ABOUT.COM – EDI GATHEGI INTERVIEW
ABOUT.COM interviews Edi Gathegi(Laurent in the Twilight movie). He has a good sense of humor! Below – video and excerpts from the transcript:
Edi Gathegi plays one of the ‘bad’ vampires in one of the most anticipated movies of 2008 – “Twilight.” At the premiere of “Sex Drive,” Gathegi talked about the vampire mythology of “Twilight” and bringing the books to the big screen.Okay, but vampires don’t eat donuts.
Edi Gathegi: “We don’t eat at all. We drink.”
But you don’t have fangs.
Edi Gathegi: “No. this is a new mythology so the rules are slightly different in this mythology.”
What do you think about the new rules?
Edi Gathegi: “I love them. Yeah, because I’ve never really been a big fan of vampire stories. There are certain things that are very cliché and this kind of like bends the rules and completely changes everything around, and that’s what I like about it. And this is like a romance story; it’s not about the vampires. It just happens to be set in the world of vampires, which I like.”
That’s a good way to put it. Did you read all the books?
Edi Gathegi: “I read them all.”
Even the last one that just came out?
Edi Gathegi: “Yeah, the fourth one. 700 and something pages, flipped through it in two days.”
Did you?
Edi Gathegi: “Yeah, it’s good. She writes…it’s so accessible, you know? And it’s good so…”
Okay, since you’ve read them and since you’re in the film, are there a lot of changes?
Edi Gathegi: “Well, you’re fitting a 500 page book into a two hour movie so things have to be truncated. But we had Stephenie [Meyer] as a consultant on the film so she made sure that it was very close to her vision, and it is very close. It’s a really close adaptation.”
(thanks Vi)
Edi has read all four books – Go Edi!!! He’s not even a main character and he’s read all of the Twilight series – I think that is seriously cool.
Edi mentions that he hopes they make New Moon – so do we! What do you think of Edi as Laurent? From the footage we’ve seen, does he do a good job in the part?
