Behind the Scenes: Twilight's CG Wolf Pack

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Gil Birmingham Updates His Fb with Wolfpack pic

"aaahhh, Love of the pack! Memories eternal!"

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Fan Pic with the Wolf pack & Gil Birmingham in Vancouver

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Interview With Hillywood Wolf Pack

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Confessions of a TwiCrack Addict Helping to Spread the Message Twilight Actor Solomon Trimble’s Nephew is Missing in Portland

Dear All,

Many of you may not know that I got started in the Twi-world with a site for Solomon Trimble who had a small part in the first Twilight movie.

Since then we’ve become good friends and I actually visited his family in Portland last week.

This morning however, his FaceBook status update was that his 11 year old nephew, Lok Chante Marcellay-Ball is missing in Portland as of yesterday.

His family are requesting that anyone seeing this boy, please call 911 immediately – please pass the message along and help find him!

Thank you,

- Lorabell

We hope Lok comes home VERY SOON!

We are glad to help Lorabell!

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Old Wolfpack's Pics In Convention

Just too precious...adorable

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Salt Lake City Twi Con pics

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How Cute Is This?

A fellow wolf pack fan tweeted this pick of her little girl with the pack and Tinsel.  And look, she's wearing one of our "Got Muffins?" shirts!! 

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Chaske , Alex& Julia share a Wolf Pack bond in Eclipse

Take some vampires (good and bad), some werewolves and a love triangle involving a human, and what do you have? "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," the third movie in the series. A crucial part of the story is the Wolf Pack, a Native American tribe of werewolves that lead a peaceful existence except when they have to battle against enemies. In "Eclipse," the Wolf Pack joins forces with the good-vampire Cullen family to save human teenager Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart) from being killed by evil vampires who are out to get her.
Bella’s connection to the Wolf Pack is her close friend Jacob Black (played by Taylor Lautner), who is part of the werewolf tribe and who is in love with Bella, even though she is steadfastly devoted to her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson). At a Los Angeles press conference for "Eclipse," Wolf Pack members Chaske Spencer (who plays Sam Uley), Alex Meraz (who plays Paul) and Julia Jones (who plays Leah Clearwater) sat down for a candid interview about their characters and how the "Twilight" franchise has changed their lives.
Julia, how was it joining the Wolf Pack and being one of the few female members?
Jones: You know, it happened really fast. All of a sudden you're kind of thrown into this group of boys and, for me personally, I was a tomboy growing up so it felt really familiar. I have a younger brother who's about the same age as some of them. And so there was something that resonated initially. But over the course of filming and some of the press that we've been doing, it's like home. It just feels like family now, and it's great.

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Tinsel Korey, Chaske Spencer, Tyson Houseman, Bronson Pelletier, Kiowa Gordon and Alex Meraz in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

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Twi-Hards urged to join pack in saving America's wolves

Alex Meraz in 2008

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Alex Meraz, who plays the “hot-tempered” werewolf Paul in the Twilight movie series is now working with Defenders of Wildlife to help save endangered wolf packs from extinction. Born January 10, 1985, Alex   “claims" indigenous Mexican heritage from the P'urhépecha people.
“Wolves used to roam wild across Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula where the Twilight saga takes place. These magnificent animals were honored by the Quileute tribe at La Push and thrived for thousands of years throughout the United States. But growing human populations have nearly wiped wolves off the landscape. North America’s wild wolves (both in the United States and Mexico) are still being shot, poisoned and trapped by people who hate or fear these amazing creatures. We need your help to save them.”
It doesn’t matter whether you are “Team Jacob” or ”Team Edward.” All that counts is a love and desire to save our Country’s wildlife.
In line with this campaign, Defenders of Wildlife is now offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for killing two perilously endangered Mexican gray wolves in the past two weeks in New Mexico and Arizona. This is now being combined with with rewards posted from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the two states and other conservation organizations and individuals to bring the total reward offered to $52,000.
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. With more than 1 million members and activists, Defenders of Wildlife is a leading advocate for innovative solutions to safeguard our wildlife heritage for generations to come. For more information, visit www.defenders.org.  You can also check out Alex's video appeal on U-Tubesource
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They Grow Up So Quickly, Don’t They?

