Saturday at 1 pm is your chance to meet three great cast members from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Tinsel Korey, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones

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ALEX MERAZ
August 25th

by Kristie Bertucci
Photography by Odessy Barbu
Grooming by Joanna Pensinger

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Alex Meraz might be best known as the chiseled werewolf Paul in the Twilight film series, but this multifaceted entertainer’s talents extend way beyond the silver screen.

If you look up the word “artist” in the dictionary, you’ll find “a person who practices one of the fine arts.” While each of us might take away something different from the words “fine arts,” one thing that remains clear is that an artist is someone with a creative soul, whether his or her fine art takes the form of music, painting, acting or any other medium of creation.

One look at Alex Meraz and you’ll immediately recognize him as Paul, the hot-tempered werewolf in the global phenomenon The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Eclipse. But there’s more to Meraz than his amazingly beefed up body, handsome good looks and piercingly beautiful eyes that have put Twilight fans in a frenzy. As it turns out, this newbie actor is an “artist” in a few different ways.

Most recently, he’s taken up acting and is fiercely pursuing his goal to establish himself as a credible actor in Hollywood. But he’s also a contemporary dancer, breakdancer, martial artist and, first and foremost, a visual artist. Art has and always will be an enduring passion for the 25-year-old from Mesa, Arizona. While his interest in art has its roots in his adolescence, it was his older brother who encouraged Meraz to continue working on his art once he saw how talented his younger brother was.

“My first drawing was of Snoopy that I showed to my older brother,” he recollects. “[He] immediately recognized that something was there and kept pushing me to draw. From there, I’d always draw him things to get his approval to see if he liked it or not. It was sort of that older brother approval that nudged me on more.”

Another inspiration for Meraz’s art came from watching Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting on PBS. “Man, that guy was inspiring,” he says of his early art influences. “I remember this one time when I was first starting to get serious with art when I was younger, I actually cut my own hair and taped the strands to twigs to make brushes because I didn’t really have any art supplies as a kid. I then melt my crayons to make paint and use newspaper as my canvas. When my mom came home that day and saw me looking like a sick person with patches in my hair, she knew she’d have to go get me some serious art supplies.”

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Our gallery is up and running but is very basic. We will get a layout designed very soon. I am still adding things here and there but thought you all had waited long enough. So as of now we are back and will resume posting the latest news on our favorite wolf.

Now just incase you haven’t heard already we received the perfect house warming present from @TheAlexMeraz he is now following @Lovin_Alex on twitter. What a great way to start anew.

In closing we here at Lovin Alex would like to thank you the fans for sticking with us though our down time, it means the world to us. Because after all YOU are the reason we work so hard on the site

Thanks again

Jenn & Val

Alex Meraz made his first appearance in the Twilight films in New Moon, where he played Paul, a friend of werewolf Jacob Black, who also happened to be a werewolf himself. Alex returns for the role of Paul in the third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and he was recently in London to talk about the film, along with his training at wolf camp and his crazy fan experiences.

Can you tell us a little bit about the training you went through for the fight scenes in Eclipse?

Alex Meraz (AM): We did what’s now called wolf camp. We did muscle confusion…

Muscle confusion?

AM: Yeah, it’s confusing! It’s like circuit training. But more than anything, what it helped to do was just bond us. We got really comfortable around each other and there are scenes when we’re just goofing off the whole time. We couldn’t tell when the camera started and when it was called “cut”. So, we were always having a great time. But it was a fun experience. But the workouts at wolf camp were kind of forgettable, I guess. I had been working out a bit before because my background is in martial arts and dance. So, it was a pretty organic process to go in there and take my shirt off.

What is it about this series that audiences love about vampires, mysticism and the undead?

AM: I think you said it, love. At the root of every great story is a love story. There’s definitely elements of fantasy within the werewolves, shape-shifters and vampires, but at the end of the day it’s grounded in reality and there’s the love story. I think everyone can relate to that. They know how it is to feel unrequited love, jealousy, revenge, loyalty, having to make choices… I think this film definitely covers all that.

What’s the craziest fan experience you’ve had?

AM: I think it was last year, when we were promoting New Moon, we did this big Q&A in Los Angeles and the whole cast was behind this cage and all the fans were there. Everyone else was sort of turned away from the fans, and I was the only one doing the whole prom thing and waving. And then I saw this fan with a bouquet of flowers and a teddy bear, and she was like, “Come here!” In my mind, I was thinking, “Oh, she shouldn’t have…” So, I go up to her and she was like, “Give it to Kellan!”

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Alex Meraz, Julia Jones, and Tinsel Korey are going to be appearing in Las Vegas at two different places: Tao Beach and LAVO.

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I get a call from Kim Meraz a few months ago about building a site for her husband Alex, who happened to be in the Twilight series. (Insert pause for teenage girl squeel).

So we hit up the Paradise Bakery and talk it over. I find out Alex is not only an actor. He is an an insanely talented artist and dancer. We weren’t building just a site for his acting career, but a site to show off his amazing talent as an artist.

This has been one of the most freeing projects eeko studio has taken on in a long time. Kim, Alex and I, sat and talked about how the site would unfold and how to implement his artwork into a truly creative experience. Each page carefully planned. Each movement in tune with the style of his work. We dig in and talk about him personally and how his art is a reflection of his passions. About his personality and how his life has changed since they had their son. About mixed martial arts, California, dancing and how he started drawing because of a Snoopy sketch he made when he was young.

So dig in, wander around and see the original artwork of Alex Meraz and see him as he is, an artist. Skilled in several disciplines.

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