Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone arrive on the red carpet for The Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn Part I premiere at the Rome International Film Festival. Photo / AP
Twilight star Jackson Rathbone has likened the wildly popular series about love between a human and a vampire to the story of Romeo and Juliet.
The next-to-last film in the saga, The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn Part, has screened at Rome's film festival for the first time and hype is high among fans.
Speaking to reporters, Rathbone called the love between Bella and Edward "almost as mythological as the Romeo and Juliet story," referring to Shakespeare's play about star-crossed lovers.
A co-star, Nikki Reed, who plays a teenage vampire twin to Rathbone's character, mused about the popularity of the series, which has raked in more than $2 billion worldwide.
"This love between Edward and Bella is just out of the realm of possibility and reality. I mean, it's unattainable, it's not real, and that's what makes it so magnetic," Reed said.
She added that she thinks "that's why there's no specific demographics for this, because you know, 12-year-old girls fantasise about having this, and women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, think about when they had that first love."
Rathbone said he is still grappling with the reasons for the runaway success of the series.
"When I first came on board of Twilight, I had no idea what was going to happen with it, and for it to be now a worldwide phenomenon is still baffling," he said.
The Rome festival runs through till November 4 and includes 15 in-competition films plus documentaries, children's films, exhibits and screenings of movie classics.
- AP
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