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 like that folks maintain telling me, ‘Man, ‘Twilight’ ruined the vampire style,’” Pattinson instructed GQ Spain in a translated interview printed this week. “Are you continue to caught on that s–t? How are you going to be unhappy about one thing that occurred virtually 20 years in the past? It’s loopy.”
“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 Daybreak: Half 1” (2011) and “The Twilight Saga: Half II” (2012).
The 5 films turned out to be a $3.3 billion enterprise, in line 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 potential.
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 wished to make it as arty as potential,” “The Batman” actor stated of the 2008 movie. “We had this unusual stress the place the studio was scared to make issues a bit of bit too emo and stuff. I believed that was the one method to play it. I spent a lot time [on set] infuriated… I can’t imagine the best way I used to be performing half the time.”
Pattinson recalled his managers warning him to alter his portrayal of Edward or else.
The actor shared that his workforce had inspired him to smile extra and never be so critical after witnessing him on the “Twilight” set, along with his managers telling him level clean, “You’ll be fired by the top of the day in case you don’t cease doing what you’re doing.”
The movie’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, additionally recalled throughout a 2023 episode of the “Glad Unhappy Confused” podcast that the studio questioned if Pattinson was scorching sufficient to play Edward.
“When he came to visit to my home, he had black bangs for hair and was form of out of practice as a result of he was hanging out on the pub on a regular basis,” Hardwicke stated about auditioning Pattinson. “After we did the enjoyable auditions [with Kristen] at my home for a pair hours, then I appeared the subsequent morning in any respect the footage I shot and recorded and I believed it labored not simply in particular person however it works on display screen. I had to make certain. In fact in particular person I simply obtained carried away, however it’s a must to make certain it interprets [to the screen].”
When the studio pushed again, Hardwicke stated she’d remodel the heartthrob with a makeover.
“Then I despatched it to Summit and he went over to satisfy them,” she continued. “They referred to as me again and go, ‘Do you suppose you can also make this man look good?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, I do. Did you see his cheekbones? We’re doing a makeover on the hair and every little thing and he’s going to begin understanding and he’s going to be attractive.’ However they didn’t imagine it at first. He like walked over there with a stained shirt or one thing. It was Rob.”
The movie studio wasn’t Pattinson’s solely hurdle to land the position.
“Twilight” franchise creator Stephenie Meyer admitted that she wished Henry Cavill to play Edward. The truth is, the actor was on the high of her want listing.
Nevertheless, Hardwicke put the kibosh on Cavill as a result of she thought he appeared too previous 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 12 months.
Pattinson is engaged to actress Suki Waterhouse after popping the query in December 2023. The pair welcomed their first youngster in early 2024.