Twilight New Moon movie flexes its muscles

Hi Twilighters, with New Moon release coming soon here's interesting article from BBC. Check it out! -Liana- (via @BBC)

 

New Moon reveals the ancient secret of the Quileute tribe

By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News

She's 18, he's 109. And there are topless scenes galore. It sounds like the most politically incorrect movie of all time.

But this is New Moon - the second movie in the Twilight vampire saga - and all those bare chests belong to buff young men with waxed pecs and six-packs. 

"You get a lot of nipple shots in this movie," laughs Robert Pattinson, the actor who plays the 109-year-old vampire Edward Cullen.

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Since the first film came out a year ago, Pattinson has become a heart-throb to teenage girls across the world, and is also a favourite target of the paparazzi.

Broken heart

Based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novels, the first Twilight film set up Edward Cullen's love affair with mortal heroine Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart.

The New Moon sequel sees the romance become more intense until an incident at Bella's 18th birthday party makes Edward decide to leave her in an effort to protect her from supernatural danger.

Bella begins to heal her broken heart with the help of her childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), and discovers that he has some supernatural secrets of his own... 

"Obviously I spent a lot of hours in the gym" Taylor Lautner

 While most of the bare-chested action comes from members of Jacob's mysterious Quileute tribe, it's no surprise that Robert Pattinson loses his shirt once or twice.

"I was really terrified," says Pattinson. "I hadn't worked out at all, and I saw Taylor at the beginning of the year and I did feel incredibly inadequate."

With Lautner stepping into a central role in New Moon's love triangle, he set about beefing up his body in the gym.

Such is his transformation after Twilight, even Bella seems taken aback when she meets her friend: "Hello biceps," she quips.

She may as well have held up a flashing neon sign saying: "HUNK ALERT!"

"Obviously I spent a lot of hours in the gym," says Lautner, during the film's launch in London.

"The most important part for me was the eating process. I had to double or triple my calorie intake per day. It was a matter of eating every two hours, disgusting things like meat patties and raw almonds and sweet potatoes." 

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