Exclusive interview with a vampire: Ashley Greene looks past her ‘Twilight' days
BY BRANDY MCDONNELL bmcdonnell@opubco.com | Published: November 18, 2011 | Modified: November 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm
LOS ANGELES — Ashley Greene picked an odd time to cut back her Java intake.
“I'm trying not to drink coffee right now, which it was probably the worst decision as far as timing goes, during a press tour ... but I always end up drinking so much, and it's just not good. And then I don't feel good,” the “Twilight” star said as she relaxed on a plush couch during a recent one-on-one interview at the Four Seasons Hotel. “But really thinking about it, though, it's like, what time is a good time?”
The fashionista of the “Twilight” franchise didn't sound like she needed caffeine as she energetically chatted about “Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” the fourth and penultimate film in the paranormally popular series, as well as her future, nonvampire roles, including an upcoming thriller directed by an Oklahoma filmmaker.
In “The Twilight Saga,” Greene, 24, plays perky Alice Cullen, a vampire who can see the future of humans and other immortals. A fashion enthusiast who loves to throw lavish parties, Alice is thrilled when her adopted brother Edward (Robert Pattinson) weds his human fiancee, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), in “Breaking Dawn — Part 1.”
“She's planning this wedding, and she has full control of everything, and everything's a fairy tale. ... It was fun going to set every day, you know, because you just have to be extremely happy. A little ball of joy,” said Greene, who looked chic in a pair of dark jeans, a flowing, low-cut red blouse and towering beige heels.
The happily-ever-after reaches to an abrupt end when Bella becomes pregnant on the honeymoon. The impending birth not only threatens Bella's life — an emergency vampire conversion will be her only hope for survival — it also endangers the Cullen clan's pact with the local werewolves of the Quileute Tribe, including Bella's best pal, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
“In this one you get to see both extremes: Her having this fairy tale and then her world kind of crashing down,” Greene said.
Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg divided Stephenie Meyer's hefty fourth and final novel of the “Twilight” series into two halves, and both movies were shot at the same time.
In “Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” due in theaters next November, circumstances force Alice to leave the Cullen coven on a quest.
“I was like, ‘Am I gonna have a job?'
