Chicago Tribune: Rob Talks Conflict and Why It Was A Challenge In ‘Eclipse’

LOS ANGELES — Ask many a teenage girl to which team are they most loyal and it’s unlikely you’ll hear about the Black­hawks, White Sox, Bears or Cubs. You’ll prob­a­bly get an ear­ful about “hits” of a dif­fer­ent kind from the new movie “The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse.” You’re Team Edward if you love the moody vam­pire Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pat­tin­son. Team Jacob is for fans of the usu­ally shirt­less, chis­eled abs of Tay­lor Lautner’s were­wolf per­sona, Jacob Black.

Recently, I was a guest of Sum­mit Enter­tain­ment in Los Ange­les, talk­ing with both actors, who are now on their third install­ment of fang-filled love tug of war.

You both have been through three dif­fer­ent direc­tors on these movie adap­ta­tions. What’s been the dif­fer­ence for you?


Robert Pat­tin­son: I don’t know nec­es­sar­ily if it shows in the final film, but the dif­fer­ence between Chris Weitz (“New Moon” direc­tor) and David Slade (“Eclipse” direc­tor) is dra­matic. Chris saw the first one and just thought that he wanted to fol­low along the road. David wanted to do it com­pletely dif­fer­ent from the first two. It all felt so fresh right from the first day. Edward’s move­ment and such, from every sin­gle part of the per­for­mance, it just really shook it up a lit­tle bit.

Tay­lor Laut­ner: Well, Jacob gets a lit­tle more frus­trated and a lit­tle heated in this one. It was very emo­tional for me. There are a lot of emo­tional scenes between Jacob and Bella (played by Kris­ten Stew­art) and Jacob and Edward. He becomes very close to Bella, there’s the much-talked-about kiss­ing scene — but also all of the fight­ing scenes, so it was good … it was much more dra­mat­i­cally challenging.

And what about that kiss­ing scene with Kris­ten? I know that you’re both very good friends. That has to be a lit­tle awkward.

TL: We are very close friends, but I wouldn’t say it was awk­ward. After we fin­ished a take of the kiss­ing 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 char­ac­ters are both in love with Bella and in hot pur­suit of her inter­ests. She doesn’t know which way to turn and even is at the core of the bat­tle that breaks out in this film. In real life, could you be in a rela­tion­ship that was so dif­fi­cult to have?

RP: Oh, no way. I’m ter­ri­ble at that. I can’t even deal with peo­ple shout­ing at each other. The slight­est bit of con­flict and I’m gone imme­di­ately. It’s one of the chal­lenges of this movie for me. It’s bal­anc­ing the emo­tional aspects with the phys­i­cal demands. Occa­sion­ally, there come moments where you have to por­tray a big story within a fight scene and it does become quite complicated.

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