EXCLUSIVE FANSITE INTERVIEW WITH THE HEAD OF THE VOLTURI

We’ve already brought you interviews with humans, good vampires, bad vampires werewolf and Bella Swan herself. Today we bring you an interview with the head of the Volturi, Aro, from Michael Sheen. The questions in the interview are from the following websites: Twilighters Anonymous, Twilight Lexicon, Twilight Examiner, Twilight Series Theories, Twilight Facebook, Twilight Moms, His Golden Eyes, Twilighters.org, MSN Twilight Superfan, Twilight Source, and Bella and Edward. Below you’ll find a preview of the interview.

Q. What is your perception of Aro as a character? Do you think he shows some blurred line between good and bad given that he puts an ultimatum on Bella becoming a vampire rather than killing her?

Michael: I think that Aro thinks that he’s a really good guy. I love the idea that Aro thinks that he’s just a sentimental old fool and a romantic at heart, and he’s totally unaware of how vicious and violet and psychopathic he is. And I think that’s kind of makes him more creepy in a way, more scary that he’s not even aware of how frightening he is. And I think he thinks he’s just doing the right thing and doing what’s best for the world of the vampires. I don’t think he thinks that he’s being cruel or mean in any way. I think he really thinks of himself as a really old, cuddly grandmother type.

Q.: Were you inspired by anyone or anything to kind of channel yourself into the role of Aro?

Michael: Well, the first thing was obviously Stephenie’s book – Stephenie’s description of Aro. There’s one line that really stood out to me where she says that Aro’s voice was like feathers. That sort of set me to thinking and became the key to everything really. That someone who had a voice that sounds like feathers, that’s soft and warm and comforting and very pleasant. Sort of lulling you into a false sense of security kind of thing. And then I found myself, as I was starting to use that kind of a voice, I found myself thinking of things that when I was a kid, films that I’d watched and characters that had stayed with me that were really disturbing, unsettled me as a kid and stayed with me. I thought of things like the child catcher from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Like “Lollipops!” trying to lure the children, and the Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine (breaks into singsong, mellow voice)who talks like that and has a very comforting voice, and yet is really mean and evil. Things like that really that kind of set my imagination going. But it all really came from what Stephenie had written originally.

Read the complete interview with Michael here.

If you missed any of the previous ones, you can check out our interview with Anna Kendrick and Michael Welch here, our interview with Justin Chon and Christian Serratos here, our interview with Alex Meraz and Edi Gathegi here,our interview with Kellan, Nikki and Jackson here and out interview with Kristen here