Imagine you are superstar Taylor Swift and you decide you’re going to ask for a cameo in the next Twilight film. Now imagine having that level of stardom and still getting rejected by Chris Weitz, the director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
This did actually happen, as Weitz revealed on The Twilight Effect with Ashley Green and Melanie Howe. “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.’”
Swift would be willing to play any role Weitz would be willing to give her. She was happy to play “someone at the cafeteria or the diner” as long as she got to be a part of the Twilight universe.
As we know, Taylor Swift did not get that cameo role. That decision came directly from Weitz, who had some reservations about adding a superstar to the mix.
Taylor Swift did not get her cameo in The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Weitz ultimately decided against having Swift be a part of 2009’s New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight saga. He felt that her cameo would be too great a distraction from the drama between Bella (Kristen Stewart), Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and Edward (Robert Pattinson).
“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. “I kick myself for it, too, because I was like, ‘Wow, I could’ve been hanging out with Taylor Swift. We could have been friends.’”
Um, hanging out with Taylor Swift would have been amazing (I am a huge Swiftie, by the way). It feels like a missed opportunity but I respect Weitz’s decision not to have her in the movie. Remember when Ed Sheeran was in an episode of Game of Thrones? That instantly pulled me out of the world, so I get it, Weitz.
Almost 13 years later, Weitz still has second thoughts about the decision. “She must have been like, ‘Who is this jerk?’ But sometimes you make decisions thinking this is for the best of the film.”
Touché.
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