Stephenie Meyer on Oprah: Rob Pattison is “very striking looking”


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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer appeared on Oprah Live on Friday and she did a great job. It was the 35 year-old author’s only televised interview in advance of the New Moon release, which is out in the US this Friday. Meyer was very relaxed and chatty and she seemed in her element on Oprah. I expected her to be much more reserved as I’d never seen her interviewed before. (She was on Ellen last year, I just missed it.)

The show opened with an explanation of how Meyer came up with the concept for Twilight. She claimed to have never read horror or vampire books before starting the first, although she’s a voracious reader and has a degree in literature. Meyer had also never written a book or even a short story before she penned Twilight.

On Twilight coming to her in a dream and becoming an ‘obsession’
One night five years ago, Meyer had a dream about a sparkling boy and a normal-looking girl in a bright sunlit meadow. The boy was telling the girl he was a vampire and potentially deadly. That dream became chapter 13 in Twilight, and Meyer wrote the book from chapter 13 to the end, going back to finish the beginning. Her boys were aged 1, 3, and 5 at the time and she said that writing served as an outlet after caring for her children all day. “I’ve been bottling up what I was for so long that it became an obsession,” she explained. “When your kids are little, their lives depend on you,” adding that “you have to put your imagination on hold.”

Meyer never intended to make Twilight into a book, and explained that “It seems kind of presumptuous to me that anyone would want to read the things that are in my head. It was just me spending time with this fantasy world.” Her sister ultimately convinced her to try publish the book. She initially approached literaty agents looking for representation. Meyer told Oprah that she had “9 rejections, 5 no answers, and one ‘I’d like to read more'” from the agents.

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On Robert Pattinson being the perfect Edward
“When we were first doing the casting for this, I knew the problem was going to be Edward,” Meyer said. She said that Pattinson has “something about him, he doesn’t look like everybody else, there’s something unusual.”

The transformation from Rob to Edward impressed her. “I got on set, and he’s in makeup and in costume… all of a sudden he’s Edward. There are moments when he looks exactly like he did in my head.”

Oprah asked “Is he nice. Does he smell good?”

“He smells great. Rob is hilarious… he’s really fun to hang out with. He’s not at all like the Edward character… He’s so different as Rob.”

“What was it about him?”

“The eyes, the facial structure. He just doesn’t look like everybody else. In a very good way.” She said that she first met him for lunchy and that people on the street did a double take because “he’s very striking looking.”

The New Moon secret she hasn’t revealed
Meyer said New Moon initially had a different ending. “It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella’s head.” Her mom recommended more action at the end, so she decided to add the Volturi and the action sequences.

At the end of the show they interviewed a group of teachers and students from Missouri via Skype. They enthused that the students had convinced the teachers to read the books. “We have a common language now, and we talk in quotes and [Twilight has] just been a total phenomenon.” They said they have a 1,000 people on the waiting list for the Twilight books at their library, and then Meyer and Oprah announced that they would send them 600 copies of the four book box set to take care of that.

Whether there will be a fifth Twilight book
One thing they never addressed is whether there will be another Twilight book. There was a teaser at the bottom of the screen promising they would talk about it, but it never came up. (There is a fifth Twilight book written from Edward’s perspective called Midnight Sun. A rough draft was leaked online and Meyer put it up on her website after explaining how the leak affected her ability to finish the story.”With writing, the way you feel changes everything.”)

A spokesperson for Oprah told EW that there wasn’t enough time to ask Meyer about the fifth book. They asked her the question backstage and she said she wasn’t sure about it, explaining “I think I need a little break” and “I am a little burned out on vampires right now.” She said she knows “absolutely” what happens to Bella and Edward, though. (You can watch the video of her answer here.)

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31 Responses to “Stephenie Meyer on Oprah: Rob Pattison is “very striking looking””

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  1. Jillian says:

    If by “striking” you mean he looks like he has Down’s Syndrome, then sure, he’s striking.

  2. DD says:

    actually no, he`s not striking looking. what`s striking is why everyone thinks so.

  3. Firestarter says:

    I don’t think she meant ‘striking” I think she meant “Stinking”.

