14 DAY TRIAL // With the earthquake in Japan leading to a tsunami warning in many other territories, measures are being taken to ensure the safety of everybody concerned. The cast of “Twilight” has been evacuated from Vancouver on the same reasoning.
Shooting for “Breaking Dawn Part 1” was underway in British Colombia when the earthquake and the tsunami hit Japan.
The area is on the list of potential targets where the tsunami might hit next, so the entire cast, including Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black), has been evacuated until further notice, People reports.
“With Hawaii and the North American West Coast placed on tsunami advisories early Friday after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan, the Vancouver Island beach area in British Columbia where Taylor Lautner and the rest of the Wolf Pack are filming the Twilight series’ Breaking Dawn has been evacuated,” the publication reports.
No one involved in the production is believed to be “in any danger,” so this is just a safety measure. No word yet on whether the production has been halted and, if it has, when it will resume.
“The town where production is taking place, Tofino, contains a long stretch of open coast on the furthest westerly point of the island and was seen in the earlier The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” People says.
Summit Entertainment, the movie studio behind the insanely popular “Twilight” franchise, is keeping mum on the topic right now.
Word of the evacuation got out on Twitter, with Tinsel Korey, who plays Sam Uley’s fiancée Makah Emily Young, tweeting what she jokingly said was her last tweet.
“They’re evacuating us 4 a tsumnani warning. If this this is my last my tweet. I love you. The end. Hugz,” she wrote.
“If this is the moment. Then I’ve lived a good life. And I’m thankful 4 everything I’ve been given,” she added.
Korey has deleted the tweets since this got out in the press. Other celebrities, however, are putting their star status and Twitter to good use, campaigning to raise awareness on the situation in Japan.