Movies.ie Interviews Charlie Bewley
Movies.ie caught up with Charlie Bewley right before Eclipse opened and talked to him about his character, Demetri, and what it’s like to be a part of The Twilight Saga. Read more below:
How do you prepare to play a vampire?
CB: Well you focus on what their basic instincts are. You don’t think ‘Ooh I’m a vampire!’ it’s just what you are. It’s like me going around thinking ‘Ooh I’m an English man’. It’s not the way you work, really. You think, what do vampires do and that’s survive on human blood. The job that I do as a vampire is that I am a guard for what is essentially the mafia of their world so that’s just my job. You don’t go around thinking, ‘be evil!’, in fact just the opposite, Demetri has all these insane powers, but I get to play a charming, very charismatic vampire. The way I prepared Demetri was to play him charming, and that’s all the more unnerving for someone watching.
What do you hope you will remember from the whole experience in five years time?
CB: I think Twilight will have a huge legacy, I don’t anticipate, after Breaking Dawn, the wave finishing there. I am sure there will be spin offs and maybe more books being written. Maybe in ten or fifteen years I will look back at it with huge fondness that it was the huge springboard that I took into my career that hopefully, takes me the places that I want to be. I’m so glad to be a part of this thing, I am so humbled. It’s created financial freedom for me, which has allowed me to pursue my creative dreams without limitation. I will always be thankful to Twilight as a series in my life because of that. As for the character that I play, I really hope I can take things from him and take it into other characters. Demetri is a character that I am massively enamoured by. It’s a shame, he is a much deeper character than some of the other characters out there in the mainstream of Twilight. I hope I can take that forward and hopefully take it into other characters I play.
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