So how to write about someone who seems to answer Freud’s rhetorical question, What do women want? Perhaps it’s just worth pointing out that it’d be fun to have a beer with him even if he weren’t Edward Cullen. That we haven’t seen a tenth of what he can do onscreen. And that important things, beyond the veil of Hollywood, occupy his time too — music, conversation, ideas, a sense of the absurd. Which, maybe, explains why he never gets to my e-mails. I love you, Rob! Call me!

Watch part one here.

2. Vampire elevator music
”When Edward, Bella, and Alice get into the elevator on their way to see the Volturi,
the music playing in the elevator is from Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (a.k.a. The Bat).”

3. Emotional baggage?
”When Bella is looking for the meadow where she and Edward are seen lying down
together, she carries a golden compass clipped to her backpack — part of my baggage!”


4. Speedy suitor
”We did a little trick when Edward gets out of Bella’s truck and they’re arguing.
We wanted to show Edward moving impossibly quickly, so we put Rob right next
to the camera but out of sight, and used a double dressed like Rob in the driver’s
seat. When Edward gets out, it’s the double, and then Rob steps in front of the
camera, and it looks as if he got there faster than humanly possible.”

5. Look it up
”And last but not least: If you want to know what Jacob says before he almost
kisses Bella, ask a Quileute! The address of the Quileute tribal council is quileutenation.org. I can tell you this much: He says, Kwop kilawtley.”

6. Tower of glower
”You can see Volterra’s tower and the red-cloaked revelers from the festival
of San Marco on the cover of Bella’s copy of Romeo and Juliet when she wakes
up in her bedroom.”

7. Hope it was a rental…
”In the wolf-fight, we purposely knocked over the camera when the wolves
tumble towards it; you can also hear the microphone thumping, as if an actual
on-set animal had run into the camera and boom.”

8. Quileute culture
”When prepping to visualize Jacobs and Emily’s houses, production designer
David Brisbin and his team visited La Push and met the Quileute executive
council. While they were there, a young Quileute girl gave David the first
drum she made (this is a Quileute custom). To show appreciation, we decided
to put the drum in a prominent shot — it’s at the entrance of Emily’s house,
and you see it when Bella first enters. Also, the high pitched ‘call’ that Embry
and Jared give when they jump out of Bella’s car is a thing the Quileute kids do.”

9. Waxing romantic
”The reason the moon phases ‘backwards’ to reveal the title is that this is
scientifically correct! I moderated an astrophysics seminar for the Science
and Entertainment Exchange with noted astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson and
he complained about the number of films that get simple science wrong.
(Don’t ask me to justify vampires or werewolves).”

10. That’s Italian!
”In the Volturi chamber, Aro speaks Italian — ‘La Tua Cantante’ should be
easy for readers of the books — he’s referring to Bella’s being Edward’s ‘singer,’
whose blood calls out to him stronger than anyone else’s. Later, when Bella tells
him that he doesn’t know anything about Edward’s soul, he replies, ‘Fore … ne il
vostro l’uno o altro’ — ‘Perhaps … nor yours either.”’