The battle to find the sexiest vampire or werewolf was one of the most intense in this year's PopSugar 100, with Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner going head-to-head against Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley. All four stars from Twilight and The Vampire Diaries made it into your top 10, but what is it about these onscreen fantasy creatures that placed them in the top spots? PopSugar's Lauren, Lindsay, and Karli break down the winning list.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Video: 10 Hottest Vampires & Werewolves of 2011
They're the hottest things on the big and small screens right now: they're Hollywood's vampires and werewolves! Whether you're a Robert Pattinson fan or more of a True Blood follower, it's time to pick your favorites. We asked BuzzSugar editor Becky Kirsch to name her top 10 — take a look at her list, and then go here to make your picks and enter to win an amazing Chanel bag, vintage Rolex, Hermès Kelly bag, and more!
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
TV Guide Sexy Beasts
Three cast members made the list...Alice/Ashley Greene at 13, Jacob/Taylor Lautner at 9 and Edward/Rob Pattinson at 5.
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Carrie
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Carrie
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
'Vampire Diaries' Werewolf Taylor Kinney: I Can Take Taylor Lautner!
ummm....sure..*rolling eyes*.
As if the cast of the CW's highly addictive series The Vampire Diaries wasn't smoldering enough, enter Taylor Kinney. The former Trauma actor upends Mystic Falls' vampire-heavy population as new-werewolf-in-town, Mason Lockwood. Celebuzz chatted exclusively with Kinney about locking lips with co-star Nina Dobrev, skeet shooting with on-screen vamp Ian Somerhalder and hypothetically battling Twilight werewolf Taylor Lautner, whom Kinney says he could beat "no contest."
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Eclipse Werewolves: 5 Secrets Revealed
You've met Jacob Black and his pack of werewolves before, but you've never seen them like this. Fans were first introduced to the hirsute shape-shifters last November in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," but when director David Slade took over directing duties from Chris Weitz on "Eclipse," he brought with him a new vision for the wolves.
And it was up to visual-effects legend Phil Tippett — his studio engineered a dizzying array of hits, including "Cloverfield," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Men in Black II" — to translate Slade's vision into computer-generated effects worthy of the big screen. With just hours to go until the midnight opening of "Eclipse," Tippett called MTV News and gave us a behind-the-scenes look at these cinematic wolves.
The Wolves Have New Fur, Eyes and Behavior
Weitz requested wolves that had more of a rangy look to them, with matted fur and eyes that more closely resembled human eyes than wolf ones. By contrast, Slade wanted his wolves just a bit more, well, coifed.
"They weren't supposed to look like poodles, but [Slade] wanted them a lot sleeker looking and with shinier, shimmering coats," Tippett explained.
Slade was also adamant that the "Eclipse" wolves revert to the wolf eyes you might see in nature. But it wasn't just the wolf pack's physical attributes that got a makeover for the third installment. Tippett and his team were also directed to adjust the wolves' overall behavior.
"The 'New Moon' wolves, we played them as heroic sentries," said Tippett. "When the wolves met the humans, we attempted to make it appear as though the wolves had a center of conscience that was definitely human. And David really wanted to play it that the wolves were far more primordial and much more wolflike. The wolves became less sentries sent from God and a lot more twitchy, uncertain, fairer animals."
Perhaps the biggest similarity between both films' wolves, however, is that neither set actually has genitals — a compromise necessary to secure a PG-13 rating. "We just deal with it by putting extra fur down there," he laughed.
Taylor's Wolf Is Sad
Tippett and his crew spent countless hours perfecting each member of the wolf pack, but obviously Taylor Lautner's wolf receives the most screen time and thus required the closest attention. Specifically, they had to capture Jacob's unrequited love for Bella while he was in wolf-form.
"Through non-language pantomime on the wolf's part, he had to appear to be engaged and try to make his expressions telegraph the tragic love that is their relationship," Tippett said. "So there is a sad kind of a longing and protectiveness that we try to imbue him with."
To get the look right, crew members traveled up to a wolf preserve, and actually got into pens with the 200-pound animals and sketched out what they observed.
"I'm a huge advocate of that. Anytime you can get close to an animal, that's the closet model you can find," he said. "And the animators are cast just like actors. Certain animators are really strong on action and there are animators that are really strong on the emotional moments. And the animators strong on emotion were the ones creating the emotional response of Jacob's wolf."
The Vampires Fought With a Potato
Since the wolves are entirely CGI creations, the actors are presented with a challenge: how to interact with — and often fight hand-to-paw against — imaginary beings. What's more, they had to do all this in such a way that would allow Tippett and his animators to plug in their digital creations. The solution they hit upon was what came to be known as the "potato."
"We came up with this object that we called the potato," Tippett said. "And the potato was roughly a very rudimentary wolf form that was kind of like a big pillow that matched the dimensions of the wolves without hair. And those would be set on location by the special-effects department, and they would rig these potatoes with wires so they would hang and we would be able to manipulate them in a way that we knew later on we would be able to match with the wolves in a realistic confrontation."
Taylor Dressed Up in a Gray Leotard
Alas, the potato wouldn't always suffice. For one scene in which Jacob's wolf nuzzles up against Bella, filmmakers required something just a bit more lifelike than a big pillow.
