The history of the creation of the movie "Twilight". Actors and Casting

"Twilight" is not just a movie about the love of an ordinary girl and a vampire, it is a real symbol of the era, glorified not only by the writer Stephanie Meyer, but also by the creators of the same picture. Few people know that the movie "Twilight," whose actors subsequently ascended to the very top of the Hollywood Olympus, could not even see the light. Mayer still only wrote the first book from the whole series, when she began to mentally select actors who could have embodied the characters of her work on the screen.

Initially, the development of the project involved the company Paramount Pictures, but if the picture was filmed for the script provided by the studio, the world would never have seen the real "Twilight". Cinema would have been completely different from the literary source: Bella from a regular schoolgirl turned into a racer, and vampires, persecuted by FBI agents, are forced to migrate to the south every year. Similar changes in the plot occurred to the writer is not to her liking, and then she turned to the proposal in Summit Entertainment. Catherine Hardwicke was invited to the director's chair , and she was to become the head of the entire filming process of the Twilight project. Actors also had to be chosen by her - this was the direct responsibility of the director.

With the nomination for the role of the main character of the film, Hardwicke was determined quite quickly. While watching the movie "In the wild" she turned her attention to the young actress Kristen Stewart. Despite the fact that the role of Stuart was small, she made an indelible impression on Hardwicke, and a personal meeting with the girl only reinforced the director's confidence in his choice.

As for the performer of the second leading role, he had to look for a very long time. Meyer herself when writing the novel saw the role of Edward actor Henry Cavill, but by the time the shooting began, he managed to grow up, and therefore his appearance did not correspond to the appearance of the young man Edward. About 5000 young talents were auditioned for this role, but all of them were completely inadequate to become part of the Twilight franchise. Actors, in the opinion of the director, though approached by age, but could not reflect the essence of a man who lived more than a hundred years and at the same time looks only 18.

Then in the field of view Hardwicke and Robert Pattinson, he was one of those four candidates, which the director invited to sample directly to his home. As a film set designed to fulfill the role of a class of biology, the dining room appeared; In the garage, the candidates had to pair with Stuart to play the famous scene "And how long are you 17?". However, only the third stage, which the guys played on the samples, put everything in its place - Catherine still found the performer of the main male role in the movie "Twilight". The actors read out the kiss scene on the bed when Hardwick saw the spark that was supposed to run between the characters of Kristen and Robert. The studio was not enthusiastic about Catherine's decision, but she managed to insist on her own. And, as it turned out, not in vain - the actor's tandem Pattinson-Stewart managed to win the hearts of millions of fans from around the world.