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New Interview: Ashley Greene Talks "Burying the Ex" on Set Visit - Twilight mention

ShockYa: Joe Dante is the type of filmmaker – maybe because of his background with Roger Corman, but it also seems like it’s just part of his DNA – who I feel like I can always see the bigger-budget version of his movies, whether it’s “Gremlins” or “Matinee” or whatever, that spent more money but had a lot less personality and idiosyncratic appeal. How much of a factor was his involvement in attracting you to this film?

Ashley Greene: It definitely brought a lot of confidence to the film, I think, because the horror genre in general is a touchy and scary thing, no pun intended, because it can be very scary — or if it’s supposed to be funny as well it can be funny — or it can just be completely blown out of proportion and a total joke. Having seen Joe’s work, you know he can hit that mark, that he’s well-versed in (bringing a balance to elements), and is really knowledgeable when it comes to film. He knows what he’s doing. And so for me that was one of the huge factors in signing onto this film — along with Anton, because I think you need a talented actor to work off of, who gets things. And I think, like you said, Joe has this simplicity about him that I feel like we’ve lost — he doesn’t need a huge budget and explosions. He knows how to make things funny and how to make things work, and he lets you go back to the building blocks of the character, and allows the actors to really get involved in their characters even though you have this outrageous scenario. It’s been really fun to work with him.

ShockYa: A good portion of the film really charts a sincere love story between Max and Evelyn, I take it – tell me about the level of her obsession.

AG: Evelyn starts out as human, and is very… {pauses} over-bearing, over-protective and kind of a pain in the ass, honestly. She and Max are in this relationship, and she makes that fatal error I think of being so worried about losing Max that she suffocates him and causes him to back away, which causes her to push even harder. It all comes from a place of vulnerability, but you… start to see that they’re not that really compatible. She can’t see that – she just doesn’t want to lose him. So he finally gets the courage to break up with her and she ends up getting hit by a car, meets her fate and comes back as a zombie. And when she comes back as a zombie she’s still Evelyn, but times 10 — she’s lost a bit of her rationality, and any filter, really. So it’s very fun to play — she turns into almost this bi-polar character once she’s a zombie. She has this overwhelming need to have this Stepford Wife-type perfect relationship with Max. It’s an amplification of who she was before, and she becomes so blind to the reality of things with Max that she doesn’t even she that she’s deteriorating. Yes, she knows that she’s dead, but she doesn’t quite [get that] she smells horrible and is horrific to look at. My hope is that the audience will in some way or form sympathize with her a bit, because she’s such a lost soul. But it’s a bit funny, too.

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ShockYa: I remember when Zack Snyder’s “Dawn of the Dead” remake came out, there was this whole debate about fast zombies versus slow zombies, and zombie films more broadly — the rules of them, and what behaviors zombies exhibit. As Evelyn, you’re a zombie, but just going on about your life. Is the manifestation of zombiedom in ”Burying the Ex” mainly just about strength and –

AG: — then also deterioration? (laughs) I think … generally what you see with zombies is that you’re bitten, and immediately see the effects of that, of being turned into this mindless drone. With this film (laughs) – it’s funny because I feel like I just did this with vampires and now I’m doing it with zombies – she’s the cutest zombie you’ve probably ever seen, if you can say that. She’s wearing cute little pajamas. The thing you see the most is her physical deterioration. Toward the end I think you do see a bit of a mental deterioration and a loss of rationalization, but you don’t see that drooling, dead-eyed zombie that we’re used to seeing in most zombie films.

ShockYa: So she obviously retains all her higher functions, right?

AG: I think she’s almost more terrifying because she’s a scorned woman zombie. (laughs) She comes back wanting revenge, and acts off of things that [women] actually react off of — jealousy, anger, hurt and fear, vulnerability and loss. She still has all of those personality traits, which almost makes her creepier, because you don’t really know what you’re going to get with her. You just don’t want to piss her off, because you do know that when that happens there are negative effects. She can’t control her temper, really.

