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“There’s something really nice about making a movie people have things that I feel like I don’t do anymore: having a family, being in a family.”
something to say about. It means they’re invested,” says Reed of the Reed tends to underestimate her down-to-earth tendencies. She can’t
early controversy regarding fans’ reactions to the Twilight cast. “You think hide her family loyalty as she boasts about her two “brilliant brothers,”
you’re going into something where people are enthusiastic, but there’s one an aspiring filmmaker and one an eight-year-old with autism. And
just so much pressure. There’s already a picture painted of [Rosalie], and that loyalty extends to fellow cast members and to Twilight director and
I’m the farthest thing from that. It was a process, for everybody, to make frequent collaborator, Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, The
me into a Rosalie.” Nativity Story), who shares writing credits with Reed on Thirteen.
A process that included hair, skin, and eyebrow bleaching (to match “I get her,” Reed says. “I’ve known her since before she was a director.
Reed’s naturally olive skin and chestnut tresses to Rosalie’s fair She’s known me since before I was an actor. She knows what she’s going
complexion) and, of course, a lot of reading. to get out of me.”
“They gave us three 700-page novels, and we had to start shooting And she knows the real Nikki Reed. The Nikki Reed who grew up
in a week,” Reed says. “But there’s something really magnetic about the with a single mother and no money. Who still asks the question “Is this a
[Twilight series]. We had to do our homework in order to get a feel for the necessity?” before she buys anything new. Who always wants her family
character, to fill it out. We had to.” to be around and who truly believes that “nothing is worth anything if
Reed was surprised to discover some of the ways in which she related you’re not happy with what you’re doing.”
to her character, like the fact that Rosalie, a vampire, only ever really And who doesn’t smell like horses.
wanted to be a regular girl, to get married, to be a mom.
“I think about how nice it would be to just take care of necessities, the
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