Poor Taylor Lautner’s taken a lot of heat and been the source of many jokes ever since the media (and even his cast mates) realized that he would indeed have to act out the imprinting scene between his character, Jacob Black, and the little baby, Renesmee, in Breaking Dawn - Part 1. Now Taylor has gone on to assure everyone that the continuing relationship between Jacob and Renesmee that we will see in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 isn’t nearly as creepy as some might think, and that it’s really just a “lifelong bond”. Read more below:

In the past, Lautner has said he found the metaphysical mechanics of it all a bit confusing. But talking to Stephenie Meyer and diving back into the book got him more comfortable with the notion of being in love with a child. “Everybody likes to tease me about it,” he says. “Everyone thinks it’s so funny, and I laugh along with them, but it’s important for me to keep in my mind that it’s as simple as a lifelong bond. It’s not nearly as creepy as everybody likes to joke.

That “everybody” includes Robert Pattinson, needless to say. “Oh, I can’t wait till he has to do live TV,” Pattinson says of Lautner with a gleeful cackle. “Did you ask him if his taste in women has changed? The first scene I saw them together, I literally could not stop laughing. I wouldn’t have been able to do it.”

Lautner remains resolute: “I think people will be very happy with the whole imprinting

Get the full story over at EW.com here.

What do you think of imprinting? What do you think of the bond between Jacob and Renesmee in Breaking Dawn - Part 2?

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A very Happy Sunday to everyone! This week we bring you an Jacob and Renesmee themed video from xXhauntedxbyxyouXx’s channel and is titled Jacob & Renesmee || When You See Her Everything Changes || Breaking Dawn.

This is a sweet little video depicting Jacob and Renesmee’s relationship, or rather how it would be as she matured and grew in importance in Jacob’s life, from Jacob’s imprinting experience in Breaking Dawn. Rather makes one wish that we could see in truth how their lives would evolve, doesn’t it?

What do you think of the video? Does it make you wish that Stephenie would write more about them?

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The second part of “What Do Women Want” by Erika Christakis has been posted by the Huffington Post today, and while Part 1, focused more on Breaking Dawn and Bella, the second part of the series focuses a little bit more on the character of Edward and his relationship with Bella. Once again we have a fascinating read in Part 2, with someone who actually gets Edward’s character. Read more below:

The most humorless and tone-deaf criticism of Twilight is the claim that Bella and Edward’s relationship echoes patterns of real-life human domestic abuse. Edward is too controlling, Bella too submissive, so it goes. He carries her around a lot — it just works faster that way. And sometimes he also scales the walls of her house to watch her sleep. I can attest with utter certainty that I’m not ‘down’ for a man rappelling into a bedroom window to gaze wondrously at my daughter while she sleeps. But the thing is, vampires don’t sleep. So Edward is fascinated not only with Bella but with the notion of human sleep. Get it?

Personally, I think even a 12-year-old can grasp that it’s okay to enjoy an elaborate kidnapping-cum-sleepover as fantasy even if you would be appalled to find the UPS driver or neighborhood perv sitting in your room in the middle of the night. Edward is just trying to protect Bella from bad vampires who want to kill her! And, anyway, he later apologizes for being a control freak — unnecessarily, in my view. He was only being gallant, and there are a lot of dragons to slay out there.

Some of us get this. It pains me a bit to say this, but a certain segment of the heterosexual female population occasionally enjoys fantasizing about men who protect them.

Read the fantastic full article at The Huffington Post here.

I love it! Finally someone who gets what Edward was all about, and how he was the gallant hero to Bella.

What are your thoughts on what the article points out?

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PopStar has a fantastic new interview with a cast member we really haven’t heard too much from over the years. Sarah Clarke plays of course Renee Dwyer, better known as Bella’s flighty mom. Here Sarah talks about her role in Breaking Dawn - Part 1, what she thinks of Bella’s mom as a character and where she wishes the character would have gone. Read more below:

Tell us about playing Bella’s mother.

It’s such a weird role {laughs}. An enigmatic one for me, because when reading the books I was like, “Where’s the mom? What is she doing?” Bill and I had a great time with Kristen sort of figuring out the relationship, especially with the wedding and how it brings up all the old bonds that never really go away.

