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		<title>Twilight Tuesday: October 07</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MTV News is once again saving you the messiness of all that uneasy eye contact, &#8220;OME!&#8221; shrieks and possible restraining orders. The movie comes out next month, and some of their most popular &#8220;Twilight&#8221; Tuesdays have been the first and second times we had the stars answer fan questions.</p>
<p>So, without further ado, MTV hereby present the third entry in their &#8220;Twilight&#8221; Stars Answer Fans&#8217; Burning Questions series. Feel free to keep submitting your wildest queries, and look below for all you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know about Anna Kendrick&#8217;s lung capacity, Lutz&#8217;s love of velour, and RPattz&#8217;s promise to suck on your neck. (Head over to the MTV Movies blog for news on special fan events leading up to the &#8220;Twilight&#8221; premiere.) </p>
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<p><strong>Q: &#8220;What&#8217;s it like kissing the most gorgeous man alive, Robert Pattinson?&#8221; &#8211; Ceejay</strong><br />
<em>Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan):</em> His teeth are pretty sharp. It&#8217;s great. I like it. It&#8217;s cool.</p>
<p><strong>MTV: People are also debating whether Edward and Bella will French kiss.</strong><br />
<em>Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen):</em> It&#8217;s more of a Chilean kiss.<br />
<em>Stewart:</em> What&#8217;s that?<br />
<em>Pattinson:</em> That just wasn&#8217;t funny. Whenever we kiss, I just try to kill her all the time.<br />
<em>Stewart:</em> And I love that. She&#8217;s a total sadomasochist, if you think about it.<br />
<em>Pattinson:</em> And I&#8217;m just gay.<br />
<em>Stewart:</em> Or impotent.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;Kellan Lutz likes Runts. Do you have a favorite candy?&#8221; &#8211; Liz</strong><br />
<em>Cam Gigandet (James):</em> It changes a lot, because I do something I shouldn&#8217;t do: I will lock in on a candy, and I will eat it until I can never have it again. I don&#8217;t know why. I do love cookie dough more than anything in the world, but that&#8217;s not really a candy. I would probably say, right now, it&#8217;s Heath bars. No, Skor. Skor bars! That&#8217;s it for sure.</p>
<p><strong>MTV: Well, Mike Welch was sent thousands of socks after he made a comment about how he needed them. Are you ready for thousands of Skor bars to come your way?</strong><br />
<em>Gigandet:</em> Hmmm &#8230; I love Lamborghinis. [Laughs.] I love them, I really do.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;If you had a choice to play any character (gender aside), who would it be?&#8221; &#8211; Bob</strong><br />
<em>Kellan Lutz (Emmett Cullen):</em> I&#8217;d play Rosalie. She&#8217;s just so feisty. And you know, to think about the gender thing, playing a female would be quite fun. It would be a stretch for an actor who is male, so yeah, I would enjoy playing your role.<br />
<em>Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale):</em> Well, thanks, babe.<br />
<em>Lutz:</em> And she has a hot outfit. I&#8217;m wearing velour, by the way, so I doubt anyone said Emmett.<br />
<em>Reed:</em> My monkey man! I think I would play Alice. There&#8217;s something about Alice that&#8217;s just [intriguing]. I&#8217;m sure a lot of other people feel this too. Like her psychic abilities &#8230; and that she was in a mental hospital. They checked her into a mental hospital before she became a vampire because she could see the future, and so they thought she was crazy.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;Do you have the lung capacity to speak as fast, for as long, as Jessica? Because I don&#8217;t.&#8221; &#8211; Evangeline Annie Van Holzen</strong><br />
<em>Anna Kendrick (Jessica Stanley):</em> It was a cake walk after &#8220;Rocket Science&#8221;! I remember Stephenie Meyer [being on set] the day that I was doing that big speech about the Cullens. It was just a lot of dialogue. &#8230; She is quite a chatterbox, but it wasn&#8217;t too bad, because it all seemed to make sense and come from this really sweet, desperate place.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;Are you aware that you&#8217;re being stalked?&#8221; &#8211; Serena</strong><br />
<em>Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen):</em> Am I? Yes, and I wish you would take the tent down from the front of my house — now. That&#8217;s kind of rude! No, I had no idea.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;If there were such a thing as vampires, would you want to be turned? &#8211; Kristin</strong><br />
<em>Christian Serratos (Angela Weber):</em> I don&#8217;t know. I probably would, just out of pure curiosity.</p>
<p><strong>MTV: Would you want to be frozen now or later on in life?</strong><br />
<em>Serratos:</em> There&#8217;s a lot of thought that&#8217;s going to go into me becoming a vampire. I&#8217;d probably wait — no, why not? If I&#8217;m going to do something crazy, I&#8217;m going to do it now. I&#8217;d become a vampire right now.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?&#8221; &#8211; Em</strong><br />
<em>Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen):</em> I would like to think that I&#8217;m kind of chipper, upbeat and fun.<br />
<em>Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale):</em> Um &#8230; I&#8217;m a loner who loves company.<br />
<em>Greene:</em> [Laughs.] He&#8217;s a weirdo, basically.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Michael, how does working on a production like &#8220;Twilight&#8221; compare to the work you&#8217;ve done in the past? &#8211; Ann</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch (Mike Newton):</em> Well, I started out my career in television, just doing different guest spots. [I] started out with sitcoms. Actually, my first role that I got was as Young Niles on &#8220;Frasier,&#8221; because when I was younger, I was always doing impressions. That&#8217;s how I broke into acting to begin with. That allowed me to break into the sitcom world, and then from there I made the transition into dramas and then got lucky enough to be on a show called &#8220;Joan of Arcadia,&#8221; which was on for two years. Since then, I&#8217;ve been doing independent movies that probably will never come out, most of them. And then all of the sudden, this &#8220;Twilight&#8221; just came out of nowhere! It&#8217;s the biggest thing I&#8217;ve ever been a part of, man. It&#8217;s so exciting.</p>
