June 28, 2013 JUST IN: Kristen Stewart of Twilight will join Morgan
Spurlock, Diablo Cody & Dylan McDermott as a judge for #hsfilmfest
this Oct in #NYC
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Nikki Reed @thecoveteur Photoshoot
thecoveteur “I feel like everyday of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction!” actress Nikki Reed confessed to us.
While Reed may be best known for her role in Twilight , it’s her recent projects that we’ve been particularly keeping close tabs on. Between touring with Hanson (!!!) and her husband-turned-bandmate, Paul McDonald to trying her hand at a design gig with 7 For All Mankind, Reed has certainly been busy since her days of playing Rosalie. “Sometimes when I'm having withdrawals [from Twilight], I pop a bag of popcorn, put on my flannel PJ's and have my own Twilight marathon in my living room!” she revealed.
We caught up with Reed (and her lovely, mom!) at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles and spent forever ooh-ing and awe-ing over the rings and things adorning her fingers and neck. Turns out her first collection, Mattlin Era, all started with a cuff inspired by her mom’s hands and it was all in the family from there, with each piece named and inspired by her sibling and sentiments. “I love wearing things that come with a story. Some of my favorite pieces were my mom's and most of those she actually hand made. I would say if my style reflects anyone or anything, it's her,” she told us.
We chatted with her about crazy Twi-hards (“The hardest part of letting go of these films is saying goodbye to the fans,”), her style icons (Gwen Stefani, Christina Hendricks, Marion Cotillard), vintage shopping (“I always feel comfortable in a hand-me down,”) and our favorite-most-uncomfortable-to-watch-angsty-teen-film, Thirteen. And she’s got her family to thank for allowing her to co-write the Oscar-nominated movie – can you believe that was a decade ago?
“It is one of my greatest accomplishments,” she said. “It took me a long time and a lot of distance to be able to have the proper appreciation and perspective about it. I think, in all honesty, making that film put my family in a really compromising position, as does making anything that is quote-unquote ‘autobiographical.’” All we can say is, thank goodness she did… cause we may/may not do the whole bag of popcorn, flannel PJ’s thing with that movie on the reg.
PS: Head over to Shopbop.com to shop Nikki's look... cause, like, there's hope for all of us to look that good in denim cut-offs, self-made band tee and an army jacket, right?
Via Gossip_Dance, teamrosalienikkireed
Nikki Reed On Personal & Rosalie Style with @StyleLine
Nikki
Reed, best known for her role as Rosalie in Twilight, is a bit of a
chameleon. From actress to writer, musician to jewelry designer, she
exercises the right side of her brain with serious variety. Her latest
venture is a jewelry collaboration with 7 For All Mankind that launched
in May. Considering that jewelry making was her first official “job” (at
age 9, no less), it’s a natural fit for this natural beauty. Reed was
recently at the 7 For All Mankind store at Somerset Collection for a
meet and greet and took a moment to chat with StyleLine about her speed,
creativity and the need to always be looking for that next big
opportunity.Karen: So it seems to me that you have the ability to do things fast. Which, I love in a person…
Nikki: It’s so funny that you pointed that out.
K: From writing a screenplay to falling in love.
N: To getting married.
K: Is it just that you know what you want? Are you like that in all aspects of your life?
N: I think so, and here is why I am going to agree with that sentence. My mom pointed that out when we were painting Easter eggs. Every year we do it at my house, and we’d bring out like 50 eggs, and we’d invite everyone over to paint. Paul (her husband) spent an hour and a half on one egg, doing, like, micro dots. He is so patient and he is so detail oriented. I was like, “Here’s an afro on this one, here are some googly eyes on this one”, and my mom said, “Everything you do, you’re just getting through it.” Like, I know what I want, and I make it happen somehow. No one ever wants to go furniture shopping with me, because I walk in and I say, “That couch is cool, here we go,” and that’s how I am. I just don’t have a lot of patience, but I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s not like an irritable antsiness. I just like to get through.
K: You know what you want.
N: Yeah. That’s why Paul and I make such a good team creatively, because he can spend six months on one song, but at certain point you got to move on; you got to keep moving forward. You know, otherwise he will never record an album. So I am the driving force behind it. I’m like, “Okay, we have to have five songs by the end of the week, are you ready? Whatever amount of time you have to spend on it, fine, whether it’s 14 hours a day, fine, but we have to have this many done by this time.” So we meet in the middle there.
