His name isn't Taylor Lautner, it's Jacob Black
10 November 2009
First, congratulations to Gina who won the copy of The Bartered Bride by Erica Vetsch. For those who are curious about how the drawing worked, I wrote down numbers 1-12 on scraps of paper, threw them in an old tea tin, and pulled out number 8. Which happened to be Gina’s comment.
Okay, so last week I saw Taylor Lautner (Jacob from the Twilight Saga) is dating Taylor Swift, the country star. Lots of people get way into celebrity gossip, but it’s really never done it for me. I’m more interested when it involves musicians, but with actors … I really don’t care to think of them outside of their characters. This never occurred to me until I saw a picture of the Taylors together and it looked so weird because (in my mind) he belongs to Bella. I really can’t think of him as anyone but Jacob Black. (Which I suppose is how typecasting begins.)
Do people feel that way about books as well? I don’t, but I’m sure at least part of that is because this is my profession. I’m much more interested in interviews with Stephenie Meyer than I am with any of the actors in the Twilight movies. I don’t care about their insights into the characters or how they like their lattes. I care about Stephenie’s insights and coffee habits.
But maybe non-writer readers would rather not think about the author. Maybe they prefer, like I do with movies, enjoying the fantasy world without being burdened by the creator. I can see how it’d be much more fun to pretend Skylar Hoyt is real and wasn’t created by someone who spends a lot of her day playing tea party with an almost-2-year-old and doesn’t think beyond blue jeans when it comes to getting dressed.
Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!
Do you wonder what they call each other? Hello, Taylor. Why, Hello there to you too, Taylor.
Posted by Erica Vetsch on 11 November 2009