His Golden Eyes (HGE): I’m with Amadou Ly
who is playing Henri in Breaking Dawn, Part 2. Now Henri is a new
character. Can you tell us anything about him?
Amadou Ly:
Definitely. Henri is a French vampire, and the great part about it is
that he is not in the books so the fans are going to embrace him for the
first time and see what the French vampires will bring to this lovely,
gigantic franchise. I’m really excited for him. I think that’s about as
much as I can tell.
HGE: I saw you tweet the
question – Which side is Henri on? Can you tell us? (Amadou had asked on
twitter the day of this interview: Which side do you think the FRENCH
VAMPIRES are on???)
Amadou: *laughter* I can’t
tell you that, but he’s definitely going to be one of those characters
that the fans are going to love. While playing the character I bring a
lot of different components to it. He’s speaking with a French accent.
There’s that sexiness. There’s that vampire evilness. There are
different components within the character that I think…that hopefully, I
think, will translate on screen that the fans will enjoy.
HGE: So, any relation to Laurent?
Amadou: *laughter* I cannot tell you that.
HGE:
You came into this franchise which has been going on for four movies
and this is the last one where you character is going to be introduced.
Can you tell me what it was like coming on to the set being with actors
who had been with these movies since the beginning and then a bunch of
new characters as well?
Amadou: I was definitely
nervous. I remember walking into that hotel for the first time and
seeing all these familiar faces. I had to run in my room to walk it over
in my head – just to process it. But it was a dream that was coming
true for me. I’ve been working a lot just to establish myself as an
actor, and now having the opportunity to work with Bill Condon, whom
actually, his film “Dreamgirls” inspired me in the first place to
continue overcoming my obstacles, and now at this stage in my early
career having my first big gig to be working with him – it gives me
chills. It’s lovely.
On set it was great. The actors, the previous
vampires, were welcoming. They knew the game. They knew how nervous
people can get, but they embraced us with open arms. I had a lovely
time working with Michael Sheen; and the other actors, whether its from
him to Taylor (Lautner) to Rob (Pattinson), you know, everyone. And I
made friends within the cast. So I’m really happy I had a chance to work
with all of them.
HGE: Speaking of friends, we
are here tonight for Marisa Quinn (Huilen). Can you tell us a little
about your relationship with her or working with her on the film?
Amadou:
Oh, most definitely. She’s amazing. She came into Baton Rouge at a
time where we were just all excited to be there. She came along with
J.D. (Pardo, who plays Nahuel) and we all just…it was fun. We had all
these artists that are very intelligent, that are true artist, that are
well trained; and there’s just a huge appreciation in me when I see that
in a person and I see that in her. She’s very intelligent and very
caring too. She’s such a sweet lady and I love her. She’s amazing.
HGE: She is great and we are excited to be here to support her tonight. Are we going to see you at Comic Con?
Amadou:
I don’t know if you’ll see me at Comic Con, but I’ll tell you, whatever
you see there that’s from Twilight must be exciting because it’s the
last…bear in mind that it’s the last Twilight so I’m sure that if
Twilight is going to be at Comic Con they’re not going to do it small.
They are going to do it big if Twilight is going to be at Comic Con. So, you know what? Look out for that.
HGE: Okay, we’ll remember the if, but I think
it is going to be there. So you were saying today that you saw the new
teaser, and you said on twitter that people woke you up this morning.
What was it like seeing the teaser of the teaser and how are you feeling
knowing that tomorrow there is going to be the full trailer.
Amadou:
Woo! Excited! See I get the same level of excitement as the fan. Today,
8 a.m. in the morning, my phone started ringing. There’s text messages.
I was like, okay, did they show my face in the teaser? What is going on
here? Those were my personal Twihard friends. Then I logged into
twitter and I mean, it was amazing – the excitement. And I was excited.
I couldn’t go back to sleep. But I must tell you, for the first time
it really hit me. I mean for the first time I tell myself, wow I’m in
this thing that’s real, real huge. I saw Michael Sheen and I just
started imaging all these different shots and different takes that we
did in different scenes and I just cannot wait for the fans to see it.
Because I know they are going to love it! It’s going to be something
that they’re going to remember for the rest of their lives. And I
promise you that as we stand here. So tomorrow the trailer’s coming –
look out for Breaking Dawn. You can’t miss that! It would be a sin to
miss it.
HGE: Well then we know you’ll be up at 5
a.m. tomorrow morning when it debuts online. Thank you so much for
speaking with us and we definitely will see you in November.
Amadou:
Thank you. Listen, I’m really happy to connect with the fans via
twitter and having that opportunity to connect with them directly – they
have been so wonderful. So supportive. And with the introduction of
the French Coven they have been very open to it and excited to see
what’s coming and we are as excited for them to see it. Just look out
for it. The fans can reach me, @AmadouLy, on twitter and say “Hi” and I’ll say “Hi,” too.
HGE: Thank you so much, Amadou.
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