I definitely had to make my peace with the kind of mother that I am as Renee because I would be just a lot more involved {laughs}. So it was a very interesting discussion that Kristen and I ended up having in terms of the role reversal in our relationship.

In light of the storyline that includes Bella’s marriage and pregnancy in the film, will we finally see more of you onscreen?

Oh yea. We have some great scenes. I do get to come to the wedding, so I get to have a lot of those conversations that I was hoping would happen. And they do happen. Bill was such a firm believer that we have to believe that this mother was real - that there really is some connection that grounds her in reality because that makes the transition that much harder for her. It can’t be just about the dad and his inability to communicate, you know? It definitely brings for Renee this idea of a full circle to her own marriage and her own reasons for getting married quickly, and then sort of abandoning my family. None of that really comes out, per se, in the story lines but it’s something that resonates through Renee at the wedding and in what her daughter is embarking on.

Tell us something about Renee that even the most dedicated Twi-hards may not know.

Well probably the back story that we created that didn’t really make it in, but it helps forge the friendship and the relationship. I think the reason I have such a lenient, or shall we say “hands-off” approach as a mother, is my own back story as to how I went off and became a mother so quickly. We got pregnant really quickly, decided to elope. I just left my whole life and decided to follow him (Charlie Swan) to Forks and then was miserable there. I thought it would all work out and I loved my daughter, I just couldn’t take his quiet and being isolated, basically. Because I sort of forced her to take on my way of life and breaking up The Family by leaving him, I think there was a part of me that when she turned 18 I had to let her follow her heart and only let me in when she wanted to. Because I see myself in her, I know that she’s gotta figure this out for herself and I’ve given her the tools to do that.

What’s crazy is what then ensues, and I just wish that Stephenie Meyer had written more for me after the wedding because that’s the time that I think it would have been so interesting as a mother. I’m speculating here, but I just don’t think Stephenie knew how to reconcile that, because I think any mother would have been like, “You’re coming home with me.” So that’s the only disappointment that I had was that Stephenie didn’t rise to that challenge to say “This would be really interesting as to how to convince the mom that everything is OK, and that she’s OK with it.” It probably was too complicated.

Read the full interview at PopStar here.

I so agree with Sarah, I would have liked to see Bella’s mom a little more resolved in the story.

What do you think of Sarah’s thoughts on Bella’s mom?

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MTV now has more of their recent interview with Nikki Reed from when she stopped to talk to them about Last Day of Summer. In the interview Nikki talks about how the antagonistic relationship between Bella and Rosalie changes in Breaking Dawn when there is a reason for them to bond together. Check out more below:

“What is that saying: Nothing makes two people bond more than the hate of another?” Reed said. “I kind of feel like that [describes Bella and Rosalie's relationship], but in relation to love in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ because they both love this child so much.”

Speaking of Bella and Edward’s much-discussed baby, Renesmee, Reed explained that a shared love unites the two. “I think it’s finally the one thing that’s strong enough to bring them together — their love for this [child]. It’s bizarre,” Reed said, since in the books and the films Bella and Rosalie don’t exactly get along perfectly. “It’s like they learn to co-exist for the sake of the kid, almost like they’re a divorced couple.”

Read more at MTV here.

What do you think of this interview with Nikki?

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Last night People.com got a chance to ask Melissa Rosenberg a question millions of Twilighters have been dying to know about Breaking Dawn. Melissa tells People, YES, the sexy scenes between Edward and Bella are definitely in, along with a lot more skin than we’ve seen in previous films. Read more below:

“You will see sex – Yes!” Breaking Dawn and Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg told PEOPLE at the Eclipse premiere in L.A. Thursday night. “The relationship [between Pattinson's Edward and Stewart's Bella] does go all the way in the book, so in the movie, it will as well. You are going to see more skin in Breaking Dawn than you did in the other films.”

But don’t expect any XXX antics. “Will it be pornographic? – That, I do not know,” Rosenberg said with a laugh. “I don’t know if it has to be R-rated, but it has to be what the book is, which means more skin. … I will definitely be writing more skin.”

Read more at People.com here.

(Thanks Noor!)

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