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'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' adds 'Lost's' Maggie Grace to its cast
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Former "Lost" star Maggie Grace will sink her teeth into the final installments of the "Twilight" saga.Grace has joined the cast of "Breaking Dawn" as Irina, Deadline reports. The character is a vampire who mistakenly identifies Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella's (Kristen Stewart) child as an "immortal child" -- i.e., a human child who has been turned into a vampire, a practice outlawed by the Volturi.
Her claim becomes a source of major conflict in the novel, and we expect much the same from the film.
"Breaking Dawn" is scheduled to begin filming later this fall, with part one due for release in November 2011 and the final installment a year later.
Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls," "Gods and Monsters") is directing "Breaking Dawn," and as she's done for the previous three "Twilight" movies, Melissa Rosenberg is writing the script.
Grace was a regular on "Lost" for its first two seasons, and she returned a couple of times after her character, Shannon Rutherford, was killed (including in May's series finale). She also starred with Liam Neeson in "Taken"; her other movie credits include "Knight and Day," "The Fog" and "The Jane Austen Book Club."
What do you think of the casting? Does Grace seem like a good fit for the part?
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Considering she'll probably only be in a few key scenes in the second movie (since Irina did not attend the wedding and stayed away from the Cullens until spotting Renesmee late in the book), with changing her hair to Irina's razor straight silvery blond, the right makeup, and a Russian accent, it's possible she could pull it off. I've only seen her in Lost, but Bill Condon must have seen something in her or she wouldn't have been cast. She'll also need chemistry with Irina's love, Laurent, as surely they'll have to have at least one flashback scene with him to set the tone. Besides being heartbroken and angry over Laurent's death (unbeknown to her at the hands of the Wolfpack and not the Cullens), Irina is a very sultry, seductive Russian vampire who is strikingly beautiful, possibly more beautiful than any other female vampire in the series, over 1000 years old, and also who was rejected by Edward many times, so it will take quite an actress to bring the depth to do justice to this character.
lol RockFan - this is a Twilight flick we are talking about. Depth of character is not really a trademark of the books, and certainly not the movies. Don't hold your breath.
RockFan I think you need to re-read the books. It was Tayna that was in love with Edward, not Irina. And nowhere in the book do they describe her as being Russian. And Roselie is suppose to be the most beautiful of all the vampires.. did you read the same books as the rest of us?