GLAMOUR: You have a truckload of experience with the Twilight films, but you are also just getting started. It’s kind of funny, right?

ASHLEY GREENE: I still am extremely green in some ways. And so each time I work on a character, it is very exciting, very scary.

GLAMOUR: What about your new movie, Butter? Are you funny in it? I mean, it’s about people who carve butter competitively!

ASHLEY GREENE: I am unintentionally funny in it. Yeah—butter carving in Iowa. It’s a thing there. They make masterpieces.

GLAMOUR: How do you define the rest of your career after being part of this huge Twilight phenomenon so early on?

ASHLEY GREENE: It is difficult because people look at you as that character. I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like Butter to show that. And it’s perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don’t find the right thing.

GLAMOUR: To have a career like yours, you have to be professional. You have to be in control.

ASHLEY GREENE: You have to try. I am certainly not perfect. I don’t think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you’re OK.

GLAMOUR: So what about messy Hollywood, like the partying and drugs?

ASHLEY GREENE: I keep to the ground rules. I’m not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.

GLAMOUR: Let’s just talk about life offscreen. Tell me about your charity work.

ASHLEY GREENE: I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It’s got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you’re 15 years old, and it enables girls who don’t have the money to come in and choose something special.

GLAMOUR: That’s lovely. Your parents must be so proud.

ASHLEY GREENE: The only thing they ever wanted was for me to do what I wanted to. They are very proud because it’s a hard thing to not let Hollywood change you.

GLAMOUR: Have you always been a hard worker?

ASHLEY GREENE: Oh, man, I have had so many jobs. I always wanted to work, earn my own money. When I was 14, I convinced a dry-cleaning company to hire me. I was working to buy the things that I wanted.

GLAMOUR: Where did the acting come from?

ASHLEY GREENE: I started in modeling. [At first] I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don’t really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

GLAMOUR: How many girls from Florida or anywhere go to a modeling convention in New York and become a movie star?

ASHLEY GREENE: I’m a big believer in “everything happens for a reason.” I’m not saying it wasn’t hard. I lived off Lean Cuisine and had no furniture and shared a bedroom with a girl for a year. I ran up my credit card. But every time I thought, I’m going to fail, something happened that kept me here.

GLAMOUR: Let’s talk about love and relationships. Like where is your super-foxy boyfriend right now?

ASHLEY GREENE: Superstud.

GLAMOUR: Superstud! Was it love at first sight?

ASHLEY GREENE: A friendship developed first, and that’s the most important thing for me. If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

GLAMOUR: What are your boundaries in a relationship?

ASHLEY GREENE: You need to be able to talk about the difficult things. I don’t want us to talk about our ex-boyfriends or ex- girlfriends. The past is the past. As long as it’s not a mass-murderer past! You’re with the person who you’re with as they are now.

GLAMOUR: When I typed A-S-H into Google—just A-S-H—your name was the first to come up. Seriously! What about that?

ASHLEY GREENE: Really?! That’s exciting!

GLAMOUR: Ashley Greene, small-town girl with a big-town dream…

ASHLEY GREENE: I think that I have got a lot more to do. But I am comfortable in this spot. There are always bigger dreams.

Movies that revolve around the topic of teenage angst often find themselves casting … well, angsty teenagers or actors just a hair’s breadth from it, which unfortunately rarely translates onscreen as authentically as one might think. Skateland is no exception. Neither Fernandez nor Greene are quite developed enough in their craft to flesh these characters out, though they are trying so hard it’s undeniably endearing. Fernandez brings just a streak of youthful naïveté to Ritchie, which makes it more forgivable that his lines often fail to flow organically. At times it sounds like he’s reading off a cue card. Greene is marginally more comfortable in front of the camera, as if she’s internalized some lessons about what not to do on the sets of all those Twilight movies. Melinda McGraw and Brett Cullen, who play the Wheelers’ parents, give heartfelt performances, but their characters are sometimes contradictory and poorly edited.

As a classic teen drama, Skateland is a far cry from The Breakfast Club. It is, however, a thoughtful and measured film that prizes subtlety and heart over heavy theatrics and contrived dialogue. Despite their occasional awkwardness, the actors add a dash of genuine tenderness to the script without diving overboard into the maudlin abyss. Skateland highlights a generation’s lost youth without making any lofty pronouncements about self-discovery or endless love, thereby allowing us to experience true nostalgia instead of some manufactured, generic feel-good emotion other directors try to endlessly replicate. We see the characters’ lives from their perspectives, not our own disillusioned ones. Burns has the courage to tell his story without falling back on the tricks of the trade, and therefore saves his vision from becoming just another uninspired, genre-driven formula. At the end of the day, I think Hughes would be proud.

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Källa

Derreck på DareToBeDomestic.com var hemma hos Ashley och fixade smyckesskrin och smyckeshållare till alla hennes olika smycken för att få ordning. Han tipsar oss även om hur vi kan göra egna smyckeshållare och hålla reda på alla våra smycken! Älskar Ashleys smyckesskrin! Det skulle man inte sagt nej till!

"Be it a costume piece or a great vintage find, storing jewelry can be as difficult as putting together a 1000-piece puzzle, especially when you have the amount of Twilight star, Ashley Greene.

When I first met Ashley she had a vast collection of rings, bracelets and some items I wasn’t sure how you would wear them!  They were all fabulous and all needed special attention.  I knew I would have to find a solution that would allow her to easily see what she had, didn’t take up a lot of space and was easy to transport to those long film shoots wherever.

Solution 1: Stackable Jewelry Trays – Bed Bath & Beyond

These pink upholstered and slightly shimmering trays are a perfect solution for the girl or guy who needs to see everything at one time.  You can customize the combination of trays you choose, so if you have more rings you can buy extra ring trays.  They stack securely and have a clean, finished look.  When Ashley needs to coordinate her jewelry with her wardrobe, she can simply unstack all the trays and lay them out with out unloading any of the items.

Solution 2: Twig Ring Holder – ANTHROPOLOGIE – Everyday twig.  (see above)

We all have items we wear more than others.  This jewelry twig serves as both art and a place for you to store items you wear more often.  I’ve seen several different versions of this product to suit your tastes.

Solution 3: Drawer liners – Recycled shoe bags!

For bigger items that don’t fit inside a container, we converted a built-in drawer into a showcase.  We simply lined the drawer with extra soft shoe bags.

For longer items that can easily get twisted in a jewelry box or in a drawer, we purchased these acrylic holders.  Simply screw into the wall.  They make for a great display of your more delicate longer necklaces. We chose to hang them in an area that’s inconspicuous like in a closet. Ashley is a great client to organize for because she has so many cool things to organize! When I asked Ashley how she liked her jewelry storage makeover she said, “Derrick you did a great job — you’re quick, professional and my house looks amazing.”

Whether you have a small or large jewelry collection, you can use these easy storage solutions to keep track of all your treasures.  I Dare You To Be Domestic!"

Källa

While news of Joe and Ashley going their separate ways just broke Thursday, there’s not much distance between them as they’re kicking it in the same city. Both are in NYC, but it seems they had separate agendas. The 24-year-old was spotted hailing a cab with the most important man in a girl’s life — her dad — while Joe was hanging with his bodyguard.