In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, director David Slade talked about the dedication of Kristen Stewart in filming Eclipse.

“It was a 50-day shoot, with many 16-hour days,” he says.

To make things even more challenging, the cast was losing itself in its own Twilight cosmos. All actors have to surrender to their roles and inhabit their characters to some degree for the duration of production, so Slade was pleased his cast was taking the whole project seriously and sincerely.

Everyone was committed, he says.

“Kristen, in particular, was very tough on herself.”

Slade says because Stewart didn’t pull from her own life and her own person to play Bella Swan, she found it personally demanding to find Bella’s truth.

“She would say, ‘I don’t know who Bella is to me.’ In a lot of ways, I think she felt Bella was the antithesis to her, which presented a lot of challenges for Kristen. . . . She would beat herself up about it, because she wants to be there. She never wants to leave a scene undone.

“There were tears,” says Slade.

“But you move on and you keep going. . . . Even in rehearsals with Rob (Pattinson), there was a similar spiralling that would happen.”

Actors are people. They get insecure, and any human being facing the weight of expectation surrounding Twilight would have to buckle, if only a little. To offset as much of the thespian obsessing as possible, Slade says he’s learned the value of preparation.

He says he rehearses his actors as much as possible, so they’re comfortable with the material and their characters, and he gets to focus on the minutiae of performance without the intrusive presence of a camera.

He also talked about the underlying plot of the story and the love that is being shared by Edward and Bella.

“You’re always looking to get the emotional truth from the performance,” he says. And with Twilight, that emotional truth is nothing less than the blood-red heart of romantic love — which pounds away in Slade’s heart, even though, at 41, he’s supposed to be a member of a more cynical generation.

“I do believe in romantic love. How could you not, if you’re lucky enough to find it? It seems like we live in a much more sarcastic . . . cynical culture, and I don’t like to use the c-word. There’s the idea out there maybe that (romantic love) isn’t cool. But true love is a wonderful thing.”

Slade says romantic love is the gooey hook on the Twilight narrative, but after reading Stephenie Myers’ books, he also feels they address a lot more issues than mere vampires and teen romance.

“It’s a love story that’s dealing with the problems of the last century,” he says. “And I got the best book. We had the epic battle, the action . . . the whole thing.”

In another interview with Marc Malkin, he talked about if he was the director for Breaking Dawn and why the film was not converted to 3D.

“I would have probably gone after it,” Slade says of racier scenes in the final installment of theTwilight franchise. “I’m kind of fairly tenacious that way.

“I’d have probably done a special red band version if it were up to me,” he laughed. “But no, poor ole Bill Condon has that task.”

As forEclipse (out on DVD tomorrow), Slade did reveal that there was some chatter of turning it into a 3-D flick. But the talks didn’t get very far.

“There was talk of a conversion, but it was really idle talk,” he explained. “I think it’s really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn’t shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don’t.”

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