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" We just saw the new vampire movie Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&amp;#039;s Assistant and couldn&amp;#039;t get one of the cutie stars, Josh Hutcherson, out of our head. Check out his theory on why girls are so in love with vampires and see what he had to say about shooting all of the action scenes in the film!  17: In the movie, you play Darren&amp;#039;s [Chris Massoglia] best friend, Steve, who desperately wants to become a vampire. Are you into vampires yourself? Josh Hutcherson: I think they&amp;#039;re really cool and really hot. I&amp;#039;m a big fan of the older vampire movies like The Lost Boys and Interview with a Vampire, but I also like Twilight a lot. I&amp;#039;m excited to see New Moon...the new trailer looks really cool. It&amp;#039;s cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre. 17: What is it about being a vampire that you think is so cool? JH: Vampires can do whatever they want whenever they want, like fly around all the time. Plus, girls love vampires. Maybe they don&amp;#039;t want to admit it, but they do, which is a plus.  17: What do girls find cool about vampires? JH: I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don&amp;#039;t know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that. When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category too. 17: In the movie you play a vampinese. What&amp;#039;s the difference between a vampinese and a traditional vampire? JH: Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous. 17: Did you have a favorite scene to film in the movie? JH: I loved filming the scene where we go to the freak show because we got our own live freak show: It was all these people in the makeup and the costumes and everything. Some people went in makeup for five or six hours a day. The wolf man was a guy in a full suit and he had animatronics eyes and mouth. 17: There&amp;#039;s a huge fight scene at the end of this movie. Was there any special training you had to go through? JH: Punching into that wall was really fun. They had this Styrofoam wall with dust on the inside that way when you hit it, it looked like it was drywall breaking. It was really cool. 17: Then you have another cool scene where a poisoness spider has been let loose in the school. How did that work? JH: The spider was CG. Part of it was a robot, when it was crawling up my shirt, it had arms and moved around to make it look real. Then there were two guys that had strings attached to it that ran down the back of my shirt and they pulled it from off-camera to make it climb up. Other than that, they used a laser light to give us all a common reference of where the spider was going to be. So we were chasing a laser light and being terrified of a little green dot. It makes you use your imagination to really try to make it seem real when there&amp;#039;s absolutely nothing there. 17: Who did you become closest with in the cast? JH: I think Chris [Massoglia] and I became the closest because we had to be best friends in the movie and we got along right away as friends in real life. It just kind of made sense. 17: Any funny stories from the set? JH: There are a couple of things. One time Chris and I decided to set off a dry ice bomb in the basement of theatre we were filming in. Everybody freaked out when it went off. People outside thought somebody got shot or something crazy like that. Also, when we were doing the fight scene, Chris and I whacked each other&amp;#039;s heads pretty bad. That was funny because nobody thought we had hit heads and when we were done filming they were like, that was really, really good! And we said good, because we actually hit each other&amp;#039;s heads! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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