ShockYa: I’ve had the chance to see “CBGB” and some of the other indie films you’ve done over the last couple years. Is there an excitement in branching out now, and really mixing it up in terms of differently sized shows, and also genres?

AG: Yes, because I was in this Groundhog’s Day of “Twilight,” really, and every year for five years I was the same character. We did get to have fun with her — different directors came in and had different notes, so it remained fun. I enjoyed it, and it was great for all of our fans in the world, but both they and more particularly everyone in the industry here — that’s all they ever really knew or saw of me, so it’s been fun to get to take on different characters who are generally nothing like the ones I’ve done before. “CBGB” was one – it was this piece of history that has impacted people and been part of their lives, and it’s always fun to tell a story like that, and show people sides of [a story] that they haven’t seen before. Growing up, I remember seeing certain movies and being really affected by them and not even understanding why at first. And I remember thinking, “I want to do that to people.” It’s such a beautiful thing when you get it right. And so I’m kind of interested in playing characters… and seeing if they can impact other people the way certain movies and characters did me.
Honestly, that’s how it was with Alice Cullen and “Twilight” as well — she was the character that I gravitated toward most. I just loved her and I didn’t know quite why. I also think accents are very fun. Part of the fun of acting is that element of dress-up — even with something like this {gesturing at pajamas and zombie make-up}, it really puts you into character in a way that other roles may not be able to. Just walking around, it’s very fun to see the reactions people have when they’re not used to seeing you like this.

ShockYa: Those strong feelings as a kid you mentioned — was there a particular type or style of filmmaking or films that you most reacted to?

AG: I reacted to films that were mostly true stories, and films about overcoming hardship — about not being given opportunity, and having to overcome obstacles. For whatever reason… I remember with “Pursuit of Happyness” sobbing in the middle of the theater, sitting in between my mom and dad and trying to cover [it up]. And “North Country,” stuff like that. It’s nice for them to be able, as accurately as possible, to strongly effect people through telling someone else’s life story, these bad but beautiful stories.

ShockYa: You can be thrilled by fantastic sci-fi or action films and caught up in the spectacle, but I feel like there will always be a market for those [types of movies] because people like feelings that have a place of purchase, if that makes sense.

AG: That’s true. Also, it’s probably part of growing up and getting older… but even in this, for instance, a film about a zombie girlfriend who just won’t quit, there are moments where I feel so bad for Evelyn, and wish she could step back and see what she’s doing. Even with stuff like this, I feel like you can find things that make any character real in some way. … No villain thinks they’re the villain. They think that they’re right, because whatever’s been done to them is wrong, and they’re reacting to that.
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(Video) New @BuryingTheEx Set Interviews - Ashley Greene

etonline  It's not every day that you visit a movie set to interview its stars and veteran director, only to find a decomposing zombie, still oddly attractive, sitting across from you. Staring at you innocently through dead-white irises while she politely answers your questions, it's disconcerting to say the least. And that's exactly what happened when I met Ashley Greene on the Los Angeles set of her rollicking new "Zom-Com," Burying the Ex, along with her very alive-looking co-star Anton Yelchin and Gremlins director Joe Dante.
And that's also the reason why, in my video interviews above, there is no footage of Ashley from that particular December day on the set; the producers wanted to keep her horrifying look under wraps until the film is ready for release later this year.

"[My character] gets to decompose and break down as the script progresses, which is a very fun thing to be able to experience," says the former Twilight vamp. "The [eyes] I had yesterday before [my character] Evelyn turned full-fledged zombie, it's two contacts in each eye, and it's a milk screen basically, and then red over the top of it, and that has a really cool effect – but you can't see anything." After a moment, she adds with a laugh, "It's just really irritating. You have to drink tons of water [to stay lubricated], so every five minutes it's like, 'I have to go to the bathroom!' But my eyes look great."

