Taylor Swift's news of her getting cast as an extra in the well-known film Twilight: New Moon would have surprised her fans, literally.
Nonetheless, the director apparently refused her because he thought "she would steal the focus from the movie."
In a podcast interview with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe's The Twilight Effect, Chris Weitz, the director of the second Twilight film, reportedly said that he "reluctantly had to deny her the part of an extra" in the back story, as per Independent.
"Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard, 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!'" noted Weitz.
He resumed, "She would be someone at the cafeteria, or the diner or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie.'"
Weitz, however, declined the offer, primarily because he thought the "surprise appearance of a major celebrity would distract from the rest of the movie."
The director exemplified this: "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."
Weitz understood that he forfeited the chance to hang out with the musician, but he stated, "sometimes you make decisions thinking this is for the best of the movie."
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