Scores of fans lined up five days in advance to try to just glimpse their heroes: actors who play vampires and werewolves and virgins (oh my!) in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series. The premiere of New Moon in Hollywood brought out all of the stars, but all the girls were waiting to see their grungy hero Edward Cullen. Although Edward is a character in the series, he is revered as though he actually exists. Fortunately, the actor portraying him is Robert Pattinson, whose aversion to both bathing and sunlight give him that sort of vampire/rock star look that became popular when Anne Rice wrote about vampires decades ago.
Ah, Lestat, how we long for you (the way we imagined you, not the way Tom Cruise portrayed you in Interview with a Vampire).
Not To Be Outdone By Edward, Robert Pattinson Does His Best To Look Undead.
Though many of us tried to hide from the hype surrounding the Twilight series, it was impossible to avoid the ‘are they or aren’t they’ rumors about the stars of the films, Robert Pattinson and the ever-sneering Kristen Stewart. But it wasn’t ever about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. It was about Edward Cullen and Bella Swan and their forbidden love. Life imitating art makes for great press, so seeing the stars together—or not—became the nation’s obsession. No matter how tight we shut our eyes or how quickly we changed the channel from E! Entertainment Television, we inevitably found out through some weird osmosis what it meant to be on “Team Edward” or to have a t-shirt that read “Mrs. Cullen”.
And even though the movie Eclipse doesn’t come out until next year, everyone already knows that Edward proposes to Bella, offering her an engagement ring that belonged to his birth mother (not to be confused with his vampire mother). Although the mere reading of the event caused a shockwave of sobbing, teeth-gnashing, and rending of clothes of biblical proportion, it has a happy upside:
You, too, can own a “Bella’s Engagement Ring™”! Infinite Jewelry Co. is offering the ONLY Stephenie-Meyer-Authorized replica engagement rings available. You, too, can pretend to be marrying the undead for $68, $549, or $2,199 (plus shipping)! It really depends on whether you’re a 14-year-old girl pretending to be engaged to a fictional character, a 14-year-old girl with wealthy parents pretending to be engaged to a fictional character, or a 20-something year old woman who wishes that the normal guy she’s really marrying was a fictional character.
With New Moon still 3 days away from worldwide release, “Eclipse” is already in post-production. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart walked the Red Carpet at the Hollywood premiere individually, fanning the flames ever higher. By now everyone knows that yes, they are together, and no, they aren’t engaged yet. Will “RPatz” propose to “KStew” before their characters marry in the upcoming Breaking Dawn?
No matter how hard we try not to know, we all will.
Now where did I put that “Bite me, Edward” lapel pin?