Dakota Fanning originally wore custom, hand-painted contact lenses for her role as the terrifying vampire Jane in the Twilight Saga, but they were so thick and painful she could barely see her co-stars.

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Dakota Fanning originally wore custom, hand-painted contact lenses for her role as the terrifying vampire Jane in the Twilight Saga, but they were so thick and painful she could barely see her co-stars. The production designers went through immense trouble to create these artisanal torture devices to give her that authentic blood-sucking glare, only for her to essentially wander blindly around the set of a supernatural teen romance. It perfectly sums up the entire vampire romance genre, prioritizing aesthetic brooding over basic human comfort and functionality. You have to respect the commitment to the bit, sacrificing your actual retinas so millennial audiences could swoon over a sparkling vampire love triangle. Next time you see her staring menacingly on screen, just know she was probably just trying to figure out where the craft services table was