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Vampire star Jackson Rathbone on his family ties to legendary swashbuckler
TWILIGHT star Jackson Rathbone has revealed how big-screen spills and thrills are in his blood.
The Hollywood hunk stars as soulful vampire Jasper Hale in the smash hit series of Twilight adventures.
Now he’s about to be seen as one of the superheroes of the big budget family fantasy, The Last Airbender.
And Jackson, 25, reveals how all this action is practically second nature to him because he’s related to movie legend Basil Rathbone.
Best known for his Sherlock Holmes films, Rathbone, who died in 1967, was also famed as the greatest swordsman ever to grace the silver screen.
One of his most memorable big screen sword fights, of course, was with Errol Flynn in The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Naturally, Jackson is delighted to have this connection with one of the greats of the golden age of cinema.
He said: “I have a close bloodline to Basil Rathbone, who is my grandfather’s third cousin several times removed. I don’t like to talk about how many times removed.
“He taught Errol Flynn how to use a sword and he is one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history.”
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