Dylan Meyer says 'deadbeat' wife Kristen Stewart was miscast in Twilight

Dylan Meyer thought "deadbeat" Kristen Stewart was miscast as a "teen idol" in Twilight.

The filmmaker - who wrote and directed The Wrong Girls, starring her now-wife - has recalled her early impressions of the 36-year-old star, and admitted she saw her differently than most of the general public.

She told PEOPLE magazine: "I met her on another movie, and we just really liked each other... [That] ended up being a whole thing, as you can see.

"I was like, 'I can’t believe anyone ever let this person be a teen idol. She’s such a deadbeat like me.'

They first met on the set of 2013's American Ultra and "thought each other were really rad", before reconnecting after "six or seven years".

The couple got engaged in 2021, and tied the knot in front of 170 guests at LA's Casita Del Campo Mexican restaurant in April 2025.

Dylan said: "Now we’ve been married for a year and a half. Also we got married in between shooting this movie [The Wrong Girls] and doing post on this movie a week before we went to Cannes for her movie [The Chronology of Water].

"So everything has been really, really congested in an electric and also sometimes overwhelming kind of way.”

Kristen - who was just 17 years old when she shot the first Twilight movie - recently looked back at playing Bella Swan and joked about how seriously she and co-star Robert Pattinson took the project.

Appearing on the In Your Dreams With Owen Thiele podcast, she said: “The first one, we were talking about this earlier ‘cause someone else asked about it, but I was like such a pretentious little loser.

"It was so so serious. Me and Rob were like, ‘Yeah, this is like f****** epic, like, let’s try and, like, elevate this s***.’

"And it’s like, just be exactly what age you are, and like say the words.”

Kristen noted she and Robert, 40, had a very "teenage" attitude at the time.

She laughed: “It was always like, ‘Oh my God, embarrassing. God, I just wanted to be like f****** real and it’s, like, impossible. Everyone’s like making it f****** impossible for it to be like f****** real'.