Once upon a time, Summit Entertainment had a huge hit on their hands with the “Twilight” movies, focusing on a romance between a vampire and a teenage girl. That success helped push leads Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson into the world of fame alongside the tabloid media’s fevered obsession with their dating lives. If you weren’t following Taylor Swift’s dating history, the singer was in a relationship with the saga’s other star Taylor Lautner at the time and was actually trying to get a cameo in the sequel, “Twilight: New Moon.”
However, it wasn’t meant to be, and director Chris Weitz revealed the reasoning behind why he nixed the cameo on The Twilight Effect podcast (see below). The filmmaker blocked the cameo despite sharing the same agent as Swift as he believed it wouldn’t be a good fit and potentially distracting to audiences.
“Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time, and he said, ‘Taylor would like to be in this movie — not because of you, but she’s a Twi-hard,'” Weitz said. The agent told Weitz, “‘She will be someone at the cafeteria, or the diner, or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie.'”
“The hardest thing for me was to be like, ‘The moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen, for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,'” Weitz said of the potential cameo.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I could have been, like, hanging out with Taylor Swift, and maybe we could’ve been friends or something,'” he said. “She must’ve just been like, ‘Who is this jerk who would say no?’ But sometimes you make decisions, and you go, ‘This is for the best. It wasn’t to be.'”
After five films, the vampire YA franchise has been collecting dust as everyone involved has moved on with their careers. Meanwhile, its peer “The Hunger Games” is getting a second life thanks to the prequel film “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.”
It’ll be curious if “Twilight” will end up getting a spinoff, prequel, or reboot in the future, but that seems ill-advised. You can watch/listen to that podcast episode below.
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