1 During filming, Kristen was very serious about watching her scenes being played back. Immediately after finishing a scene, she would make her way over to the monitors, and often covered the screen with her robe so that she could watch it alone. Wonder what she thought about her kissing scenes with Robert Pattinson? If we were her, we’d definitely be wanting another take. And another. And another…

2 While we watched, cast and crew filmed scenes for Bella’s high school cafeteria at the David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver. Weirdly, the school was being used at the time, so as soon as the bell went the corridors filled with hundreds of stampeding students heading for the gym to peer through the glass, desperate to get a glimpse of the famous cast.

3 Bella is pretty reckless in this movie, dirt-biking and jumping off cliffs. But Kristen didn’t do her own stunts. ‘They wouldn’t let me!’ she complains. ‘I wish I could. I got to jump off a little platform about 3ft high for the cliff scene. For the dirt biking, I got pulled on a motorbike that had this big, dorky training wheel on it,’ she laughs.

4 Luckily, the birthday party scene where Bella cuts herself and vampire Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) can’t resist the smell of her blood, wasn’t too gory on set. ‘Vampires don’t need a massive amount of blood to get feisty,’ says Nikki Reed who plays Rosalie. But Jackson got so worked up during the attack he knocked Elizabeth Reaser (Esme) down and scared Kristen Stewart. Rathbone’s co-stars had to physically restrain him during the scene. ‘I was just going for it,’ he explains.

5 We caught Taylor Lautner in a very uncomfortable harness attached to wires on a huge crane. The ex martial arts champion did a lot of his own stunts, and would run, leap and fly 10ft in the air on wires – then stop with a painful-looking jolt. That’s when CGI makes him a werewolf. ‘My character Jacob is the only wolf that can transform in mid-air, he just snaps and all his clothes fly off!’ Taylor says. We’ll look forward to that.

6 We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw how much sweet little Taylor had bulked up to play Jacob in New Moon. His hot new body was the result of some serious training, not to mention a hardcore diet regime. ‘The hardest thing for me was the eating,’ he tells us. ‘I was on 4,000 calories a day and had to shove as much food in my body as possible, and hit the gym five days a week. Even now my trainer is always bringing me snacks between shots.’ We spied Taylor using resistance bands to do strength-training exercises in his downtime to keep those muscles pumped.

7 In New Moon, Edward steps out into the sunlight in order to expose his sparkling skin and thus the Volturi vampire clan to the world. And in this film, Rob’s sparkly skin special effect will be much better than the last one. Director Chris Weitz says, ‘It was very subtle in the first film. This time we made a 3D model of Rob, so we were able to map every move he made and build an effect that really feels like the light is coming from inside him, and there will be lens flare, as if you were looking at a diamond with the sun shining on it.’ Watch out for that 3D model of Rob for sale on eBay soon!

8 In this scene from the film, Taylor really had to suffer. ‘I was shirtless, only wearing shorts. It was 35°F (2°C) outside and I was being drenched in water that was so ice-cold, I was absolutely freezing. Thank God the scene was only four minutes long.’ But Tay, we’re eternally grateful.

9 For the scene where Bella and Jacob go on a date to the movies with the hapless Mike tagging along, The Old Paramount Theatre in Vancouver was used for the exterior shots. To our horror we discovered these days the inside of the theatre is a lap-dancing club. They must have had to shoot the interior shots somewhere else…

10 The school basketball courts were home to wardrobe and make-up trailers, and as they walked to and fro, Rob and Taylor had minders shading them with enormous golfing umbrellas to shield them from prying camera lenses. Says a minder, ‘Paparazzi are always trying to get on set dressed in camouflage, hiding in bushes, leaping out and disrupting shooting. It’s easier just to keep it quiet where Rob and Taylor are.’ We tell them the big brollies are a bit of a giveaway.

12 The night shoots in Vancouver’s Capilano Park Forest went on until around 4am, and the hardest scenes were Bella’s screaming nightmares about Edward. The crew recreated her entire bedroom in the middle of the woods, Kristen had to sob and scream for hours, and while everyone else wrapped up warm, Taylor Lautner spent most of the shoot with his shirt off. Shame.

13 The story of Twilight is set in Forks, Washington, the rainiest, most cloud-covered place on earth. As vampires can’t go out in the direct sunlight without their skin sparkling and drawing attention to themselves, this is a handy place to live. Unfortunately, Vancouver was so sunny when we were there, Rob couldn’t shoot his exterior scenes. ‘I’d be glinting,’ Rob laughs.

14 We spied Rob having his famously bouffant hair given a quick trim on set. Apparently, this happened every week to 10 days while shooting the movie. Plus, he had his barnet re-styled on-set twice a day by New Moon hairstylist Thom McIntyre, to make sure it remained permanently in its signature tousled state. Diva? Rob? No.

15 In the books, Jacob’s home is a red house, and the production crew found the perfect wild location in the middle of Vancouver’s National Forest. Only problem was, the house was green. ‘It was important to the fan base to keep the red of Jacob’s house. They know it that way, and they wanted it that way. So we ended up painting the whole house red to match the book.’ Hope the owners liked it.

16 Kristen turned 19 while shooting New Moon and celebrated by working all day! Luckily the crew secretly planned a big birthday cake for her. She didn’t know a thing.

17 As Twilight was shot in Portland, Oregon, and New Moon in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bella’s house had to be taken down, moved to Canada, and rebuilt, piece by piece, both the interior and the exterior. But it’s not quite the same as it was in the first movie. There’s a whole new bay window on the side of the house, so Jacob can climb up to her bedroom at night.

