Kellan Lutz refused “depressing” Edward Cullen role

Kellan Lutz turned down the chance to audition for the role of Edward Cullen – because he found it depressing.

The sexy actor, who plays Emmett Cullen in the Twilight flicks, didn’t want to audition for the lead role because he wanted to play a part that would make him smile.

“I didn’t want to do it. I spent so much time filming in Africa before that, seven months, and that’s a long time to be away from your family and dogs,” Kellan said.

“My agent wanted me to read for Edward and I read the script and thought that character was too depressing for me right now, I want to do something where I smile. I wanted to take a break from acting and I said that, I turned it down, I turned down the audition a couple of times.”

After encouragement from his agent, Kellan eventually fell in love with Emmett.

“Ryan, my agent at the time really knew it was going to be a special project so he told me to read the role of Emmett, and I read it, it was only about four lines, but he was the big brother, the comedic relief and I fell in love with him,” he said.

“I said ‘Sure, I would love to play this type of role’. I auditioned, and long story short, here I am finishing the saga and Emmett is going to be in my heart forever.”

Robert Pattinson ended up bagging the role of Edward – of course you knew that, didn’t you?