Eclipse' stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner reveal the friendship effect

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It's no secret that being at the fore of the Twilight bubble has rendered Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner friends. They've traveled the world together, spent countless hours on the set with one another, and joined hands for promotion upon promotion over the past three years, basically.
The Insider got the chance to interview the three about how their friendships did or did not affect the set of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and it seems that, for the guys at least, there was a bit of added difficulty brought on by their closeness, but for Kristen Stewart, the relationship had less of an impact upon her work for the film.
Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson admitted the most difficulty in it came from some of the more tense moments between the characters Edward and Jacob.
“One of the biggest challenges, is having to hate Edward. But having to hate Rob . . . I can’t look him in the eyes and hate him . . . it’s challenging because he’s such a funny, nice guy, and we have these scenes where we’re yelling and screaming at each other and he’s grabbing my shoulder and I’m shoving it off . . . it’s difficult, and as soon as they call cut, we just bust out laughing,” Taylor Lautner said.
“When we’re doing fight scenes, I’m kind of trying to act all tough and everything, and there’s this scene where I’m trying to grab his shoulder, and his shoulder’s too big to get a grip on. He just kept patting my hand off . . and we’re supposed to both be superheroes, but then I kind of get him back because he’s got to do a bunch of scenes when he was wearing a sort of wolf suit, and you could go up and sort of pinch his spandex,” Robert Pattinson added.
“It is definitely a good question, like is it weird working with your friends . . . is it too close to home, does it ever just not make sense to you because you know each other too well? . . . Because we met each other in that space I think it’s easy because that’s like where we . . . I don’t know, it informs our relationship . . . Because we all like really love this movie, it’s like I don’t know . . it’s what we do, it doesn’t get weird at all . . . It’s like fun to go back to it,” Kristen Stewart concluded.