Interview with a Vampire: Jackson Rathbone

It doesn't exactly suck to be a vampire these days. Not when you're Jackson Rathbone, you're only 24 and you're already famous for your role as a charismatic neck-biter in the most talked-about teen movie franchise on the planet.

And not when, at least away from the set of those three much-hyped Twilight films you've starred in, you get to be in a band. A rock-and-roll band. But first, the interview with the vampire.

Rathbone is Singapore-born and has acting roots in musical theatre in Texas and a Michigan arts academy. He started acting professionally at 17, moving into the TV and movie industry in Hollywood when he was 18.
On television, his roles have included turns on The O.C. and Criminal Minds, and he recently completed filming M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender.

But it's as 166-year-old vampire Jasper Hale in the first three Twilight movies — Twilight, released in 2008, the Vancouver-shot New Moon, due for release Nov. 20, and Eclipse, currently shooting in Vancouver — where Rathbone has earned his celebrity status and heartthrob cred.

He plays a confederate army major who, at the age of 20, becomes a vampire with a special power to manipulate the emotions of others. Tired of noshing on humans, he takes a turn for the good and is adopted by the Cullens, thus becoming the brother of Edward, the intense, dreamy vampire whose tender Romeo and Juliet love story with lovely mortal Bella Swan forms the nucleus of the blockbuster four-book thriller romance series written by Stephenie Meyer.


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