‘Breaking Dawn’ Stars React To Fans’ Premiere Tent City

More than 1,000 “Twilight” fans are anxiously awaiting Monday’s premiere of “Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” already camping out and lining up outside LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles.

But what do the “Breaking Dawn” stars themselves think of the Twi-hard tent city?

Access Hollywood caught up with Kellan Lutz and Christian Serratos on the red carpet of the Nylon Guys November issue release party on Thursday night in West Hollywood to get the scoop.

“I really want to go out to tent city,” Kellan told Access Hollywood.

“My friends told me, ‘I think you make the record for two premieres in one week at the Nokia Theater,” he added, referring to the LA Live-held premiere of his other November film, “Immortals,” which sees him playing a young-looking Poseidon.

Kellan, who plays Emmett Cullen in “The Twilight Saga,” isn’t the only cast member jazzed by the #OccupyTwilight phenomenon.

“I heard about tent city like an hour ago. I had no idea that fans were out there already,” Christian, who plays Bella’s human friend Angela Weber, told Access. “I know they do it every movie, but for them to be out there already is very cool, very supportive.”

Christian can’t wait to see the premiere either because she admitted that “Breaking Dawn” is her favorite installment in Stephenie Meyers’ book series.

“I’m more excited for this movie than I have been for any of the others,” the actress, who was sporting a funky Forever 21 top and black and white Chanel sneakers, added. “And I’m in it the least!”

One of her favorite scenes to film was the exchanging of vows between Edward and Bella.

“It felt like a real wedding. It was emotional…especially because they made the wedding the very last scene we all shot together,” she said.

When asked the inevitable question, Team Edward or Team Jacob, the 21 year-old actress didn’t hesitate for a single second before replying.

“I used to play it cool and say I was neutral, but [expletive] it — I’m Team Edward!” Christian told Access.

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1” premieres this coming Monday, November 14. “Part 2” follows in November 2012.

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Driver: Documentary Crew ‘Owned’ Jackson Doctor

The doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson’s death was given lavish perks by producers of a documentary on his case, a security guard who drove the physician to-and-from court daily said Friday.

Louis Perry, head of Kadima Security Services, said producers often took Conrad Murray to booze-filled dinners at upscale restaurants, paid for a 12-seat van outfitted with cameras and may have paid for the suit Murray wore on Monday when he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

Perry said he was never paid for his work as Murray’s driver and security detail, but the physician gave him permission to talk to reporters about what he saw.

“They paid to have full access,” Kadima said. “They were shadowing his every move.”

It remains unclear whether the perks Murray received run afoul of regulations intended to prevent convicts from profiting from their crime.

Perry said he didn’t comply with a request to allow Murray to be filmed right before Monday’s verdict was read, and refused to grant the filmmakers the right to use his likeness in the documentary titled “Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship.” The documentary has aired in England and will premiere Friday night in the United States on MSNBC.

Perry said he couldn’t estimate how much was spent on Murray during the six-week trial. He said he wasn’t sure if producers paid for Murray’s new wardrobe, but he was told to bring the doctor to an upscale department store where a tailor was waiting for him.

He said Murray was wearing one of the suits he received after the fitting on Monday, when a seven-man,five-woman jury convicted him.

Producers took Murray to dinners at high-end restaurants where they had “elaborate dinners” complete with expensive wines, champagne and tequila, Perry said.

“You can tell when somebody’s owned,” he said. “They owned him. It was obvious.”

A spokesman for MSNBC’s parent company, NBCUniversal, reiterated an earlier statement that it had licensed the project from the Britain-based company Zodiak Rights and the deal included a promotional interview with Murray that has been airing on NBC’s “Today.”

“Neither Dr. Murray nor his legal defense were compensated in any way,” the statement reads.

Zodiak Productions, which announced hours after Murray’s conviction that it had sold the documentary to broadcasters in several countries, also did not return an email message seeking comment.

The man paying the bills was Leon Lecash, a British producer whose company — which is named what’s it all about? productions — secured rights to Murray’s story before he was charged with Jackson’s death in February 2010, Perry said.

Lecash wrote in an email to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported Perry’s account, that transportation and meal expenses were “legitimate location production costs.” A spokesman for October Films, which was working with Lecash on the project, declined further comment in an email

Murray expressed misgivings about his involvement with the documentary, Perry said. He recalled the doctor telling him, “‘I can’t wait until this is over. I’m tired of having these people around all the time.’”

The Houston-based cardiologist criticizes Jackson in the documentary, which aired in England with the title, “The Man Who Killed Michael Jackson.”

“I went there to take care of a healthy man, who said he was fine, to just keep surveillance in case my kids get sick or I get theflu, help us to choose right, better foods, and wash our hands so we don’t get infected,” Murray said in the film. “But once I got in there I was entrapped.”

Perry said he feels sorry for Murray.

“I feel very bad for him,” Perry said. “I think he was a good man that was preyed upon by people that felt his guard was down. I feel he was led to make some decisions that caused him to be where he is today.”

Murray faces up to four years behind bars when he is sentenced on Nov. 29. He also faces a litany of legal woes, including a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s father and the loss of his medical license in three states.

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Kristen Stewart: ‘Breaking Dawn’ Sex Scene Is ‘All Close-Ups’

There has been much hype surrounding Bella and Edward’s sex scene in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” – but series star Kristen Stewart says it’s not as graphic as many are hoping it will be.

“I think, for me, it really reflects what I felt when I was reading the book,” she recently told MTV News. “It’s funny, because it’s not in the book. It’s totally just what you imagine in between those chapters, but without it, because you imagine it, it leads you to — it picks up right after, and then sort of really indulges in memory. And so I think that’s how you see it.”

So what will Twi-hards actually see Kristen and co-star Robert Pattison doing on the big screen when the next installment of “The Twilight Saga” opens next week?

“It’s not a beginning-to-end sex scene; it’s memories, it’s nice,” she explained. “So because of that, I never really got to shoot, we didn’t shoot a sex scene. It was all close-ups and such.”

During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Thursday, the late night host asked Kristen about the much-talked-about scene.

“Somebody came in and put a stop to all the thrusting?” Jimmy said with a laugh, referring to Kristen and Robert shooting the scene.

“He’s the thruster, obviously,” she said of Robert. “Not me.”

In more Kristen news, the trailer for her upcoming “Snow White & The Huntsman,” debuted on Thursday. See all the fairytale action, HERE!

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