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As the highly-anticipated Twi­light Saga: Eclipse pre­pares to descend on the­aters June 30, stars Kris­ten Stew­art, Robert Pat­tin­son, and Tay­lor Laut­ner get together in L.A. for a frank dis­cus­sion about the roles they play within the Twi­light uni­verse — both on screen and off. They also open up about their Oprah appear­ance, stay­ing fit, and what it took to film a cli­mac­tic scene in Eclipse, in which the three char­ac­ters are forced to wait out a bliz­zard in incred­i­bly close proximity.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: One scene fans have been dying to see takes place in the tent dur­ing the snow­storm. Jacob warms up Bella with his body because Edward is cold-blooded and can’t do it him­self.

LAUTNER: The tent scene is prob­a­bly my favorite, because it’s the first time Edward and Jacob are actu­ally able to con­nect and under­stand each other.

How many takes did you go through to get that scene?

LAUTNER: Two days orig­i­nally to film it, and then a full day of reshoots.

Why?

PATTINSON: [The direc­tor] wanted it to be more erotic. Seri­ously.

STEWART: It’s true. In the book there’s a seri­ous sex­ual ten­sion. As I’m sleep­ing, Jacob is star­ing over my vul­ner­a­ble body, and he’s naked in this f– — –ing sleep­ing bag because you heat up faster that way, and Jacob and Edward are lev­el­ing with each other.

Tay­lor, you and Rob have some pretty seri­ous con­fronta­tions in this movie.

LAUTNER: Some of those scenes were pretty hard for me. I think we ruined a cou­ple of takes in front of the house and in the tent. It’s just, I don’t know, I have a hard time look­ing at him…

STEWART: Ha! “I have such a hard time look­ing at him”!

LAUTNER: [Laughs] I wasn’t fin­ished. He and I were this­close to each other — we are lit­er­ally, like, an inch away — and we’re scream­ing at each other.

STEWART: And about to kiss…

LAUTNER: A cou­ple of moments it felt like that.

PATTINSON: Every sin­gle time we had to do a threat­en­ing thing to each other — for one thing, you always have your shirt off, and so in the tent scene I lit­er­ally grabbed your breast. And it’s very dif­fi­cult to remain in the moment. Also, in that tent scene, I can’t really get over the fact that the word thought sounds like fart.

STEWART: The word thought does not sound like fart.

PATTINSON: It does.

STEWART: Maybe because you are an Eng­lish per­son.

PATTINSON: The open­ing line of that scene is “Can you at least keep your farts to your­self?” I couldn’t quite get over that.

For more of our exclu­sive inter­view with the stars of The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse, pick up the new issue of Enter­tain­ment Weekly, on stands Fri­day, June 25.

source via Thinking of Rob