When Robert Pattinson was solid as Edward Cullen in Twilight, he gained a extremely coveted position that tons of Hollywood actors absolutely fought for. We’ve heard earlier than that Henry Cavill was wanted to play the vampire, and Shadow & Bone’s Ben Barnes, Evil Useless’s Shiloh Fernandez and the franchise’s personal Jackson Rathbone had been finalists to star towards Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan. However do you know Josh Peck was nearly solid as effectively?
Nicely, the Drake & Josh star shared this week that again in 2006, within the midst of main the Nickelodeon sitcom, he tried out for the position too. He wasn’t assured he was proper for the half, as she shared:
A month later, I am with my supervisor and he goes ‘It is all the way down to you and three guys, you are shut.’ I am like ‘Actually?’ I hadn’t even had a tummy tuck but, I’m like, ‘There isn’t any means.’ He is gotta be so shirtless, that’s not gonna occur. Spoiler alert. Did not get it. After which seeing R-Patz taking part in this half, I am like in what fucking world had been they like ‘OK, he is what we’re pondering, Chris Hemsworth or Stanley Tucci.’ Like what the fuck? Unimaginable.
Robert Pattinson and Josh Peck have fully completely different vibes. On the time, Pattinson had spent his teenage years as a mannequin earlier than appearing in a number of dramas and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace. He had the brooding factor going for him already. Peck, then again, had began to determine himself as a younger comedic actor within the hilarious Drake & Josh sequence. The identical yr, he additionally voiced the position of a comical opossum in Ice Age: The Meltdown. You possibly can perceive how he wasn’t certain he’d promote the world on “I’m the pores and skin of a killer, Bella.”
Peck revealed his shocking audition throughout a brand new episode of the Good Guys Podcast, which the actor hosts with influencer Ben Soffer, the place the pair had Twilight’s Taylor Lautner on the present. Take a look at the second the place Peck shared with the Jacob Black actor their missed film connection:
Fairly wild, proper? Taylor Lautner shared he had no concept the actor ever was up for Edward Cullen, and Peck joked they “nearly labored collectively!” Younger actors absolutely audition for all types of random tasks blindly, and it’s fairly humorous to see Peck’s response to nearly being in Twilight as a result of his work is principally the exact opposite of Robert Pattinson’s.
Peck might not have been the lion to Bella Swan’s lamb, however he’s slightly well-known for his Nickelodeon sitcom that co-starred Drake Bell and aired on the time, even when he’s debunked the concept the sequence made him wealthy. Peck has additionally been in a number of comedies over time, and was even a part of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer solid over the summer time as American physicist Kenneth Bainbridge. Now, he does share one thing with Pattinson for the reason that British actor starred in 2020’s Tenet and labored with Nolan as effectively.
Whereas Peck admittedly wasn’t born to play Edward Cullen, by dropping the half, he didn’t have to participate in the Staff Edward/Staff Jacob rivalries or spend a number of time entering into form as a Twilight love curiosity like Lautner did and as soon as known as an “absolute nightmare.” The filmmakers actually did discover a fantastic Edward Cullen in Robert Pattinson. You possibly can rewatch all of the Twilight films now (and picture how Peck may need slot in) with an Amazon Prime subscription.
