Wild Things

Source: Teen Vogue
Date: April 2011

Shiloh, 26, who started out on TV’s “Jericho” and “United State of Tara”, stars in this month’s gothic thriller “Red Riding Hood” as an orphaned woodcutter named Peter trying to win the love of Valerie (Amanda Seyfired) as their village is being terrorized by a werewolf. Working with director Catherine Hardwicke was a long time coming for Shiloh, who lost out to Robert Pattinson for the role of Edward in a little movie she helmed called Twilight. This time around, after an intense series of auditionsn, many which took place in Hardwicke’s garage, Shiloh landed the part – for which he had to gain fifteen pounds and take tree-chopping lessons. But to fully embody his role as town outcast, Shiloh tried to isolate himself from the other actors. “When we started filming in Vancouver, we all lived in the same apartment,” he says, “but I decided to rent my own place on the outside of the town. I got to know everyone really well in the end, but in the beginning I wanted to create that feeling of being an outsider.”