Burying the Ex finds Anton as Max, a kindly young man whose relationship takes a serious nosedive after he moves in with his girlfriend Evelyn (played by Ashley), who turns out to be a controlling, manipulative nightmare. A freak accident tragically takes her life, but weeks later, once Max meets a cute and friendly new girl (Percy Jackson star Alexandra Daddario), Evelyn returns from the dead as a dirt-smeared corpse, determined to get Max back -- even if that means turning him into one of the undead.

"It is a story of a love and relationship that just won't die – literally," says Ashley of the film's amusing premise. "Death takes her, and he mourns, and then decides to move on, and Evelyn comes back from the dead believing that true love has brought her back and that they're supposed to be together. The humor in all this is she doesn't realize that she's decomposing. She's quite hideous to look at, and rancid, and now this poor Max character is faced with the challenge of how to break up with a zombie without getting his brains eaten."

Director Dante adds, "[Max] feels it's not working, but doesn't want to hurt her feelings by breaking up, and so he stays with her. I think a lot people out there can relate to the idea of staying in a relationship longer than you would have ordinarily done because of that reason, which sometimes ends up being more hurtful to stay together than it does to break up. So I think that underpinning makes all of our zombie comedy stuff seem a little bit more palatable."
"What's great about the tone of the script is it's in a lot of ways a screwball horror film," says Anton. "That's, I think, my favorite thing about the film -- that it's very aware of the genre, and self-reflexive in the sense that it's about a guy that loves horror films and sort of that B-movie/pulp Americana, and ends up being a character in one of those movies."

One of the tougher elements in pulling off the somewhat complicated humor of Burying the Ex is the fact that Ashley Greene is especially easy on the eyes. Dante points out, "We have a specific dilemma in that our main zombie is played by an attractive woman, played by Ashley Greene, and it's hard to make her look bad. … In the realm of attractive zombies, I think she's fairly unique. A tremendous amount of makeup time goes into that, and she's been extremely patient about it. I think doing the Twilight movies was a good warm-up for this."

"It sounds kind of sick, but we wanted people to almost go, 'Hmmm, she's still kind of hot,' which is not the typical zombie," agrees Ashley. "And, of course, as the film goes on, she's not hot at all." She offers that Burying the Ex, "is smart and it's funny and it's outrageous and it's not meant to be taken seriously, and there are some grotesque moments, but they're laughable, and there's always something that brings you back up from that terrifying moment. To me, it's not the typical horror genre film."

But will Ashley's Twi-hard following support her as her career path diversifies into more comedic roles and other genres? "I feel like I got a really great deal with Twilight," she beams. "Because it obviously launched all of our careers and gave us this platform, and with me, the fans love Alice and they love me, and it's an incredible thing to have. But [the fans] also accept me doing different roles, and they're excited about them. I feel like sometimes with other actors, they see them as that one character and it's hard to branch out, so I think I kind of lucked out."

Of course, Anton battled vampires in Fright Night, and he says that he welcomes another opportunity to tangle with the walking dead: "I've never worked on a zombie film. Fright Night was a similar genre blend, but it's a different monster, and I think that's kind of what's great about the Universal Horror pictures [that my character loves] … it was always an intelligent approach, and a kind of perverse, almost transgressive approach to different monsters, and I think that's exciting. It's fun to play around in different monster worlds."

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Ashley Greene Talks about her @BuryingTheEx Character, Stunts and Co-Star Anton Yelchin

JustJared: Check out our exclusive interview withAshley Greene on the Los Angeles set of her upcoming zombie comedyBurying the Ex!

The 26-year-old actress sat down with JJ in her makeup trailer to discuss her character Evelyn, what it is like to work with co-star Anton Yelchin, doing her own stunts for the film, and her fun Christmas plans!