K: That’s hilarious. So was it the same thing when it came to this collection? Was it a fast decision?
N: No, the decision wasn’t fast. I obviously wanted this to happen so bad. I mean, I love what they do. I love what they stand for. I love how we met. I’m talking about it like it’s a person.
K: How did you meet the 7 For All Mankind people?
N: We met at this wonderful charity dinner for Step Up Women’s Network. They mentioned the jewelry I was wearing and I said, “Oh I made this,” and they seemed really fascinated with the fact that I could talk about it. It was actually mine, and I actually made it. And it actually came from inspiration from my family and different artists in my family, and I think they were drawn to that, that I actually take time in my own life to draw and paint.
I was so interested and so excited, and I got the phone call from my manager at, I think, 8:30 in the morning saying, “Hey I think its really going to happen, go ahead and start sketching.” I had already been rolling this around in my mind for so long. So I asked for them to send a lookbook of the new denim collection so I could see some of the patterns, and see what they were doing. And I turned my sketches in at like 2 in the afternoon. I mean they probably would have given me weeks. But I was already ready. I knew what I wanted.
N: I wanted to create something that looked very wearable, and I know that sounds like such an obvious thing to say, because it’s jewelry. But I like layering and I like things that feel really simple, because although the Starry Knight necklace is somewhat of a statement piece, it’s still…
K: It’s not overwhelming at all.
N: It’s not overwhelming, and the dark metal was meant to keep it on the subtle side. This is my music necklace. I wanted to create a necklace I could wear on stage, with a buttoned up denim shirt, kind of subtle, because our music has been kind of country and kind of folky. So my wardrobe identity is so different in the music world. I didn’t notice until I was done designing, but a lot of the pieces I have made have felt very strong, not very delicate. Not masculine, but not dainty. And I think that’s a direct reflection of what my personality is.
K: And you started making jewelry long ago, so this isn’t new for you at all.
N: My first job was making jewelry. My mom would take me downtown – I didn’t grow up with any money – and so all the kids at school, their parents were giving them money to buy cookies and buy their chalupas on Friday, and my mom literally didn’t have enough money, not enough to give me lunch money. So my mom and I started making bracelets by stringing on beads, and I sold them at school for three dollars a bracelet, which is huge when you’re nine. You sell two bracelets a day you get a chalupa and a cookie so that’s big.
K: You’ve come full circle, really.
N: Totally come full circle.
K: So have you had a chalupa yet with you’re new jewelry line?
N: Well now I don’t eat meat so there won’t be any chalupas involved. Maybe I’ll get someone to make me a vegan chalupa.
K: You dabble a lot.
N: Yes. I think it’s because I always want to better myself. In a very uncompetitive way. My brother and I, even though he is a year older than me, are not competitive at all. We are very supportive of each other. So I mean this in the most innocent way, but I’m always trying to challenge myself because my brother is such a wonderful artist. He is so talented. He would say this about me and I would say this about him. I would say he is better looking, smarter and more talented than me and he says the same about me. Everything he has approached, he has mastered. He is a brilliant painter and photographer and I have his art all over my house. So when I draw, I am actually thinking about him a lot of the time because I’m trying to better myself, and trying to explore areas that I know he has really excelled in.
K: Do you ever feel like you’re on the brink of biting off more than you can chew, or do you have the philosophy of “I’ve got the energy, so I’ll do it while I can do it?”
N: There is no philosophy behind it. I just have always been this way. I was the student who did my homework as soon as the assignment was given, so I had two weeks of not worrying about it. I’m a doe. And to say this in a really basic way, the entertainment business is totally unpredictable and unreliable, and, especially as a woman, you have to create your own opportunities. You can’t sit around and say, “Oh I’m just going to wait for a brilliant film to come my way.” I’m also in acting class weekly, and I take vocal lessons and am writing music. I’m always doing things, because there are doors that are closing in your face, and it’s really important that, for every hundred doors that close, to try to pry open your own, for that one opportunity.
K: How do you define your personal style?
