Author Stephenie Meyer wanted Henry Cavill to play Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ adaptation, but when the casting came around, he was already twenty-four years old, which she considered too old for the teenage vampire. In a blog post in 2007, she wrote: “The most disappointing thing for me is losing my perfect Edward. Henry Cavill is now 24. Let’s have a quiet moment to mourn.” The role eventually went to Robert Pattinson. Cavill only found out about it after the fact, saying on the podcast, “The Internet wasn’t the tool it is now, so I only found out about it after the fact. I was like, ‘Okay, that would have been great.’