Robert Pattinson has responded to the long-held criticism that the Twilight franchise had ruined the vampire genre for everyone. He’s surprised that people are still talking about it almost two decades later.
In an interview with GQ Spain, translated by Variety, the Breaking Dawn actor said he had faced persistent claims, but that they were old. He said that it is unnecessary to focus on the impact of a film released almost twenty years ago.
Pattinson said, “I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, Twilight ruined the vampire genre.'” Are you still stuck on that s—you may be sad about something that happened nearly 20 years ago.
Pattinson, who became an international superstar in the Twilight saga where he played Edward Cullen, the vampire, opposite Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, who has always been clueless about his feelings towards the franchise. He gained fame.
He always expressed mixed feelings on the received saga. He previously indicated that people criticizing the film have never seen them and based their judgments on assumptions and word-of-mouth criticisms.
The Batman actor also confessed that when he watched the series, which gained unexpected popularity and became a global phenomenon, he thought Twilight’s story was too strange.
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In reflections about the series’ sudden popularity, Pattinson said that he found the plot unexpected. Speaking to Variety’s Actors on the Series in 2019, he said that the series was romantic but in a strange way. He claimed that it was not a classical love story like Notebook.
He defined Twilight as a story of passion in which the protagonist falls in love with something much darker. This is not just a typical love story, but a case of passion that involves love for something evil.
Pattinson humorously said, “The Notebook is very, very sweet and heartbreaking and stuff. Twilight is about this guy who finds the one girl he wants to be with and she also wants to eat her. Well, Don’t eat it, whatever, whatever, whatever.”
The Remembrance Me actor said, “I thought there were definitely bits that were very romantic. But for me, I thought it was a very strange story. And even when I was promoting it, I was I was very open about how weird I thought it was when I was doing it.”
Since his twilight days, Robert Pattinson has moved on to diverse roles, flaunting his wide range as an actor and cementing his place as a leading man in Hollywood. His next major project is Mickey 17, a sci-fi film directed by Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho. The film’s cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Steven Yeun. It hits theaters on March 7, 2025.
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