The last time “Twilight’s” Alex Meraz was in D.C., things were a wee bit different.
The actor, who plays the werewolf Paul in the series of vampire movies, was performing with a dance troupe at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Today he brings in a slightly bigger crowd.
On Saturday, Meraz got a taste of the area’s “Twihard” population, appearing briefly at a screening of “New Moon” at the National Harbor, where hundreds gathered. He, luckily, talked to Yeas & Nays before the piercing screams of his tweenage fans began. And he said, hands down, that “Eclipse” is the best movie of the trio. The third installment comes out Wednesday.
After “Twilight,” Meraz plans to continue acting, but perhaps not in roles that would bring him to Washington. For one thing, he has no interest in ever playing a politician. “I don’t think it would suit my personality,” he said, calling politicians “rigid.”
“I feel like you could just push them over, they’re like cardboard,” he added.
He said the “Twilight” actors who are more up to that kind of job are the father figures — Chaske Spencer, who plays werewolf Sam Uley, and Peter Facinelli, who plays vampire Carlisle Cullen.
And also don’t expect to see the werewolf making lobbying trips to Capitol Hill. Yet.
“Right now it’s too premature,” he explained. “The way the industry is and the way people look at actors who are not someone huge like an Angelina Jolie is ‘Who the f— is he?'”
Though he does have issues in mind that he would like to advocate, he has other things to do.
“Right now I’ll just take off my shirt and do my thing,” he said.
Video contributed by Jesse McLean
