And no, we’re not talking about Edward Cullen’s half-bloodsucker demon baby, we mean his now undead wifey Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). And it looks like we’re not the only ones so excited about K.Stew’s transformation:

Fellow Twilight gal Nikki Reed is, too!

We caught up with Nikki over the weekend at the Rolling Stone Super Bowl party and had to ask the chickie—who’s played ice queen Rosalie in all of the vampy flicks so far—if there was any part of BD Pt. 2 that she was particularly excited for fans to see:

“Kristen makes a really awesome vampire,” Ms. Reed gushed to us. “And I think that everybody has been waiting to see how that transformation goes down and she makes a really beautiful vampire.”

So much for costar feuding, eh?!

Must say, our expectations are very high for vampire Kristen. Not only did we love the last few minutes of Breaking Dawn Part 1—in which Bella goes from corpse to vamp babe with pearly white skin and blood red eyes—but we’ve heard K.Stew was eager to take on her new fanged persona.

Remember, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg said it was a “great challenge” for an actor.

So K.Stew must be keeping up with the other vamps then, who’ve already had three films of practice to get used to those pesky contacts and lethal fangs?

“Oh, yeah! For sure,” Nikki assured us. “Totally!”

With the exception of the Duchess of Cambridge, the wedding dress worn by Twilight’s Bella in the new Breaking Dawn: Part 1 film was one of the most eagerly-anticipated of last year.

And for actress Kristen Stewart, it seems, the gown was more than just a costume.

In the new issue of Town & Country Weddings, designer Carolina Herrera revealed that the actress was visibly emotional when trying on the dress.

She said: ‘We did three fittings. When she initially put on the dress and looked over her shoulder into the mirror, she was very moved.

‘In that moment she was not an actress or a character in a film but instead a bride, and a happy one at that.’

Of course it is not lost on us that Miss Stewart’s real-life beau is her co-star Robert Pattinson, and Mrs Herrera’s revelation brings new significance to the scene.

Mrs Herrera, a veteran of the fashion industry who has worked with women as varied as Jackie O and Christina Hendricks, also described how the design of the dress came about.

‘I took into consideration the character of Bella and Kristen’s portrayal of her, and what this fantasy character would choose to wear for the most important day of her life,’ she said.

‘It’s made of a crepe satin with two inserts on the front and beautiful silk thread topstitching.

‘The neckline is a slight V, just enough to see the collarbones. The back is oval-shaped, with a Chantilly lace border veiled in tulle.

‘It’s very romantic, and when all the details come together, it creates a vision specific to Bella’s style and personality.’

The gown, which was apparently inspired by vampire Edward’s Edwardian heyday, took six months to realise, and the designer worked closely with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.

It was worth the effort though. Mr Pattinson told the Today Show last November: ‘It’s an incredible dress. She looks amazing.’

Since the film was released at the end of last year, replica gowns have gone on sale for $799 at Alfred Angelo boutiques.

And Mrs Herrera will be selling more high-end versions for brides-to-be that may be prepared to part with $35,000.

So what do those close to the final Twilight installment have to say on K.Stew’s vamp transformation?

Well, we hope you said so long to the Bella Swan you know and love when you hit the theaters last month.

“You know, Kristen and Bella—synonymously—fidget. They’re awkward,” writer Melissa Rosenberg tells us, “and as a vampire, she’s still. So you have to write toward that, like ‘Remember to move!’ Because as a vampire all that goes away.”

And Melissa seems as excited to see the newbie vamp in action as we are.

“I can’t wait to see Kristen embody that. It’s a great challenge for an actor,” Melissa dished.

And we’re sure K.Stew is up for the challenge—you know the gal love’s to put her acting chops to the test.

“Twilight” starlet Kristen Stewart and actress Anne Hathaway topped Forbes magazine’s list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck, released Tuesday.

For every $1 Stewart is paid, her films yield an average of $55.83, according to the money magazine’s calculations covering projects over the past three years.

The 21-year-old has primarily focused her energy on the massively successful “Twilight” franchise of vampire films and has only taken minor roles in smaller indie projects.

Hathaway, 29, came in at number two on the list — for every $1 she is paid, her films earn an average $45.67.

