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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's "Twilight" Audition Secrets
Hold connected choky for this revelation, spider monkeys: Henry Cavill could've been Edward Cullen.
Though the histrion didn't cognize astir the movie's existence, Twilight writer Stephenie Meyer erstwhile envisioned him arsenic her "perfect Edward." However, per a 2007 post connected her blog, she was disappointed to find that past 24-year-old Cavill wasn't the close property for her vampire protagonist.
Speaking connected the Oct. 26 occurrence of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Cavill said helium wasn't adjacent alert helium was Meyer's idiosyncratic casting choice.
"I didn't cognize astir the movie," Cavill said. "I didn't cognize astir them wanting to formed maine and the net wasn't rather the instrumentality that it is present and truthful I lone recovered retired afterwards."
What was his absorption to proceeding the news? He added, "I was like, ‘Oh OK, that would person been cool.'"
Other actors Meyer had successful caput to play Edward—who she noted successful her blog was "indisputably the astir hard quality to cast"—included Tom Sturridge and Logan Lerman.
However, it was past 21-year-old Robert Pattinson who went connected to famously execute the relation alongside Kristen Stewart arsenic Bella Swan.
Cavill, present 39, noted during the podcast that portion helium didn't formally vie against Pattinson for the Twilight role, helium did suffer retired connected playing Cedric Diggory successful Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to the Good Time actor.
"Yes, I retrieve that," Cavill recalled. "I decidedly auditioned for that 1 and did not get it."
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Cavill said that the relation "wasn't right" for him due to the fact that of age.
"I deliberation I was astir apt 19 oregon 20, and that makes a large quality erstwhile you're playing a kid successful precocious school," Cavill said, earlier joking, "Well, it utilized to anyway."
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