Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz has revealed that Taylor Swift asked for a cameo in the 2009 film and discussed why he had to reluctantly say no.

Speaking on The Twilight Effect podcast (via The Independent), Weitz said Swift was a "huge Twi-hard," a combination of the words Twilight and die hard, used to describe people who love the vampire series. Weitz and Swift had the same agent at the time, and the agent came to him and said, "Taylor would like to be in this movie--not because of you, but she's a Twi-hard!"

The agent apparently pitched the idea of Swift playing a background character--someone in the cafeteria or diner. "She just wants to be in this movie," Weitz said he recalls the agent saying.