The newly engaged actress starred in the box office hit “Alice in Wonderland” but her other recent films “Love and Other Drugs” and “Bride Wars” didn’t gain much traction with fans.

In third place on the list is Stewart’s “Twilight” costar and rumored boyfriend Robert Pattinson.
For every $1 the English actor, 25, earns, his films — including “Water for Elephants” and “Remember Me” — earn an average $39.43.

Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck

1. Kristen Stewart: Film yield per $1 paid — $55.83
2. Anne Hathaway: Film yield per $1 paid — $45.67
3. Robert Pattinson: Film yield per $1 paid — $39.43
4. Daniel Radcliffe: Film yield per $1 paid — $34.24
5. Shia LaBeouf: Film yield per $1 paid — $29.40
6. Robert Downey Jr.: Film yield per $1 paid — $18.74
7. Matt Damon: Film yield per $1 paid — $15.83
8. Cate Blanchett: Film yield per $1 paid — $15.17
9. Meryl Streep: Film yield per $1 paid — $13.54
10. Johnny Depp: Film yield per $1 paid — $12.48

Indeed, the 21-year-old has had a great deal to be enthusiastic about. She’s near the end of her Twilight phase of playing the lost-in-love-with-a-vampire Bella, as Part 1 hits theatres to a great deal of anticipation, followed by the already completed Part 2 set for release in November 2012.

The good news for Stewart is that the Twilight franchise has put her in position to do what she wants. For instance, she’s in the middle of playing another iconic character, Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman, shooting in London.

In the fractured action version of the fairy tale, a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is commanded to take Stewart’s Snow White into the woods to be eliminated. Soon enough, the huntsman falls for Snow White and sets about, with Snow White, to de-throne the evil Queen (Charlize Theron) who ordered the murder.

Sure, Bella and Snow White might be variations on the theme of a damsel in distress, but they don’t have much else in common. Yet Stewart is persuaded to compare Bella and Snow White, and the actress attempts to, punctuated by the first of many grabs of her hair.

“I guess the only actual comparison that sticks out in my mind is that they really are both, in different ways, matriarchs,” she said on a break from filming the Snow White movie.

But Stewart’s no expert. She said she got to know Bella over time. Snow White is another story, one that’s not that familiar to her.

“I didn’t grow up on fairy tales,” she said. “I know everyone says that the reason this Snow White thing is so cool is that we’ve all grown up with these stories, but I’m like, ‘Nah, I didn’t.’”

She does appreciate how important both Bella and Snow White are to fans of each.

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She told Empireonline.com: “I have, like, Tourette’s syndrome. I get so mad sometimes if I can’t get something. I have a child in Breaking Dawn and I constantly swear, so there is a swear jar on set that just I ended up paying into.

“Every single time she’d go, ‘I know what you just said!’ and I’d say, ‘No, you didn’t! You didn’t hear that!’ “

Now that filming has finished on the Twilight series, Kristen has moved onto other films, appearing in On the Road and Snow White and the Huntsman, which has seen her move a further out of her comfort zone to embrace more diverse characters.

Kristen – who is in a relationship with her ‘Twilight’ co-star Robert Pattinson – added: “Well I have had a lot of experience playing very contemporary, very close to myself relatable parts, but I find that I have to have that feeling even if it is placed in a different context such as Snow White which is fantastical.

“I’m not, at least not yet, a character actor. But the last few parts that I have played, like I just played Marylou in ‘On the Road’, were so completely different to who I am that it made me realise I can push myself a little more.

“I can probably do things that aren’t within my comfort zone. Not that I try to stay there! It’s just that when you are a particular person you connect to certain things.”

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Dedicated Twilight fans might recognize the song that plays during the long-awaited wedding between Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) when they see Breaking Dawn this weekend (if they haven’t seen it already; the film made over $30 million in midnight screenings Thursday night). It’s a special ‘wedding version’ of the Iron & Wine song, ‘Flightless Bird, American Mouth’ that played during the prom scene in the first Twilight movie way back when in 2008.

“Before we even started shooting the first Twilight with [director] Catherine Hardwicke, I was rehearsing with Rob and we were sort of dancing around this room, trying to do this scene,” Stewart tells EW. “I put on Iron & Wine’s ‘Flightless Bird, American Mouth’ and I just became instantly emotional. Rob couldn’t handle it — it got weird! But I was like, ‘oooh, this is perfect.’”