“We start talking over the phone before we got to set, because the time-frame we had before we began the movie was very short. Just from our general banter, I knew we’d get along. Because his sense of humor and mine are similar. So I was pretty optimistic. He’s a pro, and he’s such a sweetheart! I hurt my hand and he gave me a cold Coke to hold until the icepack arrived. He’s really cool and really fun to work with,” Ashleyshared about building up the chemistry between her character and Anton‘s character Max.

Just Jared: How’s filming going so far? You’ve been shooting for a couple weeks now!

Ashley Greene: This is our last week, which is really weird. We shot it really fast! We cover so material everyday, the most I’ve ever experienced but it’s fun! This week has been the most fun, as far as acting goes. It’s when I get to be a full-on zombie, it’s pretty much the end stages of [my character] coming unraveled. There’s a lot of extreme highs and extreme lows. We’re doing a battle this week! We did some stunts last Friday. So now we’re getting into very physical acting and stunt work. It’s been so much fun, it’s just very bizarre that it’s almost over.

JJ: How long does it take to apply your make up every day, it gets more intense?

AG: It does, yes. I’m scheduled to start about two hours before everyone else comes in. We start with Gary, the prosthetics end of it first. He puts on the base, paint, and white powder. Then, when he’s about 75% done, I go over to hair and makeup. This is actually the first day they’re wigging me. They decided that for all of the crazy zombie hair, instead of putting my hair through all that hell, they are going to use a wig. So after that, the makeup artists do their little tweaks, then I come back to Gary and he finishes the body work and we put in the contacts and the teeth. It’s quite a process but it’s worth it. I’ve never seen zombie makeup that looks this cool! It’s the most realistic I’ve ever seen, especially the beginning stages.

JJ: When you first saw yourself in the zombie makeup, what went through your head?

AG: “This is cool! I love my job!” (laughs) I was just having a conversation with my mother, talking about all the things that I had done in the past two and a half days. I worked on this, and I also had to do some voiceover work and ADR, so three separate projects. They’re all vastly different, and I had to do the craziest things for each of them! So I was just saying to her how cool it is, what I get to do, and getting to experience all these different things that I would never ever get to experience. I’ve taken a lot of pictures at every stage, to show my mom, because it’s very cool to see your hair and makeup grow with you and your character. A lot of the times you don’t get to see the progression so clearly, so it’s really cool to see what they do.

JJ: You mentioned doing your own stunts, how’s that been? We saw you slam your hand against a table! Have you had any injuries?

AG: I haven’t had any real injuries. On Friday, we did a scene where I slip and break my neck, essentially, and I did that myself. That was really fun, a little intimidating at first, but I was super excited about it. I knew I was going to be super sore this weekend, because I’ve never used those muscles before. I did a lot of throwing people around last week. I probably hurt myself doing the stuff today, the easy stuff, like slamming your hand onto a table. When you’re in the moment, you don’t think about the fact that doing it over and over is going to hurt your hands. But it’s believable and that’s what they want!

JJ: You and Anton have a lot of scenes together, how did you build your chemistry?

AG: We started talking on the phone before we got to set, because the timeframe we had before we began the movie was very short. Just from our general banter, I knew we’d get along. His sense of humor and mine are similar. He’s a pro, and he’s such a sweetheart! I hurt my hand and he gave me a cold Coke to hold until the icepack arrived. He’s really cool and really fun to work with.

JJ: How would you describe him in one word?

AG: Unique.

JJ: How would you describe your character?

AG: My character’s name is Evelyn and she is kind of an overbearing and controlling girlfriend. She has good intentions, but they’re not very well received. She becomes too passionate about what she thinks is right and tends to overlook the qualities that other people have, which are not like hers. She thinks everyone should be like her. She wants to save the world and make it green, she’s all about positive energy, and giving back. But I think her downfall is she’s so desperate to have this idea of love in her relationship that she doesn’t see that her and Max aren’t well suited for each other. That’s kind of what makes the relationship crumble. Then she comes back as a zombie, and she is kind of Evelyn x10. When she’s happy she’s extremely happy, when she’s sad she bawls, when she’s mad, she breaks floors and tables. She’s a complex character, that one! (laughs)

JJ: If you had any advice to give Evelyn, what would you tell her?

