MTV has a series of rough cut videos with the several members of the Eclipse cast, where they talk about everything from cardboard cutouts to saddles to action.

Dakota Fanning on Owning A Jane Cardboard Cutout:

Nikki Reed On Being Nervous About Rosalie’s Backstory:

Jackson Rathbone on Saddles:

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Twilight’s Got Talent: Kristen juggles, Billy Burke does a toothpick bar trick, and Julia Jones tries to hit Edward with a football.

What scenes did you read during the casting process?

It was a scene pretty much straight out of the book, Breaking Dawn. The scene where I come and tell Jacob that I want to join his pack.

When we meet Leah in Eclipse, her entire body language is as hostile as her attitude towards Bella… what did you do to represent Leah’s physicality, of a woman newly changed against her will into a wolf?

That’s a really good question and nobody asks me about that. It was such a big part [of Leah]. That was, I would say, one of the biggest ways I kind of found her. The most obvious thing is, which it says in the book, that she’s always frowning; she’s angry a lot so physically, frowning was a part of it. Honestly, I watched wolves — amazing YouTube footage of wolves — and there’s this program about this man who went and lived with wolves. He infiltrated this wolf pack and became the alpha of this wolf pack. It’s long, and I watched the whole thing several times… there are things about how wolves move, and how they carry themselves, and their reactions to things, that I started to incorporate very subtly into how Leah carries herself.

The other thing about the physicality was that I think Leah has a lot of self loathing. The self-esteem issues that are warranted given all the things that she’s going through — those read in your body, too. Physically, it’s like you almost want to hide. You’re not comfortable with your body; you don’t belong, you don’t fit in.

Read the entire interview HERE.

Source: Access Hollywood

On why she likes playing Leah Clearwater, a Native American:
“One of the best parts about playing a member of the wolfpack, all of whom are Quileute, is that I don’t think of us in ethnic terms. Each character has so many intricate layers of detail that have to do with our back stories and our individual struggles. That is something I relish.”