Maintain on tight for this revelation, spider monkeys: Henry Cavill may’ve been Edward Cullen.
Although the actor did not know in regards to the film’s existence, Twilight writer Stephenie Meyer as soon as envisioned him as her “good Edward.” Nevertheless, per a 2007 publish on her weblog, she was dissatisfied to search out that then 24-year-old Cavill wasn’t the correct age for her vampire protagonist.
Talking on the Oct. 26 episode of the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, Cavill mentioned he wasn’t even conscious he was Meyer’s private casting alternative.
“I did not know in regards to the film,” Cavill mentioned. “I did not learn about them desirous to solid me and the web wasn’t fairly the software that it’s now and so I solely discovered afterwards.”
What was his response to listening to the information? He added, “I used to be like, ‘Oh OK, that will have been cool.'”
Different actors Meyer had in thoughts to play Edward—who she famous in her weblog was “indisputably essentially the most tough character to solid”—included Tom Sturridge and Logan Lerman.