"David was very insistent that Taylor actually perform with Kristen, and so he had the wardrobe department make up a gray leotard and a hoodie that Taylor wore, and he would kind of crouch down and try as best he could to fit that space where we knew later the wolf would be," Tippett said. "And Taylor could remain in character and ensure that the performance was a performance based on contact between two performers, not just Kristen talking to a golf ball or something like that."
Fantasy Trumped Physics
In the climatic fight scene, when the wolves take on a newborn army of vicious vampires, the effects team found itself in a conundrum: How could a 1,200-pound wolf and a 180-pound vampire get into a realistic fight?
"We have to be true to Earth's specific gravity in the performance work to make it seem like the wolves are really there," Tippett said. "But if a 1,200-pound object is slamming into a human being at 30 miles an hour, it's going to have pretty severe consequences. And so there are these scenes where it's like, 'Oh my God, how are we going to pull this off?' "
Their solution was to sprinkle a hefty dose of magical realism into their physical calculations.
"David's justification for it was, 'OK, the newborns are made out of some material that increases their mass and that they are closer to 500 pounds," Tippett said. "The actors didn't actually play it like that — I don't think they ever told them that because they didn't start walking around like the Hulk or anything — but what it did is gave us an excuse to be able to choreograph these things. So when a wolf runs and attacks and slams into one of the newborns at the tail end of the third-act battle, we have a performance justification for how that works. That was actually planned out and made sense and didn't look stupid."
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And it was up to visual-effects legend Phil Tippett — his studio engineered a dizzying array of hits, including "Cloverfield," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Men in Black II" — to translate Slade's vision into computer-generated effects worthy of the big screen. With just hours to go until the midnight opening of "Eclipse," Tippett called MTV News and gave us a behind-the-scenes look at these cinematic wolves.
The Wolves Have New Fur, Eyes and Behavior
Weitz requested wolves that had more of a rangy look to them, with matted fur and eyes that more closely resembled human eyes than wolf ones. By contrast, Slade wanted his wolves just a bit more, well, coifed.
"They weren't supposed to look like poodles, but [Slade] wanted them a lot sleeker looking and with shinier, shimmering coats," Tippett explained.
Slade was also adamant that the "Eclipse" wolves revert to the wolf eyes you might see in nature. But it wasn't just the wolf pack's physical attributes that got a makeover for the third installment. Tippett and his team were also directed to adjust the wolves' overall behavior.
"The 'New Moon' wolves, we played them as heroic sentries," said Tippett. "When the wolves met the humans, we attempted to make it appear as though the wolves had a center of conscience that was definitely human. And David really wanted to play it that the wolves were far more primordial and much more wolflike. The wolves became less sentries sent from God and a lot more twitchy, uncertain, fairer animals."
Perhaps the biggest similarity between both films' wolves, however, is that neither set actually has genitals — a compromise necessary to secure a PG-13 rating. "We just deal with it by putting extra fur down there," he laughed.
Taylor's Wolf Is Sad
Tippett and his crew spent countless hours perfecting each member of the wolf pack, but obviously Taylor Lautner's wolf receives the most screen time and thus required the closest attention. Specifically, they had to capture Jacob's unrequited love for Bella while he was in wolf-form.
"Through non-language pantomime on the wolf's part, he had to appear to be engaged and try to make his expressions telegraph the tragic love that is their relationship," Tippett said. "So there is a sad kind of a longing and protectiveness that we try to imbue him with."
To get the look right, crew members traveled up to a wolf preserve, and actually got into pens with the 200-pound animals and sketched out what they observed.
"I'm a huge advocate of that. Anytime you can get close to an animal, that's the closet model you can find," he said. "And the animators are cast just like actors. Certain animators are really strong on action and there are animators that are really strong on the emotional moments. And the animators strong on emotion were the ones creating the emotional response of Jacob's wolf."
The Vampires Fought With a Potato
Since the wolves are entirely CGI creations, the actors are presented with a challenge: how to interact with — and often fight hand-to-paw against — imaginary beings. What's more, they had to do all this in such a way that would allow Tippett and his animators to plug in their digital creations. The solution they hit upon was what came to be known as the "potato."
"We came up with this object that we called the potato," Tippett said. "And the potato was roughly a very rudimentary wolf form that was kind of like a big pillow that matched the dimensions of the wolves without hair. And those would be set on location by the special-effects department, and they would rig these potatoes with wires so they would hang and we would be able to manipulate them in a way that we knew later on we would be able to match with the wolves in a realistic confrontation."
Taylor Dressed Up in a Gray Leotard
Alas, the potato wouldn't always suffice. For one scene in which Jacob's wolf nuzzles up against Bella, filmmakers required something just a bit more lifelike than a big pillow.
"David was very insistent that Taylor actually perform with Kristen, and so he had the wardrobe department make up a gray leotard and a hoodie that Taylor wore, and he would kind of crouch down and try as best he could to fit that space where we knew later the wolf would be," Tippett said. "And Taylor could remain in character and ensure that the performance was a performance based on contact between two performers, not just Kristen talking to a golf ball or something like that."
