“The vampire baseball scene was a big thing,” Rathbone recalls.
How is this not gonna be just B-movie camp?
I really enjoyed working with her.
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Any setup she had, she would get in there and act it out for us.
“The baseball scene was super fun,” she says.
“We had to go into training.
That fan connection was a big part of theTwilightphenomenon.
As Rathbone told EW, the almost universal reach ofTwilightfandom basically pre-empted the connections of social media.
“This was a film that captured so many people before social media and connected them across the world.
I’ve heard stories from mothers and daughters who said they really connected over these books and films.”
The universal connections of social media aren’t the only thingsTwilightpredated.
“That was not true.
On opening weekend they said if we made $39 million they would be excited.
Cut to us making $69 million.
Cut to us making $100 million.
Nobody thought this could happen, and then of course it did, and then it kept going.
Then you sawHunger GamesandDivergentandWonder Woman …it’s like, duh!”
“I had never really been into vampire stories,” Gathegi says.
“I have since learned to love the genre.
Just being a part of it, opening myself up, and I actually love theTwilightbooks.
Ten years later, plenty of people still care aboutTwilight.
Later this month, the film will even return to theaters forspecial anniversary screeningson Oct. 21 and Oct. 23.
