MTV has posted their red carpet interviews with the cast during last night’s New Moon premiere. The cast were pretty enthusiastic and pumped up as they feed off the energy from the fans who some have even camped for days just to see them.

“It’s amazing,” marveled the 17-year-old Lautner, who was famously nearly replaced as Jacob Black last winter but packed on 30 pounds of muscle to keep the role. “We all know the premiere for ‘Twilight’ was insane, but this is multiplied by 10. I did not expect this at all!”

“This year is probably double in size,” observed Kellan Lutz, comparing the premiere to the one from a year ago. “For us, as actors, [seeing this] is a weight off our shoulders. It’s a lot of fun, and this year I’m not so nervous.”

“My goodness, I just pulled up, and I got so nervous again,” Ashley Greene laughed. “People always ask if I’m used to it, but there’s no way to get used to it, because they just keep getting more and more exciting. [The fans] are very passionate, and it keeps getting bigger. It’s incredible.”

MTV also asked the cast on their prediction on how much the movie will make and some of them are setting high expectations.

“We have a bet about that,” revealed Chaske Spencer, who plays wolf pack member Sam Uley in the sequel, divulging that the shirtless stars have a friendly wager going on. “There’s a guy — a member of the wolf pack, I can’t tell you who — but we have a bet, and the loser buys dinner. I think it’s going to gross triple [what the first film made]. And I think somebody’s going to be buying me some dinner.”

“It’ll be bigger than ['Twilight'],” Ashley Greene insisted. “I just got an e-mail saying we broke the pre-sale record. I’m going to say $79 million.”

“I hope it makes $69 million,” grinned Nikki Reed, not wanting the sequel to outweigh Catherine Hardwicke’s first flick. “I just hope that the fans are pleased. I don’t know what you define success by, but that would be a success.”

“My estimate is a bit more moderate than most, but it’s still lofty,” Edi Gathegi explained. “I’m going to go with $92 million — the series has returned in all the right ways, and this is a fantastic film. The fans are going to carry over, and more guys are going to come because of all the action.”

“$72 million,” Kellan Lutz said, adding that there’s only one criteria guiding his prediction. “I can read the future.”

“$88 million,” guessed Daniel Cudmore, who gets to kick Robert Pattinson’s ass in “New Moon” as the Volturi Felix. “I just like that number. I’d be happy with that.”

To read more of MTV’s New Moon Premiere coverage, click on the link above.

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