AG: Calm down! Just calm down, or let it go! (laughs) No, I think in all honestly, I’d probably tell her to sit back and really think about what she loves about herself and what she loves about Max, and figure out if she’s really right for him. Because I think that’s really what the problem is, they’re just not right for each other and she just won’t let it go. I think a lot of girls do that because they’re afraid of being alone. But it’s much better being alone than being in a relationship that just doesn’t work.

JJ: That’s very true! So we saw some pictures of you playing dead in a scene. Obviously you have to be very still for that. What kind of techniques are you using?

AG: Well, I was a swimmer, so I have pretty good lung capacity. You take a deep breath before, but if you’re going to be there for a little bit you take shallow breaths. Depending on if they’re not super close and it’s a wide shot, generally they won’t be able to see it.

JJ: What’s your favorite scene that you’ve shot so far?

AG: There’s a scene where Evelyn comes back, it’s her first night and Max wakes up thinking it was a nightmare, and it wasn’t. She’s very child-like, so she’s bouncing around and jumping all over the place. It was the first time I really acted a full scene as zombie-Evelyn as well, so that was fun. She does have such extremes that sometimes she is like a child. It was a lot of trying different things and a lot of laughing.

JJ: Sounds like a lot of fun. What drew you to the project?

AG: I read the script and I like it a lot more than I thought I was going to. You know, you hear “Zombie, Horror, Comedy” and you don’t really know what you’re going to get, a lot of people don’t really hit the mark. But I found myself laughing out loud to myself. That’s one of my favorite things, laughing out loud by myself, watching a movie or reading a book or a script. I found myself giggling a lot! It’s just funny and outrageous, but you can relate to it in some way.

Again, Evelyn loses her filter halfway through, so the things that come out of her mouth – I feel like we all have friends like that, and that’s what she reminds me of. Also, [director] Joe Dante is so well respected. I love Gremlins just like everyone else did, and I feel like if anyone was meant to do this film it’s him. There’s that and also when I asked who they were looking at for the leading man, they mentioned Anton and I think he’s an interesting, talented actor and I would have loved to work with him. Everything just kind of fell into place, and now we’re almost done!

JJ: So what makes this film different from the other horror/comedy films that have come out recently?

AG: Honestly, a lot of it has to do with Joe and how he’s capturing things. The way he directs is so simple and there’s no frills or ego, he just knows what he’s doing and what he wants to accomplish. We as actors have a large amount of trust in him, and I think his vision is really going to come to life. He understands how to obtain that comedic core that is very hard to do. I’ve never seen anything like this before, it’s different than every other zombie film. Even with hair and makeup, I feel like there’s nothing that’s overkill with this film and I think that’s going to be refreshing. It’s silly and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

JJ: What’s the funniest thing that happened off set?

AG: When it’s me, Anton, and both sets of hair and makeup people in our trailers, we just get a little loopy. We’re on the third week, so things come out of our mouth that I probably shouldn’t even mention because it’s just stupid. We’re all 10 year old boys telling burp and fart jokes, basically. (laughs) There’s a sense of family and camaraderie amongst us, which is nice to have when you have to be here for awhile.

JJ: What’s your favorite set prop?

AG: You know, I just signed my tombstone, my character’s tombstone. I think that’s my favorite. We also did a cast of my face and we made a dummy, which is really creepy and weird because it looks just like me. I mean, it’s my face. So that’s another one of the coolest things I’ve seen. But no one else will ever get to see it!

JJ: Aw, man! So when you’re in your trailer relaxing, how do you like to occupy your time?

AG: We actually don’t have that much down time, which makes sense on this film, given the amount we have to shoot. But generally, reading other material, or now Christmas shopping, I’m trying to get that out of the way whenever I can. Most sets I’m on, if I have a lot of down time, I usually bring a book or a film. Sometimes when you do have a lot of down time it can be frustrating, so you bring something to make you feel like you’re being productive.

