A sneak peek at the 'New Moon’ DVD extras

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "New Moon."

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "New Moon."

The “New Moon” DVD isn’t out until midnight Friday, but we snagged a copy to fill you in on highlights from the extras:

During that pivotal early scene in the lush forest, when Edward tells Bella he will never see her again, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had their own little problems: “I’ve never seen so many mosquitoes in my entire life — and giant ones as well,” Pattinson says on the six-part making-of documentary on Disc 2. Director Chris Weitz says he certainly couldn’t show a mosquito landing on a vampire’s nose, “sucking blood from the apparently bloodless Edward.” They filmed many, many takes.

It was plenty cold and rainy for shooting in Vancouver, British Columbia, but for certain scenes, like when Bella confronts a shirtless, secretive Jacob, filmmakers wanted a downpour. So they stuck the stars under an outdoor shower nozzle. “When I’m in this 38-degree weather and I’m naked almost and it’s pouring rain, I can’t seem like I’m cold, I can’t be shivering, because Jacob’s supposed to be just perfectly fine in it,” says Taylor Lautner, who plays the 108-degree werewolf. But between takes, Lautner stayed bundled up in a parka.

Stewart never really rides a motorcycle; she’s just sitting on one aboard a trailer, pulled along behind a truck. But Lautner boasts, “I get to ride the thing” — but he needed a few lessons at first. “I tried to look as comfortable and cool as possible.”

Stunt doubles are everywhere, falling off a motorcycle, getting beaten up by the Volturi, jumping off a “cliff” into computer-generated water (really a giant, bouncy crash pad).

The Latin inscriptions on the Volturi’s marble walls really do relate to the story. They read: “The law above all things,” “Your death is my life” and “Life is short, art is long,” the latter referring, it seems, to the immortality of movies.

Poor Rachelle Lefevre says she’s thrilled to return to play the vengeful vampire Victoria: “I’m so excited to be back at vamp camp — the gang’s all here.” Ironic, isn’t it, that she’s the one who was unceremoniously let go for the next installment. Bryce Dallas Howard takes over the role for “Eclipse,” due in theaters June 30.

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