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Behind-the-scenes ‘Eclipse’ tidbits

By Rick Bentley

McClatchy Newspapers

LOS ANGELES — The third installment in the girl-meets-vampire saga, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” hit theaters Wednesday. Here are tidbits about the film from the cast, director and screenwriter.

* It doesn’t take Robert Pattinson long to get into character. All he has to do to become Edward is slip in the contact lenses that give him vampire eyes.

“They make me miserable as soon as I put them in. That’s what creates the pouting and brooding character,” Pattinson says.