While the Twilight franchise continues to keep millions of pre-teen girls (and their moms) busy, the film’s actors are helping with a new documentary on what it’s like to be a celebrity in a time where someone (like, say, Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson) can go from being an unknown to one of the world’s most famous faces in the span of only a few months.
Folks don’t have to look too far to find the person responsible for the doc, as actress Nikki Reed (who plays Rosalie Hale in both Twilight and the upcoming New Moon) told MTV that her brother, a college student at UCLA, is the one behind the film – which he’s calling The Glorification of Celebrities. According to Reed, her brother interviewed several folks – from Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Reed herself to fans of all different shapes and sizes – in an attempt to shed more light on why we feel the need to treat some celebrities like they’re real-life gods (I’m lookin’ at you, Pattinson fans!).
She says, "I think Twilight was a wonderful thing for him to use [in the film], because it escalated quite quickly. It went from being this little tiny book series that none of the actors really knew anything about to this explosion that happened somewhere around the summer [of 2008]; I started walking outside and people started yelling 'Rosalie!'"
Reed, who claims the doc has helped bring her closer to her brother, hopes it will eventually reach a wide audience -- above and beyond the rarely-seen world of student films -- but so far it’s still being pieced together. Does this sound like something you’d want to watch? Is this a topic that deserves the documentary treatment? Sound off below.