<p><strong>Q: &#8220;Robert, will you suck my blood out?&#8221; &#8211; Alley</strong><br />
<em>Pattinson:</em> Yes. Right now? Do they give their addresses and stuff?</p>
<p><strong>MTV: They give their names, and I am sure if you click on MTV.com, you could e-mail any of them.</strong><br />
<em>Pattinson:</em> &#8220;Will you suck my blood out?&#8221; Is that, like, a worried question? Or is it kind of a desiring question? I won&#8217;t if you don&#8217;t want me to. </p>
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		<title>Michael Welch: Popstar Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tathy</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget Team Edward, Team Jacob and Team Switzerland we are on Team Mike!  Popstar.com spoke with the charming and sophisticated Michael Welch who plays Mike Newton in the upcoming Twilight movie. Michael Welch is a seasoned actor who has dominated television dramas for the past ten years. Guest starring in hit shows on every major network Michael created a name for himself in Hollywood which has led him to his current role. Michael plays Bella&#8217;s friend Mike Newton in the upcoming movie, Twilight. Keep reading to hear what Michael Welch has to say&#8230;</p>
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<p><strong>PopStar.com:  You have proven over the past ten years that you are an extremely gifted and versatile actor.  Does acting come natural to you or do you have to work hard at it?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  No, I have had to work for it. I work very hard and over the years I have learned to develop instincts.  I have had a very good foundation of training.  I took acting classes my whole life, I took improv classes and I have an acting coach.</p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  What are the best and worst parts of an audition?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  To be honest, I do not really like auditioning.  I do not feel that it is a genuine representation of how you are actually going to end up playing the role.  So much of acting is working and connecting with the people around you.  For the most part it just does not feel like a genuine experience, it feels forced.  My favorite part about auditions is also my favorite thing about acting.  When it goes well and I feel good about; it is the best feeling in the world. </p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  If you could pick someone to play you in a movie who would you pick?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  I have a friend named Luke Edberl who is also an actor.   When we were younger every one mixed us up because we looked alike.  I have always felt that I have identified with Edward Norton.  So I would be honored if Edward Norton wanted to play me in a movie. </p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  We have read that you are very interested in politics.  With the upcoming election any words to the fans who are thinking about voting?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  First of all I made the decision early on that I would not be an actor that told people how to vote.  I do think that it is incredibly important to vote and stayed informed.  This election in particular in very important and I would like to see 100% turnout.    Voting is something that is so basic to the foundation of our democracy.  Voting is very important and to quote Plato, “The penalty good men pay for indifference is to be ruled by evil men.”</p>
<p><strong>PopStar.co.com:  Any funny Twilight set stories?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  My job for this role was to show up on set every day and have as much fun as I possibly could.  So every day was fun for me regarding of how hectic it got on set.  The one story that I can think of is about Catherine Hardwick.  Catherine would throw things at us last minute and I mean that figurately and literality.  There was a scene when we were all hanging out and we were stuck not sure what to do .  So Catherine in the middle of the take told Justin to nail me in the head with the soccer ball. So he did, I’m not sure if it will end in the movie or not but we will have to see. </p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  What was your favorite scene to film for Twilight?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em> My favorite scene was when Mike asks Bella to the prom.  It was one chance to some vulnerability which is always fun as an actor to go there.  It was really interesting what happened during the scene was about three or four takes in I started to get that same feeling I got when I was 15 and in High School going through a similar situation.  I also loved filming the prom where we got to dance and boogey which is always fun!</p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  Are you Team Edward, Team Jacob or Team Switzerland?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  I look at this a couple different ways. If I got the chance I would love to play Jacob.  That is such a fun dark role. As Mike Newton it is hard to Team Edward.  But stepping back, separate from all that. I would have to say Team Edward.  I just love Bella!  From the time I read it she was my favorite character so I would have to say for Bella, Team Edward.</p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  Thoughts on TwiCon 2009?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch:</em>  I am totally there. I have been in some sci-fi conventions and they are fantastic.  I am there 100% they are one of my favorite things to do. </p>
<p><strong>PopStar.com:  Do you have a message to your fans?</strong><br />
<em>Michael Welch: </em> I came into this acting thing with no expectations just looking to have a good time. I appreciate anyone and everyone who is willing to share this journey with me.  It has been an amazing ride and I can’t wait to keep going&#8230;</p>
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