EW: 5 Questions with David Slade
Posted on 02. Dec, 2010 by Amanda31 in News
Entertainment Weekly was another media outlet that had the chance to interview David Slade this week. After they watched the Eclipse DVD and Blu-Ray special features, they asked David their 5 burning questions. Here’s one of them:
Why don’t we see all the deleted scenes described in the commentaries on the DVD? Stewart describes the first thing she shot on the movie — a “fairly ridiculous” sequence in which she imagined herself in the fireside flashback as the Quileute elder chief’s third wife, who stabbed and sacrificed herself to distract the vengeful female vampire attacking the village. Meyer and Godfrey describe people laughing when they saw it. Understandable that they would choose not to include it. Ditto the scene Bella imagined after her kiss with Jacob on the mountain. She saw them having grown old together. “There were a lot of issues with prosthetic makeup,” Slade says with a groan, then a laugh. “It gives me a bit of a shiver, as a filmmaker. As an idea, it was wonderful. What happens with a film is it becomes organic and it grows, and it tells you what it wants, and it was screaming loudly, ‘I don’t want that!’ to me.” Another scene described in the commentaries never actually got shot. “Stephenie really wanted to see Edward as a young man again, and we had this vision scripted for a while where Bella and he are together in Victorian times, as a kind of reverie,” Slade says.
Make sure you go to EW to read the rest of the Q&A.
One Response to “EW: 5 Questions with David Slade”
Amy R
06. Dec, 2010
OMG Stephenie why didn’t you fight to get that cute scene of a younger Edward. I would love to see that, to see his human life just even a flicker of it like we saw Rosalie’s.
It would be so nice to see Edward reflect on his old life just once in Breaking Dawn….PLEASE???