Stephenie Meyer’s First Pick For Twilight’s Edward Cullen Was Henry Cavill, Here’s Why It Didn’t Happen

Robert Pattinson was the perfect, sparkliest Edward Cullen we could have asked for but, as you can imagine, he wasn’t the only actor who auditioned for Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight. Before any camera tests got rolling back in 2007, Stephenie Meyer was using her blog to communicate with fans about her casting ideas for the to-be movie adaptation of her worldwide phenomenon, and Man of Steel actor Henry Cavill was at the tip-top of the list. For context, at the time, Cavill was a brand new actor with just a few credits to his name. While updating her fans on Twilight’s early development, she said this: