Catherine Answers My "Edward's Wings" Question!

Last November 25th, a few lucky admins and contest winners from various Twilight fansites were priviledged to participate in a live online chat with Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. We posted our questions and the chat moderator chose them at random and asked Catherine the question. I think there was about 50 of us in there so it was crazy and to try and get a question in was a bit difficult because everyone was posting at once. It was a small miracle but one of my questions was chosen! It took me a while to find the transcript online so that I could get the exact answer copied down, but here it is!

You all remember my little observation of Edward's wings in this post? Well, I decided to ask her about that because it's one of my favorite scenes from the movie (you know anything with wings will get me).

My question: Whose idea was it to place an owl behind Edward so it looks like he has wings?



Catherine's answer: Okay, the set decorator came and she had all these cool birds, you see all birds in the scene and an armadillo, the Texas state animal, you know, I am a Texan. Anyway I saw that owl and I remembered there was a beautiful art exposition one time where an artist took a photograph of ashes in the snow and nothing else and while the artist took the picture an eagle was flying by and the photograph was taken at the same time (snaps fingers), it was really cool with the wings right behind it, so when I saw that owl and I thought this could be kind of cool, so we worked it around.

YAY!

The whole chat was quite interesting because there were some very unique questions that were asked and answered that haven't been duplicated in any of the other interviews with her I've read so far. Leave it up to the Twihards to come up with some awesome questions! You can read the entire transcript of the chat on the Twilight Lexicon here.

Happy Friday!

p.s. I know I promised to post my pictures from People Magazine and Life & Style -Patience, my friends. I'm still working on that and will try to post it Monday.