'New Moon' rising
Published Tuesday November 17th, 2009
Film: Move over tweens, second in hot 'Twilight' series is hitting theatres - and cougars are baying for more
Unless you've been living in a coffin, you already know the second in the phenomenally successful Twilight vampire series is set to start sucking in the fans at a phenomenal rate. But, bet you didn't know that while the original Twi-hard targets were tweens, there's a contingent of cougars howling for ab-solutely everything Twi - emphasis on the ab.
Move over kids, this is one movie your moms won't mind escorting you and your gaggle of hysterical little friends to. Anecdotal evidence suggests their blood will be boiling - especially when the other-worldly Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and members of the Wolf Pack expose their sculpted abdominal gifts.
Warning for the faint of heart: Harry Potter this is not.
In fact, it may be nippy weather in Forks, Wash., where the saga is set, but it's hard to tell given how often the talented actors appear shirtless, judging from advance photos from the film. But flashing all these abs of steel is not gratuitous stuff, alleges Lautner in an interview with E! Online. He plays werewolf Jacob Black who vies with the broody vamp Pattinson, a.k.a. Edward Cullen, for the pale hand of Kristen Stewart, better known as Bella Swan.
"There's definitely reasons behind it for the film," he said. "When we transform, we don't have clothes, we have to go find our clothes. And we're hot, we're 108 degrees. So it's not like we're randomly taking our shirts off for no reason."
Riiiiight.
But fear not, according to various Internet reports - so it must be true - Lautner is planning to turn his back on his abs in the future and choose "serious" movies over skin.
"I worked hard to get in shape for this role," he is quoted as saying to Showbiz Spy. "My motivation was the movie and the fans, but I don't want to become known as just a body. If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that's not very realistic. I certainly won't be asking to do it, though."
The Twilight Saga: New Moon officially opens Friday, but those panting to see it in New Brunswick can take advantage of late showings starting Thursday night.
According to CNN, women "of a certain age," (translation: old enough to be the actors' moms) have been ensnared by the vampire series' charms. It started with the Stephanie Meyer books.
"The stigma of it being a teenager's book was the biggest issue," Utah mom Lisa Hansen told CNN. "Everyone felt the same way I did, like, 'What's wrong with me? Why am I obsessing over this teenager thing?' "
Toronto's Valerie Gibson, who in 1990 wrote a book about cougars (older women dating younger men), told CNN that, "I think older women who have found their sexuality have always lusted after younger men but they were never, never allowed to say so.
"We've got a whole new social phenomenon of older women saying, 'Who told me sexuality would die? It hasn't. Here it is still burning away, maybe not for the guy I've been with for 30 years, but it's still there.' "
The good news is these women apparently aren't delusional, and they really do know there is the age difference. One woman quoted by CNN who wouldn't give her last name runs an adults-only Twilight blog.
"We love to talk about how sexy Rob Pattinson is and what we would do if we got close," said Jenny. "We feed off each other - we can be these racy, silly, just kind of goofy women about this. No one's being judged for being married and saying, 'I'm 54 and I think this 23-year-old is absolutely delicious.' "
Warming to her subject, Jenny adds: "We're having are really, really fabulous time being 30, 40, or 50. We're very unapologetic of our age. Women are saying, 'So what, I'm 45, I'm married, I have children, but there's no reason why I can't say that Robert Pattinson is hot.' "
Hey, after all, while the character Pattinson plays is a teenager, the vampire who lives inside is really 108.
Meanwhile, fans in the younger generation have divided themselves into two teams. You either fall squarely on Team Edward or Team Jacob.
Team Edward supporters like the moves of the dashing vampire Pattinson, 23. With skin so pale he appears to be bloodless, Pattinson's signature is a man of thick, messy hair that it's rumoured his co-star Stewart gets to run her fingers through in real life with word of a romance brewing conveniently just before the movie opens.
Werewolf Lautner (sorry girls but he's off the market too thanks to Taylor Swift), is a mere 17, and chiseled.
"Werewolves are a little more rugged. They're a little brawnier, a little bit bigger, a little more raw," Nathan Mellalieu, the actors' trainer told the Vancouver Sun. "Vampires are designed to be elegant, I think."
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