Aya Ueto

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2010

Aya Ueto, 25, and Hiroki Narimiya, 28, will be supplying the voices for the Japanese-language version of the upcoming vampire movie, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. In the movie, which opens in Japan on Nov 6, Ueto (above) voices Bella Swan, the female love interest of the good vampire Edward Cullen, voiced by Narimiya (Yankee-kun to Megane-chan). In the third installment of the series, Bella, who is about to graduate from high school, is torn between her love for Edward and her growing feelings for the werewolf Jacob. At a press conference, Ueto said the theme of forbidden love was one she could identify with, an apparent reference to her recent break-up with “boy band” singer Go Morita, 31, whom she had been dating for nearly eight years