Are the Twilight Saga stars feeling the pressure of the New Moon spotlight? Although returning actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and the rest of the New Moon cast had an easier time adjusting to life on set for a second Twilight film, New Moon actor Peter Facinelli who plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen recently revealed that the Twilight Saga stars are indeed feeling pressure to live up to the first movie. Well, the only thing we can say after seeing Peter Facinelli on the streets of Vancouver when New Moon was filming is that if you have to go pseudo-incognito in a city where people leave celebs alone, there must be some pressure.
Facinelli also mentioned that being associated with Twilight and New Moon is similar in nature to fan craze surrounding The Beatles of the '60s.
Chris Weitz Chats New Moon
How is the Twilight sequel shaping up now that production is almost over? New Moon director, Chris Weitz, recently spoke with Metro News about a wide variety of topics related to Twilight and New Moon, including his initial reaction to taking on The Twilight Saga sequel, adaptation issues, the casting of Dakota Fanning as Jane, the music of New Moon, whether New Moon aims at an older audience, and more. Interestingly, Weitz elaborated on his vision for New Moon, stating, "The idea is that this will look like a Victorian narrative painting in a way, with those medieval jewel-like colors as well as very glossy deep blacks, and for the composition of the frames to be classical. In some ways, this is going to be a rather old-fashioned film. There are elements that incorporate the latest technology and there are things that are very dynamic in the action scenes. But it’s more Dr. Zhivago than Iron Man."
Welch Talks Return Twilight
Although much of the actor related attention surrounding New Moon has be focused on Twilight Saga stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, other Twilight stars are feeling the glare of the Stephenie Meyer based spotlight, too. On the red carpet at the recent MTV Movie Awards, actor Michael Welch who plays Edward and Bella's schoolmate, Mike Newton, shared his thoughts with About.com about returning to the Twilight Saga for New Moon. Despite being on the fringes of the New Moon acting spotlight, Welch shares the same sentiment as his Twilight cast mates, telling About.com, "It was great. I mean, you know, Twilight - none of us really knew what we were getting ourselves into. We knew that it was a successful series of books, obviously, but you never really know if that's going to translate. But it did - so this time around we all sort of knew what we were getting ourselves into, and we're all very supportive."
From what we see of the Twilight Saga popularity, it wouldn't surprise us in the least if the gang in the Kraft Services truck on the set of New Moon are now huge stars, cutting book deals and making the talk show rounds.
Michael Sheen and New Moon Intimidation
Last week New Moon actor Michael Sheen spoke with Empire magazine about how he feels as one of the older cast members on the Twilight Saga set among a New Moon world of young stars. Although Sheen who plays Volturi leader, Aro, in the Twilight sequel did have fun working with director Chris Weitz, the Frost/Nixon actor admitted that he was intimidated by being an older Twilight actor among a slew of younger New Moon stars. Michael Sheen told Empire "It was quite intimidating being on the set with so many young, beautiful people. That was quite extraordinary being the old, ugly one amongst loads of young, beautiful ones. It's not something I'm used to really. Not because I'm young and beautiful but usually there's loads of old, ugly people around me."
What's interesting about Michael Sheen and his comment about being one of the older New Moon actors is that there's only a four year age gap between Sheen and Twilight Saga actor, Peter Facinelli.
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