USA WEEKEND INTERVIEW WITH KRISTEN AND NIKKI

Posted November 13th, 2008 By: 4 Comments »

USA Weekend interview with Nikki and Kristen (you can tell those two are tight):

Kristen, you do realize that 2,000 people lined up at a mall this morning in the rainy cold just to get a chance to meet you.

Kristen: Oh my God.
Nikki: That’s why Kristen and I truly have developed the buddy system. It really is important in this kind of situation with this kind of film. It’s really overwhelming for everybody, especially for her and Rob and Taylor Lautner. Actually, any of the boys and Kristen. It’s really overwhelming to hear the screams of these girls. We try to do things together and it’s nice to lift a little bit of that and put it on somebody else.

Kristen, you’re playing an everyday girl who stumbles a lot and is really klutzy. Can you go back to a time in school where that was you as a gawky teenager and did you bring some of that into the film?

Kristen: You put me in a room with 150 extras and I feel like I’m in high school. It’s like, “Oh, there’s the lead actor” and you’re stared at. I went to school until I was in the seventh grade, so I had public middle school. It’s high school but you’re just a little younger. Oh my God, it was terrible.
Nikki: Yeah, middle school’s awful! You have no identity. At least in high school, you go off into your little group — middle school, you have nothing.
Kristen: So I know the feeling very well. Plus, when Bella gets to Forks, one thing that I like about her is that she’s very content. You could have a love story this epic and think that typically, the beginning of the story is going to have a character searching for something and she finds it in this man. But she’s fine. She’s very self-assured already, so when she gets to the school, it’s just like, “Alright, I hope everybody’s going to be OK dealing with the fact that I’m very solitary.” But then people take notice of her and she’s like, “Why?” and that makes her self-conscious. She’s fine with being an outsider. Everybody says that to me: “Can you relate to Bella in that she’s an outsider trying to find her way?” No. She’s not. She’s fine. She’s just swept into something that’s crazy.