JJ: You just mentioned Christmas, do you have any fun plans that you can share with us?

AG: I’m going to be traveling a bit, I might go to New York. I actually kind of used to live in New York, I split time there a lot. So I’m going to go back there and spend some time with friends for a few days and see the snow and all that, then I’m going to head to Florida and see my family. My parents just did some updates to their home so they’re excited to have everyone over. I’m very excited. My Memaw (grandmother) actually just turned 80 and I missed her birthday, so I’m really excited to see her.

New Stills: Ashley Greene Talks about @BuryingTheEx life after TWILIGHT and more

collider While on set I sat down for an exclusive interview with Greene. She talked about what attracted her to the project, playing an emotionally unbalanced zombie, working with the effects makeup, and director Joe Dante. She also talked about how the film references and subverts genre tropes, shooting in Los Angeles, crowdfunding, life after Twilight and a lot more.

Burying-the-ex-anton-yelchin-ashley-greeneHow did you get on board with this project?
AHSLEY GREENE: My agents brought it to me and said, “Hey do you want to do this?” I read it and I really liked that it was very different than anything that I had seen in this genre.  It’s very specific to comedy horror and I thought it was also smart.   It made me laugh to myself and that’s usually a good sign whenever you giggle out loud to yourself when you’re reading a script like this.  Then just the people that were involved.  Joe Dante was already signed on to direct and they said they were going out to Anton and I was like, “If you guys get Anton I definitely want to do it.” I just think he’s an interesting character actor.  It all finally came together.  There were a lot of pieces to the puzzle and once it all did come together we only had a few days before we shot.  So that was a bit stressful, just because we didn’t have the preparation time that we would have liked.  But it’s turned out really well.  We’re almost done.  We’re on our last week, which is insane to me, to shoot a movie in a month, and a good movie.  I think its going to turn out really well.  The dailies are turning out well.  I’m excited.  Its something I’ve never done before and I think its definitely going to turn out well.

Has it been fun for you working with the makeup?
GREENE: [laughs] You know what, it is.  Its fun.  The call times are not fun, because it takes about two hours.  Gary (Tunnecliffe) does the special effects and he’s phenomenal.  He’s been doing this forever.  Its really cool to see him create a character alongside me.  Hair and makeup and special effects kind of had her look progress, so it’s almost a character in its own, which is very cool.  I’ve never had a face cast.  I had that.  So now there’s a dummy with my face on it that’s really really creepy.  I’ve never worn contacts like this.  There’s actually two layers of contacts in my eyes on top of each other.
They’re quite something to interview against.
GREENE: I know, I can hardly see.  It’s like a really thick fog.  It’s very very bizarre.  But I guess it helps you get in character.

Is it significantly more challenging than what you had to wear for the Twilight films?
GREENE: The contacts are more challenging.  I think the makeup might have been more challenging on Twilight just because we didn’t have special effects doing our white makeup, and on this one its really nice because I go to special effects first and then hair and makeup does their thing on top of that.  So it’s kind of very well oiled.  On Twilight we just went in and they had to do the whole thing and we sat there for like two hours.  So I think that was a little more difficult.  Also I think our characters in Twilight were so popular already before the movies came out so there were just so many more eyes looking at you, or people jerking you one way or another about what they wanted Alice Cullen’s look to be and Edward Cullen’s look to be.  So this, to me, is a little more fun.  It’s a little crazier.

