Archive for the ‘Xavier Samuel’ Category
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The nominees are in and of course Eclipse and the cast are raking in the nominations with eight. Make sure to vote daily for your favorites and tune in June 5 for the show! BEST KISS BEST FIGHT BEST MALE PERFORMANCE BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE BEST MALE BREAKOUT STAR BEST MOVIE |
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Via The Twilight Examiner
I know none of us are shocked about number one but I have very happy to see Riley so high on the list! All of our Cullen men made the the list so that is a total win in my book. |
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Whatever Lola wants, Lola kidnaps, tortures and imprisons
Every now and then a British indie gets my pulse racing thanks to a trailer that promises the perfect combination of eye-widening thrills, sexy foreign faces and a killer concept. Rupert Grint’s “Cherrybomb” and Alex Pettyfer’s “Tormented” are great examples of this — as is “The Loved Ones,” starring hottie of the moment Xavier Samuel (”Eclipse”). In this younger, seemingly more twisted take on “Misery,” Xavier plays Brent — a decent guy (the trailer and his grunge-y locks don’t make him seem like king of the castle) who accidentally draws the eye of Lola, a terribly unhinged classmate with an even more disturbed daddy. Although I wish the trailer didn’t give so much away, I can’t help but think this prom night-set thriller could finally take the shine off school dance’s one and for all. |
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Okay, okay, Kristen and Robert and Taylor weren’t in town, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t up for saying hello to the other guys in Forks, Washington. Watch as we talk giant pillows, trombones, and ‘wolfification’ with the likes of director David Slade, vampires Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Xavier Samuel, as well as werewolves Alex Meraz and, um, Booboo Stewart. Top bloke, that Booboo. via @TwilightFB source |
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by Mandi Bierly from EW
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 Park and Return of the Jedi whose visual effects house, Tippett Studio, handled the wolves for both Eclipse 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. Which wolves did you prefer: New Moon‘s or Eclipse‘s? Go here to see Video in the wolves |
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 By Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY
When Australian actor Xavier Samuel shipped off an audition tape to Twilight producers, insta-fame seemed oceans away.
“It’s kind of strange because you send them off into oblivion and you don’t know if anyone watches them,” says Samuel, 26. That was last year. Fast-forward to the Eclipse premiere, where thousands of fans are not only screaming but are screaming for him. “It’s kind of 360 degrees of hysteria,” Samuel says just hours before the Los Angeles premiere of the third film installment of Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster series. “The sound (of Twilight’s fans) does really knock you off your feet.” BOX OFFICE: Nothing outshines ‘Eclipse’
Samuel steals not only the first five minutes of one of most anticipated movies of the summer, but much of its finale. He plays newborn vampire Riley Biers, who, alongside vengeful vamp Victoria, leads a bloodthirsty army of young vampires with one goal: killing human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and those who protect her. Hailing from Adelaide, he now joins Hollywood’s short list of hot young Aussie men in the spotlight, including brothers Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek) and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song), and Sam Worthington (Avatar). There was only one problem en route to the Eclipse set. “I was going through the book going, where’s Riley?” says Samuel, whose character gets a major upgrade in the screenplay version of Eclipse. But director David Slade slipped him an early top-secret copy of Meyer’s recent novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, in which Riley and Victoria’s relationship is more deeply explained. Joining the ranks of Robert Pattinson, Stewart and Taylor Lautner, “I ought to feel ostracized, but everyone was wonderfully down to earth,” says Samuel, who found battling a CGI werewolf in the wilds of Canada more challenging than making friends. “You’re just working with a piece of fur on the end of a stick just kind of poking you,” he says with a laugh. The son of parents who teach history and English, the dry-humored Samuel, whose younger brother Benedict is finishing up acting school and whose sister Bridget is an opera stage manager, cut his teeth playing Hamlet in college, later appearing in a smattering of movies on the film festival circuit, including Newcastle, September and The Loved Ones. |
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This weekend, the cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was very, very busy jet-setting across the country to visit local cinema showings of the film. Slowly, the cities and specific locations for the appearances were revealed, but the castmembers making appearances for the events were kept a secret for the most part. The appearances took place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, the cities whose fans got to see the cast were Chicago (Julia Jones), Kansas City (Gil Birmingham), Las Vegas (Kiowa Gordon), Los Angeles (Dakota Fanning), Minneapolis (Charlie Bewley), Nashville (Tinsel Korey), Orange County (Justin Chon), Vancouver (Tyson Houseman), and Washington, D.C (Christian Serratos). You can see a photo of and mini-interview with Julia Jones in Chicago here. Meanwhile, Gil Birmingham’s Facebook page has its own set of photos from his appearance, and a local news station (KMBC) interviewed Birmingham from the event. Photos from Gordon’s appearance in Las Vegas can be found here and here, and Tinsel Korey tweeted about her showing in Nashville (Christian Serratos did the same for her appearance in D.C.). More on Houseman’s appearance in Vancouver can be found here, and the O.C. Register has quite a few photos of Justin Chon in Orange County here. Go here to see Videos and the rest of the article |
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.jpg "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse stars appear all over the country to greet fans at local screenings")
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I have to say that I am totally bummed that we only get Xavier for one movie this boy is too cute. |
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Xavier Samuel is profiled in the June/July issue of Interview Magazine. Bryce Dallas Howard conducted the interview. Go here to see the entire article and more pictures.
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