After spending four years and five movies playing Bella Swan's vampire sister-in-law Rosalie Hale in the Twilight series, Nikki Reed understandably has a bittersweet perspective on the billion-dollar franchise coming to a close in this week's Breaking Dawn Part 2. On the one hand, she won't miss the hate mail from fans who have taken her character's onscreen iciness to Kristen Stewart's heroine to heart for four films. But few of Twilight's central figures have been as close to the saga as long as Reed has, dating back to even before director Catherine Hardwicke had cast Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the roles that would skyrocket them, the films, and all of their cast, to global fame.
"Catherine called me seven or eight months before it was happening and she was like, 'Hey, do you like the vampire genre? Because there?s this thing I?m thinking about and there are actually some books, and some fans — I don?t know if you?re into it...' It was that sort of conversation," said Reed, who at the time had acted in a handful of indie films including 2003's Thirteen, which she co-wrote with director Hardwicke.
Tempted by the role of Edward Cullen's disapproving adopted sister Rosalie, Reed decided against early retirement from acting and took the gig, joining Stewart, Pattinson, and their fellow Twilight cast mates at the film's Portland shoot — the first and last time the cast would be able to make a Twilight movie in relative anonymity. "We were just kids, and no one knew who anyone was," Reed remembered. "There were no stars, there was no celebrity. We were just people together."
Fast forward to 2012: Reed has four non-Twilight films in the…
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