Twilight Lexicon's Interview with Wyck Godfrey

Twilight Lexicon had a fantastic interview with Wyck Godfrey, which is posted on their site. Additionally, they made a video to go along with the sets mentioned in the interview. I am of course biased as I had the pleasure of showing them around one afternoon, but it's a cute video with some interesting inside info :)

The whole interview is of course at Twilight Lexicon.

Here are some of my fave lil bits:

Q:I know, it’s beautiful! How long did it take to build? (Bella's House)

Wyck: Hmm, I don’t know, I think we got it up in like…well first of all what we did was we built it all in the studio, and built the whole thing, and then took it apart in walls and moved it. Yeah, so the building process there was like maybe month of really getting it right. Then getting it up here was maybe like, a week. The landscaping actually was, oddly enough, the thing that takes a lot of time. Trying to get the grass right, and finding the trees, you know? The appropriate trees.

Q:I know, it’s beautiful! How long did it take to build?
Wyck: Hmm, I don’t know, I think we got it up in like…well first of all what we did was we built it all in the studio, and built the whole thing, and then took it apart in walls and moved it. Yeah, so the building process there was like maybe month of really getting it right. Then getting it up here was maybe like, a week. The landscaping actually was, oddly enough, the thing that takes a lot of time. Trying to get the grass right, and finding the trees, you know? The appropriate trees.

Wyck: So the absolute most absurd thing we ever did.

Well, last year, for Twilight, we shot all the school scenes while they were all on vacation. Yeah, so the interiors, all the interiors, were on their spring break. Right?

So this time for all of our school stuff we had to shoot it while Jessica, the actress playing Jessica, was available. There were a lot of scheduling problems. So the only time we could shoot it was when school was in session.

Yeah, so basically we were trying to shoot these scenes while the kids were literally in between classes, screaming bloody murder because every time they see a glimpse of Rob they just go crazy.

It was chaos. It’s like, never again will I ever shoot during school. It was ridiculous, with this franchise, the idea of trying to trot Rob Pattinson down the hallways where like girls will come out of the bathroom, just by accident when class is in session.

I mean, we thought when they are in class we are fine, we can go up and down the halls; they’re all in class. But every now and then you would get someone who would walk out into the hallway, and go “AHHHH!!!”

Q: Since Kalama [the school in Oregon used on the first shoot]had such a distinctive look on the outside, did that pose any challenges?

Wyck: No, the only thing we shot was the parking lot. You know the parking lot in Kalama, you know where you really see the school there? What we did was we found a parking lot, in like, the woods, and it’s actually the right shape parking lot. We built the stairs and the railing, and all of those kind of distinct stairs, and then we put a huge green screen up where we put in the school.