The vampires of the Twilight Saga: New Moon hit the red carpet at the Rome film festival Thurday, with fans given a 20-minute clip of the film, which is scheduled for a November 20 release.

Three young actors who play part of the Volturi coven (Charlie Bewley, Cameron Bright and Jamie Campbell Bower) accompanied the film’s screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg at the 4th annual International Rome Film Festival, where they promoted their upcoming film.

When interviewed by Reuters, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg said the fascination of young people — particularly teenage girls — with the Twilight films came from the fact that they “speak to universal themes and experiences of heartbreak and first love.” She added, “Everyone has gone through it or is going through it … I think also this very chaste sexuality, it is very passionate but safe. So it’s very tantalizing.”

Rosenberg explained the difference of Harry Potter from the Twilight Saga saying, “I think Harry Potter is much more fantastical. The Twilight series has its fantastic elements very grounded in reality, it’s set in reality, so they are very different.”

Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays one of the Volturi leaders on New Moon and is set to appear on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ revealed his favorite part of New Moon. He said, “There is this scene where this dude gets his face torn off and it was pretty fun to sit and watch that happen, to be evil and smile at it.”

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