In the book, even though you leave Bella, you are very present in her thoughts. It is difficult to represent it on the screen? How did you manage?
Rob: In the book, she hears the voice of Edward, but we used another method in the film: she has hallucinations, fleeting appearances of Edward. Would have been a bit corny to do it with only my voice.
Kristen: Everything is in the suggestion. It’s the memory she has of him, not necessarily what he really is.
Edward is much less present in this film than in the previous … What did you do to ensure that the fans are not too disappointed?
Kristen: No, no. You’re still going to see him a lot.
Rob: They will not be disappointed. But if Edward has to be left a little behind, it’s so people can miss him. The film is precisely about the longing, the emptyness and the complete darkness because Edward’s gone.
With a new director at the helm of this sequel, did you feel like working on very different a film from the first?
Rob: It wasn’t just he change of director that made things very different this time. There’s also the fact that this time we knew the beast, we knew a little bit more what we were dealing with.
In this film, I have a more of a secondary role. I started three weeks after the start of filming and the first scenes I shot were many scenes of hallucinations, in which I did not say more than two words. So it was probably one of the most relaxing jobs I ever had! Chris has a very calming presence, and I feel so good with him. To have no stress from the job for three months was great. It was Taylor who had to deal with the pressure! (laughs).
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