Sorry, WHAT?! We’ve heard a lot of Hollywood what-if casting stories. Most recently we got a really good peek into what The Notebook starring Britney Spears might have been like.
But this one is SO unexpected! Especially to the star in question! Josh Peck had Taylor Lautner on his Great Guys podcast this week, and he revealed to the Twilight alum — for the first time we’ve heard it — that he was a “close” runner-up to play the role of Edward Cullen!
Huh?? For real! The Drake and Josh star recalled: Obviously one of those three guys was Robert Pattinson, who got the part.
But to think one of the runners up was JOSH? Of Drake and Josh?? That close to playing Edward?? Just a couple years later it wouldn’t have been that wild a thought.
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