burying-the-ex-ashley-greeneCan you kind of set up your character and what people are going to see from you?
GREENE: Yeah, Evelyn is [laughs], she is a go-green advocate who has her own blog and is the girlfriend of Max, and she’s a bit overbearing and overprotective at times.  She has a little bit of jealousy and vulnerability because she’s very afraid of losing Max, because he’s basically all that he has.  So she does get a little extreme at times, but you kind of see where she’s coming from.  It’s that tragic thing that a lot of people do where you are so clinging on to someone that you actually push them away.  That’s what you kind of see in this story.  She gets hit by a car, unfortunately, but comes back as a zombie.  Progressively turning into the zombie.  So when she first comes back she’s dirty, she’s crawled out of her grave, but you can see Evelyn.  She gets more and more hideous and more and more rotten as she tries to win back her boyfriend that she lost…  probably about five months ago when she died.  I describe her almost, when she comes back as zombie Evelyn, it reminds me as bipolar disorder because her highs and lows are so extreme and she just cant control them as much as she wants to.

You mentioned that the script made you laugh when you read it and one of my favorite things about Joe Dante’s previous films is that he has this wonderful tone where he kind of walks the line between genres.  Can you talk a little bit about what you think the tone of this film will be like?
GREENE: Yeah, I totally agree.  I think he’s- when I heard he was directing this I was like, “Yes, this makes sense.  He’s the one to do this if anyone.” And we trust him so we completely just do whatever he says.  He’s very simple and very specific and very calm.  Its been really fun.  It’s definitely not realistic as far as real life goes.  There’s sometimes where I’m like, “Why would she do this?” And he’s like, “Because…people have done this, people will get it.” And I’m like, “Okay” He knows this whole world and how it works and I’m a newbie to it so he has kind of had to walk me through it.  Because I came to the table thinking very logically.  I think its the same thing like the Twilight world.  There are some things that are just movie magic that make it more fun.

You guys are doing crowdfunding while you’re in production, which is unique, and you also just did Wish I was Here, which was crowdfunded.  Do you have any thoughts on the whole new trend of more studio films dipping into the crowd funding?
GREENE: Well I was really happily and pleasantly surprised by how much money Zach’s film made on Kickstarter and it was really the first time I became aware of crowdfunding.  Some people think it’s controversial, but my kind of retort to that is that it’s not like we’re making people give money for something.  They were all fans of Zach’s and whoever else is in the film and wanted to see this film get made.  I think it’s very cool to allow the public and people who are passionate about film to be able to participate in some way.  I thought that was very fun.   With this it’s also very interesting because were doing it after we started.  But again, it’s all about fan involvement and getting people excited, and there are so many people who are a fan of Joe.  So I think its fun to know that there are so many people who are excited about the film before it’s even come out.

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Talking about time limits, I was told it’s day fourteen out of twenty.  Can you talk about what that shooting process has been like for you, especially coming off of something like the later Twilight films where you had a significantly higher budget.
GREENE: Yes.  It’s definitely a lot more pressure when you’re shooting a film like this so quickly.  To me, it’s the most material I think I’ve ever shot each day.  The amount of pages that we’re shooting each day is just insane.  I’m used to things where we’re shooting a page and half or two pages a day, and here we’re shooting eight.  So that is a little stressful, because you want to come to set and have everything laid out, everything memorized and it makes it a little hard.  I think it’s the same thing that the rest of the cast and crew feel.  Luckily, again, I think the atmosphere on set trickles down from the director and I think everyone has that mentality of “Were on a tight schedule, but we’re going to get it done and it’s all going to be okay.” That’s very nice that people aren’t running around screaming and yelling, because I’ve seen that happen on sets before.  We are still managing to shoot this film, get all the footage that we need and make sure that we are going in with a good product, and I think a lot of that comes from the organization and planning on the directors part.  The hours actually aren’t bad either.  We work like fourteen or fifteen hour days, and we get to home to our beds, which is really nice.  So it’s been a cool experience.  I think everyone will be excited for the holidays after working this.  I don’t know how to explain it.  It’s just cool.
burying-the-ex-anton-yelchinI think it’s only in Hollywood that you’ll hear people say, “only fifteen hour days.”
GREENE: [Laughs] Well you know I’ve been on some things where they just don’t seem to care and they have to get their shots and just work right through.  Yeah, maybe that’s why everyone’s so cool and chill about everything is that we do get to go home and go to sleep.  I think generally from crew call it’s about twelve hours.  Hair and makeup takes a bit longer, but it’s not bad.  And the other thing is we’re never sitting in our trailers twiddling our thumbs.  To me that’s harder than being on set all day, because when you’re on set it goes.  I think this is our last scene and I feel like I haven’t even been here half a day just because you’re constantly working and not thinking about it.  So yeah, sitting in your trailer is miserable [laughs].

