BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD says she was thrilled by her role as villainous vampire Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Not only is the character a more edgy counterpoint to the ethereal romance between Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), but it’s also something of a departure for Howard, who was previously known for what The Village director M Night Shyamalan called her “American purity.”

She says she loved going to the dark side to embrace the destructive impulses of Victoria in the film, which sees Bella face a choice between fangs or fur (vampiric Edward or Taylor Lautner’s wolfboy Jacob Black) and is released in the UK this Friday, July 9.

“Vengeance, resentment and fury – these were totally exciting and exhilarating things for me to play and to live in unapologetically”, said Howard.

“And it’s definitely not a mindset I’ve had a chance to explore in my work”, she told The Times. (… Read more)

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