Learning their lesson from the last time Twilight was at Comic-Con, the first panel in Hall H this year at Comic-Con was for Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
Director Bill Condon came out and joked that he’d been “imprinted” on the material. Girls started screaming. Then the major cast came to stage and then answered softball questions from the IGN moderator. Kristen Stewart talked about picking her wedding dress and Robert Pattinson spoke of how their honeymoon shoot was a torrential downpour and kind of sucked at the beginning.
They played two clips at the beginning which I will detail below.
First Scene: Jacob has left his pack and joined the Cullen’s, knowing that Bella needs more blood. I have no idea what that means, but it’s a talking scene in a library with Taylor Lautner brooding about something he “has to do”. Cut to the woods at dusk. Jacob is meeting with his old family, who hates him because he left their family and joined a new one. Jacob talks about needing to kill the baby and everyone seems shocked.
Second Clip: Bella and Edward on their honeymoon. It’s a lush hotel in the tropics. He carries her across the treshhold and looks brooding. They come into the bedroom and she gazes longingly at a giant four-poster bed. His heart is clearly racing (implying an erection?) Instead of getting to the sex, he offers to take her for a swim, but she asks for a few minutes on her own. He says “Don’t take too long, Mrs. Cullen,” which elicited SHRIEKS from the crowd. Then she has a montage getting ready for sex, brushing her teeth, hair, washing up. She takes her wedding ring off as she gets ready. She shaves her legs and begins picking lingerie, picking a lacy black nighty. Dressed in only a towel, she seems entirely exasperated by the whole process before telling herself, “Don’t be a coward.” She appears on the beach wearing nothing but the towel, which she drops to the ground and approaches him on the beach. Turns out he’s been skinny dipping alone….
The crowd seemed terribly frustrated when the clip ended there.
They went out to audience questions:
Q: Did you have more fun playing Cedric or Edward?
Pattinson: They were both fun. I didn’t know what I was doing when I played Cedric. I didn’t even know if I wanted to be an actor at that time, so I was just playing around. Twilight has changed my life and it’s allowed me to live in this world. It’s almost impossible to find another way of living in it…. I don’t actually know what I’m talking about.
Q: You have roles that use your Martial arts skills. Do you want to be an action star?
Lautner: I do. It’s not ALL I want to do. What I love about acting is challenge myself. I love Jacob and this has given me an incredible opportunity.
A middle-aged woman just told Robert Pattinson “I was impressed with your back muscles and I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say, ‘Nom nom nom’”. And people wonder why Twilight fans have a bad reputation.
They were then asked about their favorite scene.
Stewart: It was the Birth scene it was a difficult scene to shoot and it took two days to shoot. It completely gives you everything… Bella is a fighter, she fights for everything that she feels destined for her. When you see it so much in your face like that… It’s wow.
She then implies that Bella was able to fight harder than any human could because of the “help literally inside of her” as she gave Robert Pattinson a sideways glance.
Pattinson: My favorite scene to shoot was the birth scene. It was the first time Edward has to deal with a problem on his own. He’s such a helpless character and Bella always saves him, whether he wants to kill himself or whatever. And Bella isn’t saving anybody for the birth.
Lautner: My favorite scene is the birth scene, too. I have to give Bill a lot of credit. It’s stunning. I don’t want to give too much away, so I’m going to stop talking now.
When asked about fight scenes, Lautner says, “Well, I’m usually a fluffy CGI wolf, but Edward does get to punch me in this one.” Then he lowers his head, ashamed… “He punches me just after he finds out that I imprinted on his daughter.”
That’s just wrong. A mother sent her 5 year old daughter up to ask “Did you like making the baby with Bella?”
Pattinson, deflecting it. “Umm…. I do. I like babies. And I like doing scenes with them. It was fun.”
I have to admit, more than anything, I actually WANT to see the birth scene. I’m fascinated by the idea of a vampire toothed C-section and can’t wait to see how Bill Condon pulls it off.
The first few hundred people in the center got tickets and the prize, they announced at the end, was that they and a guest could attend the Summit Entertainment party that night with a guest. No one seemed that enthused until they realized what it was.
Then, they showed the teaser trailer that’s been making the rounds on the Internet once more (you know the funny one where Taylor Lautner tears his shirt off in the rain?). The crowd ate it up as though they hadn’t seen it a hundred times.