  4. Kerri says:

    Ditto Jillian and DD – LMAO.

    Still not enthralled by his “striking” looks, no matter how many times Hollywood tries to shove it down my throat.

  5. mandajamin says:

    oh finally people who agree with me on the fact that he looks like a caveman! Geigo could have saved some money on makeup

  6. Ling says:

    During her interview, I was kinda liking her. Her small-minded mormon-ness really isn’t her fault; a solid femme theory class would probably fix her right up.

    But her gush over R Pattz revealed her shallowness, her ignorance, her unhealthy obsession with her own character… Oh, how I wish Oprah was edgy. I want to see S-mey have to respond to R pattz’s hilariously insulting interview clips.

  7. BitterBetty says:

    Her face bugs me.

  8. Daisy says:

    I don’t get it.I don’t find him attractive at all.Although,I read the dumb book too,and he does look like what Edward should look like,a creepy pale weirdo.oh well…different strokes.

  9. Lauren says:

    Downs syndrome-that is harsh. Robert does have a distinct British bone structure, looks very upper crust & refined. Best of all, he is polite & articulate. I am grateful he is not another brainless hollywood hillbilly. Sorry if you all find that offensive.

  10. Firestarter says:

    @Lauren- Being a hillbilly, I find his lack of hygiene highly offensive!

  11. lastwordlinda says:

    Rob Pattison gets so much “good” publicity that I thought I was the only one who thinks his looks are over-rated. Thank god, I’m not alone. As for Stephanie Meyer, good for her for writing a successful series of book that have spawned movies and a renewed interest in vampires. That seems to happen every 50 years or so. However, I read the first book because my 15 year old niece gave it to me and said she loved it. I was appalled. Some of the worst writing I have ever read and the plot and premise is right out of the mind of an adolescent girl’s dreams about the sexy boy at school, wanting to be different, yet still fit in etc. Then I thought, well yeah.Anyway, it turns out my niece also thought it was a terribly written book. She says she just kept reading to find out what was going to happen next. And I’m sure has a secret crush on the whole cute vampire guy thing. I hope she one day finds a better use of her time. Now if only MY dream about the talking tree and his friend the flying donkey would turn into a multi-million selling book. I’m sure I can fit a couple of teenagers with angst in there somewhere.

  12. stinabelle says:

    Oh, please. Pattinson is nothing special, looks or acting-wise. I’m not sure she’d be allowed to say anything else, though. I’m sure she has PR people too.

  13. wow says:

    No, he is not and She needs to stop lying. Kidding. Not really though.

    Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder but seriously… “stiking”. Oh well, to each her own, I guess.

    I will say that I like the background story on her whole writing of this Twilight saga. I find it a bit inspirational of how she did the typical writer thing by trying to get her story published, being turned down, then finally being published and now all of this. So I wish her continued success. She seems like a nice lady.

  14. Kelly says:

    Disclaimer – I love True Blood and think this lady definitely stole all plots including adding werewolves! Having said that I haven’t read or watched anything regarding these books. Also, not to sound intolerant but the hypocrisy of a Mormon woman creating this paranormal stuff irritates me. Does her church pray for her damned soul or simply ask for more tidings?

  15. Peanut says:

    I’ll say it – I think he’s pretty darn good looking. Not a great actor, mind you, but I can definitely see what all the tweens are swooning about. 😀

  16. Mairead says:

    Striking is the most apt description of him; he’s neither average looking nor as handsome as James Franco, say, but he does have quite an intriguing bone structure.

    The closest equivalent I can think of is Cillian Murphy who ranges from looking too pretty to downright odd, but you could never confuse him with another actor.

    And as for him not being like Edward – I should blinking well hope not. I only read the “leaked” story and although it was a page-turner, they were all pretty annoying.

  17. Chris says:

    Robert is extremely good looking. There is no if, but or maybe about it. I cannot read insults to his looks and not think it’s just hating because it’s just fact. Now unattractive, I completely get because not everyone can be attracted to the same type of person. But goodlooking? There is no way there isn’t a general concensus that he is good looking. He just is. You may hate his personality, think he stinks, looks like a hobo, is unattractive but one fact remains and that is he is seriously beautiful in the face.

