Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene Haven't Read Their Fan Fiction...Yet

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Ashley Greene does look this perfect in person.
Kellan Lutz has not read any of the erotic fan-fiction written about him and his fellow New Moon castmates, but he’s delighted to know it exists: “There’s so much depression [right now], it’s kind of cool to be a part of something people use as an escape. In a way, that’s what Stephenie did – she had a dream and just elaborated on it, and it’s really encouraging that people are doing the same, and making it this journey.”

 His co-star Ashley Greene, whose character Alice plays a pivotal role in the new film, agrees: “That’s why people love it so much – you can take it and make what you want from it. That’s why people are going, ‘It’s 8 to 80.’ Before, it was very much a teenage girl demographic, and now it’s women of any age, and guys are starting to join in too, and it’s because there’s that element of fantasy. Literally, if you’re 8 years old you look at it one way and if you’re 80 you look at it another… People are making connections over this film and over this book, you know, there’s mothers and daughters and grandmas who can all sit and talk about this story, and all fantasize about it, and I think it’s a really cool thing – it’s rare.”

Lutz says Emmett is his favorite character he's ever played.
It’s clear that the Twilight Saga is already becoming one of the most successful film franchises in the history of the entertainment industry; advanced ticket sales for the second film have outpaced those of all other films. Ever. While the books upon which the saga was based were wildly popular in their own right, credit is owed also to the studio’s magnificent casting of the project. Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, who sat for interviews for hours before heading to San Francisco’s Stonestown mall to sign autographs and take questions from fans, are both acutely aware of how special the Twilight world is.

"I still think we can't really wrap our heads around what's happening. We're still in the midst of filming, and we're kept very busy from one film to the next. It's only those brief moments where you sit back and actually take a breath, you go - 'Wow.' I just read the amount of tickets they already sold. I'm pretty sure I can't even get a ticket if I tried to see my film in Jacksonville...I think we all feel very blessed to be a part of this," Greene says.

Fans of Lutz, who plays the brawny and affable Emmett Cullen, have probably already drawn parallels between the actor and his most famous character. The former Abercrombie and Fitch model is a commanding physical presence, a natural athlete, and a remarkably congenial interviewee. In person, he comes off like that ridiculously good-looking football player who charms not just his fellow classmates, but also their mothers, their teachers, and their school’s entire administrative staff.

Greene, too, is striking in person, and radiates much the same positivity as Alice (she calls being cast in Twilight “the biggest break of my life,” and rightly so). Obviously well-trained in the art of the press interview (at this point, all of the vampires and werewolves are solid pros), Greene deftly handled the question of what it was like to work with three different directors during the course of filming the trilogy: “Each director is going to be very different – they’re artists as well, so I don’t think any of them are quite the same. And the books, when you read them, they all have very different tones, so I think it’s highly appropriate that we switch directors each go.”

As for that erotic fan-fiction, Lutz might give it a look: “I would love to read that! That’s right up my alley.”

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