- Robert Pattinson, Twilight, 2008. Finalists up for Edward Cullen – and the birth of a triumphant franchise – were Pattinson, Jake Abel, Ben Barnes, Dynamo (the future Magician Impossible), Shiloh Fernandez, Colton Haynes and Jackson Rathbone… who played Jasper, instead. Four years later, Abel starred in the fllm of another Stephanie Meyer book, The Host.
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