  18. piedlourde says:

    Pattison looks good from straight on, but in profile it looks like he ran into a wall. The same goes for Kate Hudson, both their facial bone structures resemble that of a persian cat or a pug, minus the squished noses.
    I don’t get the hype.

    Mairead: Cillian Murphy is so beautiful to me it hurts, yet you find his and Pattison’s bone structure similar? Huh, go figure… 🙂

  19. Mairead says:

    nooooooo piedlourde, I didn’t mean that at all. I just meant that they are both striking-looking. You get a lot of goodlooking actors and models, or just generally good looking blokes. But not everyone has that unusualness that makes you turn your head and remember that face. Another example is Jonathan Rhys Meyers, I remembered him from his first soup commercial because his looks were so arresting.

    Cillian can look. well. beautiful (there is just no other way to describe it), but sometimes in a certain mood, in certain lighting, it comes off as strange beauty to me. (you know what’s interesting, iI visited Cobh in Cork, near where Cillian is from, a few times and I noticed] a few people had those enormous beautiful blue eyes)

  20. Emily says:

    Wow, I can totally believe that she never read a single vampire book before writing this shite. I do however believe she watched the Buffy and Angel love saga about a zillion times, though. Where the hell did she get her degree in literature from? The internet?

  21. fizXgirl314 says:

    man, if this is the only crap people are going to read, I’d rather they not read at all :/

  22. Eileen Yover says:

    I’d say he’s striking because he looks really good in some pictures and then weird in others. He looks great in the movie…wish his acting was as good!! Actually I wish all the actors and actresses had decent acting! It would make for a better movie! blech.

  23. Bee says:

    @Mairead you are so right about both Johnathan Rhys Myers and Cillian Murphy. They both have strangely beautiful features. Some people will find them gorgeous, and others will think they are ugly or odd looking. I, for one, prefer beauty that’s debatable. The fact that so many people are split on rather or not Rob Pattison is attractive just proves how “striking” he really is. It’s almost boring when someone is considered to be pretty much universally attractive.

  24. maybe says:

    Rob as Cedric Diggory wasn’t bad. I have to admit, he was good looking there.

    I just don’t like the messy hair and need-a-shave look.

  25. viper says:

    She looks like she eats people.

  26. Kelly says:

    Sigh. I knew the person responsible for the whole twidumb shebang would look like this. Dorky, chinless, repressed, suburban. Seething with the same leg-dragging slobbery lukewarm pseudopassions as her utterly lacklustre characters. Thanks heaps for all the toothless, lisping, mullet-wearing vampires, chest-waxing werewolves and lobotomized tweens- why can’t we herd them all onto an overpass and run them over a truck? Starting with YOU, Steffffffanie!!
    Would that be very wrong??
    🙂

  27. fizXgirl314 says:

    actually, as far as I recall, in the picture of her in the back of the book, she’s extremely thin… She must have had kids in the interim…

    besides, she’s a writer (I guess you could call her that)… her looks shouldn’t really be important…

    however, I’ll agree she’s very strange looking in that header pic… like something is incredibly wrong with her teeth… did her gums grow over her teeth or is that just lips? i hope the latter!!

  28. Emily says:

    fizXgirl314, it looks like her gums are covering her teeth. The white part of her teeth is very, very small. Or maybe she’s putting her lipstick on the top of her teeth. Don’t ask me why, but hey, this bitch thinks vampires should sparkle, so who knows how her mind works.

  29. fizXgirl314 says:

    actually, I kind of feel badly for dissing her so much now… she’s was never really a writer… she’s just a lady who had a dream…literally… it’s kind of an interesting story.

  30. lolo says:

    Today, I saw a man who’s really striking.

  31. Mrs. Edward Cullen says:

    I for one am especially happy that Stephanie graced the world with the twilight series. And most of all Edward Cullen. As far as Robert Pattinson, I couldn’t imagine Edward any other way! Robert was born to bring this character to life. I understand people have opinions but some of you are being extra rude! He portrays this character exactly how I imagined him. For many, including myself, he has helped bring to life maybe the most romantic guy in literature. I praise Stephanie and the twilight cast for a great job and look forward to more. Thank you