Christian Interview

MTV: So, Christian, what is the favorite costume you've seen here so far at TwiCon?

Christian Serratos: I thought it was really entertaining when I saw a Harry Potter character. [Laughs.] We were like, "Whoa!"

MTV: There's also one guy dressed as a Vulcan from "Star Trek," for some reason.

Serratos: I heard that! I want to see this. I'm interested to see all this craziness. I love all the "Twilight" stuff and all the [fans] that are in clothes and jackets. I have so many "Twilight" T-shirts, it's ridiculous. I walked out in a "Twilight" sweatshirt one time when I was trying to be incognito with Edi [Gathegi], and we were like, "Why is everyone staring? This is weird, this is more than usual." And then he was like, "Take off the 'Twilight' shirt, Christian!"

MTV: That's really funny. I always wondered with sports stars, if you were on a baseball team, would you wear their baseball cap when you go out in public? Maybe if you were a rookie?

Serratos: Yeah, well, I'm such a rookie. [Laughs.]

MTV: What do you have in your "Twilight" clothes collection?

Serratos: I have a lot of "Twilight" gear. I love the hoodies that say "vampires" and "werewolves," but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob.

MTV: Why is there no "Team Human" stuff?

Serratos: That's what I'm saying! I think we should take it into our own hands.

MTV: What kind of merchandise would you like to see for Angela, Mike and the other humans?

Serratos: Probably it would be an imitation of my glasses? ... [It would be easy] going to a convention where you have to dress up, and you're like "Oh, I am dressed up!" "No you're not!" "Yes I am. I'm a human!"

MTV: OK, so let's talk "New Moon" a little bit. How was the shoot?

Serratos: Chris [Weitz] was amazing, like, fantastic. I was really happy working with him. We shot in Vancouver [British Columbia], which was a good change from Portland [Oregon]. I love the city Portland, and I've been back there since, but in Vancouver the weather was a lot better, and I didn't wanna die at the end of the day, because it wasn't extremely cold. I'm excited to go film "Eclipse." That's gonna be next month already — they are already cranking it out.

MTV: And they'll be shooting that in Vancouver as well?

Serratos: Yeah. I haven't read the script yet. I didn't bring my laptop with me, so I saw it on my phone — on my e-mail — and I was like, "I wish I could download this as an attachment, but I can't!"

MTV: How were the re-created sets in Vancouver? Obviously, most of your stuff takes place in the school cafeteria.

Serratos: Yeah, they did a really good job re-creating things. Obviously, we didn't have the same parking lot and everything. There were a lot of green screens and things. I don't even know how they do it.

MTV: Was it weird walking into the "new" cafeteria with the other humans?

Serratos: Yeah, because the cafeteria was still a cafeteria. When we walked into that cafeteria, we were like, "We're in a different country, and it still looks exactly the same!" Like, seriously, they could have just picked it up and dropped it in Vancouver. It looks identical — that was creepy until I got used to it. But the parking lot, that is what was green-screened.

MTV: What did you think of the footage we saw at Comic-Con, of Rob as a "hallucination"?

Serratos: I still haven't seen it; but I wanted to stay and watch it. Rob's gonna be in it a lot more [than in the book]. I really love how they did that. It was really clever.

MTV: You seem like you're as much of a fan as an actor sometimes.

Serratos: Oh, God, yeah. We're all "Twilight" fans. We all read the books, we all fell in love with the books — and being a part of it is great and everything, but we want to see the footage!