One of the many films to premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Japanese writer/director Shunji Iwai's Vampire which stars Kevin Zegers , Amanda Plummer, Adelaide Clemens, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kristen Kreuk, Trevor Morgan and Keisha Castle-Hughes. Here's what the Sundance website has on the film:

Simon seems like a fairly normal, average young man who’s devoted to his teaching job and ailing mother. Underneath the surface, however, things are not what they seem. Simon hunts through online chat rooms and message boards, searching for the perfect girl: beautiful, shy, and suicidal. Simon has a particular condition: he is compelled to drink blood.

Anyway, the other day I got to interview Kristen Kreuk and Trevor Morgan about working on Vampire here at Sundance.  We talked about what the film is about, why they got involved in the project, being at Sundance, why are vampire's so popular right now, what other projects they're working on, and a lot more.  Hit the jump to watch

Finally, for all our previous Vampire coverage, click here.

Kristin Kreuk and Trevor Morgan

  • Explain what the movie's about
  • 1:50 - Morgan went after the project when he saw a great opportunity in the script; Kreuk accepted the offer for a small role because the script was "so beautiful"
  • 3:00 - Talk about the challenge of finding their character on set with little rehearsal and the freedom to improvise
  • 4:50 - What makes the vampire genre so popular: vampires are "sexy" and "lusty"
  • 6:00 - This is Morgan's 3rd time at Sundance, and Kreuk's first; they talk about the festival experience
  • 8:15 - Discuss the gifting suites and marketing opportunities at Sundance
  • 9:30 - Morgan's next film is Brotherhood with his friend Lou Taylor Pucci
  • 10:50 - Kreuk just finished shooting Ecstasy based on a short story by Irvine Welsh

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