Shocking facts about The Twilight Saga that nobody knows.

1. Renesmee was supposed to be played by an animatronic doll in ‘Breaking Dawn — Part 2’

In Breaking Dawn, production attempted to use an animatronic doll for the scenes that involved Bella Swan and Edward Cullen’s daughter, Renesmee.

The cast collectively called it “Chuckesmee” due to its resemblance to Chucky. The doll was ultimately cut from the scenes and replaced with CGI.

“[It was] one of the most grotesque animatronic babies ever to not be seen on film,” producer Wyck Godfrey said in a behind-the-scenes clip from Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga.

2. ‘New Moon’ director Chris Weitz wanted Kristen Stewart to put weights in her pockets for a drowning scene

While filming Bella Swan’s drowning scene in New Moon, director Chris Weitz suggested that Stewart get in the pool with weights in her pockets. He assumed this would make it easier for her to appear as if she were floating to the bottom of the ocean.

Stewart was hesitant, so Weitz tried it out for himself.

“I decided to go down there in a wetsuit, weighted down, and I started to panic,” he told Rolling Stone in 2009. “I thought, ‘Holy crap, this isn’t fun at all!’ “

Weitz continued, “Kristen had a cold that day, so that was the last thing I was going to do — put someone with a cold at the bottom of a 12-foot pool with weights in their pockets. That didn’t seem like a wise move.”

3. ‘Breaking Dawn — Part 1’ was originally rated R

Breaking Dawn — Part 1 is rated PG-13, but that wasn’t always the case. The film’s first cut earned an R rating due to Edward and Bella’s racy consummation scene, which was ultimately tweaked in the editing room.

“There was a bit too much butt crack, I think,” Pattinson said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2011. “That was one thing I know they cut out. They didn’t cut the shot, they just cut the crack out. They just painted over it.”

4. Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson did their chemistry test in ‘Twilight’ director Catherine Hardwicke’s bed

Stewart was already cast as Bella Swan when she and Pattinson did their chemistry test, which took place in Twilight director Hardwicke’s bedroom.

“They auditioned on my bed,” Hardwicke recalled during an interview on The Big Hit Show podcast in 2022. “Rob was so into [the kissing scene] he fell off the bed. I’m like, ‘Dude, calm down.’ And I’m in there filming with my little video camera.”

She continued, “And at the end, Kristen was like, ‘It has to be Rob.’ But I could tell they had a lot of chemistry.”