On Nov. 16, Twilight fans around the world will say goodbye to their favorite saga as the epic finale, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 hits theaters. Twilight fans – self-proclaimed Twihards – are some of the most passionate and driven fans any genre could ever hope to see. Before the final Twilight movie hits theaters with a worldwide event, Hollywood.com decided to get into the mindset of a Twihard by profiling one of Twilight’s biggest fans.
Meet Jamie. A 28-year-old NYC resident originally from Florida, Jamie is Hollywood.com’s featured Twihard. We’ll be getting to know her and learning all about what a day in the life of a Twihard is like over the next two weeks. We begin by focusing on the first days of her life as a Twihard.
Jamie didn’t want to read Twilight the first time she heard of the book. “It’s funny,” she says. “My sister handed me this book that I was like, ‘It’s too big. No, I don’t want to read this. I don’t really like reading.’”
After refusing to read it, Jamie didn’t think about Twilight again — until the trailer for the 2008 film adaptation was released. Watching the spot, Jamie saw a familiar face from a franchise she knew and loved: Harry Potter‘s Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. “I said to my sister, ‘It’s Cedric Diggory’s new movie!’” Jamie says. “And she said, ‘Yeah, that’s the book I was telling you about.’ So now I was like, I have to read this book. I read all the Harry Potter series … So I go through the first one and I literally just went through it right away.”
After sinking her teeth into the first book, Jamie was hooked. But she hit a snag when it came to reading the second book. Turns out, her sister had lent out New Moon to a friend. Before the time of ebooks, Kindles and iPads, hard copies were the only way of the game. And patience is not quite a virtue when it comes to Twilight fans. “I said to my sister, you have to get it back because I need to read the second one,” Jamie says. “Call your friend and tell her to give it back because I have to start reading the second one.”
Once she got the second book back, Jamie devoured Eclipse… and then came the long wait for the release of Breaking Dawn. “That was hard because you kind of just rip through them,” Jamie says. “And then when Breaking Dawn came out, I went out at midnight to get the book. I dragged my friend who had no idea what it was so we could go get the book. I stayed up half the night reading it.”
Jamie successfully finished reading the entire franchise in one summer. She was officially a Twihard. “It happened so fast,” Jamie says. “Just instantly there was this mysterious guy that you are so into. And I was happy with how [Bella and Edward] ended up [together].”
Jamie understands why, however, there was so little violence (and, based on trailers for the upcoming Breaking Dawn — Part 2, her taste for blood may just be fulfilled). “I knew it was a Mormon woman writing it who didn’t even condone them drinking soda and what have you, but I did expect a little more from that,” Jamie says.
Stay tuned to read more about Hollywood.com’s Twihard, Jamie Jamie, as A Day in the Life of a Twihard series continues on Nov. 9.
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[Photo Credit: Jamie]
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