Miss Andi at Vanity Fair has the first of two interviews with the Wolf Pack- This gem with Alex Meraz offers great insight- you can find the whole interview over at Vanity Fair!

Had you seen the first Twilight movie?

No, I hadn’t, but after I got the role, I bought a bootlegged version and watched it while I was on set. What was your favorite scene to shoot? The cliff diving scene was the most fun because the whole Wolf Pack was there and we were jumping off these 50-foot scaffolding things onto an air mattress. It was pretty exciting to be able to do our own stunts.

You didn’t have stunt doubles at all?

No! They were pushing for it, we were pushing against; we wanted to do our own stuff. We had to train for a good two days, eight hours each day just practicing jumping, making sure we were landing safely. On the day [of shooting], we were actually jumping from a green screen cliff but it was actually taller and a little bit more dangerous because there was foliage and grass on top of it—it was a little slippery. We were fine, and it was really fun.

What was it like having to come together and bond as the Wolf Pack?

We were entirely new, and it was a lot easier. We relied on each other to get through everything. There was so much to learn, but it was organic. We spent a lot of time together at the gym, and that’s what helped. As far as the original cast from Twilight, they were really cool. We didn’t spend much time with them because all of our scenes were really just with the Wolf Pack. It was easy.

Taylor [Lautner] did have some experience from the first film …

His bigger role was coming in New Moon, so he was new to it, too. We kind of all learned together. Taylor’s an amazing person. He really knows how to even everything out for himself—the work, the play, the socializing. He’s a really smart guy. I look at him as being a little man.

“Someone started yelling at me because they didn’t like my character,” Meraz told us last night at a Carrera Vintage Sunglasses party at the Chateau Marmont hotel.

“I play a bad boy, so she got mad at me,” he added. “She said, ‘I hate you, Paul!’ That was the craziest thing for me—being confused for a character.”

“I yelled back at her, ‘I love you, too!’” he said.

But Rob still holds the prime sex-symbol status:

“Rob’s just kind of soaking it up for everyone,” Meraz said. “I’m happy to have just a smidgen of what he’s got…I’m not worried about being a sex symbol.”

It sounds like Meraz will be around for awhile. He kind of revealed that he may already be signed on to reprise his role in the third Twilight flick. “The next movie we’re doing is Eclipse, so I’ll wait to read the book a couple weeks before we start doing it, so I can really focus on it,” Meraz said. “I don’t want to spread myself too thin.”

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Another goodie to add to TwiCrack’s NPC campaign, courtesy of Runaway with Fate and Twi-Freaks.

HUBBA! Visit Alex Meraz’s Official MySpace page for his latest bedroom eyed “come hither” pic:

Thanks for the swoon this morning, NMM!

hee-hee- I like this one…

These boys run a steamy 108 degrees in New Moon, and just looking at this poster is enough to make my temperature rise…

USA Today reveals:
Four actors — Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier, all with Native American heritage — join Taylor Lautner, 17, who returns as a hairier, scarier Jacob Black. The plotline finds Jacob growing closer to a distraught Bella (Kristen Stewart) after her vampire beau, Edward, runs off.

Among wolf pack job requirements: the ability to work half-naked no matter what the weather in the Vancouver, B.C., area, where the film has been shooting for several weeks.

“It’s not pleasant for the actors,” says director Chris Weitz. “But they have all been good-natured. They show up on location in drenching, cold rain, and I say, ‘OK, off with the robes.’ “

Thanks to Peace, Love, Twilight for the HAWT tip…

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Alex Meraz dished to E! at the Armani Exchange watch launch party last night.

“He smells like roses! The first time I met him, I was like, ‘Dude, you smell fantastic!’” Alex continued. “I don’t know where people get this stuff from.”

What was Rob’s reaction to Alex’s opening line?

“He blushed and did his hair thing,” Meraz said. “He’s comfortable in his own sexuality.”

photo by Jacob Black’s Lil WolfGirl

Yesterday, Alex Meraz talked to Access Hollywood about his role; today he expands on those thoughts:

Ok, so he really talks about the great fans and being half-nekked in cold Vancouver while filming the awesome transformation scene.

I’m impressed. The more I see of Mr. Meraz clothed and speaking, the more I’m looking forward to watching his acting skills, instead of simply focusing on how hulky his pecs are….

Get a taste of Alex Meraz Monday night on PBS. Check your local listing for times. New Moon Movie has the scoop:

Just before New Moon, Alex took part in the upcoming five-part television series “WE SHALL REMAIN: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE” as a WARRIOR in the episodes “AFTER THE MAYFLOWER” and “TECUMSEH” (episodes 1 & 2 respectively) .

Though his role might be minor, spotting him will be like a game of Where’s Waldo.

Enjoy a dose of history watching this groundbreaking mini-series project that establishes American history through the perspective of the Native American eyes. Each of the episodes focuses on important historical events and concludes with a short contemporary story that links the past to the present.

Photos from Here on Earth Aboriginal series