Above, Jamie Campbell Bower plays vampire Caius in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” Below, Jamie Campbell Bower poses at a photocall for “New Moon” at last month’s Rome Film Festival.

Actor Jamie Campbell Bower (“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”) joins the “Twilight” film franchise with the sequel “New Moon” as Caius, one of the leaders of the Volturi vampire coven.

“We are basically the vampire government, I guess. We’re there to sort of keep all the vampires in check. People keep describing us as evil. I wouldn’t say we’re evil necessarily. We’re the government and not everybody likes the government, which is fine. So, we’re there to keep everybody in check. Without us … it would be vampire anarchy,” he said during a recent “New Moon” press conference in Los Angeles.

The British actor also is a newcomer to the “Harry Potter” franchise. He is playing Gellert Grindelwald, an old wizarding friend of Albus Dumbledore, in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” and “Part 2.”

“The ‘Twilight’ phenomenon cinematically is relatively young so there’s still a lot of growth there to go with the film and there’s still a lot of connections to be made between cast and crew and stuff, whereas with ‘Potter’ they’ve been going for 10 years now. It’s a machine, ‘Potter.’ You go in, you do your thing and then you go on, whereas with this, it’s a lot more finding out about everything and a lot more exploration to do in general,” he said.

“They’re still working on it. They’re shooting simultaneously because they’ve obviously got lots of time scheduled and they have to do both side by side,” he said.

“At the moment, I’ve only worked on it for about a week. I think I’ve got another week and a bit to go.”

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” Week continues here on BAM’s Blog, and of course, Friday is the big day. Not only is the film opening, but I’ll have features on Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart, along with my review of the movie.

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