Ah! You gotta love this article from Telegraph written by Anita Singh. I guess Rob is correct when he said that The Twilight Saga has become a sensation because it teaches teenage girls that abstinence can be sexy :-) Enjoy the article everyone! - Lydia
Via @ Telegraph
The tale of a girl who falls in love with a vampire started out as a series of
best-selling books written by Stephenie Meyer, a Mormon who does not believe
in sex before marriage. They led to a movie franchise which is currently
rivalling Harry Potter in terms of box office success.
Pattinson, the 23-year-old British actor who plays vampire Edward Cullen, said
the chaste relationship between the two lead characters is the secret of
Twilight's appeal. He and Kristen Stewart, who plays schoolgirl heroine
Bella Swan, share no more than a kiss in the first three books.
"The success of the Twilight books comes from the fact that fans can lust
after Edward and yet, certainly in the first book, there's no actual sexual
contact between him and the series heroine. Twilight is a big metaphor for
sexual abstinence, and yet it's erotic underneath. There are so many
elements in the story which are sexy," Pattinson told The Daily
Telegraph.
The actor from Barnes, south-west London, was best known for playing Cedric
Diggory in the Harry Potter films before he was cast as Edward. Twilight
turned him into an international heart-throb, and on the set of the latest
instalment, New Moon, he was protected from female fans by no less than 25
security guards.
He said: "Last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up.
This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of
people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy. I
never used to get any of those 'good-looking guy' roles so I don't see
what's changed.
"There are all these screaming fans around but if you talk to one for
five minutes, the illusion would be gone. Often it is in imaginary thing
that they want, not the reality."
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