N: My personal style is kind of funky, kind of eclectic. I guess I’m exploring the fashion world. So my style is not as consistently bohemian as it once was. I have a great appreciation for fashion and some of the great designers that I know I can wear for red carpets and things like that, and so I’m getting more experimental.
K: Do you dress yourself for red carpet events or do you have stylists?
N: No. I definitely have an opinion on things, but no, I work with some fabulous stylists. They are great and they know my style, so they pull things that really work.
K: So being temporarily blonde for Twilight, did you feel like yourself? Was there anything you did, makeup wise or whatever, to make you feel more like yourself?
N: It’s impossible to step onto a Twilight set and say, “I feel like myself.” I went through three to four hours of hair and makeup, and spray painting my entire body and re-contouring my face, and at the end of it all, you kind of cross your fingers and hope that you still look decent.
K: That’s what I did this morning,
N: Every morning. It’s quite challenging to make us all feel comfortable with what we look like in that wardrobe. And it’s interesting because Stephanie [Meyer] created this world that, when you read, your mind can interpret it as one thing and you can visualize it. But then actually trying to bring that to life, and create characters that look cold and pale and stone-like, but still beautiful… And I think we spent five years and five movies trying to figure it out, and I don’t know if we ever did, to be honest.
K: That would be something, to look that different every single day.
N: And every Rosalie looks different. I was constantly evolving, which was really bizarre. For the first movie, I dyed my hair, but [in other movies] I had different wigs to use, and a different hair and makeup team. They never used the same one twice, and that’s really strange to have a different makeup artist with a different interpretation of what the character was every single time. So we all looked different every single movie.
K: What did you prefer: dying your hair blonde, or the wig?
N: I actually felt the most comfortable when it was authentic, and dying my hair for the first movie was my decision. It was like three days before we started filming, and I said “I can’t wear a wig, I can’t do that, the fans are already having an issue with me being blonde, I have to show them that I can be blonde.” So I got in the hair chair, and unfortunately, I lost most of my hair trying to be so authentic. So that’s why they had to wig me, because every day my hair was getting shorter and shorter and they were putting extensions in and it just became a disaster.
K: As far as being a designer goes, do you ever think one day you’d like to have your own clothing line?
N: Yeah, I think about all these things. I actually mostly think about
it because of my husband Paul. He is so in touch with the side of him
that really appreciates fashion. So yeah, I definitely think about it. I
want to do some men’s stuff, too, because I don’t think there is enough
cool men’s jewelry lines out there. And Paul is a jewelry collector. So
I’ve got to do something for him.
Via Gossip_Dance
New Interview: Jamie Campbell Bower Talks about City of Bones and Fame (Mentions Twilight Saga and Rob)
The former 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' actor, stars alongside Lily Collins in the film, 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' based on Cassandra Clare's fantasy novels.
After his roles in Harry Potter and Twilight, Jamie Campbell Bower arrives in style at the The Mortal Instruments saga to take a leading role. The 24 year old actor, appearing in his interview with Screenrush fully tattooed-demands of his role as Jace Wayland, comes from the world of music and is grounded. Not wanting to be gagged by fame or by the weight of responsibility. We chatted with him in the castle Casa Loma in Toronto (Canada), last September, during one of the stoppages of the shooting that led the director Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid). And the truth is that both he and his co-star Lily Collins (A winter on the beach) are already confirmed for the sequel Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes. Meanwhile, the first part-City of Bones-opens in Spain on August 30th. In addition, the actor will be visiting Barcelona tomorrow, Thursday June 27th, for a fan event. It will start at 11.30 h. at the Fnac Diagonal Mar (Av. Diagonal, 3).
Before talking about your appearance ... Tell us about your character. Who is he?
He is a Shadow hunter, son of one of the greatest that ever lived. And he has inherited some of that greatness. It's a bit impulsive, and I see him with this vulnerability that the young River Phoenix had. You notice it in his form of fighting, and in the way that his protects himself from his own emotions ...
For those outside of Cassandra Clare's books, what are the Shadow hunters?
What are they? They are the protectors of the known Universe. In the world, demons exist-I mean, in the world of the movie, not in real life fortunately, and these hunters are responsible for keeping them at bay.
Do you have any personal interest in the world of the occult?
