<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=480DUH_0wBQeL6500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=480DUH_0wBQeL6500" width="500" height="500" ></figure>Emily BrowningStephenie listed Emily Browning as her first choice to play Bella in a post on her blog before the movie was ever cast. However, the story about her audition is an interesting one. “Maybe I should set it straight a little bit, because there are so many rumors flying around,” she told MTV in 2009. “People are coming up to me and saying, ‘Oh, my God. You turned [Twilight] down?’ and all this horrible stuff!”She continued, explaining the truth: “What actually happened is that I was asked to audition – not take the part, but to just audition – shortly after The Uninvited had finished filming.” “And I’m not the type of person who can just work back-to-back. So I was just exhausted, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, but I just can’t sign on to a trilogy right now.’”<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1Oo2pD_0wBQeL6500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1Oo2pD_0wBQeL6500" width="500" height="500" ></figure>Michelle TrachtenbergMichelle Trachtenberg joked that she was considered for Twilight “because there’s only so few pale girls in Hollywood” in an interview with Us Weekly.She added that she had known director Catherine Hardwicke for years but explained that “the schedules never worked out.” “I already have Buffy,” she said, referencing her role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “I’ve already done the vampire thing.”</div></body>

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Who Auditioned to Play Bella in 'Twilight'? 4 Actresses Who Competed With Kristen Stewart (1 was 'Glad' Not to Get the Part)

Stephenie listed Emily Browning as her first choice to play Bella in a post on her blog before the movie was ever cast. However, the story about her audition is an interesting one. “Maybe I should set it straight a little bit, because there are so many rumors flying around,”...