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y«? Vampire Slayer or read a vampire book. Consequently,
Twilight is a far cry from your standard bloodsucking tale
of skulking nights talkers in dark capes.
Twilight’s creatures of the night play baseball, drive
ultra-fast sports cars, sparkle in the sunlight and look like
they just stepped off the cover of GQ or Cosmopolitan.
In other words, Twilight’s vampires are dead sexy.
So is the early buzz on the movie. Even though the
young stars are relative unknowns British actor Robert
Pattinson, 22, played the doomed Cedric Diggory in two of
the Harry Potter films, and Kristen Stewart, 18, has had
small dramatic roles in movies such as In the Land of
Women and Into the Wild the movie’s final trailer was
watched 3.5 million times within 48 hours of its online pre
miere. And a sequel adapted from the second book, Neiv
Moon, is already in the works.
Pattinson says he discovered his newfound popularity
while shooting the film. “On the last day, there were like 70
people waiting outside the set,” he says. “We were shoot
ing stuff in the summer in California, literally in the mid
dle of the desert, and there were Twilight fans!”
Teen girls may be the books’ No. 1 followers, but the love
affair between young Bella Swan (Stewart) and her mys
j terious vampiric suitor; Edward (Pattinson) whom she
! thinks of as her “angel” (hence the angel’s feather on our
i cover) appeals to both sexes, says Edi Gathegi, who plays
I Laurent, one of the not-as-lovable vamps. “I’m a Twi- hard
“ now,” he says, referring to what many of the online devo-
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Kristen Stewart
and Robert
Pattinson star in
Twilight, which
opens next Friday.
USA WEEKEND • Nov. 14-16.2008
tees call themselves. “I love this story.”
Cam Gigandet, who plays James, the
main bad guy, believes the books’ univer
sal love themes will reverberate on film.
“It’s so relatable: overcoming something
to be with the person that you love,” he
says. “You want so desperately for Edward
to win. Maybe it’s just the hopeless roman
tic in everyone in the world.” □
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Tum the page to view our never-before
seen, exclusive image from the new movie
Twilight, opening Nov. 1. Signed by stars
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and released
by Summit Entertainment exclusively for
USA WEEKEND, the image shows the film's
protective vampire, Edward, and his young love,
Bella. From whom does he need to shield her,
you ask? The coven of three vampires lurking in
the background: from left, Laurent (Edi Gathegi),
Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) and tracker James (Cam
Gigandet), who's intent on killing Bella for sport
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