18 To kill time, the cast played catch between scenes as Taylor always has a football with him. ‘As soon as I’m done filming I’ll play catch with anybody who will play catch with me,’ he says. ‘Kristen and I play catch all the time and she has a really good arm. She’s extremely accurate.’

19 Kristen nearly got hurt by one of the werewolves. Alex Meraz, who plays Jacob’s tribe member Paul (far left), got carried away and became aggressive towards her in the scene in which Jacob introduces his pack brothers to Bella. Alex says, ‘The wolf pack stays up all night looking for who’s killing people, so I thought it’d be a great idea to stay up for 10 days straight.’ When it came to the scene, he was screaming his lines and grabbed Kristen by the throat. ‘The producers freaked out – no one touches Kristen!’

20 Ashley Greene who plays Alice, the vampire who can see the future, got to drive a real Porsche while shooting in Italy. ‘It was fun,’ says Ashley. ‘I worked with a stuntman before driving it and learned how to do a bunch of things. Then I drove the Porsche in a scene and stopped about 2in from a wall!’

You’re playing Wolverine for the fourth time. This time, it’s the prequel. What’s it about?
Hugh Jackman: There is this battle going on between the human side of Wolverine and the animal side. That is the part of the story I love because we all battle with that. We all have control, but I think there’s a part of us that just wants chaos and anarchy, to do what we want to do. Wolverine is like that, he is fighting that every single day of his life. He’s like a coiled spring ready to pounce. He’s the badass.

How hard did you work out to get ripped for this?
HJ: I wanted audiences to think, ‘This guy could easily rip someone’s head off’, so I worked hard to achieve that physique. I ran and had to lift very heavy weights. Every morning I’d get up and there was a part of me that just wanted to collapse, but you just have to keep going, it’s full-on testosterone. When I’m training, I’m fairly obnoxious, I really make a big thing of it and there is a lot of noise. I play driving music like Metallica that I would never otherwise listen to.

Did you live on protein shakes like a true body builder?
HJ: I consulted a bodybuilder and what I realised is that how you look is 30% how you train and 70% how you eat. No carbs after lunch. Six to eight chicken breasts a day, two at each sitting, 4,000 calories in total. I really enjoyed eating pizza at the end of the movie, trust me, and I had half a dozen beers on the final day of shooting.

What does your wife think of the buffed-up you?
HJ: She loves it. When we met, I was in a prison drama, I had long hair, a mullet, a lot of muscles and tattoos, I was seriously pumped-up. She likes me when I’m in the Wolverine mode, the bad boy, you know? She loves me putting the leather jacket on, getting on the motorbike…

A year ago you were really shy. Do you still hate doing interviews?
I think I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with talking about myself. Before, knowing that everything I said would be taken into consideration intimidated me so much I minced every word that came out of my mouth. I couldn’t finish a sentence because I was so concerned about how it was going to sound. I didn’t want to come across as insincere. Then I realised that instead of refraining from saying ‘I’ve put my heart and soul into this and I love it’, that’s exactly what I should have said.

These films have come out so fast, one after the other, and so much has happened in a short space of time. How do you cope?
I have to say, ‘OK, Kristen, be here. Experience it. Make sure this isn’t another fleeting situation you’re going to barely remember.’ I have to focus on remembering cool moments. I’ve had the coolest two years and I’m so lucky.

What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you with the fans?
I’ve had a lot of fan experiences – some absolutely touching and overwhelming and daunting. But the funniest thing happened in Brazil. Taylor and I were there, but Robert was in Japan. That’s just how it goes sometimes. There was a huge crowd, but this one persistent fella kept chasing after us saying, ‘Where is Robert? Where is Robert?’ I couldn’t stop laughing and I felt really bad because he was distraught and emotional, but I was like, ‘It’s just about Robert!’ I found that funny.

Is it difficult to master the American accent?
Not really. All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It’s weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It’s completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: ‘Where are you from?’ And I would say, ‘Oh, I’m from London.’

In the novels, Edward Cullen is described as gorgeous, do you see yourself as that?
Not really! I put off doing the audition for months because of that. I read the book and I thought, well, there’s no point in going in. I thought the whole point of the part was to give a purely physical performance. Like a modelling job. And I thought, I’m not going to go to the gym for one thing, so I’m already ruled out because he’s meant to have this amazing body too.

So did you get in shape for the role?
(Nods) I did go to the gym for the movie in the end. I didn’t just want to have a six-pack, I wanted to have no fat at all.

What superpowers would you like to have in real life?
I wouldn’t like to read minds. No way. If they’re not going to tell you what they’re thinking, then you wouldn’t want to know. I think I would like to have infinite wishes.

We’ve waited a long time to see Twilight sequel New Moon, and now it’s here, we’re beside ourselves. More tortured love, more hunky men (some with their tops off) more pining, more thrills. And this time, we’ve got not one, but several heart-throbs to drool over. Because, in this film, it’s not all about Edward Cullen.

Jacob Black becomes a man (and a wolf) – he’s got a major role in the film, and as an added bonus, he’s got some rather attractive wolfie friends in tow. The film is even more emotional and high-drama than the first instalment, but that’s why we love it…

For the past month, the Twilighters have been jetting round the world to attend premieres and promote the film. So when we caught up with them, we asked them what questions they never wanted to answer again…
Robert: What’s it like kissing Taylor Lautner.
Taylor: To growl. Fans actually ask me to growl for them, and I really don’t enjoy doing that. So, please don’t ask me to growl.
Kristen: You can ask me anything you want.