Today we have an interview with the lovely Emmy Rossum, who plays the sexy dark caster Ridley in the film adaptation of Beautiful Creatures.

Emmy talks kissing, crazy outfits, and getting advice from Twilight actor and Shameless co-star Noel Fisher on being in a young adult adaptation.

So, I have to ask you a fan question that I am kind of embarrassed to ask.

What was it like kissing Jake Gyllenhal?

No, but it is about kissing! In the featurette we see you kissing Alden. We’re assuming, because we don’t see it, that you kiss Thomas.

A lot.

Ok, so which one is the better kisser?

Well, see, Alden doesn’t really kiss me back, he’s under a spell. I kiss him. So I don’t really know. Thomas is a great kisser. We were doing a scene very late at night, and I was wearing all this red lipstick, and you know what happens when you kiss with red lipstick. No matter what they say – it’s a stain – no, it’s not a stain. It’s all over the other person’s face. We did take after take after take and Richard would be like “Go further with him” to the point where we felt like were kissing each other’s faces off. Thomas would have red lipstick literally on the top of his nose. It was a vicious make out scene.

So Casters have unique powers. You are the siren, Lena has super powers. If you could choose any Caster power, which one would you choose?

I think Lena’s power, which is over all the elements. I think that’s so cool.

Your Shamless co-star, Noel Fisher, is in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. And now you are in a YA franchise as well. Did he give you any pointers about being in a YA franchise?

He said he just let Rob and Kristen do all the talking. He’s like ‘I don’t have to talk much.’ So I am hoping that they just want to talk to Alice and Alden.

Yeah, I don’t think so. You are a fan favorite.

Ridley was definitely my favorite when I read the book.

Mine too. And she is definitely a fan favorite. You bring your own fan base with you into the franchise, so I think you are a favorite coming into this film. You have a prominent Twitter following. Do you get a lot of feedback from your fans on Twitter?

Yes. And I have a lot of behind the scenes pictures that I took myself. I am hoping that I get clearance to reveal some of them. I am hoping my phone gets hacked, and they all just end up somewhere. It was super fun getting to embrace the dark side, to take everything that’s great about being a southern belle. Ridley was raised in the south and she would have been raised with all those southern manners, and when she turned dark it would have kind of been like a dark explosion of everything. Taking all of that honey soaked dialogue, those colloquialisms. You know, calling someone sugar, honey, or whatever and making that bad is kind of something you haven’t really seen. It was really fun to do. And Richard has such a great take. Where in the book her clothing was very much like a harajuku girl, very Gwen Stefani, with kind of hiked up skirts, boots, and kind of punked up hair; for me it was kind of very interesting to take her and make her kind of an old school movie heroine. Like a Rita Hayworth, a Doris Day, or Marilyn Monroe. It was really fun to show her in that way.

Speaking of costumes, do you have a favorite? Was there one thing you wore that you were like, ‘I am going to steal it’?

I loved the first outfit that we see her in. The lace dress. Which was just a lace dress that we found, and we took the lining out of it. So they were like, you are going to be wearing this lace dress and you are going to be naked under it and we are going to have carefully placed sequins so that we don’t see anything that we don’t want to see.

When we saw those pictures, everyone was like, ‘how does she keep that thing on’? It looks like a second skin.

It was actually really comfortable. It was like wearing a dressing gown. After the first day, I got over it. I mean, I had been shocked at the costume fitting. I had no idea I was going to be that obvious. It made me take the character further places, it really let me take her there. She’s kind of an over the top, in your face, sexual goddess. It gave me the chance to be more expressive with my body language.

Do you have a favorite scene that you filmed?

The claiming was the most fun only because she was going from a scared little girl to this power hungry woman. And it was a different scene that was added that wasn’t in the book, and it really shows in a way as Lena is explaining to Ethan what could happen to her. It shows that she saw what Ridley went through. To the audience it shows the danger of Lena’s claiming.

The characters you play are all on different ends of the spectrum. You haven’t played the same character twice, which is really fun to watch. Is there a specific kind of character that you like playing? Ridley’s very power hungry, Fiona’s the strong matriarch…

I like doing different stuff that is challenging. Those are both scenarios where there were heavy audition processes, and I walked in with a distinct idea of the character that I created before the audition, and was like, ‘Ok, this is kind of out there, and you are either going to love it or you are going to hate it.’ Both times it was different enough that they liked it.