Twilight director regrets saying no to Taylor Swift's cameo request

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19 Aug 2022, 14:08

Twilight is one of the biggest film franchises ever, and the director regrets not letting a superstar appear in it.

None other than Taylor Swift made a request to appear in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, however director Chris Weitz turned her down.

He made the shocking confession on The Twilight Effect podcast.

Chris shared that Taylor had made the request before the 2009 movie, but he decided it wouldn't be good.

“Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard, and 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,’” Chris explained.

Chris said their mutual agent claimed Taylor would take any role, including “someone at the cafeteria, or the diner or whatever,” the agent said at the time. “She just wants to be in this movie.”

Ultimately Chris turned her down, worrying it would distract fans.

“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,” the director said. “I kick myself for it too, because - I was like, wow, I could’ve been hanging out with Taylor Swift.

“She must have been like, ‘Who is this jerk?’ But sometimes you make decisions thinking this is for the best of the film.”