Editing A Walk to Remember (section)

===Casting===
Director [[Adam Shankman]] wanted the lead characters to be portrayed by young actors: "I wanted young actors with whom teenagers could connect", he said.<ref name="casting">{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember—about the film—casting|url=http://www2.warnerbros.com/walktoremember/about.html|website=Warnerbros.com|access-date=6 January 2013|archive-date=October 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022024058/http://www2.warnerbros.com/walktoremember/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Shankman arranged a meeting with [[Shane West]] after he saw him in a magazine. He was looking for someone who could transition from being very dark to very light. He described his choice as "an instinct" he had about West, who would appear in almost every scene and had "to be either incredibly angry and self-hating or madly in love and heroic."<ref name="casting"/> West said: "I don't generally read love stories, but after reading the screenplay, I knew I couldn't wait to read the book so I could truly understand Nicholas Sparks's story and how he envisioned the character of Landon. It's a beautiful story and the characters are very believable, which is what attracted me to the project.<ref name="casting"/>

Shankman said of [[Mandy Moore]] that she "has the voice and the face of an angel" and added that she is luminous.<ref name="casting"/> Moore explained that she was moved by the book: "I had such a visceral reaction to it that I remember not being able to read because I was almost hyperventilating while I was crying." Commenting on the film, she said: "It was my first movie and I know people say it may be cliché and it's a tearjerker or it's cheesy, but for me, it's the thing I'm most proud of."<ref>{{cite news|author=Kaufman, Amy|title=Nicholas Sparks is a master of romance|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-04-la-et-sparks4-2010feb04-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=6 January 2013|date=4 February 2010|archive-date=November 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112033602/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/04/entertainment/la-et-sparks4-2010feb04|url-status=live}}</ref>