Monday, January 18, 2010

Charlie Bewley & Daniel Cudmore Summary from Seattle TwiCon

Daniel Cudmore & Charlie Bewley did a Q & A Session together Saturday morning at Seattle Twilight Convention.

I was walking in as they did and saw them - my impression was:

#1 - Yup, Daniel is still tall.
#2 - Charlie's hair is even sexier today.

Seriously Sexy!


I had met them both while they were filming Eclipse in Vancouver, though it was fairly brief, so I was looking forward to seeing more of them during this Q & A.


Luckily I was sitting front and center and even had some interaction with both of them - rawr!


Here is a summary of what they talked about. I warn you that Charlie often goes off on tangents and the two of them are very playful and joke around quite a bit!

  • When asked about their bad habits Dan said his New Year Resolution is often to eat less sour candies. He will tell himself "Only $1 worth" but ends up with $6. He will put it in a high cupboard so he can't reach it, but, he's 6.7" so that doesn't work either ha.

  • Charlie jokes Banana with peel on - then refers to the Banana Man cartoon most of the audience hasn't heard of. He says his "bad habit" is procrastination.

  • Wolf Pack vs Cullens - Dan would rather be Wolf Pack, run shirtless through the forests. Vampires wear runing shoes and he jokes about pumping them up "pump pump pump - oops too much swoosh" (old school pump shoes for those of you lost)

  • They say as volturi they are just doing what vampires do, drink blood.... not like the "Vegan-Facinelli-Rubbish" He wouldn't want to go hunt deer in Italian gear... unless it was Niek Tracksuits, like a volturi mafia.

  • Over asked question - Dan says "How tall are you?" then "Did youplay basketball?" which he didn't to which people often say "Well why not?" Dan says he should start asking short people "How short are you? Are you a jockey? Why not?"

  • Eclipse Fight Scene was aprox 5 days rehersing and 5 days filming 12 hour days.

  • Daniel would like Edward's Hair, he pokes fun of his hair and points to the banner. He and Charlie banter about hair.

  • They asked my question to Daniel "Were you worried fans would dislike you for beating up Edward" ;) He said he felt he was doing a good job if they did dislilke him.

  • They discussed Italy behind the scenes fun sich as Mozzerella Parties and being hung over from Mozzarella. They spent 8 days in Italy and were mostly confined to their area, not a lot of site seeing. Dan talked about the car he had which was smaller than the original mini coop. He joked if he had a bad parallel parking job he could probablypick it up and place it in the parking spot correctly.

  • Daniel would love to be any character that meant he could work with Will Ferell, though he thinks it would be hard because he would just laugh the whole time. Charlie would love to play a character that was really deep and emotional... or a spin-off about Demirtri.

  • Daniel wears contacts already so the volturi ones weren't too much trouble, he hates contacts as a whole but wears them everyday. Charlie felt he was instantly dangerous with them on, just like sweet innocent Dakota Fanning.

  • Upcoming work - Dan has an indie film for February, Charlie has auditioned butnot booked anything yet. He discusses the value of star power and the amount of hard work you need to put into it.

  • Fave Holiday - Daniel says Halloween, he and friends dressed as Divo - "Whip it" Charlie thought it meant a vacation holiday and said Tokoyo, but was corrected and said Christmas because he can indulge in family, food, emotions, friends, all the things he misses out on usually.

  • When asked what they would change about their characters Charlie said restraint and Dan said hair. They joked about havnig Kate Gosselin hair or pink pony tails. Joked that when we saw Eclipse we may enjoy the pink pony tail hair Felix is sporting.

  • A Fan asked about Demitri's "Fierce and driven" character. Charlie had them clarify then suggested Demitri is bored and always seeking action but has charm, sort of like "hey, guys, come with me.... we are nic3e guys" like a good cop/bad cop between Felix and Demitri. Said they love the characters as much, maybe more, than fans do.

  • Audition process was very fast. Charlie had tried for Marcus also. Daniel had recently lost out to a few roles and had actually auditioned for the "motorcycle guy Bella rides with in Port Angeles" and didn't even know if he could make it back for the call-back because of a job he was doing but managed to go in thinking he'd be a biker and was actualy cast as a vampire and thought "wait - what?" cool!

  • Charlie said it was falttering that the Cullens wanted to kill him more than any other volturi and he also discussed how when he auditioned he had almost no hair so he took one little piece and swirled it down, like the old school vampires had the "peak" and he thinks that may have influenced his hair style for the movie. Personally, I adored the hair he was sporting at TwiCon. Rawr.

  • A fan said she loved him, so Charlie replied "me or Demitri?" and she said him, so he said "well I love Demitri so it's a love triangle"

  • Daniel never had a favourite colour so he likes rainbows. Charlie likes gold and teases Daniel for loiking rainbows.

  • Charlie teases me offering to throw his water bottle at me. The girl behind me gets excited and wants it. He then teases some fans across the room (while Daniel is talking) and they want the water bottle. He finally tosses it to the crowd.

  • For open questions in the end they walked around the crowd. Charlie also acted as Demirtri and pretend choked Hillywood Alice. Daniel spoke at the podium for fun and they lounged on the stage.


    Overall - excellent, funny time - and a giant reminder on how sexy Charlie is



    See Videos of Charlie & Daniel here

  • 1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    Hi Mandy --

    I happened across this blog because of your mention of Hillywood Alice and I'm so glad I did. This just made me so much more antsy to go to one of my conventions this year!

    I also run a website for The Hillywood Show and was wondering if I could repost the picture you had of Hannah (Alice) being held by Demetri with the little snippet you had about that part of the Q&A? The site tries its best to keep with the flow of conventions and, unfortunately, we didn't have anyone attend the Seattle one for a recap or pictures. You would most definitely be credited and I'd put a link back to your blog on the news post.

    Please contact me if you have a chance - mary@hillyfans.com

    Thank you!

    Mary
    admin, HillyFans.Com