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Catherine Hardwicke Reveals Why the Studio Almost Didn’t Want Robert Pattinson for 'Twilight' · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, try to imagine anybody
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Speaker 1: playing Edward Cullen other than Rob Pattinson.
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Speaker 2: The Twilight role made Rob a household name, and he
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Speaker 2: ended up defining what a sexy vampire looks like to
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Speaker 2: a legion of devoted fans. But the film's director Catherine
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Speaker 2: Hardwick revealed on the Watch Along podcast it wasn't easy
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Speaker 2: to convince the studio to take a chance on him,
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Speaker 2: saying when Rob first came over to my house, he
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Speaker 2: had black bangs for hair and was kind of out
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Speaker 2: of shape because he was hanging out the pub all
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Speaker 2: the time. I got carried away by his audition, but
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Speaker 2: you have to be sure will it translate to the screen.
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Speaker 2: The studio asked me, do you think you can make
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Speaker 2: this guy look good? I said, yeah, did you see
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Speaker 2: his cheek bones. We're doing a makeover. He's going to
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Speaker 2: be gorgeous. But they didn't believe it at first. Afterwards,
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Speaker 2: a Twilight director Katherine Hardwick, who also said if she
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Speaker 2: was casting the role of Edward today, she'd go with
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Speaker 2: Kissing Booth Starr Jacob Ellerdy that's direct from Hollywood