Stewart says that they ended up playing the song for her on-set when they filmed the actual scene, and the rest is Twilight history. Listen for parts of the song to play during the long-awaited love scene too: “I think our composer played with it and you hear the melody throughout the film,” says Stewart.

Be sure to pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly to read more from Kristen, Robert & Taylor!

Twilight fans might be sad that the five-part series wrapped filming in July, but the saga’s star Kristen Stewart is excited about her next role.

“I’ve had the most indulgent experience on Snow White and the Huntsman so far,” the actress, 21, who plays the title character, told reporters at L.A.’s Breaking Dawn – Part 1 premiere on Monday. “We had a lot of pre-production and I really got close with the director [Rupert Sanders] and [costar] Chris [Hemsworth] and everything, so I’m having a great time!”

And Stewart wants to make one thing clear: She doesn’t feel like she needed much of a break before diving back into a starring role again.

“Obviously everyone thinks it’s a kind of rush to do it,” she says. “[But] it was good timing; I had a little bit of time off in between [filming Breaking Dawn and Snow White]. It was good.”

As for her time working on Twilight – which she calls “pretty unique” – Stewart tells PEOPLE she is grateful for her fans but is “fine either way” with the extreme fanfare or without it.

The ‘Breaking Dawn’ stars talk blood, sex, and that vampire baby

Twihards have long been anticipating seeing Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) honeymoon on Isle Esme and consummate their marriage amid flying feathers. And as audiences will see when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 arrives in theaters this Friday, the love scene does not disappoint. But, according to the stars of the movie, things could have been even more steamy — if it weren’t for director Bill Condon needing to keep the action PG-13. “There’s a version where it was really intense,” recalls Pattinson in this week’s EW. “Cinematically, cut all together, it’s awesome,” says Kristen Stewart. “But we didn’t really do that scene. ”

“And when we did,” adds Pattinson, “they kept telling us to stop.”

The PG-13 rating also limited things with regard to the climactic birth scene, which takes place at the end of the film. “That’s what I’m really disappointed about — and I’ve talked about it with Bill,” says Stewart. “It was more sympathetic or something when I played the scene with less energy, and it made it easier for him to tell the story. But in the book, Bella is screaming, ‘NOOOOO!’ [Stewart stands and demonstrates.] And I did it like that — crazy and Exorcist-like. I was going for this weird mix of turning into the most feral mother you can imagine and also fighting for my own life. I mean, I was a nutcase. I was an absolute nutcase.”

“I do still love the birth scene,” says Lautner. “I know it’s frustrating that some things aren’t in there.”

“Yeah,” says Stewart, “I still love it too.”
For more on Breaking Dawn – plus Kristen Stewart talking about punching Chris Hemsworth in the face on the set of Snow White and the Huntsman – pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Nov. 18.

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TWILIGHT star Kristen Stewart is living an Aussie fairytale on the set of her new film, Snow White and the Huntsman.

The 21-year-old, whose mother is an Australian, originally from Queensland, feels very at home with co-star Chris Hemsworth.

“I feel so incredibly comfortable around him. There is a very particular Aussie mentality and he has got it. He epitomises it,” Stewart told The Daily Telegraph.

“He’s really smart and he’s very impassioned, but he’s also really funny and light and kinda loud.

“His accent is funny. I can’t do it, I’m always trying to mimic him but I cannot do it!”

Snow White and the Huntsmana is a Lord of the Rings-style epic reimagining of the classic fairytale, in which Stewart’s Snow White is a warrior princess on a mission to take down the Evil Queen Ravena (Charlize Theron), with the help of Hemsworth’s Huntsman.

It is currently shooting in England and will be released in June 2012.

“I have an English accent in the film, that’s much easier for me for some reason. That Australian thing is tough,” Stewart said.

Snow White could be another blockbuster franchise for Stewart. Her role as a human, Bella, torn between a vampire and a werewolf has helped the Twilight films gross $1.8 billion worldwide so far.

The second-last film in the series, Breaking Dawn Part 1, opens with midnight screenings tonight.

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