Chris Weitz, who directed the film, shared recently during a chat on “The Twilight Effect with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe” podcast that he and Swift had the same agent at the time who told her, “‘ Taylor would love to be in this movie, not because of you, but she’s a Twi-hard,” referring to die-hard fans of the franchise.
Weitz said he was told the singer was ready to be “someone in the cafeteria, or in the restaurant or whatever. She just wants to be in this movie.”
But the director rejected the idea of having such a big star in the film.
“The hardest thing for me was being like, the moment Taylor Swift comes in like on the screen for like five minutes, nobody will be able to process anything,” Weitz said. “I also kicked myself for that, because I was like, wow, I could have hung out with Taylor Swift.”
“She must have said, ‘Who is this asshole?'” he added. “But sometimes you make decisions thinking it’s for the best of the movie.”
The 2009 film starred Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.