Emily Browning Clarifies Her Position on the Twilight Series

Prior to 2007 if you looked for images surrounding the Twilight Saga, you were faced with fan-made banners of Emily Browning and Henry Cavill depicted as Bella and Edward (like the one seen left). They were two actors mentioned by Stephenie Meyer in a fantasy ideal casting on her website.

Roughly two years ago, Emily Browning was quoted (and apparently misquoted) that she turned down the role after having auditioned for it. She just clarified her statement for Indie Wire as part of the PR junket for her new movie Sucker Punch.

“I chose not to audition,” Browning said about “Twilight” which was offered to her during this should-I or shouldn’t-I period of career introspection. “The author at one point stated that I would be her ideal Bella, but I chose not to audition because I was at a point in my career where I wasn’t sure I wanted to work, I definitely didn’t want to sign onto a trilogy so I didn’t audition, but there were a lot of things people said: ‘you turned it down’ no that’s not the case, ‘you were offered it and you turned it down,’ no, no, no, that’s not what happened at all. And there were battles but it was really just as simple as I don’t want to work right now so…”

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Via TwilightLexicon

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