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Condon met with the movie's stars to tap into their Twilight experience. The first pizza-and-beer meeting with Pattinson at the actor's temporary L.A. home started slowly.
"We spent probably half of the conversation trying to figure out exactly how to order the Domino's," Pattinson says sheepishly. "I didn't know what my own address was." (Tink: Could you BE cuter, Rob?)
Pattinson, 25, had to track down his manager for the address. (Tink: NICK!) But once the food arrived and the beverages flowed ("we had many, many beers," says Condon), so did the ideas. (Tink: Ooooo...go back to the many, many beers, Bill.)
"Bill was sensitive to the fact that the entire cast has basically grown up together," says Pattinson. "He wanted to get on the same page as everyone."
Condon also developed a tight working relationship with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who has written all of the Twilight screenplays. She calls it "the best collaboration of my career."
"This movie really had the big scenes," says Rosenberg. "You had to get those right (or face) pain of death from the fans." (Tink: Ms. Rosenberg, things happened in Eclipse that I don't want to talk about but we didn't kill you then. Exaggerate much?)
Especially large was the wedding of Edward and Bella, which had its challenges in the Pacific Northwest spring.
"It's always hard to play vampires who are not supposed to feel the cold," says Pattinson. "It was freezing. I was wearing a full tuxedo with heating pads on every layer." (Tink: There's other ways to warm this boy up. Let's offer suggestions...)
While the forest-set location was stunning and Stewart's Carolina Herrara dress divine, there were other issues for Condon.
"It was raining, there was a helicopter with paparazzi in it. It felt like it was taking the magic away," he says. "But the helicopter went away, the sun came out, and Kristen walked down the aisle. It was magical." (Tink: It was *tear*. GORGEOUS dress.)
The true spark in the scene, according to Condon, was Stewart's reaction to seeing Pattinson at the altar.
"People always say that you put on the dress and the bride glows," says Condon. "But Kristen held back her glow until she saw Rob. And then it was like a light went on." (Tink: Awwww...he DOES have that power. No one is immune.)
'Freak out' about sex scene
Pattinson was especially concerned about working on the honeymoon scene with Stewart, 21. The consummation of the relationship, which has been teased over three previous movies, was difficult to handle.
"When there is so much expectation for a sex scene, the actors sort of freak out," says Pattinson. "No one wants to feel like they are doing porn or something." (Tink: Ummm....I see no problem with this when Rob is the star. Thank god for 2012. Bring on Rated R Rob.)
But Condon walked the couple through the entire process and discussed every shot in detail, smoothing out the concerns.
"Everyone was so terrified about shooting it that it sort of became kind of easy," says Pattinson. "It eventually gets to the point where you're just sort of saturated and you don't feel any expectation at all." (Tink: Saturated in what, Rob? Sorry...that was a dark recesses comment.)
The resulting scenes are intense but "not graphic," he insists. Pattinson says that the close-ups on his and Stewart's faces during the love scene helped capture the emotional aspects rather than the physical. But shooting them was "strange."
"It's kind of difficult to capture that crucial expression in a full-on close-up without looking like a moron," says Pattinson. "In the movie, you don't really notice the absolute, ultimate awkwardness of when we were shooting those scenes." (Tink: Well you're a pro, Rob. It looked wonderful and you both were sexy and romantic. Pat yourself on the back for once! You're awesome.)
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The director was impressed with his young actors' maturity in handling the emotional aspects of the scene. Even the oft-joking Pattinson was deadly serious as he prepared to channel the feelings of potentially losing his on-screen wife. (Tink: He was so good...)
"Rob normally has that sense of humor where he (laughs) at everything," says Condon. "But not that day. It was like he was hooking into what it would feel like to lose Kristen." (Tink: BILL! You want me to sob in my pillow right now?)
Meyer, on hand to watch the filming, was touched. "There were people tearing up watching the scene," she says. "You could actually see him going through losing the person most dear to him." (Tink: *ugly cries*)
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