Robert Pattinson He has a message for twilight Haters.
“I love when people keep telling me, 'Oh man,' twilight “It destroyed the vampire genre,” the 38-year-old actor said in an interview with GQ Spain Posted on Tuesday, January 21st. Are you still stuck on this? How can you grieve something that happened nearly 20 years ago? “It's crazy.”
Pattinson became famous after playing the vampire Edward Cullen in the film The twilight saga filmswhich first appeared in theaters in 2008. He starred alongside him Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner All five films in the saga have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, although critical and fan reactions remain mixed to this day.
Nevertheless twilight He gave Pattinson his big break, and the franchise could have looked very different, according to the director Catherine HardwickeWho directed the first film.
During November 2023 Appearance on the program “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Hardwicke revealed that film studio Summit Entertainment didn't initially think Pattinson was the right choice for Edward.
“They called me back and said, 'Do you think you can make this guy look good?'” she said of the studio's reaction to Pattinson's audition video. “I said, 'Yes I do. Have you seen his cheekbones? We're changing his hair and everything and he's going to start working out and he's going to be great.'
Kristen Stewart in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1”
The pinnacle of entertainmentHardwicke then had to convince executives that Pattinson was the right man for the role after failing to impress them personally.
“They couldn't believe it at first. 'He walked in there with a stained shirt,' she said. 'It was Rob.'
Pattinson also struggled with directing the original film at the studio, which wanted to lean toward a more disturbing aesthetic. “I wanted to make it as artistic as possible,” Pattinson said. GQ (per diverse) in February 2022. “We had this weird tension where the studio was afraid to make things more than just emo and things like that. I thought that was the only way to play it. “I spent a lot of time (on set) feeling angry… I couldn't believe the way I was acting half the time.”
