FEARNET: INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL CUDMORE
Jen Yamato from Fearnet is back again with another exclusive interview. This time she has Daniel Cudmore as he talks about joining in the Twilight madness for New Moon, Eclipse and his on-screen fight with Rob Pattinson.
FEARnet: What’s it been like to jump into this huge Twilight phenomenon?Daniel Cudmore: It’s been great! It’s such a big film. On the first film, they did such a good job of identifying what Stephenie Meyer had written, and you come into New Moon knowing that you already have this great audience from the books and a great audience from the first film. New Moon compared to the book has so much more action – you’re bringing in the werewolves, you’re bringing in the Volturi, so now you have a new audience of males that can watch this and really enjoy it. You step into this great film and it’s just fun to play a cool character and just enjoy yourself with it.
You’ve mentioned before that you originally auditioned for a different part than Felix. What part was it?
It was one of the guys outside the bar who try to pick up Bella, one of the bikers.
How did the role of Felix come to you, then? The two are such different characters to play.
You know, I don’t know. Maybe they had me in mind for it – I’m not sure if once they had me audition for that they thought, why not have him audition for Felix? I never really asked why.
Your big scene looked like a fun one to film – you basically throw Robert Pattinson around the Volturi chamber in a sequence featuring really cool stunt choreography.
Mike Desabrais was the fight choreographer and he worked with [stunt choreographer] J.J. Makaro. I’ve worked with J.J. in the past and I was fortunate enough to just call him and say, “Can I work on as much of this fight scene as possible?†And he was really cool about saying, “Yeah, we’ll get you to do as much as we can.†I worked with Robert [Pattinson] on it, also. He really enjoyed himself. Those guys put together such a cool fight scene. Once you start building on it and working on it and start piecing it together… I haven’t seen the final product but I know the whole fight, obviously, since I’ve done it. I’m just really excited to see what it’s going to look like on the big screen.
(Thanks miniJazz!)
Read the entire interview here.
