'I stopped going out, stopped partying': Ashley Greene vamps it up in sexy lingerie as she opens up about the road to success

The mythology of Ashley Greene has her landing the role of Alice Cullen in Twilight almost as soon as she stepped onto the tarmac in Los Angeles.
But the 25-year-old Florida girl says there was a time when her career wasn't looking so rosy.
'In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings,' she says in an interview out today.

Pretty in pink: Ashley Greene appears in a photo shoot in the current issue of Esquire magazine, out today

'So I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.'
The LOL actress moved to Los Angeles from Tampa, Florida, as soon as she finished high school, to pursue an acting career.
In the interview, which appears in the current issue of Esquire magazine, Ashley vamps it up in a provocative collection of lingerie.
In one shot, she lounges on an antique chair in black lacy underwear and a black-and-pink bra.
A sheer pink shirt is slipped over her shoulders but left unbuttoned, leaving little to the imagination.

New day: The 25-year-old actress does her best morning 'come hither' look

The lounging's just an act: Ashley is busier than your average Hollywood starlet, with a growing slate of movies lining up for release this year alongside the next installment of Twilight

Glossy: Ashley's latest interview appears in the August issue of Esquire magazine

In another shot, Ashley stands half naked in loose denim jeans and only a white bra, holding a coffee cup and making sleepy eyes at the camera as if she's just woken up.
In a third shot, the actress sits on a window sill in white underwear, her legs wide open and draped in another open shirt which covers her arms only.
Ashley has been busy of late, and not just with promotional responsibilities for the final installment of Twilight, which is set to come out in November.
The brunette beauty has several films slated for release later this year, including A Warrior's Heart, in which she co-stars with fellow Twilight actor Kellan Lutz.
She will also be seen alongside Hugh Jackman and Olivia Wilde in Butter, a quirky indy film about a small-town Iowa girl who discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town's annual contest.
And from quirky to scary, Ashley has just completed filming on horror flick The Apparition, in which a couple are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. 
Reflecting on her age in the Esquire interview, the in-demand actress she says she looks forward to being thirty. 'It's a good age,' she says. 'It's an age of choices.'
'What Twilight gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.'