The unique Twilight film and its 4 sequels had been recognized for a lot of issues, chief amongst them being catapulting the main trio of Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner into tremendous stardom that. Again in the course of the late 2000s and 2010s, the three of them had been scorching younger actors, to the purpose you could’t totally think about their respective roles of Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black being performed by anybody else.
Because it seems, we virtually had a really totally different Edward in Josh Peck. Throughout the latest episode of his Good Guys podcast, which featured Lautner as a visitor, the Drake & Josh star revealed that he’d auditioned to play the lead vampire, saying that his reps on the time informed him to “audition for this film, it’s based mostly on a guide and it’s going to be nice. I ship in my tape for Edward. A month later, I’m with my supervisor, and he goes, ‘It’s all the way down to you and three guys. You’re shut.’”
Peck recalled being shocked that he was that shut within the working—”I haven’t even had a tummy tuck but,” he mentioned, referencing his pre-weight loss days. That was the most important explanation for his disbelief, since he figured that Edward’s “received to be so shirtless” sooner or later in the course of the movie. (He was, in each the primary film and the sequel Twilight: New Moon as a part of a plan to kill himself.) He didn’t get it, and when he ultimately watched Pattinson’s efficiency within the films, he felt much more misplaced. “Seeing R-Patz taking part in this half I’m like, ‘In what fucking world had been they like, ‘OK, right here’s what we’re considering: Chris Hemsworth or Stanely Tucci?’ Like, what the fuck?” he mentioned to Lautner. “Unimaginable. Unimaginable! So, we virtually labored collectively.”
Over time, Peck’s had a secure profession in films and TV, having just lately appeared in Oppenheimer and How I Met Your Father. As acknowledged earlier, the Twilight films had been extraordinarily huge again within the day, and led to Stewart and Pattinson taking up extra riskier and fascinating work with filmmakers like David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, and Bong Joon-Ho. (Lautner continues to behave, however at a slower tempo in comparison with his two co-stars.) Being Edward in all probability wouldn’t have led to Peck changing into the newest, freakiest Batman, nevertheless it undoubtedly would’ve been fascinating to see the place his profession would’ve gone from taking part in one of many leads in one in all Nickelodeon’s most essential exhibits (and likewise Casey Jones) to being a heartthrob in one of many greatest movie franchises of the late 00s and 2010s.
[by way of The Hollywood Reporter]
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