The Twilight Convention - Day 2, 3/13/10

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Welcome to Day 2 of the Los Angeles Twilight Convention :) Did you enjoy Day 1? I hope so! And if you didn't, hopefully Day 2 will help make you love me again ;). Yep...Day 2...the day of the wolves and a Volturi - this was a day that I was totally looking forward to...cuz wow Alex Meraz is just...wow. Who'd have thunk that I'd walk away thinking..."wow, Chaske, Alex and Charlie are just...wow"? Of course there's love for Kiowa too...but he's just too young for this cougar ;)

First guest of the day was Chaske Spencer. He plays Sam, the alpha of the Quileute wolf-pack, fiance of Emily. He's the guy who finds Bella in the woods...the guy who tries to break up the altercation between Paul and Bella...the guy who changed first when the Cullens arrived. Chaske appears to be one of the sweetest guys ever...and Tinsel Korey really couldn't have spoken any higher of him than she did the day before.

I was fortunate enough to have one of my questions answered by Chaske :) Drew from the Hillywoods (he plays Jasper, rather convincingly I might say!) was the one who delivered the question - not me personally, which would've been nice. My question was - "you have such an amazing voice...have you ever considered voice over work?" His answer was something like, he's focusing on movies (makes sense) but has been approached for voice over work...and in fact, did some in the past. He worked on "Red Dead Revolver" which is a video game...and he said that he got shot a lot so all he did was grunt and make dying noises. LOL!

My goodness I wish I could remember what the heck he was talking about at this time...take a look at the exhuberant laughter!!

Here's a shot of Hanna and Hilly Hindi (I think I got that right) of the Hillywood show. They obviously play Alice and Bella...and I gotta say, I <3 Alice!! She is just like her character!! She even mentioned that she met Ashley Greene, who plays Alice, and Ashley said that SHE should've been cast because she's so darn small and pixie like!

This is Kyle, who obviously plays Jacob in the Hillywood show parodies. I felt REALLY bad for him...because yes, he had to walk around ALL day long without a shirt. AND Of course, he was meant to be eye candy all-day-long. Poor guy...

Kiowa Gordon was next to hit the stage. He plays Embry, Jacob's good friend who shows up at the garage when Bella and Jacob are working on the motorcycles. He was also the first of the trio (Embry, Quil and Jacob) to turn into a werewolf.

Chaske mentioned that Kiowa is pretty shy...and I have to admit, it showed. He was generally uncomfortable up on stage...wasn't as animated as Chaske or Justin. And the answers to his questions were generally 1 line sentences...someone asked him what his name meant, in one native language it means "courageous one" in another native language it means "horse"...so he joked that he could be called a "courageous horse".

But then he got so bored of not being able to see people that he decided to jump into the crowd and visit those of us toward the back of the convention room.

Did I mention that people think he's shy? Well, he may be shy while he's talking but get that boy in front of his band, Touche and he turns into another person!! What's the type of music that he and his band do? Well...it's emo rock...but Twilight Lexicon tweeted a very appropriate term was "screamo" LOL! I couldn't understand a single word he said...but it looked like he was having fun!

Someone asked him if he was any good at impressions...and so he gave us his best Edward/Robert Pattinson impression. It was hilarious!!

Now here's one guy that I was totally looking forward to seeing in person, Alex Meraz. He plays Paul, the awnry, sometimes grumpy wolf with the shortest fuse. He's the one who gets into a tussle with Bella...after she slugs him, he transforms in front of her...and that's when she finds out Jacob's big secret when he comes to her rescue.

So here's something I noticed a lot...I have quite a few pictures where the cast is generally looking in our direction. So either there were A LOT of distractions in our area or the green light that I kept seeing focus on their faces was attracing their attention. HAHAHAHA! Either way, it worked to my benefit ;)

To be honest, I don't really remember a whole bunch of what he spoke about...but I do remember someone bring up the "incident" between him and Kristen Stewart/Bella. Apparently he is really into character acting...which means, he decided that since his wolf character barely gets any sleep, he too would stay awake for days at a time. He lived on caffeine...and unfortunately had one too many during the scene that he confronts Bella near Jacob's house. When he asks her "what did he tell you?" he literally reached for Kristen's throat and strangled her...SCARY!! He said that the whole production team froze...lots of whispers...someone told him, ummmm, don't do that. But he said that Kristen was totally on-board...she liked his energy.

The final cast member of the day was Charlie Bewley. He plays Demetri, a member of the Volturi guard. His part was small...but he left an impact with me cuz I ADORED the way he delivered his lines. Of course, he IS British...so I think maybe that swung my bias a bit...I swear, I could listen to someone reading the phone book as long as he had a British accent. In fact, someone around me quickly picked up on the fact that Charlie actually sounds a little bit like Robert Pattinson! :)

This man simply OOZES charm and confidence. He sat in the seat, not answering questions for at least 2 minutes. He took in all the screams and flashbulbs in true style :)

HAHA! What's up with the finger in the mouth?!

Charlie led an interesting life before becoming an actor; he used to sell stripper poles in London! Of course, many requests came from the audience for him to demonstrate the stripper pole...but one gal took it upon herself to volunteer to be "the pole"! LOL! And guess what? He used it! LOL!!

Charlie was the last cast member to venture out into the audience where he took a few questions. We were trying feverishly to get him to our section of the convention hall so the gals behind me (absolute sweethearts) persuaded the little girl (absolute cutie) to ask Charlie a question! We all raised our hands and said, "the kid! here's a kid!" and it worked! He made his way over and the question was asked...which of course, I don't remember anymore.

That's it :) Oh wait...there's just a smidge more ;) This was the first day of our photo-ops with the cast members! Most members were $40 or $50 each...so we opted for the group shots which were $89 (for the wolf-pack) and $79 (for the Cullens). I have to admit...I was REALLY bummed I didn't take a picture with Charlie...he was absolutely amazing! Next time, I'm riding the "D(emetri) train" :)

Here's my photo with the wolves - it was a whirlwind of activity. The butterflies were definitely out in full-force as we walked into the room and the cast members were getting their pictures taken with the fans. Music was blaring...obviously music that Chaske REALLY loved...really high energy...in fact, he was quite bouncy. Also, as you can tell, Kiowa was wearing an In-n-Out hat throughout the entire photo session...how did he get it to stay on his head in that precarious position?! And LOVE LOVE LOVE Chaske for the shaka!!

My neice Megan couldn't pass up the chance to be photographed with the wolf-pack. She was after me...and she said that Chaske literally grabbed her by the arm and placed her next to him (nicely, of course). We were all pretty nervous about what we would like like in the photos...and to be honest, I didn't even remember a PERSON taking our pictures, I thought it was a camera on a tri-pod. LOL! Well, needless to say, Megan was a little sad by the look on Kiowa's face...I wonder what he was trying to say? LOL!

Well, that's Day 2...it was quite an amazing day :) Please be on the lookout for Day 3...filled with yummy Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli (who I already knew was good looking...but in person?! WOW!)

Catch ya on the flipside!

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