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Actor Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper Hale in “The Twilight Saga”, talked about the opportunity to work with an Oscar-winning director, Bill Condon, in the last two installments of the saga, “Breaking Dawn” Part I and Part II, which will be shoot at his home state of Louisiana, in an exclusive interview for Hollywood Gossip.

What are your thoughts on working with director Bill Condon?
I’m extremely excited. I think we’re very blessed to have a director of his level being in this film. We’ve had such amazing directors and now we have an Academy Award winner directing the last two installments. It’s lovely because I get to learn something from each director. Their style and the way they run sets. One day when I pick up a script and start directing it myself, I’ll have a lot more to learn from. I’ll be able to use, or basically steal stuff from the directors I’ve worked with.

How do you feel about filming in Louisiana?
Louisiana is my home state. I’m from Texas to a certain degree, but my mother and my father were both born and raised in Louisiana. I get to see family, so that means real Louisiana home cooking, and there’s a very important aspect that we’re bringing a lot of work into Louisiana at a very difficult time for the state. It’s been one thing after the other and it hurts me that things are the way they are but hopefully we’ll be able to bring a little ray of sunshine, which is kind of funny since it’s a vampire film.

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” Part I hits theaters on November 18, 2011, and Part II is set to be released on November 16, 2012. Meanwhile, you can watch Jackson in his new movie “Girlfriend” (watch movie trailer here).

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The much anticipated third movie of The Twilight Saga, “Eclipse”, finally premiered during a star-studded night of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California on Thursday (June 24). Our favorite stars were greeted by screaming fans, who waited in line for days to be able to watch them walk down the glamorous black carpet.

Kellan Lutz vs. Jackson Rathbone. We only have eyes for Kellan. He looked so incredibly yummy on the black carpet. And we love his new hair color. We know there are a lot of Jackson fans out there – he looked great in a gray suit! – but unfortunately we are only allowed to post one Jackson picture. Sorry, teens! We will make it up to you!

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Twilight star Jackson Rathbone looked cute, hot and kind of uncomfortable on the red carpet of the 23rd Annual Kids’ Choice Awards held at the UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday (March 27). Jackson escorted his Twilight co-star Nikki Reed and the two made a super cute couple on the carpet.

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Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson looked as handsome as ever in his own shy style, running his hand through his hair a couple million times at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday (August 9) in Universal City, California.

Robert, who won the award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama, was accompanied by Twilight co-stars Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone… what a cute troop!!

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Actor Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper in the Twilight Saga, talks about “New Moon” and the most intense scene when he has to literally attack Bella played by Kristen Stewart when she gets a paper cut. Jackson ended up really scaring Kristen with his intensity.

On the scene in the movie versus the book: “There a little bit more violence. It’s definitely longer. It’s really about the moment where Bella is realizing what kind of world she’s into. We spent the entire time with Twilight delving into the vampire world, but now in New Moon, it’s like you’re in the vampire world, and what happens when you get a paper cut? What happens when everyone you love turns around on you and suddenly could kill you? She’s in that world right now, and she’s kind of scared by it. She’s also getting into the werewolf world, and suddenly she’s got these two new worlds on her — and there’s love in both.”

On preparing for the scene: “I was going pretty method. We choreographed it — so I wasn’t too worried about attacking Kristen — but I told the guys to hold me back, because you want it to look real. You want it to be as real as possible, because you want that to transfer on film, and you want the audience to feel that frightened sense that I gave Kristen. I felt really bad, man. There was a couple of moments where she was like, ‘I thought you were going to hit me that time!’ I come so close; it’s pretty intense.”

On the stunts for the scene: “It was a breakaway, actually. They wouldn’t let me hit the actual piano. I did everything but the landing in the piano. I hit Edward, he knocks me back. It was funny, when we were filming, they had stunt guys following me with pads because I had to run into Edward, and then as soon as we connected, I had to jump myself back … then they had a stunt guy crash into the breakaway piano, and then they cut to me coming up out of the piano and charging her.”

Who’s excited about “New Moon” again??

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