Kirsten Prout Talks Lucy & 'Eclipse'

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Not sure what these pictures are from, but they are gorgeous! As you may or may not know, Kirsten will be playing the part of Lucy in 'Eclipse'.

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Kirsten Prout Talks 'Eclipse' & Her Character, Lucy

MTV chats with Kirsten Prout, who plays Lucy in the Twilight Saga Eclipse:

"I've always been on the good side. I've never played a villain in my entire career. I'm the girl next door, or the girl who helps out, or the girl that makes an innocent escape. For once, I got to look all innocent and have that angelic quality, and then, all of a sudden, turn into something really dark," Prout, who starred on the TV series "Kyle XY," told Iesb.net. "That was fun for me. That was the first villain that I've ever played."

Like Rathbone's onscreen love, Rosalie, played by Nikki Reed, (MyTwilife: Rosalie is not Jackson's onscreen love, Alice is) Prout gets in on the backstory action in the movie as well. "Without revealing too much, Lucy is one of the vampires that turns Jasper, played by Jackson Rathbone. Jasper gets turned while he is an officer, and I'm one of the vampires that causes Jasper to be turned during his military career," Prout added. "Lucy appears to be an innocent little victim, and then she turns into something a lot more sinister."

Not only did Prout get along "really well" with Rathbone, she also raved about the franchise's third director, David Slade. "He's a great guy because his way of working is so open. He just says, 'Do what you do,' and lets you play with it. If he has notes, he gives them to you, but he's a very open director. He keeps it light," she explained. "He loves his job and he's very serious about it. He's a great director."

But before she got to work with Slade, she had to audition for her role. And instead of reading from the script, she read straight from the book. Why? Because all things "Twilight" are shrouded in mystery until they are ready to be revealed to the film's stars. "The technique that they used for the audition was that they made the scenes exact transcripts from the book. It was very strange to audition with them because they were written to be read and they weren't adapted yet. They didn't give the screenplay out. So, the audition side was just reading a page of 'Twilight' and reading the lines that were interspersed between the descriptions. That's what it was like," she revealed. "They could never distribute that. Even when I got the job, the secrecy was so high in the 'Twilight' world."

Kirsten Prout Talks 'Eclipse' & Her Role as Lucy

Pop Eater talked with Kirsten Prout, who will be playing Lucy in Eclipse, about her role in the film & got her to reveal as many details as she was allowed:

I actually wanted to ask you about the audition process. Did you go after this one? Did you get the call?

"I just got the call. I went for one of the other vampires, Bree, and the vampire Bree is supposed to be thirteen years old with very short brown hair. So physically I was absolutely wrong for the part. But I went in, and the casting director and the director liked me so much that they said, 'OK, you know what? We have another part.' So they fit me in through that audition, into Lucy, who is also a newborn vampire, and she actually is the one who turns Jasper, which is interesting. The thing about Lucy is that she has long blond hair and very very pale blue eyes and skin, so physically I was a big match for Lucy. I went in for one more audition for Lucy and I ended up showing up on set a few days later."

From what I recall, Lucy is described, but you don't actually see a lot of her...is that right?

"The thing is, if you read the book, it's done in a very different way. In the book, it's kind of a flashback. In the book she's more of a vampire who...she was just kind of part of turning Jasper, whereas in the movie, it's kind of featured, and it's actually a scene, and Lucy is a lot more prominent in turning Jasper, so it's a bit different. But I can't tell you much." [laughs]

Yeah, I'm sure that non-disclosure agreement was 'huge'!

"Oh my god! You should have seen it! My agent was like, 'Yay, you've got the part. You just have to come in and sign a couple things.' I went in and there was this stack on the desk that was bigger than my entire head! And I was like, 'Holy crap!'" [laughs]

Because the character is being done a bit differently than it was in the book, did you have any leeway to create the character? Everyone else has a pretty detailed character description.

"I think we've all played vampires differently. The way I think about it, everyone is so different. I think about how some people express their hunger, some people express love, some people express all there emotions, they have these certain characteristics that, when they're hungry or when they love something, their reaction to it is so different, so playing a vampire was interesting for me. Because who's the authority on what it's like to smell blood?"

Read the rest of the interview here!