Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Boston Globe Interview with Julia Jones
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/01/26/thanks_to_next_twilight_movie_fame_is_about_to_bite_bostons_julia_jones/?page=full">Boston GLobe</a> reports:<i><P>If the first two installments of the ‘‘Twilight’’ franchise have proven anything, it’s that anyone associated with the wildly popular teen vampire movies will become instantly famous and be followed around by the paparazzi. That’s fantastic-yet-overwhelming news for Boston native Julia Jones.<br />
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Jones, 29, has a pivotal role in ‘‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’’ the third film in the teen vampire series based on the best-selling books by Stephenie Meyer. In the movie, due in theaters June 30, Jones plays Leah Clearwater, the only female werewolf in the pack, a mostly miserable young woman who is cursed with the power to read the mind of her ex-boyfriend — who has fallen in love with someone else. Jones explains that Meyer’s detailed portrait of Leah helped her fall in love with the angsty, supernatural character.<br />
“Because Stephenie Meyer wrote the layers, you’re kind of serving something else,’’ says Jones, who had a small role on NBC’s “ER’’ and acted in a few indie films before landing the role in “Eclipse.’’ “Usually you’re looking for any clue you can in a script - usually it’s skeletal, because it’s not prose. But in this case, there’s 3,000 pages of detail.’’<br />
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Jones has perfected the art of the brooding werewolf frown, but in real life she has a sweet smile and a quick, dry sense of humor. She grew up in Jamaica Plain, summered on the Cape, and graduated from Boston Latin School. Her mother still lives on one of those pretty roads that connects Centre Street to the Jamaica<br />
“The cool thing about it is that there’s a pond on one end of our street - I grew up sailing on it - and on the other end of the street there were housing developments,’’ Jones says during a visit to her agent’s office in Los Angeles after returning from “Eclipse’’ filming in Vancouver.<br />
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Jones started her stage career as a child. By 4, she was dancing with the Boston Ballet in productions of “The Nutcracker.’’ By high school she was a Wheelock Family Theatre star.<br />
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Wheelock director Jane Staab says Jones was always intense and introspective, even as a teen. “Her intelligence just emanated from her,’’ Staab says. “She has an inner light you just sort of respect. It makes you sort of jump.’’<br />
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Jones left Boston after high school to study at Columbia University, where she spent her free time modeling. She had done periodic shoots for T.J. Maxx in Massachusetts, but in New York the work got more serious. “It was wonderful. I went to Europe and traveled a ton. I did a lot of catalogs - Esprit and Polo Ralph Lauren. I worked for the Gap and Levi’s. The clients that really keep you going are, like, Macy’s and Target.’’<br />
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