Will the Twilight Saga Stars Get Twilight Typecast?

by Nadya Vlassoff

As the Twilight film franchise continues to harvest tons of New Moon media attention, Twilight Saga stars Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, and Taylor Lautner are now at the center of one of the decade’s biggest film phenomenons. In Vancouver, B.C. where the Twilight sequel New Moon is being shot, Twilight mania has reached a new high as both fans and press have converged to eagerly await the daily personal or professional moves of Pattinson, Stewart, and Lautner. However, with the rising success of the Twilight Saga, as well as the target audience of young female fans that continues to escalate, are the Twilight actors being swallowed up in the enormity of attention? When the cinematic sun eventually sets on the Stephenie Meyer based Twilight Saga, will the actors be forever hemmed in by their own Twilight success, or will they be able to shake their Twilight image to avoid a professional stereotype?

Both the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings trilogy produced highly lucrative films that propelled their relatively unknown stars into a new stratosphere of celebrity. Actors Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter series are now huge worldwide celebrities within a certain age bracket. Despite the fame, there is still a market for the Harry Potter stars in other sectors of the film industry. Whether they have branched out into the indie scene or to the theater stage, Watson, Grint, and Radcliff have all shown versatility underneath the spotlight as they’ve grown up in front of the camera. And with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince still to be released in 2009, it’s still much too early to know if any of the stars will be professionally pegged as “that Harry Potter guy” or “the Harry Potter girl” that may prevent them from carving out their own diverse careers as actors.

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