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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn cast has just gotten a little larger.

Maggie Grace and Mackenzie Foy join the roster for part one of the final films in Stephanie Meyer’s popular series.

Grace will get the unenviable job of playing the Denali clan vampire Irina – the one who turns in Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) freaky kid to the Volturri. Grace is best known as the kidnapped daughter in Taken and of course, Shannon on LOST.

Foy is a newcomer who steps into the role of the weirdly aging vampire-baby Renesmee.

BDawn is set to start production in October and the casting news should start rolling in fairly frequently now.

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Coming into the third installment of any franchise film series can be intimidating for any actor and Kirsten Prout says she felt a bit of nerves when she first got the part of Lucy in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The core cast and crew are established and usually pretty tight knit so it’s no wonder Prout was unsure of how welcoming it would be.

INSPIRE: You’ve been in numerous television series (including Kyle XY) already. How was it different stepping into a movie (Eclipse), especially one so popular worldwide?

KIRSTEN: It was definitely intimidating stepping onto a set with an established cast, all of whom are tremendously talented. On our show (Kyle XY) we had such a dynamic, so I knew what I was in for as the new kid. That being said, everyone was so welcoming and it was an absolute pleasure working on Eclipse.

I: Were expectations met when filming among the “Twilight” cast and crew? Did you meet all the cast members?
K: I didn’t have a lot of expectations other than the cast being extremely closed off and the set absolutely swamped with paparazzi. In terms of the cast, I was completely wrong. They are such wonderful inclusive people. When it comes to paparazzi, nothing prepares you for being hunted by cameras. Definitely a strange feeling.

After Eclipse costar Jackson Rathbone took time out of his day to get to know her, Prout praised him as being “an extremely friendly and authentic person.”

The 18 year old actress is currently filming the MTV sequel My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen: Part 2 in Atlanta. She has another finished film, Locked Away due for release early 2011.

Get to know about Prout, her Kyle XY days, filming Elektra with Jennifer Garner and more at Inspire Teen.

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August is Dakota Fanning magazine cover month and I couldn’t be happier. Canadian fashion mag Flare adds the fabulous Fanning to the front page and the Twilight: Eclipse actress looks fantastic. The beautiful Dakota will also cover Marie Claire for it’s August issue. (Catch a short peek at the photo shoot here.)

Marie Claire is putting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse teen star Dakota Fanning on the cover of it’s August issue. The magazine released this very brief behind the scenes peek of the photo shoot.

Fanning (who plays evil Jane of the Volturri vampire coven,) and her MC cover, is on newsstands July 13th.

I can’t wait to see the photos. Fanning is great!

The expectations for The Runaways movie premiering at the Sundance Film Festival next Sunday (January 24th) is very high. The movie stars Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, two teenagers in the 70′s who formed the all girl rock group that is still influential to this day.

Fanning’s portrayal of Currie is gaining lots of buzz – the young girl everyone watched as a child will take a bite out of adult stardom with this performance and solidify her transition away from kiddie parts and into the realm that many younger actors find elusive.

“I’m just portraying what was going on with [Cherie] when she was my age,” Fanning said. “I want to continue to act for my whole life. Eventually, everyone will have to let me grow up, somehow, some way. I’m just trying to let that happen as naturally as I can.”

She and Stewart have a great friendship thanks in part to this film (and of course, the Twilight films) and Fanning says that will show on screen. The make-out scene between the two characters will definitely get lots of ink.

What do you think? Ready to see Fanning and Stewart together? Or are you going to miss this all together and wait for Eclipse in June?

Twilight star Ashley Greene was on the verge of heading back to Florida until she landed the Alice Cullen role and her life has changed dramatically. Her New Moon costar Michael Sheen (Aro Volturri) quizzed her for Interview Magazine on what it’s like to be part of this huge franchise:

SHEEN: Now there’s so much more to this whole Twilight thing than just the films, isn’t there? There’s everything that goes with it—it’s a huge sort of phenomenon. What’s it like being right at the epicenter of that whole thing?

GREENE: [sighs] It’s a really hard thing to wrap your head around. I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in Twilight, put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out. I did four independent films during the break between Twilight [2008] and New Moon. I haven’t even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it’s incredible.

The actress has lots of movies coming up: Skateland will show at the Sundance Film Festival in January and she has just found her leading man, Sebastian Stan, for the upcoming flick Apparition. Check out the rest of the interview – Sheen is quite funny with his questions.

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The Volturri are a big problem for the Cullens. The meanest of vampires, the coven is introduced to us in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Here is a clip giving us a sneak peek at the eternal bad guys of the night.

Get ready: ‘New Moon’ opens on November 20th.

Dakota Fanning graces the cover of Teen Vogue for December 2009. Here are a few excerpts fromThe Twilight Saga: New Moon & Eclipse star interview:

On maturing in Hollywood: “I’m going to get older. . . And I want to act for the rest of my life — it’s what I love — so I have to move forward with my career. The choices that I make might not always please everyone, but I have to do what I feel is appropriate and right for the time.”
On acting out: “I get my rebellion out through my movies. I’m boring in that way. I enjoy having a normal life.”
Kristen [Stewart] on Dakota: “Dakota is one of the most consistent actors I’ve ever worked with. I’m always better with her.”

Fanning is starring as the evil vampire Jane of the Volturri gang for The Twilight Saga films and will be in the musical biopic The Runaways with Kristen Stewart, due out in 2010.

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