Henry Cavill Says It ‘Would Have Been Cool’ To Play Edward Cullen After Studying That He Was The ‘Twilight’ Writer’s Dream Casting 

Henry Cavill doesn’t fairly take into account dropping out on the lead function of “Twilight” character Edward Cullen a miss.

Throughout a latest episode of the “Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused” podcast, the actor reacted to a earlier revelation made by the franchise’s writer, Stephenie Meyer, who shared that she initially had Cavill in thoughts for the function of the charming vampire earlier than the movies have been solid.

“Probably the most disappointing factor for me is dropping my excellent Edward,” Meyer as soon as wrote on her weblog. “Henry Cavill is now 24 years outdated. Allow us to have a second of quiet by which to mourn…”

Nevertheless, Cavill wasn’t bothered by Robert Pattinson’s function name just because he had no clue that Meyer dreamt of his on-screen portrayal of Cullen till nicely after the primary movie was made.

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“I didn’t know in regards to the film. I didn’t learn about them desirous to solid me and the web wasn’t fairly the instrument that it’s now, and so I solely discovered afterwards,” the “Black Adam” star defined. “I used to be like, ‘Oh okay, that will have been cool.’”

Because the British actor was unaware of Meyer’s want to have Cavill convey the beloved fictional character to life, he doesn’t take into account it a missed alternative.

Whereas talking in regards to the “well-known close to misses” all through his profession, Cavill recalled being pit in opposition to Pattinson for a job in one other film — Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace”.

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“Yeah, I do not forget that, positively auditioned for that one… and didn’t get it,” he shared with amusing. “The audition could have gone nicely, it might have gone terribly. I’m positive somebody on the market has footage which hopefully is locked away and can by no means be seen. However yeah, I didn’t get it. It wasn’t proper.”

Elsewhere through the interview, Cavill chatted about auditioning for the James Bond franchise, his portrayal of Superman, “Enola Holmes 2”, “The Witcher” and extra.