Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has endorsed the idea of Jenna Ortega and Jacob Elordi playing the roles of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen today.Earlier this year, The Hollywood Reporter claimed that a new TV series based on the original Stephanie Meyer book series was in the works.While no details of casting have been unveiled yet, Hardwicke – who helmed the original 2008 film starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – spoke about possible stars today that could take over.Speaking on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz asked: “Is there anyone in the new crop today?
Like who do you cast? Is Jacob Elordi Edward Cullen today? Is Jenna Ortega…”.Hardwicke then interjected: “Oh yeah, that would be perfect.”“Have you seen Saltburn?
He’s amazing,” she added of Elordi. “He probably would be Edward today. Exactly.”Addressing Ortega, Hardwicke continued: “I do think there’s a lot of really cool young actors.
You just mentioned Jenna Ortega, she’s amazing.”Ortega is perhaps best known for playing Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s Wednesday, as well as the Scream series.
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