By IANS
LOS ANGELES: Following the business success of 2008’s ‘Twilight’, ‘The Twilight Saga’s New Moon’ grew to become one of the highly-anticipated films in 2009. Director Chris Weitz has revealed that the Grammy Award-winning artiste Taylor Swift needed to turn into part of “New Moon”, however he shot her down.
“The craziest one of all those was to hear that Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard,” Weitz stated throughout an look on ‘The Twilight Effect’ podcast with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe, “and 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’.”
According to the ‘New Moon’ director, Swift was up for any form of function within the movie, stories aceshowbiz.com.
“‘She would be someone at the cafeteria or the diner or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie,'” he recalled his agent informing him. However, he rejected her request as a result of he feared the “Shake It Off” hitmaker’s fame would turn into an excessive amount of distraction within the movie.
“The hardest thing for me was to be like, the moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen, for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,” the ‘American Pie’ helmer stated, earlier than saying that he regretted the choice: “I kick myself for it too, because I was like, ‘Wow, I could’ve been hanging out with Taylor Swift.’ We could have been friends.”
The 52-year-old added of Swift: “She must have been like, ‘Who is this jerk?'” Believing that it is the finest for ‘New Moon’, he added although: “But sometimes you make decisions thinking this is for the best of the film.” Even with out Taylor, ‘New Moon’ broke varied field workplace information, incomes a complete of $709.8 million worldwide.
As for the country-turned-pop celebrity, she clearly would not run out of film gig affords as she has starred in such tasks as ‘Valentine’s Day’ the place she seems together with the ‘Twilight Saga’ film hunk Taylor Lautner, ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Cats’. She will subsequent be seen in David O. Russell’s ensemble movie “Amsterdam”.
LOS ANGELES: Following the business success of 2008’s ‘Twilight’, ‘The Twilight Saga’s New Moon’ grew to become one of the highly-anticipated films in 2009. Director Chris Weitz has revealed that the Grammy Award-winning artiste Taylor Swift needed to turn into part of “New Moon”, however he shot her down.
“The craziest one of all those was to hear that Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard,” Weitz stated throughout an look on ‘The Twilight Effect’ podcast with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe, “and 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’.”
According to the ‘New Moon’ director, Swift was up for any form of function within the movie, stories aceshowbiz.com.
“‘She would be someone at the cafeteria or the diner or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie,'” he recalled his agent informing him. However, he rejected her request as a result of he feared the “Shake It Off” hitmaker’s fame would turn into an excessive amount of distraction within the movie.
“The hardest thing for me was to be like, the moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen, for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,” the ‘American Pie’ helmer stated, earlier than saying that he regretted the choice: “I kick myself for it too, because I was like, ‘Wow, I could’ve been hanging out with Taylor Swift.’ We could have been friends.”
The 52-year-old added of Swift: “She must have been like, ‘Who is this jerk?'” Believing that it is the finest for ‘New Moon’, he added although: “But sometimes you make decisions thinking this is for the best of the film.” Even with out Taylor, ‘New Moon’ broke varied field workplace information, incomes a complete of $709.8 million worldwide.
As for the country-turned-pop celebrity, she clearly would not run out of film gig affords as she has starred in such tasks as ‘Valentine’s Day’ the place she seems together with the ‘Twilight Saga’ film hunk Taylor Lautner, ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Cats’. She will subsequent be seen in David O. Russell’s ensemble movie “Amsterdam”.