They sparkle in the sunlight.
They can be vegetarian, which makes their eyes orange.
But perhaps greatest of all is this: They love baseball.
We went into training, Hardwicke remembers.
There was a lot of training, so that was camaraderie-building.
We went to an indoor gym in Portland where everyone learned to play baseball.
I remember thinking, on the page, How are we going to make this look cool?
How is this not going to be just B-movie camp?
Her rambunctious personality I fell in love with, Lutz says of the filmmaker.
I really thrived on that.
Any setup she had, shed get in there and act it out in her own way.
Jackson was very good physically; Kellan is very good physically.
So they got to do all the wirework, and all this crazy s, Hardwicke recalls.
I think the first scene [we shot] was the baseball scene, Facinelli remembers.
Thats true, Facinelli says when reminded of this crucial detail.
But for filming purposes, when its raining too hard, you cant.
Youve got to stop.
Light rain is okay, but heavy, heavy rain, youve got to stop filming.
It was raining a lot, Rathbone corroborates.
You dont see that, but you needed it dreary.
How do we film these vampires?
We need it to be overcast, but not too overcast that it rains.
It was like, the first day couldnt have gone worse, Facinelli admits.
At one point we had to stop production.
And somehow Catherine got it back up on its wheels.
In the true independent spirit, they waited out the rain and got the shots they needed.
The firstTwilightmovie was an indie film, Rathbone says.
We didnt know it was going to be this blockbuster franchise.
We were like, Man, I wonder if anybodys going to see this film, Facinelli remembers.
We were doing this little vampire movie in the woods.
Additional reporting byChristian Holub
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