Robert Pattinson has had it with the Twilight haters.
“I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, Twilight ruined the vampire genre,'” Pattinson said in an interview with GQ Spain, as translated by The Hollywood Reporter. “Are you still stuck on that shit? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy.”
Pattinson played the moody vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films, which released five installments between 2008 and 2012. He was the love interest of Kristen Stewart’s Bella.
In 2022, Pattinson told GQ he wanted to make Edward “as arty as possible,” which resulted in studio execs telling him he was being “too emo.”
“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,” he said, also recalling his managers telling him he needed to smile more, and that “you’ll be fired by the end of the day if you don’t stop doing what you’re doing.”
Whatever he figured out worked splendidly — the movies eventually crossed $3 billion at the box office.
Pattinson is now set to appear in Parasite director Boon Jong-ho’s Mickey 17, releasing in March. The former vampire star will play Mickey Barnes, a participant in a science fiction space exploration program.
“Bong Joon-ho is probably one of the five directors in the world right now that can direct a project of this caliber and turn it into something idiosyncratic, unique and interesting,” Pattinson told GQ Spain. “Bong is simply inimitable.”
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