Robert Pattinson, the evolution from Twilight to Batman by changing role (and girlfriend)

But the cut scenes, somehow, bring him luck: after that role, in 2005 he gets the chance to play Cedric Diggory in the fourth chapter of the saga, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, then replicating the experience with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007.

His life, and he doesn’t even know it yet, is about to change forever. In July of that same year he was chosen as the protagonist of Twilight, one of the most successful vampire and teen sagas ever. He comes chosen from over five thousand actorswho competed for the role of the mysterious Edward Cullen.

Robert Pattinson in Twilight

The film doesn’t bring him, however, only great success for his career, but also for love: in fact, he gets to know him on the set Kristen Stewartthe co-star, who will become hers fiancée for four years, until her betrayal was exposed in all the media.

Trivia about the audition: Stewart explained that Catherine Hardwickedirector of of twilight, she was determined in giving her the female role, since she was «perfect to interpret Bella Swan». He needed, however, a male co-star with which to create the right chemistrythe same to reach even the youngest audience, which has always been considered one of the hardest to conquer.

So he organized a private meeting at his homewhere some actors had to read part of the script and then kiss Kristen. It seems that Pattinson was very listless. As Stewart recounts, she had “a very intellectual approach as if he thought “I don’t give a f*** about this, but we have to make it work.” It was the same for me.”

The scene kiss, however, was crazy and the director immediately chose Pattinson as protagonist. “We made that moment definitely better. It’s the chemistry that anyone who plays those roles he needs to hear».

«Twilight? I’m proud to have been a part of it,” the actor reiterated. “I no longer have to chase a job as happened to me especially before Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The resulting popularity still gives me the calm, even economic, to choose only projects in which I believe. AND life it’s proof of that.”

The film life (2015)

Already, lifethe film in which Robert Pattinson plays the photographer Dennis Stock at the time (1955) of its turbulent friendship with James Dean, which allowed him to portray him exclusively both in New York and in his birthplace in Indiana, in the very small town of Marion.

In the role of James Dean – many would have liked the same Robert Pattinson – there was instead Dane DeHaanone of the emerging names in Hollywood, while the only female character is Pier Angeli, an Italian actress from the 1950s played by Alessandra Mastronardi.

Making that film, «I understood first-hand how much it can be hard to deal with a star», explained the actor. “When you’re on the red carpet actually you don’t even see photographersyou move by making some moves, often studied, but in return you have no faces, only flashes».

For his part, «Dean, however, was able to keep his private life under wraps. It was another era. But that didn’t mean there was less of a desire to know intimate details of his daily life compared to what happens today”.

Robert Pattinson cowboy version… confused

Subsequently, three years later, he takes part in Damsela western comedy in which he plays a naive cowboy so blinded by love that he doesn’t understand that his missing girlfriend hasn’t been kidnapped, but has eloped with another man.

«An unusual role for me, but also the only one with which perhaps I can succeed get some smiles» he said. I don’t consider myself a comedian, I need a situation to make people laugh and the script of Damsel it is so well written that I already enjoyed reading it” tell us.

Robert Pattinson as Batman

With his 33 years, Robert he was the second youngest actor to play Bruce Wayne in the movie The Batman and take on the role of dark Knightbeaten in age only by Christian Balewho was 31 years old in Batman Begins in 2005.

The film, directed by Matt Reeves and exit in 2022, had a huge success: only in the first eight days had already exceeded the total of Dunes becoming the highest grossing Warner Bros since the theaters reopened post pandemic.

Pattinson gave the character a personal connotation: «Batman is not a herohe’s a very complicated character,” explained al New York Times“I don’t think I could ever play a real hero, there is something slightly wrong with me. I think it’s because one of my eyes is smaller than the other.”

The doubts relating to the choice of the cast have extinguished «given that the performance of Robert Pattinson is generally considered as the best of all time as Batmansocial analytics firm RelishMix pointed out. «While a good portion of the public loved the use of the Nirvana musicwhich was the inspiration for Matt Reeves when writing the film».

The story with Kristen Stewart

As we have already told, one of his best known great loves was the one with Kristen Stewart. The feeling between the two actors blossomed in 2009 right on the set, as happened to several couples in the Hollywood world, including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively (but an infinite number of examples could be cited).

Lovers thwarted for fiction by one different nature – Edwardthe character of Pattinsonit was a vampirewhile Prettyi.e. the Stewartwas Human – the two shortly they ended up really falling in love. Sending their fans into raptures, who asked for nothing more than see them united even off the set.

After three years of love, however, it is an infidelity of Kristen Stewart has come to light: it turned out that he had cheated on his partner with the director Rupert Sanderswho himself had been unfaithful to his wife Liberty Ross. The double iplot of betrayals has the epilogue we know: all couples – official and unofficial – they fell apart and everyone went their own waykeeping well away from the other protagonists of the story.

But, now that his youthful “distraction” is overdue for prescription, Stewart feels free to talk about that “first love” of hers. Recalling herself and Pattinson during those times, she tenderly told the The New Yorker that “we were young and stupid».

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