Trivia / Nikki Reed

• The Cast Showoff: Nikki and her then-husband Paul McDonald recorded a song featured in the soundtrack for Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
• Dyeing for Your Art: It took 32 hours to turn her hair from brown to blonde for Twilight. As a result, she just wore wigs for the sequels.
• Irony as She Is Cast: In The Twilight Saga, she plays part of a lily-white family that has a rivalry with the Native American werewolves. Nikki herself is part Native American on her mother's side.
• The Other Marty: Originally, she played Andi Penderghast in the pilot of Reaper, but she was replaced by Missy Peregrym.
• Production Posse: With director Catherine Hardwicke in Thirteen (2003), Lords of Dogtown, the first Twilight film and the music video for Lady Gaga's "Til It Happens to You". Reed has known Hardwicke since the former was five; Hardwicke used to date Reed's father and even after they broke up Hardwicke and Reed remained close.
• Romance on the Set: She dated her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson (whose character Edward Cullen was her character's brother-in-law) for a while.
• Write Who You Know: She based script the for Thirteen in some of her experiences as a teenager.
• What Could Have Been: Aside from The Other Marty, the movie Bride Wars was originally going to be a teen comedy starring Nikki and Emma Roberts.

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