THE title of Lisa Cholodenko’s wonderful new film, “The Kids Are All Right,” quotes an ancient youth-culture anthem by the Who: a song released before the parents of many of today’s teenagers were born. At least for members of my generation (to stick with the Who’s back catalog for a moment) the phrase’s original defiance has given way to anxious, fingers-crossed hopefulness. In the context of Ms. Cholodenko’s movie — a comedy of domestic manners and misunderstandings set amid the liberal-minded American middle class — “The Kids Are All Right” is a statement shadowed by an implicit question: Aren’t they?

Sure they are. Right? They have cellphones and pizza money just in case we’re late getting home. They have access to healthy food, good schools and cool stuff. But of course we can’t help worrying, as every aging generation has since the invention of modern adolescence back when our grandparents were young.
Kids these days! They spend all their time playing video games or texting and sexting and cyber-bullying instead of reading and going to movies. And when they do go to the movies, it’s to see the dumb action blockbusters and slasher pictures that are ruining the experience for everybody else. Instead of going steady, they “hook up.” What kind of music are they listening to? What kind of jobs are they going to be able to find? Where did we go wrong?
Maybe we didn’t. There is a chance that Ms. Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, who together wrote the screenplay for “The Kids Are All Right,” meant the title to be sincere and reassuring, though without entirely letting the parents off the hook. Maybe the implication is that the younger set is doing better than their solipsistic, dysfunctional elders. Or maybe that’s a bit harsh.
But it does seem that the difficult relations between parents and semi-independent, no-longer-cute-and-precocious offspring have caught the eye of filmmakers lately. Of course clueless, hapless or antagonistic mothers and fathers have been a staple of cinema at least since Jim Backus stood in his apron and endured James Dean’s histrionic whining in “Rebel Without a Cause.” (Sorry, but that’s how it looks to me now.) But alongside these more familiar intergenerational patterns — and at a time when the childishness of grown men and the childlessness of grown women are the twin axioms of mainstream big-screen comedy — there is also a quieter sense of rapprochement and mutual sympathy.
The parents in “The Kids Are All Right” are Nic and Jules, a lesbian couple played byAnnette Bening and Julianne Moore, who have never been more enchanting or seemed less like movie stars. With their Volvo and lovely-but-not-fancy house, Nic and Jules are a picture of middle-class contentment, their complacency lightly mocked and their frustrations treated with affectionate empathy by the filmmakers. They seem like good parents, and in the end their two children might agree.
Those children — Joni, who is 18 and about to leave home for college, and her 15-year-old brother, Laser — certainly lead complicated lives, but the problems that keep the movie veering from farce to melodrama and back again do not primarily belong to them. Joni, a stellar student and dutiful daughter (played by Mia Wasikowska of “Alice in Wonderland”), is put off by the way her best friend, Sasha, “sexualizes everything” and is also attracted to Jai, a cute, nerdy buddy who does not seem to reciprocate her romantic interest. Laser, under the sway of an obnoxious and anti-social friend named Clay, seems to be tumbling into the male identity crisis that often begins in high school and concludes, if we’re lucky, sometime before retirement.
His moms think Laser, played with the right measure of mischief and diffidence by Josh Hutcherson, might be gay, a possibility they handle with the earnest, nonjudgmental concern that their straight counterparts might bring. But the questions Laser has about sex, love and biology are at once more basic and more elusive than the relatively simple matter of whether he likes girls or boys. Her brother’s desire to know where he came from — and perhaps also to find some connection with an adult male — leads Joni to contact the anonymous sperm donor who is at least technically their father and who is played by a scruffy and appealing Mark Ruffalo. Jules and Nic, respecting Laser and Joni’s curiosity about this almost mythical character, find the ground of their own relationship shifting in uncomfortable ways.
“The Kids Are All Right” is, to a large extent, about the unstable, comical and sometimes appalling parental triangle that emerges among the three adults. This article, however, is about the children, whose real-life counterparts are probably less likely than their parents to flock to a wry independent movie whose marquee stars are, at least to adolescents, unspeakably old. But the teenagers who do tag along may wonder why Mom and Dad (or Dad and Dad, or Mom and Mom, or just Mom or just Dad) are crying at the end, when Joni, as we always knew she would, steps out of the nest and into her own story.
Of course many more children will already have asked themselves the same question about“Toy Story 3.” The pathos in that film is rich and various, but as they did in “Up,” the clever heartstring pullers at Pixar have zeroed in on a phase of the life cycle not generally associated with children’s entertainment. In “Up” the handkerchief moment came early on, as the long, loving marriage of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen was chronicled in a montage that located the film’s emotional heart simultaneously in boyhood and senescence. In “Toy Story 3” the equivalent moment comes near the end, when Andy’s mother, an unsung stalwart of the franchise voiced by Laurie Metcalf, looks around his empty room and wonders where the time went.
It’s a touching moment, evoking the universal heartbreak of parenthood, but the movie does not stop there. It follows Andy, not all the way to college, but to a stop on the way, the house of a little girl named Bonnie who will inherit Buzz, Woody and all the other toys who have guided Andy through childhood. He does not just drop off the box, but stops to introduce Bonnie and her current toys to the new arrivals.
The two children, one in the first flush of her juvenile imaginative power, the other in the twilight of his, spend what might be many hours or just a few minutes spinning out new adventures. The tenderness of this little scene is breathtaking, because it finishes the“Toy Story” cycle in an unexpected and entirely convincing way, by showing that Andy, a kind and creative young man, was worthy of the devotion of his toys, and that his decency was indeed the product of that devotion.

