Don’t come for “Twilight.”
Robert Pattinson — who rose to fame as vampire Edward Cullen within the romance/fantasy franchise — has responded to followers who blame the saga movies for ruining the style.
“I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, ‘Twilight’ ruined the vampire genre,’” Pattinson instructed GQ Spain in a translated interview printed this week. “Are you still stuck on that s–t? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy.”
“Twilight” launched the careers of Pattinson, 38, and his co-stars Kristen Stewart, 34, and Taylor Lautner, 32, when the primary installment got here out in 2008.
The trio went on to star in a number of different “Twilight” franchise hits, together with “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009), “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” (2010), “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1” (2011) and “The Twilight Saga: Part II” (2012).
The 5 films turned out to be a $3.3 billion enterprise, in keeping with Selection.
However Pattinson had different concepts for the unique movie, telling GQ in 2022 that he pushed for “Twilight” to be as edgy and emo as attainable.
The studio, nevertheless, turned down the then 21-year-old actor’s imaginative and prescient for the flick — and it didn’t sit properly with the star.
“I wanted to make it as arty as possible,” “The Batman” actor mentioned of the 2008 movie. “We had this strange tension where the studio was scared to make things a little bit too emo and stuff. I thought that was the only way to play it. I spent so much time [on set] infuriated… I can’t believe the way I was acting half the time.”
Pattinson recalled his managers warning him to alter his portrayal of Edward or else.
The actor shared that his group had inspired him to smile extra and never be so critical after witnessing him on the “Twilight” set, together with his managers telling him level clean, “You’ll be fired by the end of the day if you don’t stop doing what you’re doing.”
The movie’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, additionally recalled throughout a 2023 episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that the studio questioned if Pattinson was scorching sufficient to play Edward.
“When he came over to my house, he had black bangs for hair and was kind of out of shape because he was hanging out at the pub all the time,” Hardwicke mentioned about auditioning Pattinson. “After we did the fun auditions [with Kristen] at my house for a couple hours, then I looked the next morning at all the footage I shot and recorded and I thought it worked not just in person but it works on screen. I had to be sure. Of course in person I just got carried away, but you have to be sure it translates [to the screen].”
When the studio pushed again, Hardwicke mentioned she’d remodel the heartthrob with a makeover.
“Then I sent it to Summit and he went over to meet them,” she continued. “They called me back and go, ‘Do you think you can make this guy look good?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I do. Did you see his cheekbones? We’re doing a makeover on the hair and everything and he’s going to start working out and he’s going to be gorgeous.’ But they didn’t believe it at first. He like walked over there with a stained shirt or something. It was Rob.”
The movie studio wasn’t Pattinson’s solely hurdle to land the position.
“Twilight” franchise creator Stephenie Meyer admitted that she needed Henry Cavill to play Edward. The truth is, the actor was on the high of her want listing.
Nonetheless, Hardwicke put the kibosh on Cavill as a result of she thought he appeared too outdated to play a highschool scholar.
In the long run, she satisfied the studio and Meyer that Pattinson was the appropriate man for the position.
Pattinson went on to land a number of lead man roles, together with Bruce Wayne within the 2022 “Batman.” He was additionally named “sexiest man alive” in 2010 and topped the listing once more within the subsequent yr.
Pattinson is engaged to actress Suki Waterhouse after popping the query in December 2023. The pair welcomed their first youngster in early 2024.
