. We got along instantly and the day we met, he was teaching me how to swing dance.

“He (Rathbone) does everything. He sings, he dances, and he’s so sweet. Even my mum has a crush on him and tells me, ‘You should date him’. So, who knows, maybe when we both stop running around the world.”

Wouldn’t that just be precious <3

Read the full article here

*picture from Vancityallie.com