Andy, ready to put away childish things, is able to acknowledge what they have done for him. And of course his story has really been theirs all along, in that we know much more about life among the inanimate objects in his room than we do about his interactions with his sister, mother, teachers and friends. But we do know, from the haunting example of Sid, the toy-abuser next door from the first “Toy Story,” that not every child is Andy. Some even grow up to be like Cyrus, the stay-at-home man-child played by Jonah Hill in the recent movie of that name.
“Cyrus,” written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, sometimes uses its title character’s situation to harvest queasy laughs. At other moments the filmmakers draw out more unsettling, even gothic implications in an Oedipal triangle involving Cyrus; his sweet-natured single mother, Molly (played by Marisa Tomei); and her new boyfriend, John (John C. Reilly). But as off-kilter as this predicament is, and as icky as the filmmakers sometimes dare to be, the resolution is curiously sweet and affirmative. After much anguish and acting out, Cyrus grows up and moves on, helped by the older man who is both his role model and his rival for Molly’s love.
The family — as if there were only one kind, ideally or in practice — has been the subject of culture-war skirmishing for a very long time. Depending on your perspective, the movies have been agents of wantonness and amorality or upholders of old-fashioned, even outmoded values. Both conclusions are warranted: there has always been lots of sex in movies, and lots of traditionalism as well. And everyone understands that reality is different.
But reality nonetheless finds interesting reflections on screen, where even apparently simple stories can be full of ambiguity and contradiction. Take the “Twilight” series, which for all its widely publicized pro-abstinence themes and its nostalgically Victorian sexual morality envisions some fairly radical twists on family life. Bella Swan’s parents are conventionally divorced, loving, lonely people who mostly hover around the margins of her life.
The alternative to this fractured family is not so much eternal commitment to the vampire Edward Cullen as membership in one of two sprawling nonnuclear groups: the undead Cullen clan, who are not blood relations in the usual sense, and Jacob’s werewolf tribe. Both of these kinship networks offer a way of life that seems emotionally richer — if also more dangerous — than small-town existence. And while there is a bit of suspense about which group Bella will join, there never seems to be any question of her settling down into the nonsupernatural humdrum that lies in store for most of her peers.
Bella is different, special, and the great paradox of American life is that everyone else believes they are too. Or at least our children, who labor under intense and contradictory pressures from which the end of adolescence offers at least partial escape. Not that their parents will stop worrying. But there are movies that can offer us at least a measure of comfort. Like Charlie Swan and Nic and Jules and Andy’s mom and Cyrus’s, we try our best and mess things up anyway. And the kids are all right. They can’t help it.


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Behind the Eclipse Wolves plus a New Still

Eclipse: Behind the new and improved wolves

If you’ve seen The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, odds are you left raving about the wolves — particularly the scene in which Jacob, in wolf form, saddles up to Bella during the training sequence. It’s one of the moments Phil Tippett — a two-time Oscar winner for Jurassic Parkand Return of the Jedi whose visual effects house, Tippett Studio, handled the wolves for bothEclipse and New Moon — is most proud of. “That was an unusual thing for us in that most of the time, we are doing these ‘god awful animals start tearing each other apart,’” Tippett told us recently, phoning from England where he’d just celebrated Ray Harryhausen’s 90th birthday. “So it was great to have a quiet moment. A tender scene that telegraphs a budding and suppressed relationship was tricky. In fact, the entire training sequence was difficult in that the wolves do nothing. A bunch of wolves standing around watching vampires train and trying to portend some kind of anxiety was tricky. It’s tricky for any actor when you have to carry a certain part of the scene where you do nothing, because you have to figure out a way of filling up the nothing with something.”

