Pattinson and Stewart have co-starred in five Twilight films and their off-the-screen romance made entertainment headlines for months, particularly when Stewart was unknowingly photographed in an affair with then-married director Rupert Sanders.
While the pair split up shortly after the incident, Pattinson told The Hollywood Reporter that they are still in touch.
The Twilight series has been iconic in Pattinson’s career and propelled him into a household name and teen idol, but he says that he has other aspirations for his acting career.
“Everything changed when they did the marketing, and the general public started to view it in a different way they started to push the ‘team’ aspect of it,” Pattinson told the magazine of the series. “It was like, ‘I’m on Team Edward or Team Jacob.’ That saturated everything, and suddenly there was a backlash. Whereas with the first film, there wasn’t that backlash at all.”
He also revealed the crippling fear he has of auditions and how it affected his role in the films. “I hate auditioning. I just can’t do it,” he said. “I get so nervous, like cripplingly nervous. I’m bad at them, and I feel awful afterwards.”
The crippling fear was also present at his Twilight audition, he revealed. “They were doing screen tests with four people. In one of the scene, I [was meant] to take my shirt off, and I think I was the one guy who didn’t.”
While Pattinson has received positive feedback on his roles in Maps to the Stars and The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival, he also says that he’s not done surprising fans.
“I don’t know if I’ve really particularly found my feet as an actor yet. I have to prove certain things,” he said.
Here are some of our other favorite quotes from the interview:
“I did some interview a while ago, and it sounds like I’m a manic-depressive about to kill myself. And I’m like, ‘No I’m not!’”
“I buy nice guitars, and that’s about my only expense,” he says, singling out “an acoustic Gibson J100 from 1943 or something.” He recently sold the 1922 Los Feliz mansion that he bought for $6.27 million about three years ago because he felt engulfed by its sheer size. “It was too big a house,” he says. “It was incredible, like Versailles. It was absolutely, completely crazy. It had this incredible garden, but you just stay in one room, anyway. I could basically live in a cell as long as I had a window.”
“I don’t think I’ve been anywhere other than for work. I have a fear of missing out.”
He recently was floating on an inflatable chair in a pool with a bottle of rosé. “I literally felt, ‘This is absolute heaven. This is all I require out of life.’”
Will you be scooping up The Hollywood Reporter to read Pattinson’s full interview? He looks so mature in these photos! Our little sparkly vampire is growing up!
