Comic Con's "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" Panel: Taylor Lautner Can Really "Move His Hips"

Having so far spent nearly 36 hours standing in horrifically long lines, sitting in on panel discussions filled with fanboy-pandering celebrities, getting little to no sleep, not eating for more than 12 hours at a stretch and being jostled and shoved around by an insane army of fan-geeks dressed in all manner of outlandish superhero costumes, I can now say with 100% sincerity that I hope never to be forced to endure the horrors of Comic Con ever again.

In fact, if I could snap my fingers and instantly transport my tired ass back to Los Angeles at this very moment, I have no doubt that I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Yesterday's activities started out early, with the breathlessly-anticipated press conference for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 being first on the agenda. Ah yes, Breaking Dawn – the latest installment in the teen-friendly sparkly-vampire series that has over the last three years reduced millions upon millions of young girls all around the world to quivering, fleshy mounds of pubescent hysteria. And some boys, too.

The main event, as it were, approached with the sense of anticipation building steadily in the large Bayfront Hilton conference room as we breathlessly awaited the arrival of the series' three main stars. I, for one, had to struggle to contain my excitement.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner

And then there they were, finally, the tension in the room bursting immediately as lead trio Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner entered and took their seats. It was all I could do to keep from crying, though whether it was from a sense of joyful elation or utter exhaustion I couldn't be sure. (Note: there was some old guy there too, who I later found out was the director. I guess his name is Bill-something-or-other.)[Editor's note: Chris is kidding. I think.]

The member of the panel who immediately stood out to me was Pattinson, who boasted a particularly bizarre haircut (it was a look that could best be described as "meth addict") and his trademark "I don't really wanna be here" attitude that seems to be growing more and more apparent with every film and which is actually quite frustrating to witness.

Robert Pattinson

"What was it like filming in Brazil, and how does it feel to be loved all over the world?" was the first question out of the gate.

"[Brazil is] nice, it's different. I don't know if its 'love' necessarily," said Pattinson. And as for being "loved all over the world"? "One of the interesting things about having an international fanbase [is] every single country has a totally different reaction to you and the movie," he continued. "In Brazil [fans] would literally just go up and try and grab you!"

Next up was a discussion of whether Breaking Dawn (which concludes next November with Breaking Dawn Part 2) will indeed be the last we see of the Twilight universe up on the big screen.

"Uh yeah, like breakfast time," said Pattinson to start off, at which point he dissolved into a red-faced bout of the giggles. I think he meant it was too early to be answering such difficult questions as "do you think this is the last we'll see of Twilight?", but it was nevertheless an odd moment that had even Stewart looking completely flummoxed.

"I think [author Stephanie Meyer] always says it's the end of the Bella/Edward story," said the gray-haired director man, attempting to restore some semblance of order. "But especially in the second [Breaking Dawn] movie there are so many new characters that I...suspect she'll want to revisit it."

For her part, the very sweet but usually self-conscious Stewart was far less incoherent than usual as she described shooting the highly-secretive Edward/Bella wedding scene.

"It was like Secret Service style, insane...I mean, the crew was completely inconvenienced, and grumbling around the set like, 'I can't have [my] cell phone!" she said. "I had a Volturi cloak on, cause that's all we had to cover up [the wedding dress]."

"Breaking Dawn is very intimate," said Lautner, supremely polished and dressed in a fashionable brown leather jacket. "I just feel like they did a really good job at allowing us to be creative…we really didn't have to focus on being distracted or anything like that on this movie."

"This one really is loaded with those really cathartic, impactful, huge moments," said Stewart. "And they're not all completely fantasy. They're very rooted in a reality that I can completely see myself in… Shooting these scenes I had to kind of let myself realize that these moments would find themselves naturally."

Taylor Lautner

"I've always been able to choose [a favorite scene] from all of the movies… but this one I can't," said Lautner. "There's so much going on in this movie, and all of the characters are dealing with their own little things. It's impossible for me to choose my favorite scene in this movie. Especially [because] Jacob changes so much from the beginning to the end."

Pattinson said his favorite scene from Breaking Dawn is the one depicting the violent birth of he and Bella's half-vampire baby Renesmee.

"For a fantasy series that has kind of a [young] audience, it goes quite far," said Pattinson. "If you read the book, there's literally no way [to do it] in any kind of tame way."

But enough about the movie. For a more casual observer like myself (though I have in fact seen all three films so far, the first in my opinion being the best) Twilight is less a film series than merely the latest in a long line of blockbuster teen-beat franchises to have made overnight stars of its attractive young cast. Thusly, my favorite bits from the press conference were those off-the-cuff moments that showcased the personality dynamic between the three young leads.

"Taylor can dance," said Stewart at one point. "He can move his hips better than I [could] ever dream [of doing]."

To this Lautner could only lean back and laugh uncomfortably, a red flush spreading across his cheeks. It was a statement loaded with unintentional implications, not to mention one that resulted in a rare and refreshingly human moment for the young actor, seemingly primed for adult stardom in an industry built on a foundation of dispiriting artifice.

And then it was quickly gone, and business went on as usual – the panelists later sent off with a round of spirited applause from the assembled press corps.