I've always been interested in this kind of movie, since I was little. But I have not done any research in particular. The book series itself is a bible in which we could dive.
Why do you think that people like this kind of stories?
I think the key word is fantasy 'because it takes people out of their world. That is something cinema and entertainment have always done, they free the public from their mundane existence. And that's what these stories offer. I remember when I was 14 or 15 years ... I was full of fears. And there are plenty of fictional characters with the anxiety, guided by passion. Suppose teenagers can identify with that.
How do you face your third saga of success?
I'd be lying if I said that every time I choose to enter one of those projects I did it without fear, or without anxiety. With each one I was exposed to the world. Yes, I did it because I enjoyed it, but I have to make other people have fun also.Others have to like what I do! And that's scary, of course. Will this be a saga? At the moment we do not know if this will be a saga. We are shooting the first film [now already confirmed the sequel].
The tattoos on his arms lights are fake, right?
They are fake, yes ...
Why do you have them?
They're runes and they all have very specific meanings and powers. The Shadow hunters tattoo them, I can not say how, but all hunters have them.
Is Jace the most physical character that you have played in your career?
Without a doubt. I've been training for four months to do this role. And I told the trainers I wanted to do 100% of my scenes, each of the fight scenes. I had to learn to jump and do really crazy movements, fighting over a table top very close. So yeah, it's physically demanding, but I like challenges. Doesn't matter if people realize. For me, personally, it will be very comforting to sit and watch the film and know that I've done those scenes.
Is there any scenes that you have not done?
So far no ... I wanted to do everything. And I have. Physical training process started in London. I weighed a lot more than weight now, so I started a diet: I removed almost everything. And then we came here and started training with specialists. I learned how to move better, to trust my gravity.
Do you feel better now? Physically speaking ...
Sure! It's exhausting, because I'm taking myself to the limit ... but yeah, I feel great.
How's your relationship with Clary, who Lily Collins plays?
They meet in a nightclub, and it's funny because Lily is the first 'mundane' that has been able to see him without his having yet acquired the ability to 'be seen' by the 'worldly'. The intrigue comes soon, and I guess he sees something in her that he also sees in himself ... The Shadow hunters do not interact much with the people, they're are stuck in their own world, but my character is perhaps a bit bored of it.
How would you describe Jace to Clary?
He considered brave. To him, she is from another world, there is something ethereal about his personality. And Lily is magnificent with her character and helps to make this believable.
For your character, other actors were considered like Alex Pettyfer. Were you aware of all the rumors that generated the casting call?
I got the role for a year and a half, so it's been an intense journey for me. Did I realized how important it was this series of books for young people? I sound like my grandfather! I would lie if I said yes. He knew the books, but it happened like Twilight did: I didn't really see the force of it. I like to work based on great stories, not because they are part of a series or because the movie will make a lot of money.
What experiences from 'Harry Potter' or 'Twilight' have you brought to this shoot?
Nothing. Every set I've ever been on has been different. I'll be very honest: I've never felt more comfortable in a set than the set for this movie. I do not know if it's because I've grown up or because I believe more in myself ... I have prepared a lot for this. Sometimes you get hired for a project a week before we started shooting, so I do not have much time. But this has been a very gradual process and very soft. When I come to work every day, I feel very comfortable. And this is thanks to Harald, the director, because a film set is like a pyramid ... All filtered from top to bottom.
What references have chosen to compose your character?
In society there are certain sexual attraction to the bad boy image of the rock star. Always has been. When I was 15, I myself played in a band, and now I play with the Darling Buds, but back then played percussion on a different band, in the environment of independent music in London. If I'm honest, I think people are not going to like my character. He's arrogant! But he also has some vulnerabilities, and only shows it to Clary. She is the only person who can see it. Potentially ... going to end up hating me, but I do not care.
Are you afraid that the same thing that happened to Robert Pattinson will happen to you? We refer to the fame ...
I'm not aware of it, and I have chosen not to be aware of it. This is going to sound pedantic, but I do not pay attention to those questions, because all I'm doing is my job. I do what I want to do, and to fuel those thoughts seem to me very dangerous. If the movie does well, the film does well, but I'm doing a job ... I will make a different then playing another character.
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