Fantasy Trumped Physics
In the climatic fight scene, when the wolves take on a newborn army of vicious vampires, the effects team found itself in a conundrum: How could a 1,200-pound wolf and a 180-pound vampire get into a realistic fight?
"We have to be true to Earth's specific gravity in the performance work to make it seem like the wolves are really there," Tippett said. "But if a 1,200-pound object is slamming into a human being at 30 miles an hour, it's going to have pretty severe consequences. And so there are these scenes where it's like, 'Oh my God, how are we going to pull this off?' "
Their solution was to sprinkle a hefty dose of magical realism into their physical calculations.
"David's justification for it was, 'OK, the newborns are made out of some material that increases their mass and that they are closer to 500 pounds," Tippett said. "The actors didn't actually play it like that — I don't think they ever told them that because they didn't start walking around like the Hulk or anything — but what it did is gave us an excuse to be able to choreograph these things. So when a wolf runs and attacks and slams into one of the newborns at the tail end of the third-act battle, we have a performance justification for how that works. That was actually planned out and made sense and didn't look stupid."
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Julia Jones: A Model Werewolf
Julia Jones
Photo By Stefanie Keenan
Photo By Stefanie Keenan
Joining the cast of the third installment of “Twilight,” one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, would seem to be like jumping into a hyper-speed version of double Dutch — while wearing roller skates. The action figures, the T-shirts, the ubiquitous paparazzi, the equally ubiquitous (and even more aggressive) Twihards and the rest of the hoopla surrounding the vampire trilogy‚ how could it not make a newcomer anxious? But none of this seems to faze Julia Jones, one of the new faces in “Twilight: Eclipse,” which hits theaters June 30. “I was just focused on working on the character,” Jones says. “I kind of got lost in that. The size of the franchise is just hitting me now.”
Jones plays Leah Clearwater, a werewolf whose overprotective behavior toward fellow pack member Jacob (Taylor Lautner) has pitted her against Bella (Kristin Stewart), who broke Jacob’s heart.
Jones, a 29-year-old former model, was shocked when she landed the part because it was her biggest role and because she committed a major gaffe in her audition. “I left realizing that I had paraphrased my entire audition,” she says. “I was so focused on figuring out who the character was that the memorization was secondary. The words completely left me. I wanted to die.”
Well, it didn’t matter. And Jones also appears as Josh Brolin’s wife in “Jonah Hex,” a movie out now about a cowboy-bounty hunter that co-stars Megan Fox.
Until “Eclipse,” Jones had a modest résumé (a brief stint on “ER,” a tween movie about a modeling contest in New York, etc.). The Boston native did some modeling in high school and college with Click Models, which didn’t make it easier for her to make friends once she began to attend Columbia. During her freshman orientation week, Jones and two new girlfriends were wandering around Union Square, only to find themselves under a billboard with Jones’ face plastered on it. “From that point, that’s sort of where I got alienated from my peers. When you start modeling, you do all those teen magazines, which is what everybody was reading at the time. So that, combined with the fact that I’d come to class with, like, sparkles in my hair from shoots,” she says, laughing. “I mean, I just looked ridiculous.”
So Jones decided to take on the time-honored model-slash-actor title, training 25 hours a week with acting coach Susan Batson. “I found [Batson] through models because she takes pretty people and teaches [them] how to act,” Jones says. “But she was really hard core.” (Former Batson students include Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jamie Foxx and Juliette Binoche.) The experience motivated Jones, an English major who graduated in 2002, to wake up at 5 a.m. to do mailings to agents and run to auditions between classes.
Although she’s appearing in what may be the summer’s biggest movie, Jones is impressed with the accomplishments of others in her class. “I run into people that I went to school with now and they’re doing such amazing, cool things,” she says. Her classmates would probably say the same of her.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves Ever! Who's Your Fave?
Taylor and Michael Sheen are in there
Vampires are so 2009, right? These days, it's all about werewolves. We'll be meeting a sexy new wolfman on True Blood's third season, and the very hairy Twilight flick Eclipse is just three weeks away—eek!
Taylor Lautner may have given werewolves a fresh new face—and six-pack—but the beasts have been sexy for years. We gawk and rank 'em in our Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves gallery, so it's time to put the vampire hysteria aside and give these lycans some love.
Who's your fave? We left spot No. 10 blank for you to fill in!
PHOTOS: Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves
This barely-legal teen has taken our vision of shapeshifters to a whole new level. When he first found his powers with the pack in New Moon, we kept trying to remind ourselves of his age and put away naughty thoughts. Didn't always work.
This yummy lycan from Underworld proves that even savage creatures still have a soft side, like when the film shows his trials with lover Sonja.
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Carrie
Taylor Lautner may have given werewolves a fresh new face—and six-pack—but the beasts have been sexy for years. We gawk and rank 'em in our Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves gallery, so it's time to put the vampire hysteria aside and give these lycans some love.
Who's your fave? We left spot No. 10 blank for you to fill in!
PHOTOS: Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves
3. Taylor Lautner
6. Michael Sheen
Source (rest here)
xoxo
Carrie
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