Taylor Swift wanted to be in the Twilight movie New Moon, but the director turned her down
Taylor Swift missed out on a pretty crazy movie cameo, and we need a moment to process what we’ve missed out on. She may have appeared on screen in TV shows like CSI and New Girl, as well as star-studded 2010 romcom Valentine’s Day, but the pop icon could’ve appeared onscreen a huge part of Noughties film culture: Twilight. Chris Weitz, director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon – starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, and the second in five films devoted to the hit books – has confirmed that the film almost had a Taylor Swift cameo. In a recent interview on The Twilight Effect, a podcast hosted by actress and Twilight star Ashley Greene, he opened up about his decision to ultimately turn Taylor down when her agent came calling. “ 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. It turns out Swift wasn’t ev...