Twilight’s director found inspiration in the movie’s filming location, Forks, WA.
NPR has a profile of Forks and the town’s new pilgrims.
UPDATES:
Here’s another article about the young woman who got her wish granted and received a role in Twilight.
USA Today has a Twilight travel guide.
The “local woman…” link isn’t working 🙁
Charlynne- thanks for letting me know, I can’t get it to work- here’s the link if you want to try to copy and paste it into your browser:
https://www.mercurynews.com/movies/ci_11026841?nclick_check=1
Also in trying to fix it I accidentally deleted one of the other stories – I’ll try to find it again later…so frustrating!