Christopher Polk/Getty ImagesMichael Sheen, who plays dastardly Volturi vampire Aro, summed up last night's epic Breaking Dawn Part 2 premiere best when he cheerfully told us, "It's a real celebration of the whole experience tonight. I can't believe it's only been a few years; it seems like forever. Can you remember before Twilight? I can't even remember that!"
Neither can we...or maybe we just don't want to! Which is why we were in heaven on last night's black carpet, where we got the chance to talk all things Twilight with the cast and crew behind the saga. And we've got tons of scoop to share with all you Twi-hards who've been here since the start.
About That Vampire Sex: Remember the three Twilight films that basically acted as a whole bunch of foreplay leading up to BD1's honeymoon sex scene? Well Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart hit the sheets in this installment too!
"Sex was our big problem in the last movie in terms of the ratings board," director Bill Condon revealed. "Obviously, it's not in this one because it's vampire sex. Vampire with vampire, I hear it's great, but none of us know what it's like. It was all sort of in our imaginations...I think the thing was to try to suggest the merging of their souls."
Which is romantic in thought, but apparently awkward in execution (cue the sideboob)! Bill laughed, "The first movie it wasn't uncomfortable, because that was just sex. But this thing, because it was abstract, I think they felt more like models in a commercial or something. But they were good sports about it."
Taylor Takes It All Off: Edward and Bella aren't the only ones showing some skin in Breaking Dawn Part 2: Taylor Lautner, who's managed to go shirtless in at least one scene in each movie so far, one-ups even himself this time, disrobing completely.
"It was awkward for both of us, I'm not going to lie," Taylor's scene partner, Billy Burke, chuckled. "Some of those moments you just have to go, 'OK. Here we are. And there you are, almost naked. Here I am in front of you.'"
But don't expect to feel all hot and bothered during Jacob's striptease. Instead, you'll probably just realize Taylor is really, really funny. So does he have a future in comedy? Billy weighed in, "I think he's a wildly talented kid and it wouldn't surprise me at all."
All's Well That Ends Well: "There's nothing hanging over my head right now," Condon revealed about how he was feeling attending the finale premiere. "All of us working on finishing the movie, we've been so obsessed about tonight because of the twist that we added and because of the emotion at the end, so it is really something I've been looking forward to."
But, as much hype as there's been about the mysterious "twist," screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg isn't worried. "There has been a polarizing reaction to all of them," she told us, noting that she "[doesn't] go off book at all." "You can't satisfy all the people all the time. You hope you satisfy the bigger majority of them, but you can go online to any fan site and they'll tell you how horribly I've messed up every adaptation."
Cue The Waterworks: We wouldn't have blamed any of the cast members for getting a little misty eyed last night—after all it was the last time they'd all be together to celebrate a Twilight film. But instead the cast just wanted to talk about how much they love each other.
"She's been never anything but one of the most solid individuals I've ever worked with," Kristen Stewart's onscreen dad, Burke, recalled of working with her over the years. "Just really true to her and I'm nothing but proud of her."
Cullen matriarch Elizabeth Reaser chimed in, "I think I'll miss those 18-hour days with Peter Facinelli and the cast and Nikki [Reed]…It's a very crazy thing when you're in a room with people for 18 hours straight. You start to lose your bond and you bond on such a deep level that you really do become a family."
And some will just miss their onscreen alter ego. Like Kellan Lutz: "I love my character, I really do," he gushed. "As an actor, I already love what I do, but when you find a role that you're just obsessed with playing, it doesn't matter how many lines. The feeling of me playing him I'm going to miss."
There's Always the DVD: Which will surely have at least one highly anticipated special feature: That dance-off scene! We've heard about it from various members of the Cullen clan, but now we have all the details straight from the masterminds.
"It was my original idea," new vamp Mía Maestro boasted. "We had been still for way too long. You don't want to have actors still for too long. It was like seven weeks that we had been still, so we just needed to dance."
But there's some good news and some bad news. The bad? "Here's the deal: Rob and Kristen learned it, as my memory serves," Toni Trucks, another new vamp and self-proclaimed "dance captain" filled us in. "But I believe they were both wrapped before we did it."
The good? Toni continued, "I'm not sure if you've ever seen Peter Facinelli shake his groove thing. It's not to be missed."