Salt Lake Magazine was able to interview Julia Jones and Charlie Bewley during Twilight Night in Utah. The two actors graciously answered the questions asked to them such as depicting their characters from a popular book, the set, working with the different actors, director David Slade and many more. Here is an excerpt of their interview:

SLM: “Let’s start with Julia. How do you think your fans will respond to your depiction of Leah Clearwater?”

JJ:   “I don’t know”, she sighs and gives a nervous laugh. “I really, really don’t know. I realized when I watched the film for the first time, a couple weeks ago, that that’s gonna happen, that there’s gonna be some kinda reaction, that there’s gonna be feedback. There’s such a big deal made about being cast and about filming and then there’s all these phases you go through, and then, actually the most important thing, in some way the only thing that matters is how your character is received.”

She told me how nauseous she was after first seeing it. She put off thinking about how the audience would react. “Now I’ve recently been like oh my God it’s gonna come out, that day is coming. I really hope it jives with the fans and other’s ideas of the character. Everything I tried to do was from this book, and it was my interpretation”

SLM: “Is it hard to depict a character from a well-read book?”

JJ:  “Process wise, it’s just different. It’s really about doing an interpretation of source material versus creating and imagining. It is harder in a lot of ways, because there is kind of a right and a wrong. Or there’s a more right. The material is there, and you’re trying to get as close to, as true to, this character that’s so believable and so dimensional as you possibly can, and you’re not gonna get there 100 percent.”

CB: “The difficult thing is that the books are like 15,000 times bigger than the script. And you have character developments in the book that just do not exist in the script. So, you can have the character based on what is outlined in the books, and then you’re given the script to actually portray that character. You can do your best, but it’s like film is so restricting in a many ways. You have marks to hit. It’s very hard to play that character so organically with what you have in your head given when you’re given the script, which is like four lines and then some tricky camera angles.”

He adjusted in his seat and leaned in closer.

JJ: “One of the most daunting parts about it for me was I had never worked on a set the size of the Twilight sets.” Julia related to Charlie. “The crew is huge, the cast is huge and there are all these added elements like paparazzi and fans, and all of a sudden, whatever experience I had before as an actor on the set went out the window. You have to figure out how to do your job in-spite of all these different variables that are brand new. Coming in, my character was new and every actor I interacted with had been playing their character for at least one other film, and I was trying to keep up. Yeah, I was on my toes quite a bit.”

CB: “But you did a really good job!  Really you did.”

JJ: “Thanks Charlie,” she laughs.

CB: “I mean she’s smokin’ hot in the movie. A great character. She plays her (Leah) with real edge, really moody.”

JJ: “I went for it,” Julia says with unsure laughter. “The thing that lets you a little off the hook when you think about the daunting part of it is that you know that the people that are behind this—Summit, the studio, Stephenie Meyer, the directors. It’s such a well oiled machine. They’re so smart, they know what they’re doing and you trust them. So, really it’s just the belief that they believed in you or they picked you to do it. That calmed me much more than anything in my power… Just, you know, I have faith in it.”

To read the rest of the interview, click on the link above.

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