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It Is Fun, Revisiting A Role. Usually, As An Actor, You Do A Movie And You Put That Character Up On A Shelf, And He's Done. That Character Is Now Immortalized On Film, But You Don't Get To Play Him Again. In These Films [twilight Saga], We Got To Revisit These Characters, And We Didn't Take That For Granted.

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It Is Fun, Revisiting

Kellan Lutz

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It Is Fun, Revisiting A Role. Usually, As An Actor, You Do A Movie And You Put That Character Up On A Shelf, And He's Done. That Character Is Now Immortalized On Film, But You Don't Get To Play Him Again. In These Films [twilight Saga], We Got To Revisit These Characters, And We Didn't Take That For Granted.

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