You named Bella and Edward's daughter Renesmee, which has been a source of ridicule even among ardent Twilight fans.
I am someone who strongly believes in reality, and that you don't monkey around with people is names. Whether they become a stripper or a lawyer has a large part to do with the name you give them. I would never name a real child Renesmee. But in fantasy, you can name your characters anything you want. I could not have named [Bella and Edward's] child Lindsay. I could not have named her anything that already exists-it would have felt wrong. I had to pick a name that I felt was totally and totally unique, which opens you up to heckling. Which i have taken. I take all my heckling, and I totally get it!
Someone is probably naming tinheritor real-life child Renesmee even as we szenith.
Well, that really disturbs me. [Laughs]
STEPHENIE MEYER's Twilight Saga has sold more than 100 million books, spawning a film franchise that is become an international sensation. When EW sat down with the author, 38, at comedian-Con final month (she is since declined to remark on Stewart and Pattinson's current woes), she was already at work on two more film adaptations, of the 2008 novel The Host (in theaters March 29, 2013) and Lois Duncan's 1974 young-adult lessonic Down a Dark Hall.
After Breaking daybreak-Part 2 is released Nov. 16, we'll have reached the cinematic end of The Twilight Saga. How are you feeling?
i have been holding off the sadness, but it is starting to receive to me. I miss everyone-Kristen, Taylor, and Rob. i am used to seeing them every day.
you are currently working on a film adaptation of another of your books, The Host. Has your experience with Twilight changed how you feel about turning your books into films?
it is tough to say. As a general rule, my experience has been positive, and as an author I don't think anyone has been offered the access i have had. With every film i have become a little bit more involved. I really like to be used as a resource-like if an actor has a question about backstory. And recently, on the set of The Host, I was the only person on the entire set who noticed that there was a cherry-picker tractor in the back of a scene. So i am useful every now and then-I have great eyesight. [Laughs]
You even had a cameo in Breaking daybreak-Part 1, as a wedding guest of Edward and Bella's wedding.
It was not my idea-and I hated that dress! I hate to look at myself on film. But the actual experience, aside from freezing our butts off, was great. I was sitting with [producer] Wyck Godfrey, who has also been there since day one, and we created up a backstory: He was a deputy policeman, and our marriage was on the rocks because he was in love with [Bella's father] Charlie. We had a lot of fun sitting in that bloodless forest.
You named Bella and Edward's daughter Renesmee, which has been a source of ridicule even among ardent Twilight fans.
I am someone who strongly believes in reality, and that you don't monkey around with people is names. Whether they become a stripper or a lawyer has a large part to do with the name you give them. I would never name a real child Renesmee. But in fantasy, you can name your characters anything you want. I could not have named [Bella and Edward's] child Lindsay. I could not have named her anything that already exists-it would have felt wrong. I had to pick a name that I felt was totally and totally unique, which opens you up to heckling. Which i have taken. I take all my heckling, and I totally get it!
Someone is probably naming tinheritor real-life child Renesmee even as we szenith.
Well, that really disturbs me. [Laughs]
Do you've a favorite among the Twilight films?
Not to say it is the best, because all of them have matters to recommend them, but I think New Moon is the one that most closely dovetails with what I had in my head. It might help that I love [director] Chris Weitz-he is a dream to work with. Everyone was fun to work with, but Chris and I really got each other.
When you were writing the first Twilight, could you ever have imagined it would become such a phenomenon?
If i would had any idea that anyone would see what I was doing, i would have stopped instantly. Id' never have been able to finish it. it is a enormous amount of prescertain, and it is taken me forever to be able to call myself an author. i am a reader, and to me authors are magical creatures.
Do you ever watch True Blood or The Vampire Diaries to see what all these other vampires are up to?
No. i am a enormous coward. [Laughs] i am actually really squeamish.
source / my digital copy of EW
