Charlie Bewley of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” fame didn’t grow up pining to be an actor. Instead, the profession snuck up on the British native.
“You think to fit in is the way forward. It’s a very English thing as well, to fit in,” Bewley says during a stop in Denver last week to promote the March 20 “New Moon” DVD/Blu-ray release.
So he went traveling and learned his personality quirks could work to his advantage.
“I’m a little bit different, but it works. You start to explore these things. It opens your mind to the whole world,” he says. “Suddenly, you can do anything you want. No one’s judging you.”
He realized he had been acting all along.
“I pretended to be different people,” he says. “I’m a much more colorful and flamboyant person than I ever allowed myself to be …. when acting came to me it was a very obvious choice.”
Bewley isn’t a household name by any stretch, but he carries himself with the confidence of one. That poise clearly stood out during his audition for Demitri, a member of the Volturi clan in the “Twilight” saga.
“When you’re a vampire and you’ve got a smile on your face its very unnerving,” he says of his approach to the role.
Bewley has a cameo in “Eclipse,” the third film in the franchise.
“We sweep in very superhero like and sort thing out,” he says.
It won’t be the last time audiences see him on the big screen, if he had anything to say about it.
“I’ve worked very hard since getting ’Twilight’ put my myself in the position where I can logistically be cast in big films,” he says.
“You do need to have your [expletive] together as an actor … you’re running a business and you have to run it daily,” he says, crediting his father for instilling in him a sound business mind.
He was just offered a role featuring a Parkour-style of action heroics and has other options, too, he says.
“The work is gradually filtering in,“ he says.
“On every level doors have opened to me thanks to this franchise,“ he says.
(Photo: Actor Charlie Bewley of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” greets fans at the Parker, Colo. Blockbuster store on March 19))
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