It was important to Eclipse director David Slade that Taylor Lautner actually film that scene with Kristen Stewart so she was able to establish eye contact with him instead of with a golf ball that could’ve been used as an eyeline and painted out later. The wardrobe department dressed Lautner in a neutral grey leotard and hoodie — primarily so his skin tone wouldn’t bounce back onto Stewart and create lighting issues when Wolf Jacob was added, Tippett says. We, however, like to believe someone was already thinking about the DVD extras. That will be great, won’t it?

The tender moment was made more challenging by the fact that Slade had a different vision of the wolves than New Moon director Chris Weitz. For starters, Weitz wanted the wolves to have their actor’s eyes. “He kind of wanted the performance to feel like the wolf behavior was being filtered through a human brain,” Tippett says. Slade wanted the wolves to have wolf eyes to de-anthropomorphize them. “David wanted the performances to be more feral, twitchy, and agitated. He wanted to see wolves that were more photographically representational, which had to do with things like getting more hair follicles, making the paws smaller.”

The believability of the wolves was equally crucial in the climactic fight sequence with the newborn vampire army. “We had to come up with a rationale for what happens when a 1,300-pound wolf that’s running 35 miles an hour crashes into a newborn vampire [played by an actor that weighs 165 lbs], how we justify that,” Tippett says. “David allowed us the transgression of saying, ‘Well, let’s just say that the newborns, since they’re not made of human material but some kind of a more marble-like material, have an actual mass of something like 500 pounds, so they have a lower center of gravity.’ And that allowed us to begin thinking about how to make all of that palpable, without thinking that they’re existing in two different physical universes.” Watch a clip of how that action gets put together below.

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Wolf Pack eclipses Native American stereotypes

Twilight's Wolf Pack eclipses Native American stereotypes

It took Twilight to do what Hollywood's
major studios have struggled with for more than a century -- treat First Nations teenagers like normal kids.
No leather loincloths, no hair feathers, no dancing around campfires, no tales of woe on reservations.
Sure, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is pure fantasy with its tale of romance among vampires and the werewolves who sometimes stalk them, but for the actors of the "Wolf Pack," their roles seem very real.
When they aren't battling vampires with their razor-like claws and sharp teeth, the werewolves take the human form of Native Americans from the Quileute tribe.
Chaske Spencer, who plays the leader of the pack, said working in the Twilight movies has been exciting because it portrays First Nations in a new and positive light and is aimed at a young audience.

Members of the Wolf Pack dress like kids at the mall, in denim jeans and shirts -- when they are wearing shirts -- and they possess quick wit and generous spirit.
"There's a lot of stereotypes that have been squashed," Spencer said. "We're part of this pop-culture phenomenon, and we're put in a different light. And the kids see that, and they're digging on it. They love that vibe."
The Native American said that many times actors like him are forced into "leathered and feathered" roles, meaning parts that require them to portray historical Indians of the Old West.
Going back to Hollywood's roots in the early 20th century, native American roles seem mostly confined to cowboy and Indian movies. Even in modern times, many of the characters were dealing with life on a reservation.
Two native American actors, Julia Jones and Alex Meraz, are members of the Wolf Pack, and they said Twilight films have allowed them to showcase their wide-ranging talents.
Meraz said Twilight borrows from Quileute creation stories, and that has been good for the tribe because fans are learning more about the tribe's culture.
"They want to learn where this germinated from," he said.

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Threesome talks to SciFi Talk

Julia Jones, Alex Meraz and Chaske Spencer talk to Sci Fi Talk

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New/old pic from the set of Eclipse

Eyebehold Photography (@eyebehold) posted a new/old photo from the eclipse set on his blog!  check it out here

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Wolf Pack: 'We're More Interesting Than the Vampires'

Twilight's Wolf Pack: 'We're More Interesting Than the Vampires'

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The werewolf pack may hate the vampires, but they band together to battle an army of newborn bloodsuckers in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. And that gave Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and newcomer Julia Jones a chance to spring into action. 

