Ashley Greene is ready to throw down in a real-life butter sculpting contest.
“I was probably one of the only ones on set who didn’t get to carve,” laments the 25-year-old beauty. In “Butter,” opening Oct. 5, she plays a small-town teen mortified by her parents (Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell), who win Iowa’s butter-sculpting title every year.
“I am actively working on getting someone to compete with me on a show or something, because I need to fit in with the rest of the cast,” she says, perched in a sun-drenched suite on the seventh floor of Soho’s Crosby Street Hotel. “Everyone else said it was such a pleasure, but I never got around to doing it.”
Perhaps she was too busy spreading the love with comely co-star Olivia Wilde. The two share a steamy sex scene in a clip that has even non-Twihard fans getting hot and bothered.
“She’s my best onscreen kiss yet,” says Greene, who admits they did several takes to get the “Butter” buss down pat. “We just went for it, and it ended up being really fun.
“Not that every male didn’t want to kiss her anyways, but now, just to give them all extra motivation...yeah,” Greene grins. “She’s a very good kisser.”
The actress is sinking her teeth into even meatier roles now that her four-year stint as Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) best friend Alice Cullen in the “Twilight” saga draws to a close. “Breaking Dawn: Part 2” opens on Nov. 16.
“I have a career and a fan base, which happened almost overnight,” she marvels, remembering how she pounded the pavement and tried modeling for rent money. Many casting directors claimed the five-foot-five Greene was too short before she was cast in 2008’s first “Twilight” installment, changing her life.
“It will be sad next year when we don’t do another one, but it’s also exciting,” Greene says. “‘Twilight’ opened up a lot of doors and opportunities, and to actually have the time to be able to go and do them is going to be nice.”
Up next: the biopic “CBGB,” where she plays Lisa, the daughter of the legendary rock club’s founder, Hilly Kristal (played by Alan Rickman). Greene says Lisa is “a lot more aggressive than any character I have played before.”
“She’s a New Yorker, and that in itself is a heavy load to take on,” adds Greene, who lives in Los Angeles. “But also, Linda is still around. I got to Skype with her, and she came to the set, and she was showing me photos and telling me stories about Hilly.”
Greene appreciated the help. “You don’t usually get to pull from the person right in front of you,” she says. “But it’s also nerve-wracking, because you want to do well by them.”
She’s afraid, however, that some of her dream roles have already been taken.
“I always wanted to do a period piece,” she says. “Unfortunately, they are very expensive. If Kirsten Dunst hadn’t already played Marie Antoinette, that would have been ideal.”
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