‘Twilight’ Director Catherine Hardwicke on Her New Movie ‘Street Smart’ About Homeless Venice Youth, Casting Sally Struthers and Why Romantasy Is Booming

‘Twilight’ Director Catherine Hardwicke on Her New Movie ‘Street Smart’ About Homeless Venice Youth, Casting Sally Struthers and Why Romantasy Is Booming

Since directing “Twilight” in 2008, Catherine Hardwicke has directed TV projects like “Under the Bridge” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” and directed indie films with the likes of Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore. She’s shot from London and Rome to Mexico. But for her latest feature, “Street Smart,” Hardwicke tells the stories of people in her own neighborhood – Venice, California – where she shot “Lords of Dogtown” 21 years ag…