Julia Jones says a friend saw her as 'Leah' for 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' before she was cast

Julia Jones as 'Leah' - Summit Ent.

It seems that long before Julia Jones was cast as "Leah Clearwater" in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, she had friends vetting her for the spot.
InStyle Magazine has a new feature on some of the wolfpack (and its ladies) cast (Jones, Chaske Spencer, Tinsel Korey, and Alex Meraz, specifically), and one of the spotlight issues in the feature is Jones' casting for the part of "Leah."

The Eclipse casting directors weren’t the first to think Jones, a part-time model and Columbia graduate, was perfect for the part of Leah, the only female wolf. “One of my closest friends read the books before the first movie came out,” she reported, “and she always said, ‘This is going to be you. This is your role.’”

Despite being cherry-picked for the post, though, Jones still realizes that "there’s no way I’m going to be that person for everyone." Still, she is hopeful that "the way I bring Leah to life wins people over."