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GREENE: It’s not as crazy as it was.  I think there’s something about us being together for films and premieres and stuff like that where people just went crazy over it.  I think their minds ran wild.  And they were always excited to see what we were doing, what we were wearing, what we were going to do in the next film, how they wrote and adapted it.  So there was that constant buzz and constant microscope, because everybody wanted to know.  I think the nice thing for me now is that there’s still the overwhelming support of the fans, but not the madness on the media’s part.  Yes, the paparazzi still will occasionally- I think they’re here today because they want to see what the character’s going to look like, but it’s a lot easier to get around it than what it used to be.  It used to be just impossible.  It’s good.  It’s all very positive.  I think I’m in a really good spot, because you want people to still care and you want your fans to still be there, but you want to also have a life and engage with your friends and family without them having to deal with the repercussions of what we’re doing. Full interview at source
 

(Still) First Look Ashley Greene and Anton Yelchin from @BuryingTheEx Interview #Twilight

ew You know the story: Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl dies and comes back as a zombie.
Well, that’s the story of Burying the Ex, a new romantic zombie comedy, or zom-com, as the cast and crew call it, starring  Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek). EW was on set for an exclusive first look and a chance to talk with the stars and director.

Burying the Ex follows Max (Yelchin), an all-around nice guy, and his incredibly beautiful but overbearing and manipulative girlfriend Evelyn (Greene). After they move in together, Evelyn is killed in a freak accident, leaving Max single and free from her controlling nightmare — or so he thinks.

“Her boyfriend has his mourning period, but then gets over it,” Greene said. “Much to his dismay, she comes back as a zombie but doesn’t clock that she is a zombie and thinks that true love has brought her back and that they’re supposed to be together forever.” Though Greene is best known for playing another supernatural creature, the Twilight comparisons pretty much end there. “It’s a lot different, ’cause I think in Twilight we are trying to get into humanity and hide the secret that we have.
The fun thing about this film and with Evelyn is that when she comes back, she’s got no boundaries and no filter. It’s a lot more outrageous, not that vampires aren’t farfetched.”

“When she returns as a zombie, she’s a thousand times worse and more controlling,” Yelchin told EW. To prepare for the genre film, Yelchin watched classic undead movies like White Zombie and Night of the Living Dead , but noted that working with Gremlins director Joe Dante made it special. “When I think of this movie, I think of it as more of a Joe Dante film than a genre movie, because he’s always represented a very specific take on genre and he’s always created genre films that were always aware of their genre.” more at source

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Here’s a new wrinkle in the crowd funding game.

Gremlins helmer Joe Dante began shooting the horror comedy Burying The Ex before the film’s producers set out to raise funding through Fundanything.com/buryingtheex.

The film stars Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin, Twilight Saga’s Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario and Oliver Cooper. This service gives contributors the opportunity to actively participate in the making of the film, based on the level of their contribution.

The rewards include set visits, lunch with the directors, and the usual tchotchkes. Alan Trezza wrote the script. Cassian Elwes is executive producing along with Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman and Dominic Rustam. ArtImage Entertainment, Scooty Woop Entertainment and Act 4 Entertainment are producing. Yelchin plays a normal guy who dates a beautiful but overbearing gal (Greene) who becomes a nightmare when they move in together. He’s afraid to break up with her and even after she dies in a freak accident he can’t move on because she rises from the grave to haunt him. deadine

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