‘Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone Reveals Cast Members Helped Shape the Movie’s Iconic Soundtrack

The Twilight series, despite receiving generally underwhelming reviews, was enormously popular at the time and the teen romance series by Stephanie Meyer still has a cult following that loves both the books and the movies.

In light of that, the franchise stars Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, and Ashley Greene were guests at the recently-held Indiana Comic Con, where they were asked about the films and Rathbone revealed a very interesting detail about the movie’s soundtrack or, to be more precise, one of the movie’s iconic songs.

Jackson Rathbone discussed the impact that director Catherine Hardwick had on the movie, praising her direction and firm control of the movie’s production: “I think what really made Twilight become iconic, as you said, is Catherine. And I think really, if anyone else had helmed the first movie, I don’t think we’d be here, to be honest. So I always try to give her mad props because she was a mad scientist on set.“

But, he also added that the cast had a very good working relationship with her and that it was actually them who shaped the movie’s iconic soundtrack, i.e., picked Muse’s iconic “Supermassive Black Hole” that is now considered a pillar of the franchise:

We were having a session with Rob [Pattinson] and Kristen [Stewart]… Ashley was there, I want to say, and Catherine Hardwicke, our director, and we’re talking through some of the scenes. And she was asking us what we thought musically, like, who was cool, who was hot, and obviously, Muse was gonna be part of it—Stephanie [Meyer] wrote a lot of the books to Muse.

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