Roy, the photographer, wants the ladies on set. They lie down on a riser, their red dresses flowing around them like blood. The song "Tainted Love" is playing.
After the shoot is over, Howard, Reed and the lovely Native American actress Julia Jones ▬ who in Eclipse plays a new character, Leah Clearwater ▬ are relaxing on a couch, winding down.
"I told my friend I was doing something with you guys today," Jones says, "and she was like, "You guys are, like, the three most emotionally unstable characters in the whole series.'"
"Emmotionally unstable?" jokes Reed. "I don't know what you're talking about. Rosalie knows exactly what's going on. You two are just psychos."
"Actually," says Jones, "I think Rosalie is my favorite character."
"Really?." Reed says. "Aw."
"Because she knows what she wants," Jones says. "I think one of the tragedies of Rosalie is she's really misunderstood. My character is really similar to gers, actually."
Jones, 29, had appeared in a handful of independent films when she was cast as Leah, the only female along the wolf pack. "The wolves are the natural enemies of the vampires," she explains, "but in Eclipse, they join forces with them to fight the newborns."
"The social division between the groups of monsters was apparently echoed in the interaction of the actors on set. "It's just like high school," says Reed, "in that the wolves really don't hang out with the vampires."