They told Parade.com's Jeanne Wolf why they supported their fierce leader, played by Taylor Lautner, while wishing he'd just forget about his passion for Bella.
 
Advice to guys suffering for love.
Julia Jones: "I guess if I had a friend like Jacob who was risking his life for a girl who was hooked on someone else, I'd probably advise him to back off. I think you can be in love with more than one person at a time, but I think only one of them can matter. You should love in the way that love can come to mean something. I think you can only have that kind of meaning with one person and that's where Bella is going. She's Edward's girl."

Holding her own as a lady werewolf.
Julia: "I was a tomboy growing up, so the action stuff felt really familiar. I have a younger brother who's about the same age as Chaske and Alex, so there was something that resonated about keeping up with them. I really loved the way my Leah wolf character looked. I was like, 'Oh my gosh. She's so cute, even though she's fierce.' She's like smaller and little bit more fragile, but she could do some damage."
 
Werewolves are more fun.
Chaske Spencer: "We're a little more interesting than the vampires. They have to have that serious demeanor and we can be a little looser on the set. There were moments when we definitely brought out the goofy side of Kristen Stewart every now and then."
 
For instance...
Alex Meraz: "In New Moon we had to run around in shorts, but because it was freezing we'd bundle up in these robes between takes. We were always joking around and pretending like we really had nothing on underneath. So I'd jump in front of Kristen and fling open my robe like I was flashing her and she was like, 'Oh God, no.'"

Why is that werewolf smiling?
Alex: "In the big battle in Eclipse, we were running in the rain in what seemed like a foot of water. My background is dancing and I feel like I'm really good on my feet. I told the rest of the cast, 'All right, you guys. It's slippery out there. Don't put any weight on your heels. Go on the balls of your feet and you'll get more traction.' So everyone else did great, but, of course, I slipped and fell. I had mud all over me. That was the take they used. If you look at me, I have a smirk on my face because they used the moment after I slipped and I was trying not to laugh."
 
Trying to deal with overnight fame.
Julia: "I was terrified. Sometimes, I still am. What surprised me is how grounded Taylor and Kristen are. They were the first two people I met and they were so nice and down to earth. We'd show up to work really caring and wanting to do the best we could. I feel like that bonded us and it also took away the fear."
 
Chaske: "No one really gives you a book on how to be a celebrity when you suddenly have fans everywhere. But there are ways to keep your life private. There are ways to conduct yourself and do good work. In the end, we're just actors. But we're very lucky actors. We tease each other a lot to keep us humble. If the ego gets too big, we cut each other down." source
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New Eclipse Poster Featuring The Wolf Pack

Here’s the new Eclipse poster featuring Jacob and the wolf pack
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'Jacob is someone you can take home to mom'

Our "Twilight" specialist Yvonne Villarreal caught up with the "Twilight" wolf-pack actors who, no surprise, howl in protest when someone suggests that Team Edward is best.

Team Edward or Team Jacob?
It's no contest, at least not according to the actors who portray the lupine brethren of Jacob, the werewolf played by beefy heartthrob Taylor Lautner in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which hits theaters June 30.
Chaske Spencer, the 35-year-old actor who plays wolf-pack elder Sam Uley, says brooding vampires -- like Robert Pattinson's forever-conflicted Edward Cullen -- pale in comparison to a strapping, loyal forest boy like Jacob.
“Have you seen him?" Spencer asked with a chuckle. "He’s got that sex appeal going. He’s got the body. He’s the boy next door. But he can also rip your head off."
Spencer added: "He’s a protector. What more could a girl ask for?”
In the third installment of "The Twilight Saga," the vampires of the Cullen clan join forces with their hirsute enemies, the wolf pack, after an army of newborn vampires goes on a bloody tear in Seattle.
Amid the chaos, Bella, played by Kristen Stewart, must choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob.
It's a no-brainer, say the shape-shifters who always wear their hearts on their sleeves -- even if they don't wear shirts. Their wolf-brother Jacob, they say, is the one Bella should keep at her side.

