Trivia: 'Twilight'

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* Kristen Stewart has naturally green eyes. She wears brown contacts for filming because Bella is supposed to have brown eyes.

* Kellan Lutz intended on keeping his natural curly hair for the role of Emmett Cullen. However, his previous role in "Generation Kill" required a buzz cut and his hair didn't grow fast enough for the filming of Twilight.

* Henry Cavill was Stephenie Meyer's first choice to play Edward, but by the time the film came to be, he was 25 years old, and no longer looked the part of a 17-year old. He was then offered the part of Carlisle Cullen but turned it down due to his commitment with "The Tudors".

* For the role of Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson flew from England to director Catherine Hardwicke's house to audition. There, he and Kristen Stewart, who was already cast as Bella Swan, rehearsed the "Love Scene"/"Meadow Scene" on Hardwicke's own bed.

* All of the actors playing the Cullens wear topaz-colored contacts.

* Taylor Lautner had to wear a wig for his role as Jacob Black.

* Over 5,000 actors auditioned for the role of Edward.

* According to a July interview with director Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen Stewart was recommended for the role of Bella Swan by Emile Hirsch her co-star from Into the Wild. Hardwicke directed Hirsch in Lords of Dogtown.

* The script was finished in 6 weeks.

* Robert Pattinson stated in an interview that this is his first American role and he had no formal training to perfect his American accent.

* Stephenie Meyer will make a cameo in the Twilight movie. She has no lines but can be seen in a scene when Bella and Charlie go out to dinner in Forks.

* In Zathura: A Space Adventure, Kristen Stewart's character quips, "we never should have rented Thirteen". Thirteen is directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who is the director of Twilight, and also starred and was co-written by Nikki Reed.

* Since Kristen Stewart was a minor during most of the filming she wore hair pieces so they didn't have to waste time doing her hair, and therefore had more time to shoot.

* Kristen Stewart turned eighteen while filming the movie and was rewarded with a birthday cake and a full night of shooting.

* The actors who played vampires needed to be pale, so it was written into their contracts that they had to stay out of the sun.

* Nikki Reed learned how to play baseball left-handed for the famous baseball scene.

* Similar to her directorial debut, Thirteen, Hardwicke opted for an extensive use of hand-held cinematography to make the film "feel real".

* The cast did most of their own stunt work.

* The studio intended to create a series of at least three films based on Meyer's books and Summit had optioned New Moon by October 2008.

* Twilight was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 2008, but its release date was changed to November 21 after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was rescheduled for an opening in July 2009.