Oh, Robert, Robert, Robert ...

[quietprofanity]

cleolinda's transcription of the pertinent lines:

"I was convinced... that Stephenie was convinced... that she was Bella... and it was like a book that wasn't supposed to be published. And you're reading like, her sort of sexual fantasy. [...] I was like, This woman is mad. She's completely mad, and she's in love with her own fictional creation. And sometimes you'd like feel uncomfortable reading this thing. [...] It's kind of... like a sick pleasure."

A few years ago, I asked my mother why so many women loved Luke on General Hospital given that his character was a rapist. And Mom said something like, "Anthony Geary was just so fun to watch. Whenever he played Luke, you knew he realized that he was in this really stupid soap opera, and you had to love him."

Ladies of 2008, we have met our Luke ... and he is a vampire.

Comments

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha oh my god. You are a treasure, Robert.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear he realizes he's there as masturbatory material-- and that it sort of disturbs him.

The movie, posters, calendars, etc. make him look very ILL. They painted his skin grey and gave him very dark hollows in his face. Icky. Still, I've overheard far more fan-squeeing over Edward than I care to. >_>;

Heh. One guy came into the calendar store with his girlfriend (squeeing) and he paused and looked at me. "This is the guy everyone's so excited about?" I nodded solemnly. He shook his head. I explained to him that it wasn't about the actor; it was about the masturbatory fantasy of the book character. He said he didn't get it. His girlfriend went off on him in fan-frenzy with a monologue about Edward's greatness. I think we both thought she was funny-crazy.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I got a couple of those people at the calendar store when I worked there: the excited lover and the other one who didn't get it. (Didn't always have to be squeeing girl/cynical guy, either. I heard one guy tell his wife about the awesomeness of Steve McQueen.)

I think people in the meta-fandom really love Robert BECAUSE neither Robert nor them like Edward. I heard Kristin Stewart thought a lot of her dialogue was cheesy too.

I kind of feel a little bad for the actors involved (well, not really, they're still getting shitloads of money), but between Pattison and Stewart's skepticism of the material and the guy who plays Sam doing deep research into the role to the point where he's learning Quileute and writing poems for his character, you really sense they all deserved a better book to work with.