Lipstick and Hangnails: Our Twilight Pix

Heather, Aubrey and I were on the speaker phone the other night discussing who we would have chosen, if given the job of casting the parts for the upcoming movie Twilight. Each of us has read the first book and so feel we are absolutely qualified to make a casting decision.

All of us thought that the girl chosen to play the role of Bella was a good choice according to what she looks like. I personally haven't seen her act, but she definitely looks the part of a beautiful tomboy.

Kristen Stewart

We decided that some of actors chosen didn't exactly fit who we pictured. The actors chosen to play the parts for Carlisle, Esme and Edward could be, in our most superbilous opinions, OTHER ACTORS. So we racked our brains to come up with actors we thought would be better suited for the parts.

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Carlisle

The guy cast for the part of Carlisle, Peter Facinelli, doesn't quite fit the picture we have in our heads as to what Carlisle would look like. Carlisle is an experienced medical doctor working in the town hospital, and everybody respects his judgement and abilities as town doc. He has a life long love interest (don't exactly know if they are married?) and has poses as having five adopted teenage kids, several of which go to the same high school. The guy cast for the part doesn't fit the picture we had for him. He may meet the books age requirements, but we all felt that he wouldn't be believable and would appear too young and inexperienced as father of many teenagers and long time doctor.

Peter Facinelli

Christian Bale would have been a good choice for the part of Carlisle in our opinion. He is very good looking, could pass as the town doctor who has loads of medical experience and yet appears old enough to have adopted five teenage kids and could pass the age requirement of the book.

Christian has the appearance of strength, confidence, experience and is absolutely gorgeous.

I kind of pictured Carlisle to have light colored hair, kind of grayish. I know that doesn't go along with the author based on the age Carlisle was when he became a vampire, but that's just how I saw him in my mind. After all, this is a vampire who's been around 300 plus years!!! I pictured his hair slicked back like both these models. Carlisle would appear very intelligent, calm, able to make smart medical decisions in a hurry, and have the appearance of strength and stature.

We were all in agreement that Carlisle should have his hair kind of slicked back like this Prada model. This guy is seriously gorgeous, and has an heir about him of confidence, elegance, experience, knowledge and strength. This guy could pass as a vampire, yes?

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Edward

Aubrey was dead on when she found this picture online as a possible Edward. We were all in agreement that Edward would have smoldering looks, sharp features, loose hair, clean complexion and the eyes of an animal, hungry but patient. I would seriously follow this guy around and never be able to think of anyone else if I was Bella and this Gucci model were Edward. He is definitely hot enough to play the part. Thumbs up from all three of us.

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Esme

Heather and I picked Amy Brennegan to play the part of Esme. She's gorgeous, young enough to be Carlisle's wife, but doesn't look like she just got out of high school herself. She would have been a better choice for Esme.

The girl cast for the part in the movie is Elizabeth Reaser and she doesn't fit the role of Esme because she is as old as the kids she's supposed to be mother to. She doesn't have the feel of an experienced mother of five to any one of us.