Kiss and Tell

If you’re anything like the Creme team you’ve seen Eclipse, well, a few times by now. Our all-time fave part is the tent scene (we laugh every time Jacob says, “Well, I am hotter than you”). So, we had a chat with Kristen Stewart (scream!) to find out what exactly happened while filming that scene and what it was like kissing Taylor! Tough job...

In this film you have to make a decision. Do you feel like that’s a big challenge in the movies so far?

Yeah. There’s definitely the conflict in that she’s pushed to the point where the decision needs to made in this one. Bella does that in each movie and what’s cool is that things change and as certain as she is sometimes and as absolutely gung-ho and young and courageous and brave as she is, she’s also willing to take a step back and go, ‘Okay, I’m going to reconsider my options and reconsider how I’m treating everybody.’ She acknowledges that she’s being a bit selfish. She makes the choice. I feel like the choice has been made. As soon she sees him in the first one it’s done but it’s hard for her to get to point where everyone is going to accept that and this is the one that it sort of happens in.

Was there one scene that was really challenging for you? Maybe the action?

The action is everybody else’s responsibility. I just stand behind the people who are stronger than me. I didn’t get to run around as much as I did in the second movie. So the action wasn’t difficult. I guess one of the most challenging scenes would probably be kissing Jacob for real, finally for the first time and seeing that there was a different road to go down that was desirable as well. She’s got such tunnel vision, that Edward is the only thing for her, that’s a strange perspective. Then I have to go in and talk to Edward about it and it’s such a different dynamic than we’ve ever had. It was a different Bella. I had never had to play somebody who would’ve done stuff like that so that was hard. And I was nervous as hell.

Because of the kiss?

Just because of that moment and how different that kiss is to all of the rest of them in that movie and how different they have to be. It is the most unique moment. It’s also a mistake and I always say that Bella makes a lot of mistakes and she’s willing to own them. I think it’s cool to see her a little bit ashamed and at the same time scared. I think it’s cool.

What are your favourite and least favourite character traits that Bella has?

I really don’t have one that’s my least favourite because as much as she can be all the things that sort of annoy me about her are the things that I like about her. She always comes around and realises that she can be a little selfish, I think. She’s definitely not naggy but she tries so hard not to be sometimes. I think sometimes, ‘Why don’t you just let yourself be?’ I think she picks at herself too much but I can relate to that. I always say my favourite things about her is that she screws up a lot and doesn’t care and is like, ‘This is the way that life is and I’m young and I’m going on with it.’

Bella doesn’t believe in marriage. Do you?

Yeah, sure. Whatever you want to do. I’m not ready to get married but I have a pretty great family and I’d like that, too, someday. Sure.

Are you the type that rushes into something or are you more deliberate about your choices?

I guess it depends on what I’m making a choice about. For work stuff, I do what I feel and I don’t really worry about what it’s going to do afterwards. In terms of the way that I answer questions, too and stuff like that, I guess I would be one of those types of people. I’m kind of a control freak though, too. I get really freaked out if I don’t know what’s going on and what’s going to happen. So I guess I’m a bit of both.

Are either of these two characters, Edward and Jacob, good choices? They’re both a little obsessive and possessive. Are they actually good fantasy choices that young girls should have in their heads?

I don’t know. People always wonder if we should be giving little girls ideas of meeting the perfect man. If so many people have taken to it, it’s not something that’s been shoved into their heads. Everyone has that ideal and especially little girls have this idea in their head that there is something that could be perfect for them in the end and that they can be better than all the rest of the girls because they’ll have the perfect guy who will never screw them over. Our movie isn’t perfect. None of our characters are perfect at all. They’re all so completely crazy and messed up and they don’t make excuses for their weirdness and they accept each other for who they are. On paper I’m sure that if you were a friend of Bella’s you’d be telling her, ‘You better check your boy because he ain’t treating you well,’ and Jacob, too. I think if you’re really in love with someone then it doesn’t matter because that’s such an overpowering feeling and you’re willing to make sacrifices and you feel like, ‘That’s our little story.’