The quirky, self-deprecating actor (who claims he doesn’t know how to act) jumped from the big-budget Harry Potter and Twilight franchises to smaller, independent movies like Josh and Benny Safdie's Good Time and Claire Denis’s High Life without skipping a beat. The wait for his debut as the Dark Knight is almost over, as The Batman premieres in theaters on March 4.Looking back at Robert Pattinson’s career, it’s almost comical to think that his two big breaks were in the form of major franchises. With The Batman primed to be a hit at the box office and seemingly the first in a planned trilogy, Pattinson has likely found the next film series and role that will define the ensuing phase of his career.
Pattinson's career has come a long way since the critically panned and oft-mocked Twilight movies. This makes it a much more interesting revelation that studio executives sifted through Harry Potter cast photos to find their Edward Cullen. While it was previously assumed that Pattinon's small role as Cedric Diggory elevated his profile and led to his casting in Twilight, there was actually a much more direct correlation between the two.
Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, their fantastical nature, and passionate fandoms. Harry Potter and Twilight have been invariably linked throughout the years due to the similarities they share from being based on popular book series by J.K. Read what Hardwicke and Feig had to say below: Related: Every Strange Robert Pattinson Movie Accent Explainedĭuring a recent appearance on The Big Hit Show podcast, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and studio executive Erik Feig reflected on the difficult casting process for Edward Cullen, explaining that the actors who auditioned for the part were too " captain of the football team." In search of " someone Byronic," Feig turned to headshots of young stars from the Harry Potter franchise, eventually landing on Pattinson. However, he has struggled to shed the personas of Cedric Diggory and certainly Edward Cullen. Pattinson has since starred in a number of independent projects from auteur directors, from David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis to Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse, before returning to the mainstream for Christopher Nolan's Tenet and Matt Reeves' The Batman. After playing the relatively minor Harry Potter character in limited screen time, Pattinson went on to gain further recognition for his portrayal of the brooding vampire Edward Cullen alongside Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan in the Twilight film saga from 2008 to 2012, a series that ended up grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.
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