COSMONEWS Interview

A balding man in his 40s Ashley leans over, points to the door, and whispers to us, “Is that the girl from Twilight?” Sure enough, it is. has Greene just arrived at a trendy New York City restaurant for our in- terview wearing jeans, a crew- neck black sweater, and ballet Knew flats. The petite brunette— she’s 5 feet 5 inches tall and whisper thin—flashes a smile and says “Hey, I’m Ashley!” in a high-energy way that seems, This well, exactly like Alice. It’s been more than two years since Twilight made her an in- stant A-lister, and the 23-year-old Would can’t go anywhere without being recognized. Given that she has four upcoming movies—part one of The Twilight Saga: Break- ing Dawn, a scary flick called The Happen Apparition, LOL with Miley Cyrus, and the quirky comedy Butter—and that she just be- came the face of Mark cosmetics, her fame factor is about to reach ridiculous levels. One look at her glowing face and you can tell that Ashley is psyched about all of it. While Twilight costars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have both admitted to feeling awkward in You’d think the combo of the spotlight, Ashley handles massive fame and a steamy the attention with total grace. new romance would have her After she asks the waiter for head spinning. But like her asparagus soup and a chicken Twilight character, Alice, she club sandwich, she tells us why pretty much saw it all coming. she’s been able to take it all in stride. “When I moved to Los By Bethany Heitman She makes even a sweatshirt Angeles, I sort of knew this Photographs by Cliff Watts look smokin’. American Apparel; shorts: Citizens of Humanity. See page 170 for shopping information. information. shopping for 170 page See Humanity. of Citizens shorts: Apparel; American would happen to me,” she says, Fashiondirector: Michelle McCool. Hair: TedGibson for tedgibsonbeauty.com at Jed Root Inc. Makeup: Linda Hay at the Wall Group. Manicure: Elle for artistsbytimothypriano.com. Top: again sounding like her vampire alter ego, Alice, who can see the future. “You have to have that

JANUARY 2011 / COSMOPOLITAN 25 COSMO 26 essa on Jessica Szohr (who now plays Van- Jasper and Emmett in playing up end would (who Lutz Kellan and Rathbone Jackson like hanging with fellow up-and-comers dinner bills on nights when she was dan Punk’d like shows on roles small enough landed year. She a within working started and actresses aspiring apartment with two other supported my choices.” always She’s other. each very close and can relate to when she wasme had 16, mom so my we are“Plus, explains. got a manager before I moved,” she legal daughter running off to L.A. “I parents were cool with their not-yet- her Surprisingly, herself. by all les high school, she moved to Los Ange- graduating after Right star. movie Ashley was dead set on becoming a what I wanted to do.”was it that realized instantly and class acting an try to decided I So great model. But that didn’t happen. was told if I grew taller I would be a seconds. “I dabbled in it for a bit and to taste the soup that arrives within where I grew up,” she says, stopping Florida, in classes modeling in me 14-year-old, put scious mom my so killer confidence. “I was a self-con- low self-esteem into a teenager with with kid a from morph her helping for thank to mother her has Ashley Getting the Gig with a certain Jonas Brother. and eventually cause her to crossbig movepaths that would launch hertitude gavecareer her the guts to make the pen—in order to make it.” That at- it’smentality—that hap- to going She moved into an an into moved She By the time she turned 17 in 2007, to help pay the rent and possibly COSMOPOLITAN NEWS and and Crossing Jor- ). Twilight / JANUARY 2011 ) and fairylike Alice and signed her on. “As thought she was perfect to play the thing in my power to get the role.” decided that I was going to do every- in love with it,” she says. “Rightup then,the novel.I “I read it in a day and fell were looking for!” was terrified. I had no idea what they polite bites, and widens her eyes. “I wich, which she’s been eating in tiny, pire,’ ” Ashley puts down her sand- ‘Alice Cullen, girl, 18 years old, vam- was said it all was, role the what of Twilight in a movie based on some book called told her about an audition for a role nights in on quiet watches What she The people casting the movie movie the casting people The She raced to a bookstore and picked agent her 2007, October in Then THE COSMO QUIZ ______If I wasn’t acting, I’d probably be ______but werewolves are ______, Vampires are ______me is ______e: e: Other:Other: ______.______. d. d. WantedWanted RobertRobert Pattinson’sPattinson’s autograph.autograph. c. c. Didn’t Didn’t have have a a job. job. b. b. Had Had a a reallyreally hairy hairy chest. chest. a. Chewed with his mouth open. I I could could never never date date a a guy guy who… who… Nickname: Nickname: ______Name: ______If I wasn’t acting, I’d probably be ______but werewolves are ______, Vampires are ______me is ______. “When I got the breakdown Twi-hardTwi-hard hashas everever saidsaid toto The craziest thing a e. e. Other:______Other:______d. d. c. b. a. watching is: The TV show I can’t stop Gossip Girl Jersey Shore ______. ______. The h T The h T Top Chef

