Fed: Twilight stars come out to Sydney

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2009
Fed: Twilight stars come out to Sydney

By Alyssa Braithwaite, National Entertainment Writer

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - Twilight's vampire love story already gets fans hot and bothered.

So two of the movie's sexy stars are sure to get pulses racing when they arrive in
Australia this week.

Kellan Lutz, who plays good vampire Emmett Cullen, and Edi Gathegi, who plays bad vampire
Laurent, are coming to Sydney to celebrate the release of the Twilight DVD, which comes
out on Wednesday.

Lutz and Gathegi will be pressing the flesh and signing autographs in Sydney's CBD
on Friday April 24, before appearing at Twilight-themed proms in Sydney and Melbourne
over the weekend.

Tickets to the proms are sold out, despite a price tag of $250 a pop, or $475 for the
VIP day package.

The movie by director Catherine Hardwicke, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie
Meyer, has turned a previously unknown cast into global stars.

Being cast as Edward, a high school vampire who also happens to be the best looking
guy in the world, turned British actor Robert Pattinson into a pin-up.

Even Justin Chon who plays school nerd Eric has had more female attention since being
in the hit movie.

"I get some weird requests sometimes," he said.

"The girls always want me to quote lines from the movie, or take a picture of me kissing
their cheek - weird stuff like that.

"I'm like, are you sure you want to take a picture of that?"

It's not just the men who are getting all the attention.

Canadian actress Rachelle Lefevre said she was attracted to the role of bad vampire
Victoria because of her sex appeal.

"It was always Victoria (for me), she's so fierce," Lefevre said.

"She was described as this flame-haired, feline, powerful vampire woman, and it was
just sexy and powerful and cool.

"I just loved everything about her."

Lefevre said a steamy kissing scene she shared with co-star Cam Gigandet, who plays
her partner-in-crime James, was cut from the film.

But it has been rescued from the cutting room floor and features as an extra on the Twilight DVD.

"I had a scene where you actually see Cam and I, we have this vampire make-out session,"

Lefevre said.

"And then I get so wrapped up in the chase and so excited that I slam him into a tree
and kiss him.

"I don't know that it's PG13 though, so maybe that's why it got cut."

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