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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Twilight': on the set at Clackamas
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love story,” said Peter
Silbermann, toe publicist
for the film, who is from
New York. “He’s a vampire;
she’s not”
The role of Bella will be
played by Kristin Stewart,
who was recently in “Into
toe Wild” and “Yellow
Handkerchief” a small indie
film shown at the Sundance
Film Festival in January.
Robert Pattinson, better
known as wizard Cedric
Diggory from “Harry Potter
and toe Goblet of Fire,” will
play Edward.
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is Catherine Hardwicke,
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who has directed several
other films in the past
several years, including
“Lords of Dogtown” and
“Thirteen.”
Most of ‘Twilight’’ is
being shot in the cafete
ria and a biology lab at
Madison High School,
in Portland. The segment
shot at Clackamas inside
and around Greenhouse
#2 will be a four-minute
extension of one of toe
biology-class scenes.
Many cast trailers
and large school buses
were squished into the
parking lots surrounding
Clairmont Hall, fairly
ineffectively
hidden
from the road by green
trees.
Silbermann, there was
The day went through . “open casting for extras and
fits of heavy rain, clouds and supporting roles in Portland
short sun breaks, punctuated and Longview.”
by toe sounds of crew mem
This area was chosen for
bers bustling around the set, filming because of toe over
and almost complete silence cast weather.
when the magic words of
“It turned out perfect; it’s
beautiful,” Silbermann said
“quiet on set!” were yelled.
Clackamas was part of of Clackamas’ lushly green
a crammed 47-day shoot campus.
ing schedule for the movie,
‘1 think it is tricking
shortened from toe original awesome that this movie
plan of 60 days because of is based in the Northwest,”
budget constraints.
said Nicole Donner, a 21-
About 130 members of year-old fan who had been
toe cast and crew were on keeping tabs on toe filming
set at toe college for toe 24- process.
hour filming period.
While some fans maybe
“We have our own small worried that toe movie will
army,” Silbermann laughed. deviate considerably from
Many extras, in fact, are the original story, relief may
from the local region.
be found in toe fact that
According '
to the author, Meyer, is staying
TOP: A sneak peek at part of the seg
ment of the film, which was shot at
Clackamas; Kristin Stewart and Robert
Pattinson play the characters of Bella
and Edward, respectively.
LEFT: Leads Kristin Stewart and Robert
Pattinson do an on-camera interview
with the MTV crew between filming the
partial scene at the college.
RIGHT: Robert Pattinson
hugs himself in the chill
-ing cold while watching
Kristin Stewart speak to
MTV.
TOP: Photo by Lisa Sellars
Clackamas Print
ABOVE: Photo by Emily Wal
ters Clackamas Print
Robert Pattinson
The Print was able to speak briefly with male lead Robert Pattinson
during a break in shooting and after his interview with MTV.
“I’m getting old,” Pattinson commented, explaining that his 22nd
birthday is May 13.
In “Twilight,” Pattinson is one of a family of vampires, who ends up
falling for toe human
Isabella (Bella) Swan.
“I initially wanted
to be Bella,” he joked.
Pattinson
has
enjoyed toe filming so
'
far, especially because,
as a vampire, he takes
part in most of toe
-
action sequences.
“It is cool to be a
■
vampire,” he said. “I
get to kill people.”
Although
the
weather at Clackamas
was overcast and
dreary, Pattinson has
enjoyed his time in
Oregon thus for.
I
“It’s nice; I really
like Portland,” he said.
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MTwcrew of cameraman James Lacsina (left)
■■er Larry Carroll (right) show off their
ifWMnt after finishing an interview with leads
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involved. She even has a
cameo in the film.
“We consulted with her
because we wanted it to be
right,” Silbermann said.
‘If we do our demo
graphics right we expand
the audience range,” he
added.
Currently, there are no
definite plans to turn the rest
of the series into movies,
although readers have good
reason to be hopeful.
“One would hope so. If
this is a success, I’m sure
they will,” Silbermann said.
‘Twilight” will be in the
aters Dec. 12 of this year.
- Print reporters Lisa
Sellars and Jess Sheppard
contributed to this report.