MTV: BILLY BURKE TALKS CHARLIE AND BELLA SWAN

MTV has a great interview that they did with Billy Burke where he discusses how Charlie and Bella’s relationship changes from Twilight to Eclipse, but how Charlie is still dense to the violence happening around him. Billy also comments on how having his own daughter now is making an impact in his life.

“Well, Charlie is — per usual — oblivious to what’s going on,” Burke laughed. “But his relationship with Bella gets a little deeper, a little darker. You’ll see some of the same, but with thicker layers.”

Portraying a fractured father/daughter relationship that is central to the whole series, Billy and Kristen have seen their own connection deepen as they’ve shot three films in the last two years.

“She and I, from the get-go, got along real well, both on and off set,” he explained. “There was this natural comfortable-ness to our thing that we do, but what’s changed for me most in conjuring up the father/daughter stuff is that I have a kid now. My daughter was born just after the making of ‘Twilight.’ She’s 15 months old now, and so I now have a deeper and more realistic understanding of what it’s like to have a daughter in the world.

“I think that’s colored the Charlie and Bella stuff,” Burke explained, saying fans might notice the change in the upcoming sequels. “In many different ways.”

His daughter, a little girl named Bluesy LaRue, has taken up the majority of Burke’s non-”Twilight” hours in the months since, and he said he wouldn’t mind if she grew up to be much like his onscreen daughter.

“Bella’s got an old soul, and I think that I’m already recognizing things that might be looking like an old soul in my kid right now — and I would like that,” he grinned. “I would like her to be a worldly person. I would like her to help me along the way, because parenthood is something that I never even expected to be involved in, and I’m going to need all the help that I can get.”

And, if little Bluesy happens to bring home a pale, sparkly hunk someday to meet Dad, Billy said he’d be willing to keep his mind open — he just doesn’t want to consider the scenario right now.

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