"He’ll treat her good, he’ll take care of her," says 25-year-old Alex Meraz, who plays the hairy and hot-tempered Paul. "He’s cuddly when he turns into a wolf … unless he’s mad. But he can control it! He's a good friend. Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn’t know if they love you or not? It’s like a love-hate relationship — ‘I love you, but I don’t want to hurt you.’ Instead you can have someone who is legit and is down to do anything for you. It’s like, 'Momma would be happy.' Jacob is someone you can take home to Mom.”
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LA Times: The Actors: ‘Twilight’s’ Wolf Pack

First the Cullens, now the Wolf Pack.  I wonder if the voultori are next.

Alex Meraz, Julia Jones and Chaske Spencer are a band of werewolves in ‘Eclipse.’

The 1950s gave us the Rat Pack. The ‘80s, the Brat Pack. These days, the Wolf Pack is roaming the film scene.

Although the "Twilight" franchise may have helped spur the vampire craze with the Cullen brood, the saga's gang of shape-shifters is bringing sexy back to werewolves. And in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," which hits theaters June 30, that's no different.

"The Cullens are very reserved," said Alex Meraz, who plays Wolf Pack member Paul. "They're vampires, but they're not out killing people. They're not what they're meant to be. Whereas the Wolf Pack, we're through and through animals. We're frisky. We're fun. There's something sexy about that."

In the third installment of the franchise, the band of brotherly (and sisterly, as we'll see) hirsute creatures joins forces with its rivals, the Cullens, after Seattle is plagued by a series of killings caused by an army of newborn vampires.

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But since their computer-generated alter egos seem to be getting most of the screen time, here's a chance to get to know the actors pre-transformation:

Alex Meraz (Paul)

At 25, Meraz is still adjusting to the whirlwind that comes with being in a blockbuster franchise. But don't be fooled. He's not complaining.

"Bring it on," he said. "I was working really hard before, and it just didn't seem to pay off. I'm just really grateful for it all."

Before he caught the acting "virus," Meraz — who admitted his first viewing of "Twilight" was a bootleg version — demonstrated his artistic tendencies through dance, martial arts and painting. In fact, he still breaks out the paint and brushes to maintain his sanity through all the "Twilight" pandemonium.

But it's that pandemonium that gets him amped when talking about the movie.

"The fans are going to love this film," he said. "I didn't get my chance to touch anybody in ‘New Moon.' This time I go at it with Emmett [ Kellan Lutz]. I give him a nice bitch slap. But I'm in wolf form, so maybe it's a big paw slap?

"Oh, and there's a lot more action. It's more Paul wolf. You're going to see my wolf form doing a lot of stuff. You'll just see me running around shirtless once and a while."

So what of all those topless scenes?

"I have a newfound respect for women. I have to keep my figure. Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, ‘Hello! I'm a person, too!' "

Julia Jones (Leah Clearwater)

Bryce Dallas Howard isn't the only new face to join the burgeoning ensemble cast. Jones will make her debut to the franchise as Leah Clearwater, the scorned and bitter sole female member of the Wolf Pack.

"She's really a tough character," said Jones, 29. "She's pretty angry about a lot of things that she has every right to be angry about. She's miserable and lost and trying to cope internally without a lot of help. And she lashes out quite a bit."

Jones may not be a household name just yet, having appeared in independent films and a few episodes of "ER," but that will surely change for the Boston native come June. And for the woman who said she knew she wanted to be an actress after playing Michael Darling in a production of "Peter Pan" as a child, it'll be a learning process.

"I don't know," Jones said. "I'm just trying to take it easy while I can. It's going to be a new thing to figure out how to navigate this craze. I'm doing my best to prepare myself for all of it."

Chaske Spencer (Sam Uley)

Spencer reprises his role as werewolf Sam Uley, the sometimes disgruntled leader of the Wolf Pack.

Although Spencer hasn't exactly gotten used to the global attention — "It's cool, the recognition. But it's work. I know how to keep my life private" — he said he doesn't regret the decision to join the wildly popular franchise.

"There's a lot more offers," said Spencer, 35. "As an actor, that's all you can hope for: more chances to keep it going."

Spencer is in Arizona shooting his new film "Shouting Secrets," about a successful young writer in Los Angeles who is called back to his Native American background to tend to his ailing mother.

With the media blitz already in full effect for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," Spencer said working on something completely different is a way to escape. But there's no escaping the constant pleas for spoilers from the new flick. And like his character's quiet, shadow-like wolf form, he only gives a whisper of details.

"This time around, Sam has to put his ego aside to take on this new breed of vampires," Spencer said. "There's a lot of new relationships being formed."

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