Is there an irony for you, playing a vampire after playing a Lycan in Underworld?
MS: I feel a bit like a traitor now that I’ve swapped sides. The vampires get to wear much cooler clothes in Underworld and in this. So now I get a nice bit of tailoring instead of raggedy leather. The nice thing about playing a werewolf is that you don’t have to worry about getting dirty on set. At lunch time, I can have a lie down, and it doesn’t matter because I’m supposed to look rough, versus this where I have to look perfectly tailored and groomed and clean all the time. So I can’t sit down or do anything because I’ve got all this white makeup on, and I’m wearing black clothes. I’ve got to be really careful that I don’t get covered in stuff. How did you approach playing Aro? MS: I loved the thing in the books where Stephenie wrote about how the Cullen family is all really beautiful, and that’s what kind of lures people into their web. And Aro is not like that. She describes Aro as being not the same sort of thing. I like the idea that it’s his voice that lures people in — and hi
