“I’d say there was a big possibility that could happen, but I was always convinced that he was going to be able to do it,” said Weitz. “The doubts came up because he had very few scenes in the first movie. Also because he’s described as being 6′5″ in the second book, some reasonable facts that we had to come to grip with. But I like the sort of sweetness of this character in the first movie and I knew that it was easier to take an actor in the direction of anger and rage than it was to find someone who is kind of a hunk or 6′5″ Native American and somehow turn him into that very sweet-natured persona that Taylor brings out so well to boot.”

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