You've said that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were perfect for their roles. What did you see in them that made you cast them?
I thought Kristen was just amazing in Into the Wild. When I read the
novel Twilight, I kept picturing her in that scene, where she’s sitting
in the trailer, hoping to seduce Emile Hirsch. Her yearning was
palpable, real, and intense. I thought, "This girl would be wonderful."
So Summit flew me out to Pittsburgh, where she was shooting
Adventureland. We took an actor with us and improvised a lot of scenes. To
find Edward was tricky, because how he was written, he was perfect,
with these cheekbones, and he was also wise beyond his years. We
whittled it down from hundreds of actors to four. I'd only talked to Rob
on the phone when he was much younger. He flew out on his own dime and
stayed on his agent's couch. The four actors came over to my house and we workshopped all the "chemistry" scenes. With
Rob and Kristen, it was apparent that those two just connected and had a
magnetism for each other that was electric, right there on the spot.
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