The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' star Xavier Samuel gets interviewed by Bryce Dallas Howard

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For the second time in Twilight history (the first time being with Ashley Greene and Michael Sheen from The Twilight Saga: New Moon) it is a Saga co-star who's put the featured Interview Magazine guest on the spot (note that Kristen Stewart has also appeared in the publication, interviewed by Dennis Hopper). This time it's Xavier Samuel who was interviewed by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse co-star and on-screen love interest Bryce Dallas Howard.
In the feature, director David Slade explains why this young guy from Sydney, Australia was asked to audition in Vancouver.
"I initially saw a Quicktime movie of Xavier auditioning for Riley and immediately knew he had something," he explained. "It was that intangible something that you can’t quite describe but that you know is worth watching."
It's a good thing Slade chose to pursue that "intangible something" because not only is Xavier Samuel a great actor for the part, but he is also quite the interesting person.
About his acquisition of the role as "Riley Biers" for Eclipse, Samuel said to Howard, "A lot of the roles I’ve played in Australia have been kind of introspective boy-next-door things, so it was juicy to get to play a villain who’s being manipulated in this bloody Macbeth scenario. But it’s also kind of intimidating, in a way, to step onto a big set like that for the first time. There was no real frame of reference for me, because most of the films I’ve been involved with in Australia have been smaller in scale."