Vampire Diaries Vampire Diaries ...... ______My My go-to go-to first-date first-date outfit outfit is is ______. ______. ______The most fearless thing I’ve ever done is c. c. TeamTeam Jonas. Jonas. b. b. TeamTeam Jacob. Jacob. a. Team Edward. If I had to pick, I’d be on: ______. ______. e. e. Other: Other: ______d. d. Need Need lots lots of of alone alone time. time. c. Overthink everything. b. Sit back and let the guy do the romancing. a. Wear the pants. In relationships, I tend to: ______. ______. e. e. Other: Other: ______d. Busy schedules mean never gettingc. to The constant rumors in tabloids. b. Fighting off all his female fans. a. The insane paparazzi attention. celeb celeb is: is: The hardest part about dating another clicked,” she remembers. “In Holly- instantly we and big, it hit had she her out by a pool in Losfame hasn’tAngeles gone to herbefore head. “I met walking by. her of glimpse a catch to hours for fans would show up on set and wait icated countless Websites to her, and out, Ashley had fans. Twi-hards ded- came movie first the before Even Twilight be for me.” really would it huge how ticipated important. I just couldn’t have an- “I knew it was going to be something the part, I had this feeling,” she says. soon as I got the call telling me I had see each other. see each other. Szohr loves that Ashley’s sudden Ashley’s sudden that loves Szohr Fever

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(This page, from left) Photofest; courtesy of Repetto. (Opposite page) tunic: Rachel Pally. tention tention is a possibility.” for 20 years? Everyone knows this at- like when celebrities complain about it,focus it’s is so hard that I want to cry. ButI’ve had my days where the intense we’re all going through the andsame we’ve thing.become very close because “All our lives were turnedalong incrediblyupside welldown, helped her deal. gets that cast a of part being insists time she stepped out in public,nitely but feltshe the pressure to perform every have a steady gig after that.” to make another four. I knew I would “All I could think was, Yup,could we’reget a glimpsegoing of us,” saysout Ashley. for days before theof premierewhat she so wasthey a partlight of. “Fans camped just because she’s famous now.” hasn’t lost sight of what’s important She is. still she And sweet. and ing are self-obsessed. But she was outgo- wood, you meet a lot of people who place. So it’s better just to stay quiet.” if you break up it will be all over the to be with them, you have “Thento when worryyou decide youthat do want before you even like them,” she says. suddenly you’re in love with someone pictures or hear part of a quote, and pressure to a relationship. People see “When you talk to the media, it adds gush until you know it’s a sure thing. so quickly, it seems pretty smartwood not romances to flare up and burn out Ashley is keeping her lips zipped. about their relationship with spoke others—who among Lovato, theDemi singer,and Swift friends—Taylor Joe’sUnlike months. girl- former ing up with Joe Jonas for the past few do. Ashley’s been photographed cozy- a guy who has just as many fans asis youtwice as difficult when you’re Ofdating course, dealing with the paparazzi First Comes Love… With the sudden fame, Ashley defi- Ashley fame, sudden the With It wasn’t until the premiere of We can’t say we blame her. Holly- her. blame we say can’t We really that the starlet realized the scope ? Have you been under a rock Twi- actress, I’ll be better at it. But right an as career my solidified pletely think in five years, when I’ve com- busy career and her relationships. “I she’s not very good at balancing her girlfriend…although she admits that cliff. Talk about fearless.” 50-foot-high the off jumped who girl only with the was she and diving friends, cliff went We ous. back,” he says. “And she’sright adventur-it take can and fun poke to tiful, she’s a guy’s girl. Ash isn’t afraid sonal life. “Even though she’s beau- reveal what Ashley’s like in her per- Sounds like she makes a kick-ass kick-ass a makes she like Sounds to willing was Lutz Thankfully, pressure. graceful under She stays JANUARY 2011 friends to get married!” I’ve said that I will be the first of my you’ll stay together. Watch, now that says. “But a ring doesn’t ensure that forever,” person that she have they say can they so married get people sometimes think I marriage. about where it’llsure take her. “I’misn’t indifferent she relationship, great we communicate constantly.” nected. Even if it’s a quick text or ship call,by doing small things to stay con- plications of a long-distance relation- said, I am willing to work out the com- I have to go work,’ ” she says. “That now, I often have to say, ‘I’m sorry, but And while it seems Ashley’s in a in Ashley’s seems it while And / COSMOPOLITAN 27 N