Belle on Nylon

Our cover girl is smart, together, and hiding secrets of Robert Pattinson. "This is the one," said NYLON editor Marvin Scott Jarrett. He was just back from a screening of PUSH, the sci-fi flick starring Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle, set to release in '09. "This is the movie that's going to take Camilla into mainstream stardom."

To be fair, she was kind of already there: A lucrative thriller (When A Stranger Calls) as her second movie. An ad campaign with Vera Wang. A Jonas Brother boyfriend, and the tween hate mail that came with it.

Now PUSH is finally out - Stephanie saw it and thought it was like Heroes, the Movie - and Camilla scores our cover spot for a second time.

We won't tell you everything, but here's a list of her greatest hits from the interview:

She wasn't crazy about the mammoth action film 10,000 BC.
"The work was frustrating," she concedes. "I felt like a puppet at times. I just had to realize, "OK, I'm not going to be challenged as an actress.' You have to approach it in that sense: 'This isn't an acting piece, it's a business choice.'''

She's holding a place in Columbia's freshman class until she has time to actually go there.
"I made the decision to focus on work, and take advantage of this time. But school is there, and I think the most important thing is to continue learning."

Her next director is Bruce Willis!
"I was actually really surprised," she says. "He's very passionate about the actors. He just wants to spend all the time with us, and we just talked and talked, all about developing relationships and developing the backstory."

Rob Pattinson vented to her about Twilight's rigorous "media training" with the movie studio.
"My friend Rob [Pattinson], for that whole Twilight nonsense, the studio was having them take all these classes. It was the most frustrating thing in the world because they want you to speak like someone else, not yourself. It's so silly. And I would be frustrated, too. I couldn't answer questions any other way than how I would answer them."

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