Imagine what it’s like being a star of Twilight who isn’t Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart or Taylor Lautner.
It must be crap. The producers could replace you whenever they wanted, you’re constantly being overshadowed on the red carpet, and nobody has so much as urinated down themselves for you, let alone carved a rudimentary image of your face into their forearm with the remnants of a broken milk bottle. Yep, being a peripheral Twilight figure must be crap.
But at least it’s well paid. After some frosty contract negotiations, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz – who play two vaguely inessential characters in the Twilight franchise – have finally signed up to star in Breaking Dawn for a highly increased fee. So when you come to watch Breaking Dawn, be thankful that Greene and Lutz are in it instead of two other people who are just as equally forgettable but slightly less greedy.
For a set of children’s films about a sparkly vampire who falls in love with the world’s dreariest teenager, Twilight has admittedly assembled quite the cast. BAFTA award-winning Kristen Stewart plays Bella. Michael Sheen, one of the world’s most acclaimed actors, plays Aro Volturi. Bryce Dallas Howard, an actress beloved by Lars Von Trier, plays Victoria. Oscar-nominated Anna Kendrick plays Jessica Stanley. Producers even signed up Taylor Lautner’s Nipples in a special two-for-one deal, which is remarkable given how in-demand they are. Yes, Twilight has a wonderful cast.
And then there’s Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz. if you’ve heard of them before, it’s almost certainly got nothing to do with Twilight. Ashley Greene grabbed a nanosecond of notoriety last year when some naked photos of her were published on the internet without her consent, while Kellan Lutz is primarily known as the boy who can’t ever give himself a J-Lo-style name abbreviation because it’d mean that he’d be called Klutz.
But Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz apparently are in Twilight, and both had a brief storyline in New Moon where they tried to get a pair of shoes off a telephone line with a broomstick, or something. And so essential are Greene and Lutz that they had been refusing to sign up for Breaking Dawn unless they got a giant pay rise. Which, as Reuters reports, they’ve just got:
Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene have resolved their salary dispute with Summit Entertainment, signing on for “Breaking Dawn.” Lutz and Greene are getting about $1.25 million for each of the final movies, sources said. That’s a far cry from either the $4 million or $2 million paydays they were initially seeking. But certainly more than they made for the first three movies.
Well played, Ashley and Kellan. We don’t know a great deal about the details of the contract negotiations, but we suspect that Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz must have been willing to walk away from the series. And that means that they must have had a better offer from elsewhere. A better offer than Twilight? Surely there aren’t that many toilets that require to be hand-scrubbed in Los Angeles.
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Matthew S says
What an angry and pompous little article. Never heard of Ashley Greene? You are loco…….
Kim says
Ok i dont get why ur talking bout ashely greene and kellan lutz like that. i mean who doesnt know who they are. A lot of people think kellan is hot (including me) and a lot of people like alice in twilight so its stupid to say that nobody knows who they are…if ur a twilight fan u know who they are
Abby says
Good point.Ms Green would sell herself for any attention. She should be offered an option to appear on the mag covers once a month. She waould take it over money any time.
Joe Momma says
the fact that she only has two rabid fans instead of pagilion like the other two shows that she is kinda meh…
just like in lord of the rings… the two hobbits that weren’t frodo or sam… nobody cares about them…