“I get so many sparkly criticisms!”: The Batman Star Robert Pattinson Forgot How to Act After Every Twilight Movie
Playing ‘Edward Cullen’ in the Twilight movies propelled Robert Pattinson to fame and made him a global sensation. He has been developing his acting abilities ever since he decided to work in the film industry. He later achieved enormous success in his field, thanks to Twilight, which had a huge influence on his acting.
While Pattinson has starred in a number of well-known franchises and has adored independent films for more than a decade, no other celebrity of his stature can match his ‘on edge’ energy. Not to forget, he has lush hair, a sculpted jaw, and absolutely perfect eyebrows.
With every stumbling, awkward interview since he first graced the screen as the one and only ‘Edward Cullen’, he has made us swoon.
But, you would be amazed to know that the 37-year-old actor wasn’t always interested in acting. Yes, the Good Time actor has admitted in the past that his ambition when he was younger wasn’t to become a successful actor.
Robert Pattinson Once Admitted He Didn’t Want To Be An Actor
The handsome actor first rose to fame playing Cedric Diggory in the 2005 movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but his breakthrough role was as Edward Cullen in Twilight in 2008. Robert Pattinson and co-star, Kristen Stewart became household names after the film, which was a worldwide phenomenon.
Then Remember Me actor debuted in each of the five Twilight films. Following the Twilight era, Pattinson continued to pursue difficult roles in independent movies. In 2020, he appeared alongside John David Washington and Elizabeth Debick in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. Additionally, he appeared in the 2020 Netflix movie, The Devil All The Time as a menacing preacher.
He developed into a skilled actor from a young man.
However, did you know that he had no desire to pursue an acting career? In fact, he was convinced against taking a drama GCSE, an exam that acting students had to pass before entering a university.
In an interview with On Demand Entertainment, Pattinson once remarked, “In fact, my drama teacher told me not to do it.”
His initial motivation for taking up acting was an attempt to win over his teenage crush. Pattinson, however, found a new love for acting after participating in theater for the first time. Following that, he performed a few more plays.
“I have no idea why, to this day. I did that, and another play afterwards, then randomly got an agent.”
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He Forgot How To Act After Every Twilight Film
It’s unfortunate that such a gifted actor was for so long viewed as a one-role-‘Edward Cullen’.
Since the beginning of the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson has been linked to his role. But he has fortunately taken on a variety of challenging roles over the years in a variety of genres. And this undoubtedly helped him break free from the ‘vampire roles’.
After being chosen to star in the Twilight series, Pattinson’s career reached new heights. Having the role of the franchise’s face had advantages, but there were drawbacks as well. He felt that a lot of the criticism directed at the actors in the later Twilight movies was unfair.
He once recalled:
“In a lot of ways, people have decided what Twilight is about before they’ve even thought about it, and then they’ve labeled us, the actors, as part of whatever that may be. Even the sparkling thing. I get so many sparkly criticisms! But I don’t actually remember a moment of in any of the movies where I sparkle.”
Even his acting was slightly influenced by the series. Pattinson claimed that the series helped him improve as an actor. However, while working on the movies, he was still developing as a performer.
“I don’t know who I am as an actor. I’ve found that the Twilight movies were probably the hardest jobs I’ve done. You have so many parameters to play the character within, and also you’re doing five movies where you have to play the same point every time and figure out different variations on it.”
The 37-year-old actor also believed that because he was part of a series of films, he had to relearn how to act in each Twilight film.
“I never even thought of all the Twilights as a single entity. They were all separate movies for me. I mean, I forget how to act in between every single movie.”
Well, Robert Pattinson is currently working on Bong Joon-Ho’s film, Mickey 17, which is set to release on March 9, 2024.
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Source- Cheat Sheet
