Stephenie Meyer talks about Robert Pattinson on Oprah

The usually press-shy author who gave life to Bella, Edward, Jacob and a billion-dollar media phenomenon told Oprah Winfrey today that R.Pattz and his unique and “significantly featured” face brought her visions of Edward to life.

“I knew that the problem was going to be Edward, because he’s the perfect vampire,” Meyer said in what will be her only formal interview before New Moon hits theaters Nov. 20. “How do you cast that from your pool of human actors?”

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But Pattinson “doesn’t look like everybody else,” she said. “There’s something unusual. There are moments where he looks exactly like he did in my head.”
Plus, “he smells great. Rob is hilarious. He’s the funniest person. He is really fun to hang out with. He is not at all like the Edward character. It’s interesting to watch him kind of shift back and forth because he’s so different as Rob and he just changes.”

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